broaf

Party Week!

2004-06-03T06:31:50Z

The schedule for Party Week has been finalized.

Check it out at http://yoshisisland.dyndns.org:8000/partyweek/

the playa

2004-06-01T04:17:45Z

Got back from Playa del Fuego today...

There is really no way to describe how amazing it was. It was the funnest place I've ever been. I met some of the nicest, most generous, most welcoming people I've ever met.

I could tell you every story of our anecdotes, which would take hours, but even then you wouldn't understand the vibe, how wonderful the place really is.

I feel changed, a change like that felt the day after a good, mind-expanding acid trip. I have a bit of a culture shock, due not to going from the real world to the crazy Playa, but rather to going from the Playa to the real world. I can only hope that I spread some of the Playa mentality I picked up to the rest of my real environment.

It's just a given that we will be returning to the next one, and to each thereafter, with more people and more stuff.

broaf @ 2004-05-28T00:22:00

2004-05-28T04:53:50Z

I learned about this a while ago, but forgot to post about it.

Whenever you have parties, and someone gets sick, there's always someone who says, "Oh god, that person is really fucked," or even, "Dear Jesus, we need to get that person to the hospital!"

Now anyone in their right mind (read: me) knows that alcohol poisoning is pretty rare, rare enough for most people to have never even seen it. So here are the real symptoms:

Less than twelve breaths per minute, or a span of ten seconds between any two breaths
Unwakable sleep (especially while vomiting)
Cold, clammy, pale or bluish skin

There's also always someone trying to force everything from coffee to bread to bananas on the poor, sick drunkard to try and sober him up. None of this works. Also, "sleeping it off" is not such a great idea either, unless you plan to wake the person up often to make sure haven't filled the criterion "unwakable sleep."

Sources:
UC Davis Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention & Treatment
Acute Alcohol Poisoning

Party Week

2004-05-20T06:37:42Z

Party week is still a good ways off, but now is as good a time as any to start planning for it.

It will include the 4th of July weekend, and either the week before or the week after. It may also include some additional days. (Last year's party week was actually 12 days.)

We were talking about it at Denny's tonight, and we figure it would be nice to have a "scheduled" party every other night, but we'll still party on the off nights (and during the days).

It would be nice for every scheduled party to have a theme. Our theme ideas are as follows:

3rd of July Keg Party
Liquor pot luck: Everyone has to bring at least a 375 of a non-standard liquor. (That means no plain rum, vodka, et cetera.) Oh and you have to bring a mixer or two too.
Mid-90's party (ala Crash)
Dress as your favorite video game character party
Shot every hour party
Some sort of party that gives me an excuse to wear my three piece, pastel green suit.

Any other ideas?

Once I figure out the exact dates and themes, I'm going to post a calendar somewhere of what parties are when, so people can attend the ones they want.

I want 3rd of July Keg Party to be the big one. If you're thinking of coming to any segment of party week at all, please attend at least the 3rd of July Party.

Microsoft Natural Chair

2004-05-17T07:58:56Z

A lot of you have already heard of this, but actually making it is one of my goals for the summer.

The idea is that you get a Microsoft Natural Keyboard, break it in half, and mount each half onto the respective arms of a computer chair. I would also like to have the right side include a mouse/pad and the arrows, pageup/down/etc, and numpad. Ideally, there would be some sort of swivel mechanism so that any one of the 3 could be comfortably at your finger tips on the arm of the chair.

I plan to make a prototype out of just any old keyboard. Any ideas on what to use to mount it to the chair, or anything else?

Oh, and what do you know about red-eye reduction?

picky eaters

2004-05-16T16:40:41Z

Hey you bastards that are gonna live with me next year:

Are there any foods that you will *not* eat? I'm gonna start cooking here in fred, and I'll put less emphasis on recipes that anyone will refuse to eat (i.e., Pete with mushrooms).

Personally, I don't *like* everything, but I can't think of anything that I *won't* eat.

reverse microwave

2004-05-14T06:01:19Z

I was going to post about my reverse microwave idea, which had a real physical theory behind it, but it was based on a false premise.

For those of you who don't know, a microwave does *not* work by emitting an electromagnetic wave at the resonant frequency of water. (This is the premise that my idea was based on.)

"Across the world, home microwave ovens operate at 2.45 gigahertz, not because they interact with water best at this frequency, but because this frequency was allocated to industrial and scientific use in the 1940's when most of the long wavelength spectrum was allocated to communications." ^source