For years I imagined that digital billboards would be a thing of the future. I had NO idea that it would be this recent! While this was a welcome development, there were still bugs to iron out. I caught this one night with my family when we stopped somewhere. This Wendy’s menu in-restaurant was running on Windows 7 and needed to run and update. Typical Windows.
This was a photo I took before I left my cousin’s place for Memorial weekend, showing off my A100 Iconia functioning as a GPS. I thought it’d be an interesting shot to show a sports car from the 90s with advanced tech. I should actually do this with my Camry sometime.
There’s a number of things I’ve seen while going around ETSU, and I’ve not always been in the frame of mind or situation to grab a photo of all of them.
That said, I’ve been able to break that trend occasionally. This is one of those times.
My cousin and I had gone out to grab something from someone’s printer in another room, which was down the hall form his dorm. This person in question had one of those shared, Internet IP printers, so you could print remotely.
We grab his assignment, head back to his dorm and encounter this odd sight at 2AM in the morning; a fork in the middle of the floor.
It definitely surprised me, especially since the floor was clear when we’d passed before. My cousin hadn’t noticed it or paid attention, but I stopped him and grabbed a photo. I also had him stick his foot in for reference. I think I was on the lines of “you could’ve faked this, show someone else in the photo” for some reason.
Paranormal fork? I don’t think so. But someone had to dash through that hallway and accidentally lost silverware within a 3 minute timespan.
I don’t quite remember where this is, but this is headed up on the way home somewhere on I-95. Pretty sure we left Florida at this point; while the photo is blurry, you can see we had 140 miles till the South Carolina I-26 exit. Also you get a good shot of my Acer Iconia A100 tablet. Works pretty well as a GPS once you solve it’s power issues and get it’s map data.
I don’t quite remember where this was exactly, but it was somewhere in norther Florida on the way up back home. Dad had stopped for food and bathroom, and while I was waiting saw these ancient things. Pictures had to be had as I was surprised to just see something so old still being used there normally, everyday. I still had my Gamecube but everyone keeps jumping over them like some retro Hot Pocket.
On our way out back home, Dad decided that we sightsee at least one place. So we had an earlier start than usual. While we were heading up north, I passed this guy with an RC plane on the back of a trailer. Kinda impressed that the plane was just fitted like that. Admittedly, that’s the first time I saw that big of an RC plane in person; it was always limited to Youtube videos or photos online.
My dad and sister are heading into Charlotte this morning to get some foodstuffs. Go to put my A100 to use for GPS, which was cool. Big Angry Birds is sitting on the dash, keeping an eye out up ahead.
I know it’s not much to look at, but this was a significant piece for me. I had gotten comfortable to walking into the ETSU DIGM labs on a whim to just use their PC’s for things, including the ones with the Cintiq 21UX tablets. This was the first drawing I did from start to finish, took me an hour one night when doing one of my classes that evening.
I knew at that point that I HAD to get one of those new Cintiq tablets for myself. That gave me the best drawing experience that no tablet had before.
So yes. Novia gives you happy belated Valentine’s Day wishes.
In Moscow, weather freezes you.
I missed this while driving back home from school one night (this was when I didn’t have an apartment), but on my way home I hit the 200,000 mile mark on my Camry, the USS Orion. Not bad, Orion, not bad at all.
My name's Janeil.
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Moonlight game dev, creative writer, sharing my personal experiences.