Randy’s Blog

Traveling again..

Cool aerial shot of the Rockies and Cooper Mountain, a great ski spot and where Mini’s in the mountains is held.

1. Got my MBED chip, and the L293 controller
2. Got “frankie the fish”, from the McDonalds commercial (actually 3 of them from BBB, they were $10 a piece)
3. Got an actual Billy Bass off of Ebay
4. Need a breadboard, SD card, and a lot of help.

Here is a Billy Bass Mod for inspiration.

Fun networked slot machine.  The one at the Flamingo just kept hitting.  This one just got better and better…  Hillius, Sadie and I played with some chick.  It has three games, the big fish was the coolest, the $20.00 fish kept showing up, but never bit.  Kind of like reality..

Reel ’em In: Compete to Win (WMS Gaming) was the first big hit video slot for WMS in 1997, giving the company a boost at a time when it was struggling with patent issues on its reel-spinning slots. The theme’s success over the years makes it only natural that WMS would turn to the fishing theme for community-style play.

What’s different about Compete to Win is, well, the competition. In introducing its Community Gaming line, WMS first turned out Monopoly Big Event, in which players won together on events including a trip around the Monopoly board. Everyone was rooting for the dice to take the whole group to those big properties.

In Reel ’em In: Compete to Win, everyone goes to the fishing round together, but they won’t all be rooting for the same fish. Each fish is assigned a point value, and when you see a big-value fish swim onto the plasma screen overhead, the anticipation builds as players wonder if it’ll bite — and whose fisherman will reel it in. The player with the most points at the end of the round not only wins the accumulated credits, but gets an extra bonus reward for winning the derby.

Mornings are tough.

We are going to Vegas! Sitting on the little MD80 at the Fort Collins / Loveland airport, a little non towered airport. Cheap, but cosy.

Well, had a successful and unsuccessful jailbreaking of my iphone. I have version 3.1.3 os the os. Broke that! Then I had an issue with the bootloader. Oh well, no iPhone in London.

My limoncello.  How cool is that color.  Only 80 more days to go before I sweeten, then 90 more after that!