Category: my ramblings

Yes, I got my first speeding ticket ever this weekend. And I didn’t get off easy. Suckage.

I got my latest order of cool very 3rd-party GBA stuff from Success. Including a new F2A 256Mbit flash cartridge and linker. Now I can finally put a 128Mbit game as well as a ton of other stuff on a cart! I feel like the most spoiled GBA player ever. I also picked up the stupid GBA headphone adapter in my order – for $1, how can you go wrong?

I’ve been playing a lot of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga on my GBA. It’s a really funny and good game. Also, now that I have tons of space on my GBA, I can bring along lots of classic GB and NES games, by using Goomba and PocketNES respectively, and PogoShell manages it all.

Lately, I’ve actually begun speaking in domain names, or if Sandy says “Boy, does that suck!” I’ll follow up with “dot-com!” to get a laugh. Of course, any woman who laughs at a joke like that is a keeper.

Jon asked if I’d be putting up a public interface to my DVD UPC data, and you’ll find it on the menubar on the left. Just enter a full or partial title.

I don’t like being sick. I especially don’t like being sick when I have to miss work. I don’t link missing work. I like work. Anyways, I’ve had this cold-like thing since last weekend. I made it through work on Monday and Tuesday but had to cut Wednesday short, since I was in a daze-like state. Thursday was right out. I thought for sure I had strep. Friday was better. Today my throat isn’t sore, I’m just kinda dazed again. I hope this means that it’s going away.

I did get a poppy the other day at the mall. Why aren’t there any people selling them on the TTC?

And yes, those pig ads are for Telus camera phones. Once I realized this it ceased to be interesting for me.

A week until Rememberance Day and I don’t have my poppy yet. Gotta get on that.

Woke up this morning with a pounding headache. I’m trying to make sure that this cold I’m getting / have gotten doesn’t take over and reboot my system.

This weekend we watched a few good movies. 28 Days Later, directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting). What a bloody wild ride that was. I found myself almost unable to move afterwards. Also, some of the shots and direction were so good I almost cried, they were so beautiful. Amazing amazing amazing. Ever since I took Contemporary Cinema in university, where we focussed on British cinema of the 1980s and early 1990s, I’ve been really interested in directors like Boyle, Stephen Frears, and Neil Jordan. Looking at IMDB, now I’m interested in seeing Dirty Pretty Things.

In the more run-of-the-mill category, we also saw Runaway Jury. Which was alright. I think that Rachel Weisz could have been better, but otherwise it was a pretty good legal drama. I kinda predicted the ending though.

Now, I can finally play GB/GBC ROMs on my GBA flashcart! Goomba is a Game Boy / Game Boy Color emulator for the Game Boy Advance. And unlike previous GB emulators, this one runs at full speed. Sweet.

Two people have now written me about seeing these kinds of billboards around. I saw another ‘I Love You’ pig at Pharmacy & Sheppard in Scarborough. I haven’t seen the ‘It’s a Boy!’ one yet. Any more sightings?

Right now Nintendo‘s GameCube is hella cheap – only $139 Canadian. Which would make it a good time to buy one. What else is interesting is that finally, someone has figured out how to run arbitrary code on the GameCube by exploiting a bug in Phantasy Star Online. Using a PSO disc, a GC network adapter, and your PC you can upload and run whatever code you want, which is cool for running emulators on your TV, dumping game discs over the network, homebrew games, etc. What’s weirder though is that the hackers-that-be are using this to write code to emulate disc accesses via the network. So you can play backups of your games from your PC’s hard drive. That’s kinda cool, and kinda crazy at the same time.

For more info, you can read all of the latest news at CubeHacker.

Really, nothing to see here. Move along.

I don’t like surveys.

There is some kind of survey going on right now with a whole bunch of retailers in my area where they will ask me what my postal code is. They don’t know why, they just say it’s some kind of “new survey”. From memory, I’ve encountered this at:

• Grand & Toy
• Michael’s
• Canadian Tire

Always, the postal code is typed in directly into the register terminal, which says to me that it is associated to the transaction. Also, they cannot complete the transaction without getting a postal code. Umm… no thanks. Being mostly wary of my privacy, and the way that information can theoretically be linked back to me, I’ve been giving out bogus codes. Usually ‘H0H0H0’ – this is the postal code that Canada Post uses for letters to Santa Claus that children send. The North Pole should be represented! Usually I’ve got no problems with this, a few times I’ve even gotten a smile from a cashier. Sometimes they’ve refused to take Santa’s postal code though. So I’ve got another idea – use a postal code for Nunavut. The postal code for Resolute, Nunavut is X0A0V0. I’m gonna go with that. Maybe I can give them pointers on polar bear safety to make it convincing.