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This came up in a conversation yesterday.

Here’s my list of the top 3 most annoying emoticons ever to be used against me.

Number Three
XD and XP
No matter how I try, I can’t picture anyone looking like this. This is just plain retarded. Heck, even retarded kids don’t look so stupid. Plus, I keep reading XP as ‘XP’ as in ‘Windows XP’. Oh man, now everytime I see a Windows XP logo I’m going to think of this retarded emoticon.

Number Two
=PpPp
I don’t think anyone uses this anymore, but I got quite a few of these back in the day. What is it, anyway? Super-multiple-chin-mutant?

Number ONE
(: and other upside down freaks
Why go through the trouble of trying to type stuff upside down? Why put me through the pain of having to decipher it?!

(as a bonus random fun fact, ‘!?’ is called an Interrobang.)

-FIN-

Just a quick update.

We received our LEDs this Wednesday. About $90 (per person) worth of them.

Spent about 6 to 8 hours in the lab on Friday (yes, on Friday) just having fun straigtening wires and soldering about 64 to 70 connections. And that’s only 1/4 of the soldering done.

Accidentally bent one of the columns.

Note to self: if it doesn’t fit too well into the breadboard, don’t force it.

Did a couple of tests to see if I got the row/column scanning concept right.

The basic idea of the scanning is to address each LED by row/column, and switch between them real quick.

Here are a few pictures of the latest test, taken by my powerful webcam. In this test I made a 4×4 LED matrix (well, I’m missing 2 LEDs), and lit up an ‘X’ .