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You gotta love summer...

Its as bright now as when I left for work.

The Chuck Palahniuk event ... or Why I bought a new camera.

A week or two ago now, the author of Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk, did a reading at the Free Library of Philadelphia. It was insanely crowded. The line circled the whole block. Not just one or two sides, the WHOLE block. Had to be close to 2000 people there.

I was lucky enough to be able to leave work early. I made it into the auditorium. The auditorium was full. They filled every seat. They satallite rooms were said to be full. It was fucking great.

He read three new fairy tales in the style of Pygmy. They were great. He did an interview on stage with a local newsman as well.

No signing, but he had pre-signed books.

Anyway, here's my best picture from the show.



Yeah. It's time for a new camera.

I had a shitload of OT in my last paycheck. I've been looking into a point and shoot camera for awhile now. So I bought a Nikon s-630. Yay me! It comes in next week, I hope.

It's sooooooo, pretty. And small. I wanted small with a decent optical zoom and a decent optical image stabilization. It also had to take good indoor/lowlight pictures. This one fit the bill. Also a plus that it's a Nikon.

I thought it was cool...

No one else seems as interested.

They asked me at work if it was possible to turn the copying feature off on the little MFPs (multi-function printers) I've been installing.

There is, but it's not a straight forward off switch.

They have FIH(foreign interface harness) ports on them to connect to copy tracking terminals(equitrac).

If you enable the ports with hp's FIH app, when you hit copy it waits to hear from the terminal and comes back saying it can't copy.

The scanning still works fine and now they don't have to worry about copies being made that they can't bill for.

It's cool things like this that I come up with that just get overlooked.

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Box o controls

Travel case with black 2600

My non-mib 2600 games

A good day so far... And X-Men Origins Rocked...

Yes. Overall a good Saturday thus far.

Slept in till 9.

Woke up and read comics I picked up yesterday from Wednesday. Really enjoying Dark Avengers. The first issue of Dynamite's Sherlock Holmes was also very well done. Bone creator Jeff Smith's sci-fi series RASL is also amazing. His cartoon-y art just works so well. Reminds me of Vaughn Bode.

Got washed and dressed and headed to Fat Jack's Jersey for Free Comic Day 09. Not bad. Not as good a selection as last year. This is the first time in 3 years there wasn't a free comic by Josh Howard. Blackest Night prologue and reprint of TMNT 1 was a fun surprise though. Missed the first issue of the Mercy Sparx ongoing, but was able to have the Philly shop hold a copy for me. Today was the last day of thier 50% off back issue sale too. Picked up a few issues of Runaways I needed for a run for a buck a pop and a Tim Sale art book.

Hit House of Fun up after the comic shop. It's wonderful having a vintage toy store next to your local comic shop, also helps that it's 5min from the apartment. Picked up Activision's RoboTank for the atari and a couple of genesis games. I picked up a genesis at a flea market last week. It came with a couple of games including sonic. I was a nintendo kid growing up, so far of the games I played on the genesis, that's a good thing.

After House of Fun I drove down to Loew's Cherry Hill and saw X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It was a 1:15 showing and the theater was empty. Everyone in the amazingly long line for a ticket was going to see Monsters vs Aliens.

Origins was great. I liked the cast of mutants. I loved Ryan Reynolds as Wade/Deadpool, only he didn't get enough screen time. I can see him doing his own movie somewhere down the line. Blob was good. Gambit needed a thicker cajun accent and WAY more screen time. He almost felt tacked on. The effects were wonderful. The storyline was good. I liked how they handled Wolverine's origin and his memory loss.

Overall a great addition to the X-Men franchise. MUCH better then X3. In the X-Men movie fanchise I'd rank it number 2. X2 was the best, but I liked this one better than 1 and 3.

Now I'm going to finish the evening by watching Troma's Poultrygeist written and directed by founder Llyodd Kaufman and then Disney's Peter Pan and a screener copy of Fanboys.

Somewhere between the movies, some vintage game playing and a wonderful home cooked dinner of tuna steak and sauted spinach in garlic and oil. Might serve it over pasta, might not.

Tomorrow I think I'm taking a drive up to Leesport, PA for the TooManyGames con. It's about 2 hours away, but I'm looking for some old atari games I can't seem to find anywhere including the bay. I'm also semi-interested in a sega cd. I'd like it to be model 1 though and not terribly expensive.