SuburbanAdventure

I’ve been trying to find a better way to nap.  For the longest time I had a silent egg timer that only made noise when the alarm went off.  Most egg timers make annoying ticking noises which makes napping nigh impossible.  I’d been told about Pzizz a piece of nap software that generates mp3s of [...]

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I saw Run Fatboy Run yesterday.  I had a coupon for a free small popcorn.  That was unlikely to be sufficient.  Through the magic of cargo pants I snuck in the following:

1 bag of dried fruit
1 bag of trail mix
1 24 oz Pepsi Max
1 16 oz Wawa Strawberry Milk
1 bag of beef jerky
1 box of [...]

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I’ve begun collecting Pepsi points for the Amazon Unbox downloads and finally cashed some in today.  I could get a single track for 5 points or the whole album for 60.  While I could theoretically “win” if I bought all tracks from an album with less than 12 tracks.   I gunned it for some symphanies [...]

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I have many boxes of Magic cards and the bulk total is about 60,000.  I stack them in cardboard boxes but over time, their shear weight crushes these boxes leading me to replace these boxes annually at a cost of about 24 dollars (8 5000 ct boxes at 3 dollars a piece after tax).  I [...]

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While cleaning out my room I found this gem.

It’s Dave Hasel in the dunk tank at the 2001 Council Camporee.  I’m having a contest to see who can add the best caption to the picture.  The easiest way to do it is just to comment but if you want to go one better, Picbite allows [...]

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One of the activities I’d like to do for the Playwicki camporee involves kids splicing with pool noodles.  Pool noodles are apparently damn expensive out of season at 3 to 5 bucks a pop so I thought I could buy in bulk.  I checked Amazon and found a large bundle for $99.00.  It didn’t actually [...]

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I sent a missive to Tom Leitz, Nick Grammiccioni and Joe Naylor yesterday regarding using PDFs on the OSR site.  I hate the utter and total flatness of PDFs and how annoying it is to make them every time a minute change is made but no matter.  The email was bounced back from Tom who [...]

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CIS 1055 requires us to create a cross linked site for an organization in which we participate.  Suddenly the Ockanickon Leader Guide that I’ve slaved over for nigh on two months is useful.  I added some stupid functionality like an image map and a few other things and one thing was the addition of a [...]

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I integrated google analytics into the OSR page to see where people were going and hopefully create better navigation tools. I looked at the map showing usage patterns by locations and found this:

A near perfect T. Middle America (both horizontally and largely vertically) hates us.

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Through some miracle of programming our rogue server is now up and we quickly started arguing over things like what kind of sprays would be available and so on.  One item was dealing with decals which are modifications to what the game map looks like.  One guy wanted the open area to be done a [...]

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