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2004-02-01




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Nintendo lives on!

A few years ago I downloaded an emulator and some ROMs so I could play the Nintendo games of my youth. An emulator is like the Nintendo box and ROMs are the games. I have since lost track of the software. A buddy of mine was playing Super Mario last night on his emulator. I forgot how fun it was to play those games, so today I downloaded an emulator and I found a great source for ROMs.

The emulator lets you enter Game Genie codes too! I still remember that the code for infinite lives in Super Mario is SXIOPO.

Time to go save the princess!

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    57
    2004-01-29




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    I konw yuo cna raed tihs!

    It is vrey itnersenitg teh way humnas raed. Amlsot erevy wrod hree is spleed wtih teh ltetres mxied up, but it is sitll unedstrdanalbe. Stiudes hvae funod taht as lnog as teh frsit adn lsat letetrs aer in teh rhigt pcale in wdors caontiinng moer tahn terhe lrteets, teh wrod wlil mroe tahn llkeiy be rabaldee. Ins't taht naet?

    It is hrad to wtire lkie tihs, so Il'l sotp nwo. I culod mkae a spirct to cvnoret palin txet to tihs froamt, btu I hvae oehtr tgnihs to do :-)

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      2004-01-26




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      Standing up for myself

      One thing I would like to change about myself is my level of assertiveness to people I don't know. I'm the type of person who will get short-changed 50¢ at the store and not say anything to the cashier. The people at Subway will put peppers on my sub when I asked not to have them and I won't correct them. I'll just pick them off later. A short time ago I decided to start standing up for myself more and I am pleased with how things are going. I have two stories.

      Amanda and I decided to order Chinese food last evening. The minimum order for delivery is $10. We had more than $10 worth of stuff picked out. I called the place and asked for a pint of Shrimp Fried Rice. The woman on the other end of the phone told me that "we usually do large size for delivery". I never heard that one before. They wanted me to buy a quart of Shrimp Fried Rice. At first I said "Well, ok." Then I changed my mind. I told her that I only wanted a pint of the rice and furthermore I only wanted a pint of Chicken Fried Rice too. She wasn't too happy, but I'm not going to let her sell me more than I wanted to buy.

      Eric, Shana, Amanda, and I went to the Camp Hill Diner for dinner recently because we had coupons (1 coupon per couple) for buy one entree, get a second entree of equal or lesser value free. I ordered a $7.00 entree and so did Amanda. We also ordered a $4.50 appetizer. When it came time to pay the cashier guy attempted to give me the appetizer for free. I pointed out on the coupon where it clearly said "Entree", not appetizer. He insisted that I get the $4.50 item free, not the $7.00 entree. I again said that I wanted the free entree, not the less expensive appetizer. He finally agreed and actually apologized after the sale was complete. Try to rip me off, will you?

      This standing up for myself thing is really working out well. I am able to do it without making a scene, without being rude, and without being nervous. Do you have a similar story where you stood up for yourself? (I realize about 2 people actually read this blog, so I guess that was more of a rhetorical question.)

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      • Hey Don, I hear ya...I'm the same way but haven't started to change yet...like today I ate a cream cheese bagel when I asked for butter...grrrrr.
           Posted by Kevin Chupka on 2004-01-26

      • good for you Don...and chups...the cream cheese incident isnt all bad. if you got it at noahs you can scrape it off and have cream cheese for a month!
           Posted by Geoff Splendorio on 2004-02-05

      • I'm afraid that non-assertiveness runs in the family. Luckily, when I was about your age my friend Mark set me straight, at least in terms of negotiating salaries. I'm still not as assertive as I should be, so it's something I constantly have to work on. I listened to some good tapes a while back by a man named Karrass whose theory is, "In business as in life, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate." Anyway, it's possible to have a good Christian witness yet be assertive at the same time.
           Posted by Uncle Bruce on 2004-03-21

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      2004-01-25




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      Atkin's Diet Fad

      Everywhere I go I hear about how great the Atkin's diet is. I first heard about it from my uncle who tried it and successfully lost the weight he wanted to. He did the research about it and decided to try the diet. I'm happy for him that it worked so well.

      While I'm happy that it worked for my uncle, the concept of the Atkin's diet sounds very unhealthy to me. Fat and protein with no carbohydrates. It just doesn't sound right.

      Well, like it or not, the Atkin's Diet has caught on big time in the US. More people trying to modify their eating habits in what I consider to be extreme ways, instead of modifying their sedentary lifestyles. The restaurants around here have picked up the idea that people want to "cut the carbs." To my utter shock and dismay, I read in the paper that Burger King, Hardee's, TGIFridays, Subway, and a couple of other places are offering "Atkin's Friendly" menu options such as bunless burgers! A "beef" patty wrapped in lettuce! Gaa!

      A coworker of mine went to Subway recently to try a new Atkins wrap sub. For $0.35 more than a regular sub, you can get a wrap instead of a sub roll. He tried a wrap instead of his usual foot-long sub. Well, he was still hungry, who wouldn't be? So he got another wrap. Nope, still hungry. So he said forget it and bought the foot-long meatball sub on italian bread he was trying to avoid in the first place. Yeahhhh buddy.

      I don't like the concept of extreme diets. Atkins seems extreme to me. I don't like how people try to lose weight without excercise. Another co-worker of mine moonlights at Harrisburg Airport schlepping boxes onto the UPS plane everyday. That's pretty good excercise. He says that because of his active job a couple hours every night, he can eat whatever the heck he wants and not gain weight. Now that's what I'm talking about! Eat your 4 food groups, go through your food pyramid including the fats at the top, and then excercise. Eat ice cream, it's wonderful! Then go for a walk!

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        2004-01-22




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        ITT Tech Commercials

        Every afternoon I watch a little bit of Judge Judy after I get home from work. During the 30 minute show they have at least 2 ITT Tech commercials. I'm getting kind of sick of them, especially the one where the guy says, "ITT Tech has taken me to where I eventually want to go."

        What the heck does that mean? So ITT has taken this guy to a place that he still wants to get to in the future. Uhhh...that doesn't make sense to me. What do you think?

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