I was finally compelled to buy a web-cam yesterday under the constant insistence of Xae. So I went to the local supermarket, that is right beside my house t see what they had to offer. It turned out they had a sale going out, and when I asked if they had those little cameras that serve as webcams and digital cameras they showed me this one:

James Bond 1 Digital Camera

Is it cool or is it cool? The camera fits inside a zippo-type shell, and also came with a black pocket to place it in for extra protection. You can read more about it here. The camera sparked my attention, since I had seen it on thinkgeek only a few days before, but I was afraid of the price. But I needn’t have worried, the thing was on sale with 70% off retail price, so instead of 100$US it was at 35$US.

I shoulda asked why of course, but the enthusiasm made me buy it and run home with my new buy. When I opened the box (that had caught my attention for being not sealed and slightly old), I discovered that the gadget was missing the USB cable to connect it to the computer. So I grabbed everything up and ran back to the supermarket.

After about 30 minutes of talking to the sales guy and convincing him how I felt I had been conned into buying an open-box product without being told it was missing a piece, my overall helpful disposition (I had even acceded to buying the cable apart), the guy felt pity for me and ran to the storage and got me the cable (for free). I ran home again and connected the camera to my computer. I spent the rest of the day using it as a webcam to chat with friends and Xae, and we even had a video conference.

This morning I even snapped some pictures of my room and myself, and have opened up a gallery section on the blog to post the pictures. I’ll be uploading a lot more in the days to come.

A large birthday cake was baked to celebrate the 6th birthday
of Neopets. It was a round cake, made of two layers of vanilla cake;
each layer was 18 inches in diameter and 3.5 inches tall. Between the
two layers was a quarter inch of chocolate frosting. And covering the
top and side of the cake was 3/8″ of buttercream frosting.

If the vanilla cake has 140 calories per cubic inch, and the
chocolate frosting has 320 calories per cubic inch, and the buttercream
frosting has 470 calories per cubic inch, how many 800-calorie servings
are in the cake? Please round down to the nearest serving.

Whip out your calculators for this one, and a piece of paper may come in handy! Click here to submit your answer.

Yeah, I know, I started working on that comic and then just stopped completely… This is just to show that I haven’t forgotten about it. It’s just on hold because I feel I am still not up tot he quality I want for this comic.

B&W version

Am I the only one that didn’t know that Superman was created by a 17 year old canadian?

According to the novelist Mordecai Richler, Shuster’s Superman is a perfect expression of the Canadian psyche. The mighty “man of steel” hides his extraordinary strength, speed, and superhuman powers under the bland, self-effacing guise of the weak and clumsy Clark Kent. He is a hero who does not take any credit for his own heroism, a glamorous figure in cape and tights who is content to live his daily life in horn-rimmed glasses and brown suits. -History by the Minute

Hehe, who woulda thought?

Disclaimer: Contents of link were not made by me, but made me laugh a lot