oww my brain hurts from switching between c++, lua, ruby, and maxscript.  does everyone really need to define different syntax for the same stuff?  look if you're going to make a language with if, for, while, etc just use the c syntax ok??  thanks.  :)

pat introduced me to gruff the other day (it's a nice library for ruby to make pretty graphs) and now my brain can't stop thinking of all the fantastic uses to put it to (99.999% of which are completely unnecessary of course!)  gruff's very easy to use but has its quirks.  like it'll explode if you give it an empty string ("") sometimes and doing horizontal bar graphs is rather more difficult than vertical bar graphs which is odd. 

completely unrelated to this, i finally broke down and succumbed to the google invasion.  now i've got gmail, calendar, and goofy web docs and spreadsheets going on.  oh my, it's a googlification!  dearest google, enjoy mining my data and if you find something interesting please let me know!

and speaking of candy, halloween in guild wars this year was sweet.  i was quite fortunate to have been chosen by the mad king for a round of paper scissors rock.  i selected rock but the mad king beat me with paper which was all quite shocking because i'm generally really good at paper scissors rock.  and now to please the cookie thing here are some screens from the event:
kamadan got spooktacular, psr with the king, one too many drinks, chillin with my bro in candy corn form (it's important for you to know that i'm the one on the right).  this may all seem oddly familiar but this time it's 2006.

if you're clenching your fists while reading this it's because i still owe you a copy of nightfall.  don't fret, i should have the rest of my copies real soon now.