Well now. 4 days of fraggin’ later, (okay, gettin’ fragged) I’m back. Somehow I feel kinda gypped. There was very little organization, beyond the network, and it was nice not to have to find creative ways of splicing in power (like previous years), but the whole fun factor seemed to not be there. I think I got more fun by spending 10 bux at the Playdium in West Ed Mall. There was a glaring lack of internet access for the masses (not even a terminal where you could sit and check yer damned email) and they could barely keep an irc server up and running.
Then I did the math on the money that flowed through the event and got kinda mad.about 360 people pre-paid for the event (50 bux a pop). about 700 people showed, leaving 340 that paid 60 bux. That puts 38400 into frag’s coffers. (that’s without t-shirt sales). Hall costs probably ran up to about 10 to 15 thousand. (that’s being expensive). Prizes were donated. Equipment for the most part was donated. Staff time was donated. That leaves about 23000 unaccounted for. There’s probably some other expenses, but I’m going to say that the t-shirt sales most likely took care of any of those. That bothers me. I get more fun out of a weekend with 10 people showing up at some guys house with a few hubs and some networking cable than I got out of fragapalooza, which I paid 50 dollars for. On the other hand…for 50 bux, I got a nice fast Warez fest which I put to fair use. That despite the fact that this was to be an offense where they would kick you out. I’m thinking that for a gaming event, Fragapalooza is a great warez/pr0n event. And that’s enuff of a rant outta me.

Yay! I’m a goin’ to Fragapalooza.
cya in 4 or 5 days!!!

Woo!
Final Fantasy rocked.
Nuff sed.

Woo!
Final Fantasy night! I wonder if we’ll be able to get tickets…*G*

So, I’ve been told that my webpage is too dark to read…well dammit! Bring a light when yer goin’ cavin’!*G*I guess I’ll have to get Maire to do something about it. *sigh*Maybe install some overhead spotlights like I have at work. *smirk*

Wee! I’ve finally built an archiving thingy. So now you won’t have to read 3 months worth of posts all on one page. (not that they make up that much reading, but hey..) *G*
(wanders off back to work).

Grrr! I now have to get a new monitor…Mine makes purty sparks come out the bottom when I turn it on…and worse of all there’s no picture. *G*I could handle the sparks if there was a picture…*sigh* So, if anyone has a monitor I can use for a couple of months, or have for cheep, lemme know!

Looks like the “Shave Colin’s Head” campaign Is about to officially begin. One of the guys at work asked me if I’d shave my head if he was able to get $15000 for cancer. I said “Yup!” Now it looks like several people at work have decided that this is a good thing and have taken up organising the whole deal. If they can raise $25K, all my co-workers are gonna shave their heads too. At least I wouldn’t be alone lookin’ like a freak. *G*

Went and saw Lara Croft: Tomb Raider yesterday. All I can say about it, is that it could have been worse. *nod*. Been over at Soulscode’s all weekend. Brought over the puter and were gaming for a bit…till I crashed out…when I woke up, everyone else had crashed, or had actually gone home. *bleh* Ah well, there will be more fun had by all next week at Guardian’s place…We will need to get a game of Worms: Armageddon goin’ this time tho! *G*Anyway, I go back to playing with stuff. Lets see if we can break WinXP with Win2K drivers. *G*

Wee! Yesterday I installed a beta of windows XP…and it didn’t break!Considering it was an upgrade from Win98, that kinda surprised me. And after a day of using it, I’m still not regretting doing it…big difference over WinME. (never tried Win2K, so maybe I’ve been biased by non NT systems. *G*) We’ll have to see how things go over the next while…