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November 23rd, 2009
November 22nd, 2009
November 19th, 2009
 | 04:54 pm - Writer's Block: The play's the thing
Surely you can't be serious!
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 | 02:39 pm
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 | 12:30 pm
As I was driving to work today, I was in a "meh" kind of mood, and grousing to myself.
As I approached a certain intersection that's right before a train crossing, and where I turn left, I saw a freight train was approaching. The signal lights started blinking red, and the crossing gates came down.
"Wait for it.." I said to myself while I was looking at the train approaching.
I waited for the other cars to cross the intersection first before I made my turn, and by that time the train was about to run past the crossing.
Happiness is driving with the windows down, parallel to a freight train going the same speed as you.
Funny, ain't it?
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November 16th, 2009
| 03:19 pm - Google Wave
I just heard about this. The consensus I've found on various sites I frequent liken it to a glorified IM client/server with a lot of features that already exist elsewhere, making it entirely redundant. I don't have access to it myself, and I'm not about to beg Google for a chance to play with their shiny new toy.
So what do you think?
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November 13th, 2009
November 10th, 2009
 | 12:58 am
But before I go to sleep, here's a random chatlog from City of Heroes...
( The Assault Bot's name is CPE 1704 TKS... )
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| 12:40 am
Why am I up so late?
Videogames and cable TV shows are my addiction*, and I always need another fix.
Seriously though, I should be in bed already!
*For the record though, I'm talking about shows like Mythbusters, Hometime, and that one on the Military History channel that shows CGI recreations of historic dogfights. It's not like I'm sitting here watching reruns Everybody Loves Raymond! So uh... there!
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November 6th, 2009
| 02:50 pm
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November 3rd, 2009
| 04:08 pm - More dirty underhanded tricks:
Hah! Anyone who actually liked that farce about vampires, called "Twilight," ought to be as pleased as punch to hear that its author--a "straight laced" Mormon--dutifully gives a percentage of her profits to her church.
This means anyone who paid for the book or to see the movie has helped the Mormon church to influence the government to discriminate against homosexuals.
Not that I know anyone who even read the book, mind you. But now that you know this, you're going to stop giving her your money, right?
This is also why you never, ever stay at a Marriot hotel, BTW!
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October 31st, 2009
 | 02:29 am
Is it possible for the AGP controller driver to cause extremely intermittent problems (like a blank screen and whole system frozen) with certain games?
Lots of people would probably say to look at the videocard driver first, but I was just wondering about that.
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October 28th, 2009
 | 03:48 pm - And today it appears that it's still...
Current Music: The Association - Windy
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 | 03:14 pm - Dreamtime!
I had a rather vivid dream this morning...
There had apparently been an old Montgomery Wards' department store in downtown Los Angeles that, in my dream, I had remembered going to all the time as a kid with my mom. It was huge and not too unlike a mall, except it was a single department store. This one sold a lot more than just clothes, it was old school and they sold everything.
But this wasn't so much dreaming about the past, because in my dream it was the present, and apparently this building that used to be the department store had long since been abandoned. But it wasn't so decrepit yet that you couldn't still see its former beauty.
I must have a thing for labyrinths, very low (or very high!) ceilings, and marble surfaces. Because going into this "dead mall that was really an expansive department store" rather resembled that. The front entrance was a sort of black-and-brown marble affair, with nothing but several service windows on either side, and a rows of elevator doors towards the rear. The elevators took you to different floors of the department stores, and there were no stairs to be seen.
Each department sort of resembled the small stores you typically see in a mall, save that when the store was alive you would have been free to take the merchandise out into the hallways, seeing as you'd be paying for it later when you exited. This also meant each storefront had a uniform design with respect to all the others. Everything was done in black and brown marble (with little red specks? I don't know what you call that!) with gold trim. There were no stairs or windows and there were lots of elevators.
But I should note that most of the elevators were broken. An expedition went in first to test them, and some of the cars were prone to falling, and one actually did. But we were lucky to find one that worked and a bunch of us went exploring, and I seemed to vividly recall how the place used to fascinate me when I was a kid.
But suddenly a huge door came crashing down, as if it were made of stone, and it separated us from the bay of elevators from where we'd entered that floor. This also cut off what little light had been there. We ended up having to go wandering around to find other ways to get back down to the main floor.
I remember this initially triggered a fright response, as if it were turning into a nightmare. But my eagerness to keep exploring kind of overcame that, and so I didn't wake up and I kept dreaming. I found backrooms full of papers and old inventory and such stuff, though nothing that could help me get out of there. No, I finally had to wake up because I had to go pee, and I ended up being so disappointed that I couldn't find a way out before I woke up!
My first thought when I opened my eyes and sat up was, "I don't remember my mom ever taking me to a Ward's downtown when I was kid!" Wait no, I actually said that out loud. :D
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 | 12:05 pm - Blustery day!
I made the mistake of leaving for work yesterday with my windows open. Little did I realize that it was going to be oh so windy!
While I was at work, I could see the gusts of wind rustling the leaves on the palm trees out along the street. I was like, "damn I left my windows open!"
When I got back home, I saw that the bug screen on one of my windows was missing. The only barrier between my room and the outside world was the curtain that was pushed halfway out the window. I went back downstairs and to the backyard and well, there was the screen on the ground!
Today I've wisely kept both my windows shut.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and all the dust that's been brought up into the air has been making me sneeze a lot. Meh!
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October 21st, 2009
| 01:44 pm
What if the angels exist, but there is no God? And there are demons, but there is no Satan. Or maybe they did exist, but they don't anymore. Or they left one day, and no one knows to where.
A heavenly cover-up? A celestial conspiracy?
Did the Hebrew god tell his people that other gods did not exist? According to some translations, it's more correct to say that he told them those gods were strangers.
There could be an interesting story in that.
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 | 01:14 pm
Of all the things I like about my cell phone, one of them is that it came with a "classic" ring tone.
It's the exact same ringing telephone sound effect that you heard in every movie and TV show in the 60's, 70's and early 80's. And it is just as awesome. I love how some people are just completely surprised by it.
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October 12th, 2009
| 02:53 pm
There it was, Sunday evening! And I'd just remembered that I totally forgot to watch the next episode of Stargate: Universe.
Yeah, I found the premiere to be just that enthralling. Yay. It is so not the Stargate that I had come to know and love for the past ten years. It's trying to be something it never was, and it should have left that to the other shows where it was done right to begin with.
If SG:U manages to survive another season, the producers are seriously going to have to consider retooling it. My vote would be for them to make it more like the other two Stargate series, and less like a Lost/Heroes/BSG mashup clone.
I managed to catch most of the new episode when it ran at 1am on "SyFy". Even with a hysterical mother crying and threatening to reveal the truth about the Stargate program to the public, I was so not riveted. A good show will keep my attention no matter how sleepy I am. This one, I could barely stay awake.
I think there's another episode this week. There probably is. I'll probably watch it if I remember this time, and I'm not already doing something else.
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