You may have noticed something really screwy with the post that appeared earlier today. I'm not even going to try to explain what happened.. let's just say that I've had a lot on my mind lately.

This is just a short reminder that tomorrow is the most exciting event to hit Fort Atkinson, WI. EVER. That's right, it's our big flickr meetup thing. Check that link for more information on the time and place. If you're one of those people that wait until the last minute to decide, just send me an email at [address removed to prevent spam harvesting junk]. Make sure to include a cell phone number or something so you can be reached.

That's that. It's gonna be a great time, with some great people.

can I haz booster seatz?

It had a flavor… and it was bad

u kan kleen… when we sez u can kleen!

i played your turn. i kild you, sry!

Squirrel Obstacle Course

And possibly the last.. but "Annual" makes it sound so much more official. (It almost offsets "Thingy".) This event is being organized by me and Kelly, there's a post on her blog with some info and a picture of the place.

Here's the deal –
When: Saturday, September 29 2007 – 6pm
Where: Blackhawk Tavern – Fort Atikinson, WI
Who: All Flickr people in the area, and those willing to travel to this area from wherever they may be
Why: Because. Fun. Do it.

Here's the tentative "I'm showing up list":
Kelly (flickr)
(Me) sparx (flickr)
spudart (flickr)
Kyle (flickr)
Katie (flickr)

If you're interested in coming, leave a comment on here (make sure to include a link to your flickr page), on Kelly's post, or on the picture of the Blackhawk Tavern.

Also, if you decide to come out, maybe post about it and try to get some more people out. If you get anyone else that's interested, either come back to one of the "official" meetup pages and give us a heads-up, or have them do the same.. just so we can keep track of whether or not anyone is actually going to show.

We've all run into the amazing Engrish language at some point in our life. Whether it's a poorly translated instruction manual, or a picture of some funny sign that you found on the internet, it's hard not to laugh and fall in love with these quirky errors of spelling and grammar.

I'll be brief.. here's a picture I took of the fortune from the fortune cookie that came with last night's dinner:

"Your present plants are going to succeed. ."

The first time I read it I didn't even notice, and read it as "plans" – the second time when I read it out loud I had to pause a little in shock. The picture is, oddly enough, of one of my successful salvia divinorum plants that I just brought back home. Yesterday was a day of coincidences.

I can't end this post without a link to my FAVORITE example of Engrish ever: The best warning to include with a knife.

Another weekend.. and another Sunspot filled Saturday night. Sunspot played at The Mad Planet in Milwaukee, WI with The Buskers and Fly Neurotic. It was a great show, and an excellent night. I should have some pictures from these last 2 weekends in a few days, I'll flickr them and add them up here as well.

For those of you (I think there's only one) that are following my attempt at minimizing my energy use.. last month's energy bill put me at another $30 month. I've been almost spot-on $30 since I've moved into my new apartment in June. This last bill is still slightly skewed though. It includes the cost of running the air-conditioning solely to dehumidify things after my dishwasher flooded my apartment. I tried to reduce usage in other areas to balance things out, so I'm sure that next month (as long as I can avoid any freak accidents) I can lower it a bit more.

The facebook app is still in the unstarted stage. I may have to push out the beta testing timeline by another Sunday. I've begun setting things up so the programming will go as smoothly as possible.. but there still isn't a single line of code in this project.

Non-update related – if anyone knows of a decent and free Flash authoring tool, please tell me. I'm having zero luck finding anything free and usable, and I have a few projects that I'd like to start on that I need to use flash for.

Friday afternoon I started to get a bit.. bored. For some reason I decided to cope with that by writing a sudoku solver in javascript. The logic is pretty minimalistic, so it won't solve the difficult sudoku puzzles, but for you normal "in the comics section of the newspaper" puzzles, it should nail the majority of them.

You can copy the html below if you want to include it on your webpage/blog/whatever for some reason:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://sparxmind.com/sudoku.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://sparxmind.com/2007/09/16/javascript-sudoku-solver/">Javascript Sudoku Solver</a></noscript>

Copy Cat

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Halp! am not 4 kocoa!