Well after searching on google a bit for this one, tkdan finally came through with a link. A while back he sent me this link and i thought it was really cool, and for some reason I thought of it today when looking at the transparent screen stuff. The Infinite Cat Project is a site where you take a picture of your cat looking at your screen, then post your picture so the next person who takes a picture of their cat is looking at the picture of your cat. Kind of a neat idea, and could be applied to so many other things.

A transparent screen is when you take a picture of what’s behind your monitor, and then make it your desktop background and align it perfectly to make it look like its transparent.

So this weekend I went to another small LAN. The cool thing about this LAN was that it was located in a private office of the KICU 36 Action 6 building in San Jose. The LAN seemed to be like much of the other LAN parties with this group, arguing and bitching about what game to play, nobody having any games installed to pay, and by the time someone is done installing it, everyone else decides to play something else. I played Gerry’s Mod for HL2 most of the time, trying to first make drivable vehicles, and then a flying vehicle. Both seem to be quite difficult, but i finnished with a hovering platform that was somewhat controllable. Danman was there, sporting his hacked Dell SC420 with nice ATI video card and new Dell 24″ Widescreen LCD (1920×1200), which is really the main reason I went I think, so I could check out his new screen.

On Sunday Dan and I woke up around 12:30 after going to bed around 3am. We went to Erik’s Deli for lunch and then he took off. After he was gone I went on yet another bikeride, in the rain. Tomorrow morning at 6am I have to leave for Irvine, to meet the rest of the company that I work for, and I wouldnt be able to ride again until wednesday. I had a good ride. I did the usual ride to the top of St. Joseph’s hill and then down to the launch ramp, then down the creek trail, arriving at home just before it started to get dark. I didnt make it to bed on time, instead I went to starbucks, worked on restyling my blog. I had to stay up until after 12:01am because thats when Soutwest Airlines lets you do early check-in online. I checked in to my flight at 12:08am and I was the 11th person to check-in. Aparently everyone likes to stay up late or wake up in the middle of the night just so they can do their early check-in to get a good seat on the plane. For those of you who dont know, southwest does not have assigned seating. Depending on when you sign in, you get an A, B, or C seat. A’s get to go on the plane first, then B’s and C’s. Its worth being an A because you can sit on the isle or window right in the front of the plane, so its much easier to get off when you land.

Yesterday I went to work as usual, plugged in my laptop, and then proceeded to visit a few clients without it. Little did I know that my power adapter was not working, so instead of just sitting there, my laptop battery was gettin lower and lower. When I finally returned after lunch, my battery was at 3% and the system started to shut down just as I was about to start doing something. I tinkered with the power supply a bit and could get the light to come on just for brief moments, just to have it go out again. I called my leet dell number (1-888-569-3355) and someone answered with no phone tree asking for my service tag so I could be routed to the right department. They transfered me to whatever department handles the Inspiron’s and I got to speak to some lady that didnt speak english as her first language :( Her accent wasnt too bad, but she talked real slow which was a little annoying. After I finnished setting up the RMA, I asked to be transfered to the spare parts devision, and I ordered two additional power adapters. The company I work for paid for one of them and I paid for the other, since I need to have one at the office.