Karnblackshack

Hmmmm...

2009-10-17T13:09:00.000-07:00

It has arrived!

2009-09-03T18:49:00.000-07:00

Thanks mom!

2009-07-03T23:10:00.000-07:00

Insight

2009-06-30T09:01:00.000-07:00

Honda is having a giveaway at Disneyland.

Interesting...

2009-04-23T13:33:00.000-07:00

They don't look like they do in the ads, but what fast food really does? They have a decent taste, but my favorite sliders are still the ones from Dave and Busters.

404 Burgers not found...

2009-04-23T13:28:00.000-07:00

Trying the mini sirloin burgers at Jack's. Hopefully they're good.

Got my free Magic cards

2009-04-13T19:57:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter!

2009-04-12T12:19:00.000-07:00

I hope everyone has a happy Easter. It's been about a year since I've started this blog, and I haven't made as many posts as I thought I would. Hopefully this next year will be more fruitful in that regard.

This photo is of my Easter basket. I got a lot of candy, a dice game, a couple of DVDs and some Magic cards (some of which may end up in future posts). :)

Doubly Smart

2009-03-10T19:16:00.000-07:00

Met in the parking lot of Costco

2009-02-24T12:38:00.000-08:00

After a Magus of the Disk

2009-01-26T23:05:00.000-08:00

After a friendly Parallax Wave

2009-01-26T22:54:00.000-08:00

ZOMG!?!?

2009-01-26T22:34:00.000-08:00

Liliana Vess ultimate ability!!!!!!

Lunch++ @Costco

2009-01-23T12:29:00.000-08:00

A lot of tasting booths set up. I had a hot dog and soda for lunch, but was able to taste a whole bunch of food.

Mini Pepperoni, Clam Chowder, Sausages and Meatballs, Deli Meats, Cheeses, Haagen Dazs, Bread, Coffee, Gourmet Popcorn, Pita Chips, Hommus, Pasta. Some yum some not so much.

Dinner at Lee's Sandwiches

2009-01-14T18:34:00.000-08:00

Having a couple of Shrimp & Pork Spring Rolls, a cup of Lee's Iced Coffee with Boba, and trying for the first time DeliManjoo Fresh Baked Cream Cakes for dessert.

Getting fitted for a Tux

2009-01-13T18:06:00.000-08:00

For a friend's wedding. I'm going to be an usher. :)

Lunch

2009-01-13T13:48:00.000-08:00

6 Rolled Taquitos w/Guacamole and cheese, and a Diet Coke. Yum!

Strip Mine for Glacial Chasm

2009-01-08T01:14:00.000-08:00

Just in time.

My attack!

2009-01-08T00:44:00.000-08:00

2 Darksteel Colossi and a Platinum Angel FTW!

Turbo Fog FTW!

2009-01-07T21:00:00.000-08:00

I wonder if it accepts coins...

2009-01-04T13:55:00.000-08:00

It doesn't. You pretty much need a debit or credit card. I wonder if the iPods and the PSPs are pre-charged. Would be sad if they weren't.

Birds in the terminal?

2009-01-04T13:41:00.000-08:00

I captured one ala Fatal Frame. :o

Now that's a remote!

2009-01-03T18:52:00.000-08:00

Yes, that's a quarter that I'm holding with my thumb for scale.

Lunch at Cici's

2009-01-02T09:24:00.000-08:00

All you can eat pizza, pasta, salad & dessert for $4.99. Currentlu on my plate: Mac & Cheese Pizza, Buffalo Chicken Pizza and a piece of garlic bread. The other plate you don't see in this photo contains my salad. :)

Sitting on runway

2008-12-24T10:49:00.000-08:00

Waiting to get to the gate. I hope we don't sit here too long. Fortunately my connecting flight is about 2 hours from now.

UPDATE: There's a plane sitting at our gate so we're going to a different gate on the other side of the airport. :o

Lunch at McDonalds

2008-12-16T11:48:00.000-08:00

I had a bacon & cheese 1/3 lb. Angus burger, medium fries and a medium drink. Since we're on the subject I like McDonald's mushroom swiss angus burger better than Wendy's attempt at a mushroom swiss burger. I've also noticed that although McDonald's doesn't use Heinz ketchup the ketchup they do use works well with their fries. This is probably not an accident. :o

Mega Cricket Infestation

2008-11-30T19:21:00.000-08:00

At the McDonald's parking lot in Castaic.

Little did I know...

2008-11-26T22:49:00.000-08:00

That was the cash price. I used my ATM card and was charged $2.10. :(

Control vs. Burn...Yum!

2008-11-24T22:25:00.000-08:00

Left 4 Dead arrived today!

2008-11-20T17:23:00.000-08:00

Southern California is on fire again

2008-11-15T11:05:00.000-08:00

Having some yogurt before playing Magic

2008-11-13T19:03:00.000-08:00

Even while sick

2008-11-04T18:02:00.000-08:00

Went after lunch since I called in sick to work. There was no wait. Wish I didn't still feel nauseous though. :(

In case you didn't know

2008-10-29T19:41:00.000-07:00

My Pumpkin

2008-10-27T21:27:00.000-07:00

Lunch

2008-10-21T12:04:00.000-07:00

Dragon Roll and Salmon Skin Hand Roll.

Multimedia Programming

2008-10-20T16:04:00.000-07:00

Books for my Multimedia Programming class that starts in January. Maybe I can get a head start by reading these two 300+ page books over winter break.

Economics part 2

2008-10-20T16:00:00.000-07:00

My other new book for my Economics class that starts next week. It's only 252 pages though. Whew!

Economics

2008-10-20T15:58:00.000-07:00

One of my new books for my Economics class that starts next week. 853 pages. Yikes!

Checked in for the CHOC Walk tomorrow

2008-10-18T14:52:00.000-07:00

Uh oh...look what Arby's has

2008-10-09T13:36:00.000-07:00

Rubio's FTW!

2008-10-05T15:46:00.000-07:00

Looking at all those fish made me hungry

2008-10-05T15:45:00.000-07:00

A Whale

2008-10-05T14:49:00.000-07:00

I found Nemo

2008-10-05T14:48:00.000-07:00

And a bunch of his siblings.

Giant Starfish and Giant Crab

2008-10-05T14:34:00.000-07:00

Otter

2008-10-05T14:32:00.000-07:00

Jelly Fish

2008-10-05T14:19:00.000-07:00

Ouch!

Garden of Eels

2008-10-05T14:04:00.000-07:00

More fish

2008-10-05T14:03:00.000-07:00

Fresh Sushi

2008-10-05T13:59:00.000-07:00

Aquarium of the Pacific

2008-10-05T13:28:00.001-07:00

Seal.

Aquarium of the Pacific

2008-10-05T13:28:00.000-07:00

Eel. Yum!

Aquarium of the Pacific

2008-10-05T13:27:00.000-07:00

Garibaldi

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

2008-09-26T03:58:00.000-07:00

A fun new deck I built that hearkens back to a time when my Storm Seeker deck reigned supreme. Sudden Impact is the new Storm Seeker, and the Howling Mine returns to do its duty. This new version of my old favorite uses a relatively newer card named Ebony Owl Netsuke to bring added pain. Sculpting Steels and a Kami of the Crescent Moon act like more Howling Mines. There was a tournament deck a while back called Owling Mine that I remembered hearing about so I checked it out. I tried to replicate it the best I could while tweaking it for multiplayer, and while also using cards I had lying around. My decklist has about 1/3 of its cards in common with one of the Owling Mine builds. The rest is for my meta. What's crazy is that this deck can easily get up to everyone drawing 5-7 cards per turn so you're looking at a 12-14 point Sudden Impact during the draw step. The Ebony Owl and Incinerates should finish the job, and if not I have some other tricks up my sleeve. :)

Traffic School: Night 2

2008-09-24T18:23:00.000-07:00

My final 4 hours. :(

Meet Sassafras

2008-09-20T22:42:00.000-07:00

Meet Mishra

2008-09-20T19:19:00.000-07:00

Traffic School: Night 1

2008-09-17T18:03:00.000-07:00

It begins...

Watermelon Shooter

2008-09-13T14:59:00.000-07:00

Having an excellent smoothie at Bagel Me!

New cards

2008-09-08T21:38:00.000-07:00

Torrent Deck

2008-09-07T23:18:00.000-07:00

Generate a lot of creatures and finish with Torrent of Souls or Furystoke Giant.

My lunch

2008-09-05T12:21:00.000-07:00

Club Sandwich special at Hot Off The Grill.

Thai Iced Tea with Boba

2008-08-30T13:03:00.000-07:00

Picked up a Thai Iced Tea with Boba at a smoothie shop at The Village in Orange. It's good, but not as good or inexpensive as the one at Lee's Sandwiches.

Ultra Cute Persian Kitten

2008-08-30T12:53:00.000-07:00

It's not $700 cute though.

Goatnapper Deck

2008-08-26T17:38:00.000-07:00

I was able to get a one-sided wrath with this deck in one game, and in another I was able to deal over 60 points of damge but still managed to lose.

Singularity Deck

2008-08-19T22:55:00.000-07:00

Tokens Deck

2008-08-19T22:41:00.000-07:00

Bringers Deck

2008-08-19T22:27:00.000-07:00

I finally put together a few decks that I had been working on for a while.

New deck...heh heh heh...

2008-07-26T15:45:00.000-07:00

More fun food at 99 Ranch

2008-07-22T18:29:00.000-07:00

At 99 Ranch again

2008-07-22T18:28:00.000-07:00

New Tool

2008-07-09T20:59:00.000-07:00

I picked up a MIDI controller today. I need to write some background score for my game concept for my Visual and Audio Design Fundamentals class so that gave me an excuse to pick up the one I've been eyeing for some time. It's a Novation Remote 25SL.

A MIDI controller has no sounds of its own. It just sends MIDI control information to a device like a sotware synth or a hardware synth. The most basic controllers usually have a few buttons, a pitch bend wheel, and a modulation wheel. The best things about this one is it has 64 assignable controls, two 144-character LCD screens, and an Automap mode. The multitude of controls won't really help much when playing piano sounds, but when you have a synth with a ton of tweekable controls like the ones in Propellerhead's Reason they really come in handy. The screens help by letting you know what the controls are assigned to. Without them you'd have to guess, and when you're controlling multiple synths it can be a problem. The Automap feature is the number one reason to get this controller. All other controllers have templates for the major synth plug-ins and user templates for manually setting the controls, but the user has to select the correct template or set up his own. With the Remote 25SL it automatically detects which plug-in it's controlling and automatically assigns all of the controls. The screens really help out in this regard.

Another plus is that it's bus powered or battery powered so it doesn't need a power adapter.

Fear the Reaper King

2008-07-05T21:00:00.001-07:00

Reaper King, Mistmeadow Witch and some scarecrows/changelings = mega destruction.

Spore Creature Creator

2008-06-25T20:06:00.001-07:00

Picked up the Spore Creature Creator at Target the other day because the free downloadable trial version is very limited. It was $10 and comes with a coupon for $5 off the full version of Spore. Unfortunately the coupon is only valid at Target who might not have the best price when the game comes out. If another store has the game for a lower price than the Target price with the coupon I'll be picking it up there.

Visual & Audio Design Fundamentals

2008-06-24T18:22:00.001-07:00

A couple of books for one of my classes next semester.

Discrete Math

2008-06-24T17:48:00.001-07:00

The textbook for one of my classes next semester.

New Desk

2008-06-22T19:09:00.001-07:00

Old Desk

2008-06-22T16:19:00.001-07:00

IKEA

2008-06-22T09:32:00.001-07:00

This is a picture of some of the children's merchandise at IKEA. We're really here to pick up a couple of desks.

New book

2008-06-18T21:29:00.001-07:00

I picked up a new book today. I plan on going through it during my two week break from school.

Lunch at IKEA

2008-06-16T08:17:00.001-07:00

For some reason this didn't go through yesterday. We had lunch at IKEA and we all had the Swedish Meatballs. :)

$15 card from a $4 pack

2008-06-15T15:29:00.001-07:00

I was lucky enough for this card to be the rare in one of two packs of Shadowmoor I picked up today. :)

Snack time

2008-06-15T15:20:00.001-07:00

Double Chocolate Oatmeal Crisp Cookies

2008-06-15T12:22:00.001-07:00

They look yummy!

Dinner

2008-06-14T17:44:00.001-07:00

Birthday gift #2 from same good friend

2008-06-12T23:50:00.001-07:00

A birthday gift from a good friend

2008-06-12T23:45:00.001-07:00

BestBuy

2008-06-08T10:38:00.001-07:00

Going to BestBuy to help a friend pick out wireless network equipment.

Pirates!

2008-06-07T22:11:00.001-07:00

My wife picked up a boxed set of the Pirates pocketmodel game the other day, and we're learning how to play. So far it's fun. We had some packs before, but after my wife picked up the boxed set it reignited our interest in it.

Birthday loot

2008-06-04T17:38:00.001-07:00

Thanks to my wife's parents for the LiteOn DVD Burner, the 30 pack of LightScribe DVDs, the San Juan card game, and Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture book. Thanks to my wife for the Magic: The Gathering Shadowmoor Fat Pack and Tournament Pack. :)

Speeding Ticket

2008-05-31T09:38:00.001-07:00

They got me on my way to work the day before yesterday approximately 1 mile away from my exit. :(

Noodles

2008-05-29T15:45:00.001-07:00

99 Ranch

2008-05-29T15:35:00.001-07:00

Yum!

2008-05-26T13:13:00.001-07:00

Lunch

2008-05-26T13:12:00.001-07:00

Elphaba

2008-05-25T22:15:00.001-07:00

Glinda

2008-05-25T22:13:00.001-07:00

Wicked was awesome!

2008-05-25T21:36:00.001-07:00

Wicked

2008-05-25T17:38:00.001-07:00

At the Pantages and getting ready to see Wicked.