I can't believe I'm actually doing this but I'm moonlighting for my mom's company ... for free. I knew she had a dark secret for making me become a computer programming. "Everyone has a keyboard superglued to their fingers, it is normal" my ass. You're on the list mom.

Read in an Excel file, parse it dependant on certain rows and output the text. Simple, right?

Hopefully I'll get this done tomorrow night and then Operation Balls will commence some time next week.

Someone is getting a lot of bouncy balls in their office. < evil finger roll />

Ok, i'm a slacker. Work + life outside work + friends = no free time to play with cool toy.

I swear this weekend i'll have something up and working.

My buddy Andy came up with another awesome prank involving key stroke monitoring that will cause annoying sounds to play when hit. Seriously, who brings in toys that produce sounds that annoy the person who brought it in and NOT expect me to figure out a way to remotely trigger them.

Should be here this morning. Time to modify my evil plan to work with this

This sucks, having the Lego NXT work with the Microsoft Robotic Studio consistancy without issue is proving to be a major pain. I need to rethink my super bouncy ball attack.

I need this to be hidden and ready to work without me having to reset stuff. Me thinks some phidgets.

Using the stock software provided by microsoft, I managed to get the Lego Nxt block working. Now to create a stripped down version that will do only what I need it to do in both c# and vb.net.

I have a Lego NXT mindstorm and 1,000 super bouncy balls. However, my old belkin bluetooth adapter (F8T001) doesn't work very well with it.

I need to get a new adapter to finish this prank and build out the software properly to unleash this spherical hell.

Good times, fixed the software right as people started walking in. Had to do a few hard resets but all in all a good party. This time it was more focused on having fun rather than sezure induced dance floor magic. Nothing like a nice post-lalapoluza party.

And btw, if you have an xbox 360, get Dead Rising. I just played the demo and I will never get tired of killing zombies. Controls are a bit interesting but eh, I'd rather have a B instead of X be the attack button. I will say my buddy Thad will giggle non-stop while playing this game.

Don't add in new features that cause massive memory leaks the day of your party without a back up.

Just a little FYI.