I really wanted to make a “we can’t stay here, this is bat country” reference in this post, but I didn’t want to piss Edwin off and I’m falling a little short.
The first thing I remember was the light.
It wasn’t bright or blinding, like one would expect from the desert sun; it was cool and blue. My head buzzed with questions and the remnants of the previous evening. Where had I gone? What had I done? My memories were clouded by drink, a hodgepodge of flashing lights, ringing bells, and spotty memories of recalling the TCP/IP stack.
Night 0
Our planes landed close to 2300 Pacific Daylight Time, and we took a Town Car straight to our hotel, the Treasure Island. Even though we were all exhausted, we decided to venture out for some food. For some reason, a strange girl invited Joe to say hello to her friend because it was her 21st birthday. Now he’s in their pictures.
We finally retired after 0100 PDT, which for us was 0400 EDT.
Day 1
We woke up from our jetlag comas and caught the view from the hotel. Sadly, it is not of the strip.
I came back from vacation the other day to one of the funniest vendor emails I’ve ever received. DynDNS, a free Dynamic DNS provider, sent me a request for a survey with the subject “C’mon, seriously, help us help you.” If that’s not bad enough, they went on to accuse me of ignoring them (which is hilarious since they hardly send me emails at all) and then declared the obvious fact that they’re bad at communicating with their customers.
Now that the dust has settled, the children have stopped weeping, and we’ve started the process of replacing our soiled underpants, let’s take a look at the damage I suffered through the Steam Perils of Summer Sale.
- June 23 – Counter-Strike: Source, $6.80 (Even though this occurred before the sale, the game went for the same price during the sale a few days later)
- June 24 – Commandos Pack, $5.09 (This went a few days later for $3+change. Damn you Steam!)
- June 24 – FarCry, $6.69
- June 24 – RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Platinum, $10.19
Before I head to the beach for the rest of the week (I won’t be at Game Night™), I thought I would unleash unto the world some code I wrote a while back. My brothers and I like to share a modest music library. I encoded my library in Apple’s AAC format using iTunes, while my brothers wanted everything to be in MP3 format to be able to play it on their portable devices. So I wrote a Perl script to combine the powers of faad, lame, and id3v2. I set up a cron job to run this script every night.
