Wednesday, February 22, 2006: A Proverb is the Chisel for the marble of the foolish Mind.

Hello my wonderful readers. Today I think I'll talk about vending machines. I was walking around the school on Monday (the library was closed for President's day, however the school didn't give a shit about that any more than they did on Martin Luther King Jr. day) with my friend Mr. W---- and one of his friends, Mr. W------, who I shall call "Zack" for no apparent reason. So, the three of us were talking about hacking with Liz(who was wondering about the school as well), when Zack got a call on his cell phone. Whilst talking, he began pushing random buttons, the machine displaying the names and prices of various products. After the fourth button, however, it said "sales data." We got this figured out after a while, and though we can't do anything other than display things, it's still rather fun and quite addictive.

So, here's the process: first, the kind of machine. It's the V540 by Vendco. These look identical to another Vendco machine, so check the little side plate thingy. They have 12 large buttons with images of the products on them, arranged in three rows of four with a divider in the middle which contains the display area. Know what I'm talking about? Alright, now what you do is press the first, then third, then second, then fourth button in the first row. After words, the first row is cycle through options, the second select, and the third is back. Your options are "sales data," "diagnostic," and "return." Under sales data, you can cycle through statistics for the different selections.

And now for English lesson number three: the word "stealer." This is not an independant, functioning word. You can not be a "stealer," only a thief. You may be a scene stealer, or something like that, however you should rather use the verb with and adjective, i.e. scene stealing basterd.