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Watching Sports + warrenshea.com Updates

Monday, June 6th, 2011 at 11:53 pm

I’ve been meaning to get into [read: watch] some kind of sports for years. It’s tough, I’m so out of it.

I wouldn’t mind getting into either:
Hockey
Basketball
Tennis
Football

As far as sports go, I’m actually interested in watching those (above) and probably not in any other. I have fun watching them, despite not knowing much.

This wouldn’t be the reason why I want to watch sports but sometimes…it’s just nice to be able to converse on a different topic than what I regularly talk about. I have TV shows, movies, anime, video games, comics, toys, electronics, web development. Those are my easy topics. I have topics I generally avoid, religion or politics. And somewhere in between that would be food, photography and sports.

Even when I watch games, I don’t know who’s playing. I see a good dunk, a great goal, a smart play, a nice break….I see physical feats and interesting circumstances that lead to a goal/score/point/whatever but….it’s hard to really talk about it w/o knowing more.

Next season, hopefully I can get more interested….start getting into something else. Open up a new world of knowledge and interest. I’m getting bored with what I currently know. I’m tired of being left out in conversations that I’m interested in, but just so lost that I can’t keep up with the conversation. It’s not a feeling of stupidity, more a feeling of lack of knowledge. I don’t like it at all.


Kind of weird combination of posts..but as I was watching hockey tonight (Stanley Cup Finals Game 3), I was also working on my warrenshea.com design. I’ve been super frustrated lately with what I’ve done but I finally feel like I’m coming up with a winning conceptual design. In my previous design, I really just found something interesting and started to dev right away. Mistake. I should have spent more time on conceptual design…because what I had ended up as a design failure. I’m finally doing something I’m satisfied with. More ME. I’ve been avoiding doing work because of my mental block but now that I’m enthusiastic about my work again, hopefully I can make some real progress!

/back to work

FanExNO?

Friday, June 3rd, 2011 at 2:01 am

See what I did there? Instead of writing FanExpo, I wrote FanExNO, meaning that I might not go to FanExpo this year.

Shortly before FanExpo last year, I decided to make my wish list. I crossed items out after the con but basically: I got organized.

I got organized with what I want. I generally no longer hit the “Reserve or Regret” thing, in which you pre-order at cost, otherwise you risk the item being rare, marked up, and regretting not getting it when you should of. Case in point, a $240 Power Rangers Megazord which, at retail (in 93) was $50. And a $118 Dragonzord (instead of $40). And a $214 Adam Hughes Wonder Woman (instead of $80). Anyways…the point is that I generally try to avoid that mistake.

Got side tracked. Right now, I’m on the top of my game, and if you see my WTB (Want to Buy) LIST, I only have 4 things on my wish list (way at the bottom) and 3 haven’t come out yet. I’m the type of person that goes to FanExpo and does the dealer rooms more than anything else. Sure, I like the free stuff…I like the exclusives, but there’s nothing I can’t get via eBay. Basically, anything I buy will be impulsive, or not along the lines of the wish list. So while generally I go there for a purpose…to buy things, this time it seems like a money hole.

Wait, I also go to artist alley, I love commissions and prints…I love seeing talented artists. But that’s probably not enough reason for the entry free.

Anyways, I’m still debating. It’s not like I go every year…but last year I went for 3 days (usually I just do one) and I had a lot of fun. And got a lot of stuff. But this year is different.

I’ll think about it more…

4 posts today! whew!

Lack of updates

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 at 11:13 am

Ugh….Sorry for the lack updates.

I was supposed to do my Accomplishments post yesterday and my WTB post today. I’ve seriously felt terrible the last few days. Not sick…but my allergies are just wrecking me. I’m tired…and just overall unhappy. I wake up with itchy eyes. My nose is always 5x more sensitive during allergy season so it tends to bleed for no reason. I could honestly just be sitting somewhere, I think my nose is running (from allergies), and when I check, it’s blood. Ugh.

Yesterday…went to Shoeless Joe’s for dinner. Came home, blew my nose. It was bleeding so I went to lie down. Ended up sleeping from 8pm-ish to 8:30am today. I thought maybe…if I slept a lot, allergies would bother me less. They’re actually not to bad today, so I’m not sure if either that theory plays out…or the 14 degree C weather is the cause. Cold = less allergies….so I’m thankful for that today.

Anyways…will write more later today and tomorrow….hopefully.

Shot Theory

Sunday, May 29th, 2011 at 3:39 am

I said no drunken blogging tonight via Twitter…but well, I’m not drunk! So this is just…normal blogging :)

Let me explain the shot theory (and I have absolutely no idea if I explained it in a previous post).

When I went to Montreal, 2 weeks ago, my friend was telling me how he doesn’t drink beer. He doesn’t like the taste, he gets headaches and/or sleepy after. Basically, it described me exactly. He told me that he can do shots fine…but not beer. Shocked by this, I decided to test a theory tonight at a friend’s wedding. No beer. Some wine and champagne…but no beer. Just shots.

Let’s see what my tolerance is like when beer isn’t involved. To be honest, I was hoping to get trashed tonight. To earn my drunken puke. I drank whenever everyone else did, without holding back. Everytime I saw people I knew doing shots, I joined in. Unfortunately, even drinking as much as I could (with other people) was a bit of a let down. Overall tonight, I had 4 shots of whiskey…and an undetermined number of these cranberry shots. I would guess about…8 to 10 of them. But they were watered down…so let’s count that as 4 shots. Combine that with the 4 shots of whiskey and that’s 8. Now, as I write this, I feel relatively fine. To be honest, I’ve felt worse drinking 2 beers…but then again, my tolerance has been vastly improving lately. So…well, I dunno but the Shot Theory seemed like a success. It doesn’t seem to affect me like beer does. Though I’ve also done 5-7 Corona’s before, fairly recently, so it’s tough to say. That may have been an isolated, rare incident.

All I know is that I should have done more shots. You don’t just wanna get shots alone…and I honestly ran to the bar every time I saw people I knew doing shots, and tried to get in on it. We’ll have to test my alcohol/shot theory another time. I know that I’ve never had shots like this….never more than 2 or 3 in a night (with the exception of Montreal). It was good times but even trying my best to get smashed, wasn’t good enough. Next time there’s an open bar, I’m gonna shot my ass off.

SHOT SHOT SHOT SHOT SHOT SHOT EVERYBODY SHOT SHOT SHOT SHOT SH-SHOT SHOT SHOT.
That was my theme tonight.

Oh yeah…also, I have no idea (and I’m slightly terrified) about going to sleep tonight…I predict I’ll be fine but maybe shots hit me later…I have no idea :S

livescribe pen is the tool of the devil. or a god.

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 at 12:51 am

Let me summarize with:

Got a gift from a friend. Accepted the gift because it was related to Thor. Found out how awesome the gift was via Z and her “i wanted this pen during school” knowledge. Tested this MAGIC pen out on 1 piece of paper (preserving the rest of the notebook for when I return it to my friend).

Anyways, please (if you’re interested), watch the 4 videos. They’re unrehearsed (which you’ll be able to tell) and I’m not expert at the tool which you’ll clearly see.


“Your ancestors call it science. But I call this magic.” My version of Thor’s quote (from Thor’s movie).

Just noticed: The URL for the third video is : IfNVP4eO_oU
O_o
that’s hilarious…no!?

Also, please ignore my shaky hand. Making video makes me nervous and I couldn’t do takes.