Interesting tidbit in today's disney news, WDI is putting out proposals for an Incredibles themed ride at California Adventure, set to open in 2008. The ride would be a 3d simulator type experience, making use of "robocoaster" technology. It sounds similar to the spider man ride at Universal Orlando, but I'm not sure this specific type of ride technology has been used in a major theme park attraction before. Could be very interesting.
This is unrelated, but check this out: www.wordsontheleft.com
Highly amusing.
...the writings/ramblings of Matt Chewiwie; a mixture of life updates, pseudo-philosophical rants, sharing and/or reviewing of electronic media, general geeking out, and whatever else the mood may call for.
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Why didn't Pink throw any of his bricks at anyone? That's what I'd like to do.
Friday, January 14, 2005
Happy Christmas. Merry New Year. Or Something.
(AKA chewie's lame excuses for never updating the site)
Well the holidays came and went. I feel like a slacker for updating this blog so little now a days. I really shouldn't be doing these huge akward updates where I cover months of happenings at a time, but the reality is that I've been busier in the last few months than I really ever have. I'm lucky to have such a long vacation at Mira Costa, because before holiday break came, I went a month and a half without having any days off from school or work. So when I do get a chance to do whatever I want, updating this seems trivial compared to the other things I could be doing in my precious free time. That's just the way things work. Any serious changes to the site are going to have to be planned out, so don't get your hopes up for new content for at least a couple more months (provided anyone out there is still actually reading this blog). I have been giving it some thought, though. I'd definately like to redesign the site again. I want to make it a lot more simplified, and now that I actually have some form of reliable income (and a credit card) I'd like to get my own server space and domain (probably fravit.net). I've been thinking about doing it for a while and now it seems more realistic, as my parents were never thrilled about paying for something like that. I've also got multiple miscellaneous flash projects that have for one reason or another been left unfinished, such as my republish of Girshnelda (with fixed audio), the tower of terror simulation, and my (still) unnamed Jiggly Baby cartoon (the one I one first place for at the Del Mar fair last year, even though it was incomplete.) However, all my plans need to happen all at once, and I need to set aside time to do it. We'll see how it ends up going. I'm in no hurry to get it done, but I also don't want to completely forget about it all.
With that, here's a brief recap of my holiday season.
I took Laura to Disneyland on Dec 20th. We got there at park opening just in case there was a crowd problem, but there wasn't, so we got all the rides we wanted to do done by 4ish. We ended up wandering the Disney Gallery for a while (always worthwhile, its above Pirates, stop in if you've never done so), and we spent a significant amount of time lounging around in the Main St. Cinema watching mickey cartoons, which was really relaxing. At 6 we got a spot for Fantasmic and waited 3 hours for the show. I always love that show. Afterwards they had their sappy holiday firework show, which features fake snow, and the audio cut out right in the middle of "white christmas". It was a lot of fun. A very fun and relaxing day.
Derek had his Christmas party in there somewhere, though I can't remember. I went there from after work and was only there for a few hours, but I got to see a lot of people I used to see all the time but haven't in (what seems like) a while. Glad that worked out.
I had to work on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, but only until 7:30 each day. On Christmas Eve I went out to dinner with my family after work at Black Angus and it was good. On Christmas I dropped off presents at John and Lona's houses before work (feeling very much like Santa). Work was the worst day I've had at Edwards so far. I've never seen so many people in a building. I had no idea so many people went to the movies on Christmas, but that's obviously because I never have. After work I went to my grandma's, where my family was. I ate, talked to some people I've missed, saw some people I haven't missed, and opened presents. I really only asked for one gift this year, which was an Ipod (that was on backorder and wasn't on time for christmas), so when I opened presents there wasn't a whole lot. Between relatives I got one hundred dollars worth of fry's gift certificates, a couple dvds, and some clothes. My sisters got a gamecube and a bunch of video games, and to tell the truth I am actually enjoying it more than they are.
However cheesy it may sound, I really do love giving during the holidays. Everything I bought as gifts, everyone seemed to like, and that always makes me feel good. It makes getting gifts that much better.
New Years was somewhat uneventful, until an hour before midnight. All night I was looking for someone to hang out with and everyone seemed busy or asleep. Eventually I found Scott and Ted. I hadn't seem Scott in too long, and I was glad to see him. We all counted down at Scott's house, and then went to In n Out for our first meal of 2005.
The night after, they met me at edwards after I was done with work so we could hang out. We were going to see a movie, but had a couple hours to kill, so in short, we acted like complete idiots. First we went to get burgers, and then we "went for a drive". It all started when scott decided it would be a good idea to drive on the sidewalk... then it all went down hill from there. To make a long story short, we drove over baseball fields, made friends with a street cleaner, almost died like 3 times, ran (literally) from the police, drove over countless cement planters, led an expedition to Questhaven, and probably did a bunch of other stuff that someone is going to remind me of later and I'll be like "OHH YEAAHH! HAHAHA I REMEMBER THAT!". Then we went to see Lemony Snicket, which was like my 4th viewing of it.
I only have a week and a half of vacation left, and then I get to go back to never having any days off. I'm also taking more classes. I need to get some sleep, but it's 1:22 am right now and I've having trouble feeling tired. At the moment I am currently overwhelmed with feelings of frustration, so I'll probably stay up for a couple more hours, maybe reading a lemony snicket book. Whatever ends up happening, it's time for me to wrap this up. Ill try not to go so long without at least blogging. I'd like to get back into the habit. Anyway. Yeah. Night night,
Chewie
(AKA chewie's lame excuses for never updating the site)
Well the holidays came and went. I feel like a slacker for updating this blog so little now a days. I really shouldn't be doing these huge akward updates where I cover months of happenings at a time, but the reality is that I've been busier in the last few months than I really ever have. I'm lucky to have such a long vacation at Mira Costa, because before holiday break came, I went a month and a half without having any days off from school or work. So when I do get a chance to do whatever I want, updating this seems trivial compared to the other things I could be doing in my precious free time. That's just the way things work. Any serious changes to the site are going to have to be planned out, so don't get your hopes up for new content for at least a couple more months (provided anyone out there is still actually reading this blog). I have been giving it some thought, though. I'd definately like to redesign the site again. I want to make it a lot more simplified, and now that I actually have some form of reliable income (and a credit card) I'd like to get my own server space and domain (probably fravit.net). I've been thinking about doing it for a while and now it seems more realistic, as my parents were never thrilled about paying for something like that. I've also got multiple miscellaneous flash projects that have for one reason or another been left unfinished, such as my republish of Girshnelda (with fixed audio), the tower of terror simulation, and my (still) unnamed Jiggly Baby cartoon (the one I one first place for at the Del Mar fair last year, even though it was incomplete.) However, all my plans need to happen all at once, and I need to set aside time to do it. We'll see how it ends up going. I'm in no hurry to get it done, but I also don't want to completely forget about it all.
With that, here's a brief recap of my holiday season.
I took Laura to Disneyland on Dec 20th. We got there at park opening just in case there was a crowd problem, but there wasn't, so we got all the rides we wanted to do done by 4ish. We ended up wandering the Disney Gallery for a while (always worthwhile, its above Pirates, stop in if you've never done so), and we spent a significant amount of time lounging around in the Main St. Cinema watching mickey cartoons, which was really relaxing. At 6 we got a spot for Fantasmic and waited 3 hours for the show. I always love that show. Afterwards they had their sappy holiday firework show, which features fake snow, and the audio cut out right in the middle of "white christmas". It was a lot of fun. A very fun and relaxing day.
Derek had his Christmas party in there somewhere, though I can't remember. I went there from after work and was only there for a few hours, but I got to see a lot of people I used to see all the time but haven't in (what seems like) a while. Glad that worked out.
I had to work on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, but only until 7:30 each day. On Christmas Eve I went out to dinner with my family after work at Black Angus and it was good. On Christmas I dropped off presents at John and Lona's houses before work (feeling very much like Santa). Work was the worst day I've had at Edwards so far. I've never seen so many people in a building. I had no idea so many people went to the movies on Christmas, but that's obviously because I never have. After work I went to my grandma's, where my family was. I ate, talked to some people I've missed, saw some people I haven't missed, and opened presents. I really only asked for one gift this year, which was an Ipod (that was on backorder and wasn't on time for christmas), so when I opened presents there wasn't a whole lot. Between relatives I got one hundred dollars worth of fry's gift certificates, a couple dvds, and some clothes. My sisters got a gamecube and a bunch of video games, and to tell the truth I am actually enjoying it more than they are.
However cheesy it may sound, I really do love giving during the holidays. Everything I bought as gifts, everyone seemed to like, and that always makes me feel good. It makes getting gifts that much better.
New Years was somewhat uneventful, until an hour before midnight. All night I was looking for someone to hang out with and everyone seemed busy or asleep. Eventually I found Scott and Ted. I hadn't seem Scott in too long, and I was glad to see him. We all counted down at Scott's house, and then went to In n Out for our first meal of 2005.
The night after, they met me at edwards after I was done with work so we could hang out. We were going to see a movie, but had a couple hours to kill, so in short, we acted like complete idiots. First we went to get burgers, and then we "went for a drive". It all started when scott decided it would be a good idea to drive on the sidewalk... then it all went down hill from there. To make a long story short, we drove over baseball fields, made friends with a street cleaner, almost died like 3 times, ran (literally) from the police, drove over countless cement planters, led an expedition to Questhaven, and probably did a bunch of other stuff that someone is going to remind me of later and I'll be like "OHH YEAAHH! HAHAHA I REMEMBER THAT!". Then we went to see Lemony Snicket, which was like my 4th viewing of it.
I only have a week and a half of vacation left, and then I get to go back to never having any days off. I'm also taking more classes. I need to get some sleep, but it's 1:22 am right now and I've having trouble feeling tired. At the moment I am currently overwhelmed with feelings of frustration, so I'll probably stay up for a couple more hours, maybe reading a lemony snicket book. Whatever ends up happening, it's time for me to wrap this up. Ill try not to go so long without at least blogging. I'd like to get back into the habit. Anyway. Yeah. Night night,
Chewie
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