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I had a fun weekend!
Sep. 16th, 2007 08:50 pmYesterday was the company trip to Hershey Park. They were nice enough to run a bus out and back, and it worked out really well. We arrived there shortly after 10 AM, which meant that there were no lines at all for the roller coasters. I managed to rid on three different coasters (front seat for two of them) in the space of about 40 minutes. Also, it was Christian Music Day at Hershey Park. That sure was an uh, interesting mix!
I took pictures, but haven't had a chance to upload them to Flickr yet.
Yes, I found the sole bar at Hershey Park. Seeing that it was a family park, it was amusing to look at the gigantic lines at the other food counters, with no one at the alcohol counter. I was able to walk right up and get served. :-)
One bit of a downer, is that the flash on my camera (a Sony Cybershot DSC-P73) decided to stop working. That didn't affect my outdoor shots, but it means that I could no longer do any indoor photography. I stopped by the local camera store today and took a look at this camera:
It is a Sony Cybershot S700. It's 7.2 Megapixels, which is WAY more than I'll need (1 MP is just fine), has nighttime and landscape modes, and has "macro" mode for photographing things close up. Anyone have experience with it? Any reason why I should NOT purchase such a camera?
In other news, I spent a lot of time this weekend cleaning up the apartment and catching up on some reading. I finished the following three books:
- The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
- Unscrewed - The Consumer's Guide to Getting What You Paid For (Ron Burley)
- The Running Man (Stephen King)
I consider the time machine to be a bit of a classic, even if the writing style was a bit odd. It was written mostly in the first person view, told as a flashback.
Unscrewed is a non-fiction book which is designed to be a "self-help" book for consumers that have gotten screwed in some way by a business. It covers different ways to deal with different businesses, such as small local businesses, larger companies, and finally government entities. The techniques is presents are subtle, but help convince your adversary that doing the job/performing the refund/etc. is quicker, than having to deal with the headaches that you will make for them. Plus, the book quotes Jack Nicholson being a little psycho in a section called, "Just A Bit Jack". That's too cool.
The Running Man is an early work of Stephen King, which he wrote under the alias "Richard Bachman". If you've seen the movie, it's not like that at all. The book is much darker, and would never ever be made into a movie in today's political climate. I actually started this book yesterday (Saturday) whlie on the way back from Hershey Park, and finished it today because it was such a gripping book.
That's all the news for now!
I took pictures, but haven't had a chance to upload them to Flickr yet.
Yes, I found the sole bar at Hershey Park. Seeing that it was a family park, it was amusing to look at the gigantic lines at the other food counters, with no one at the alcohol counter. I was able to walk right up and get served. :-)
One bit of a downer, is that the flash on my camera (a Sony Cybershot DSC-P73) decided to stop working. That didn't affect my outdoor shots, but it means that I could no longer do any indoor photography. I stopped by the local camera store today and took a look at this camera:
It is a Sony Cybershot S700. It's 7.2 Megapixels, which is WAY more than I'll need (1 MP is just fine), has nighttime and landscape modes, and has "macro" mode for photographing things close up. Anyone have experience with it? Any reason why I should NOT purchase such a camera?
In other news, I spent a lot of time this weekend cleaning up the apartment and catching up on some reading. I finished the following three books:
- The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
- Unscrewed - The Consumer's Guide to Getting What You Paid For (Ron Burley)
- The Running Man (Stephen King)
I consider the time machine to be a bit of a classic, even if the writing style was a bit odd. It was written mostly in the first person view, told as a flashback.
Unscrewed is a non-fiction book which is designed to be a "self-help" book for consumers that have gotten screwed in some way by a business. It covers different ways to deal with different businesses, such as small local businesses, larger companies, and finally government entities. The techniques is presents are subtle, but help convince your adversary that doing the job/performing the refund/etc. is quicker, than having to deal with the headaches that you will make for them. Plus, the book quotes Jack Nicholson being a little psycho in a section called, "Just A Bit Jack". That's too cool.
The Running Man is an early work of Stephen King, which he wrote under the alias "Richard Bachman". If you've seen the movie, it's not like that at all. The book is much darker, and would never ever be made into a movie in today's political climate. I actually started this book yesterday (Saturday) whlie on the way back from Hershey Park, and finished it today because it was such a gripping book.
That's all the news for now!