Ahh, Sleater-Kinney lyrics.
My luck is getting better. Maybe I have horseshoes up my butt or something. I got a new job, I start on Monday. Yes! Damn that makes me happy. Now I can go out and say that my old job was such a farce, yes it was. Maybe sometime I’ll tell the story (with names changed to protect the guilty. grrrr.)
And I got my camera back! (Thanks Uncle Adrian!) So now I can take pictures again.
My computer is finally almost where I want it to be: got my TV card running, it gets along with my ATI Rage 128 Pro w/Rage Theatre (I can capture video using either as a source, and the Rage Theatre has TV Out as well). Now all I need is to dump this PC100 RAM for a few sticks of DDR and I’ll be good to go. Hrm, christmas is coming up…
Anyone looking to hire a jack-of-all-trades UNIX / Windows programmer or system administrator? Please?
OMG! After weeks of wrangling with it, my ATI TV Wonder PCI card finally works again under Windows XP! Why? Because ATI ACTUALLY RELEASED A NEW DRIVER FOR IT.. Not that it’s on their website or anything; I got it through Windows Update. But still! Wow!
To the developers of Miranda:
I hate you for using an awful database file format. I hate you I hate you I hate you. I hate you more for not releasing a stable release in months. All of this hate stems from the fact that I just spent three hours rescuing my contact with a hex editor AND THEN trying to get a stable bloody install of Miranda up and running again. Blast you.
I think I need to modify things so I don’t have to enter a title every time I post. They’re getting kind of tedious.
Hrm… microwaves, eh? I used to nuke CDs and CD-Rs in microwaves. Pretty patterns, and arcing metal. Bad smell though.
Yesterday I finally got a copy of Defying Gravity. I gotta sit down and read it. I flipped through it and it looks very cool.
Seen quite a few movies in the past week: The Ring and 8 Mile in theatres, and Mulholland Drive on DVD.
The Ring was scary as all hell, and I spent most of it with my head buried in
Sandy’s shoulder: she likes scary movies, I don’t. The plot was very very good
though.
I enjoyed 8 Mile a lot. As Sandy pointed out to me afterwards, it didn’t seem as autobiographical as the press would make you think. It was still a good story, and I enjoyed the hiphop. Eminem also did a pretty damn good job acting (or is that just how he is all the time?)
Mullholland drive is bar-none the most messed up movie I’ve ever seen. I really don’t get it, and I don’t think I’m supposed to get it. It was quite a ride though.
Tomorrow I’m seeing Bowling for Columbine tomorrow. Should be great. Apparently, it’s already on track to be the most successful documentary of all time.