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Halloween at Nat and Lin's

9:51pm JST Sunday 26 October 2008 (day 14095)

My perfect costume: bathing suit and towel!

Ellie and Nat had been prepping for the party all day, which resulted in black fake spiderweb forming a low ceiling, below which we had to stoop to get around the house.

I was the first to arrive already in my birthdaybathing suit, because I changed my hoodie for a towel in the elevator. I inadvertantly ignored Lin who was crouched on the floor wearing a backwards mask; I woulda acknowledged him had I known who he was, but I was silly and didn't realize I had come first; sometimes I get uncomfortable talking to Nat's friends when I should know their names. Take, for example, Ellie. I was like, "are you Nikki?" cause that name smelled close in my memory.

Ellie.

Ellie.

After people arrived, there were some very genki girls who I found both intriguing and elusive; certainly no actual potential. But Marilyn-dressed ¤æ¤¦¤³ seemed to take more than negligable interest in my meditation practice, so I gave her and her friend ¤á¤°¤ß Helma's cards. Subsequently saw one of the cards on the floor though.

11:37pm JST Monday 27 October 2008 (day 14096)

I've developed an odd crush on Yoko, after the party, just by flipping through the 350 + photos of her on Facebook. Some of them are great!! My favorites are from her travels. One is a pic of some sheep in NZ, and she and two of her friends names are labeled on three of the sheep. In another pic, she and her friend's shadows are labeled. It's just that I'm envious of the *fun* she's apparently having, and the creativity with pics on Facebook, while I'm *still* messing with pictures the old way, just cause I don't want my photos to be spread all over the internet... I mean, I don't care if they get copied everywhere, but I want one perfect repository that is easy to upload, has human-readable file names, easy to choose my thumbnails, has them all easy to find, clearly labeled, with full stories written for each picture, categorized, tagged, labeled, cropped, zoomed, etc. But they're escaping anyway: I can zoom to make thumbnails the way I want and name the pics the way I want on my otherwise least-functional site: my website; I can upload easily to my wiki, Facebook or Smugmug; I can tag people's faces in Facebook; I have boundless storage space on Smugmug; Picasa has automagic facial recognition... They all have their pluses and minuses.. which one to use?? yargh.

Oh, and there's a great system at work that can return any image size or type, and again unlimited space.

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4:10pm JST Saturday 25 October 2008 (day 14094)

Have gotten a bit of actionscript going again; it took me about an hour to get *anything* to work, but now that I've got a bit, things are moving faster. I can now detect if a button (movieclip) was *not* hit.

I may post the .fla... but where?