Goal #2

Goal #2 is to learn Xhtml. I have already written a little bit about wanting to learn Xhtml. I am currently trying to learn xhtml. I am doing the about.com xhtml class. As I have written before I have taken the xhtml class before, but I did not try hard enough so I did not learn xhtml very well.

I try to read the class emails and practice the lessons for a half hour a day although I usually do not have that much time so I practice the lessons for as much time as I have. I have already done all the lessons and am now going back over them making sure I know the material. Someday I hope to pass the final exam, but I am not sure if I will ever pass it although I will try.

Setting goals

Yesterday I read an article on lifehacker by Gina Trapani about setting goals. The article got me thinking about goals so today I started writing a list of goals I want to achieve. Making the list of goals made me feel good. I don't know if I will achieve all the goals I have written, but I will try.

I need blog posts so I will also talk about some of my goals on this blog. I know I have already written about some goals, but I want to write more on the subject so here it goes. I will write one post talking about each goal.

Yesterdays post about magic would be goal number one. As I said I want to learn card tricks and some other magic tricks. I am not even close to accomplishing this goal because I have not even learned one magic trick yet. I am sure writing about it on my blog will help me get going one this goal.

Magic

Another interest I have is magic. I am not that knowledgeable about magic, but I want to learn a few magic tricks.

When I was younger I got a book from the library that had some simple magic tricks in it. I probably did not read very much of the book, but I do remember doing one magic trick from the book.

The trick involved an ice cube, string, and salt. You put the string on the ice cube and pour salt on the string and ice cube combination. The salt makes the string and ice cube stick together so you can pick up the ice cube with the string. I thought that trick was amazing.

Now back to what magic tricks I want to learn. I want to learn the card tricks that are on about.com magic plus some other magic tricks that are on the website. Now that I have written that I have a goal to learn some magic I will learn some magic.

Processing programming language

A few days ago I was reading a make magazine story written by Marc de Vinck. The story is not about processing but about something else. Reading the story I thought great a new programming language I have never heard of. I have not installed processing on my computer, but I wanted to write about it on my blog anyway. Maybe someday I will find the time to try processing.

An intant win

I was not sure I wanted to post this, but I need to write a post. Yesterday I got an instant win from the same 3M instant win sweepstakes I got a win from in april. I won the same prize as I did in april a race day credential holder.

I was not sure I wanted to post it because I am not sure if I can get more than one prize from that sweepstakes so I thought why post it on my blog if I might not get the prize because I could only win once. I read the rules after I got the instant win in april and I did not see a prize limit so maybe I can win more than once.

Well it felt great to a win again anyway.

A few articles I like

Today I have been reading my RSS reader more than usual and I found some articles I want to talk about. So here I go.

I though an article I read on digg about surfing rats was pretty cool. I mean I never thought before reading the story that rats could surf. Heck before reading the article I would have never thought about trying to teach rats how to surf. very cool!

I also read an article on Gizmondo by Dan Nosowitz about a world of war craft player. Just looking at the picture in the article makes me wonder how anyone could focus with all those monitors. I don't think I could function in that kind of envirement.

And then I read an article on Gizmondo by Dan Nosowitz about a floppy drive. I think it would be interesting to build one of those.

plants blogging

I was reading make magazines blog yesterday and saw an article by jonah Brucker-cohen about a device that allows your plants to post to a blog and I thought how cool. I thought wow that is what I need to get people to read my blog a device to let a house plant write the blog instead. I am sure the plant posts would be more exciting than my posts.

So after reading the article I stared thinking and I wondered what plant would be the best blogger? Maybe a plant that is hard to care for so the posts would be grumpy. I would rather read about a grumpy plants existence than a happy plant.

I also thought if one plant could blog what about having a couple so I would have a bunch of blogs all making money while I sat on my computer playing video games and programming. I would have my own media empire.

If the plants blogs became very famous I could act as their manager and handle newspapers and magazines requests to interview the plants. I would say the plants don't want to be interviewed or read the blogs if you want your questions answered or I could say I just watered the plants and they don't want to talk now.

Bring on the blogging plants I want a popular blog.

Sega genesis again

The only other games that I had for my genesis were 2 or three basketball games that I can not remember the names of.

I also remember one time when I had rice krispes in a cup with milk and accidentally dumped some of the rice krispies in the genesis where you put in the game cartridges, but I think it was just the rice krispies that I dumped in and not any milk although I am not sure. The genesis still worked after that little incident although I could see rice krispies in my Sega.

Well I have exhausted my memories of my Sega genesis so I will have to post about something else tomorrow.

More sega video games I had

I want to write about two football video games I had for my Sega. I have already written about these games in another post, but I want to write some more about the games. The games are NFL 94 and NFL 95.

I liked to run the ball in NFL 94 a lot because it took so long for passes to get to the receivers. I remember when I wanted to pass the football in the game I would have to let the ball go right after I got it from the center. I also remember that the game had one sound effect when you were playing that said back to pass although I think I only heard that when joe montana was my quarterback.

I don't have anything more to add about NFL 95 so I won't. I was just thinking maybe the two football games had some sounds. I think after the play was over the game would say how many yards you gained. I also think the games looked pretty good for genesis games.

More sega genesis

I had one hockey game called Mario Lemieux hockey. I thought it was a good hockey game that was fun to play even thought I never beat the game. I liked to check other players into the boards so they would fall down. I also think the game had little mini games that you could play which were fun.

I also had sonic the hedge hog which came with the console. I thought sonic was a good looking game. I was not very good at playing Sonic and never got past the third level. Although once I did get to the last level, but I did that using a cheat.

Another game I had was Mike Ditka football although I think I played the game a lot I can't remember that much about it. I think it was hard to pass the football in the game so I probably ran the ball a lot. The game I think also had on or two sound effects that I heard playing the game. I never beat Mike Ditka football and I am not sure how good I at playing the game.

Another win

Yesterday I got an email saying I had won 5 greeting or note cards. Wow what a wonderful win. I hope I get many more sweepstakes wins this month. Who knows maybe this will be my best month ever.

chaplin dvd

Today in the mail I got the Chaplin DVD I won last month. What a surprise because I did not think it would arrive for awhile. I can' wait to watch the movie.

Holloween costume

Make Magazine has a post by jonah Brucker-cohen about a Computer Halloween Costume which I thought was great. I never wore a computer costume, but after seeing the picture of the costume I wish I would have. The idea of a being a computer on halloween had never occurred to me before the make magazine post.

The costume got me thinking about other computer related costumes. I thought how cool it would be to dress up as a PS3, XBox 360, or a Nintendo wii. I think a great Halloween costume would be if I dressed up as a Nintendo game cube, I would look like one of those kids toys where you turn the handle on the box and a head pops up out of the box.

I also think it would be interesting to be a video game cartridge. I though what about dressing up as a frogger or space invaders cartridge from the Atari 2600.

My sega continued

Today I want to write about some of the games I had for my sega genesis. I had tommy lasorda baseball. I wanted tommy lasorda baseball since I first saw the game and I got it for a Christmas present one year. I did not play the game that much though, but it probably was a decent game.

Today I remembered a few more basketball games that I had that I did not remember I had the other day when I wrote my first post on my sega. I am not sure who they were published by but I know one was called Celtics vs. Lakers and I think I had a few more basketball games called some team vs. some team although I can't remember the exact name of the games.

I do remember I did play those basketball games a lot and that they were fun. If they had a season mode I am sure I did not finish it. I probably could not decide which team I wanted to play and kept switching teams which is to bad because I would have liked to beat those games.

I thought that the lakers vs. celtics and the other games I had with the vs. in the name were the best basketball games I had for the sega genesis. I thought the graphics were good looking, but I don't remember anything about the sound in the games although I do remember they did not have announcers like the new sports games.