Month: April 2001

The final essay is done. It’s getting late. I’m thinking of starting Operating Systems tomorrow with a fresh mind, and playing Heroes III all night.

I love these little mood icons!

Mood:

Doing really really good on my essay methinks. Only a few more points of Marx to hit, and then I get to come up with some possible weaknesses in my position and respond to them, and then I’m basicially done. Time to take a break for some dinner and Heroes of M&M III.

Moods:

Last night we finally got to the bar for a little shindig. The mood was casual, not uptight or uneasy at all, good conversation, lots of food, a great evening.

Before all that though, Sandy and I saw Shadow of a Vampire. I thought it was a neat little film.

Today I must write my entire philosophy paper. And Sandy’s going home until Tuesday. <sigh>. Oh well, breakfast and then to work!

Mood:

Okay, the last frivolous thing I will do today is stick up an index of these smilie graphics on the side of my monitor. And play one game of Shisen-Sho. Today and tomorrow are the all-encompassing days of philosophy essay writing. Yay! – um, er, yeah.

Mood: thoughtful

I will never, ever, ever, ever buy the cheapest spindle of CD-Rs I can find. I almost want to throw out the last 25 so I have an excuse to go any buy some good ones, just so I can put a blank in and know with certainty that it won’t mess up.

Sandy and I need to buy a DVD player. If I ever get a job this summer, I might think about buying one. I’m honestly not thinking about buying anything for my computer. Maybe a new hard drive, so I can drop-kick this six-year-old WD 2Gb Win2k boot drive out the door.

Speaking of computers, I bought a notebook for my sister yesterday. It’s a Digital HiNote VP 565. A nice little box: I think she’ll be happy with it. It’s got a nice screen.

I only have one more thing to do before finals. Granted, it’s a Philosophy paper worth 60% of my course mark, but it’s nice to have some of the pressure off.

The chuma server was physically moved the other day, and the IP address changed, which caused a temporary outage. Sorry.

I just looked at my webpage in Netscape 4.61. Wow, talk about not supporting CSS! It’s pretty brutal. If you’re using Netscape 4.x, I pity you.

I’m starting to think that Moist’s album Mercedes Five and Dime is the best album they ever made. From what I can remember, it didn’t recieve too much acclaim when it came out, but it’s been stuck on my KDE playlist for a while and it’s really starting to grow on me, especially Liberation, Underground, Fish, and Comes and Goes.

I love running KDE 2.1.1. The only thing that I don’t like about my Linux system right now is the fact that SuSE 7.0 still insists on using XFree86 3.3.6, which 1) is old and 2) will not support hardware 3D rendering on my video card. I intend on finally fixing that today, by compiling XFree86 4.0.3 from source. Once I get that puppy running with 3D acceleration, I can just install Unreal Tournament for Linux and lose another reason to keep Windows around.

Sandy is mostly feeling better now. Her stomach isn’t completely buggin’ out anymore, but she’s still eating only “safe” foods. Last night I mad steak for dinner but she couldn’t eat any.

Last night we watched Once Upon A Time In China, a Hong-Kong movie starring Jet Li, c. 1991. I had heard lots of good things about this film, and since I finally convinced Sandy to watch Drunken Master II (albeit the dubbed version) and she liked it, I thought this would be a slam-dunk. Neither of us really enjoyed it. First of all, the dubbing was awful, but that’s almost to be expected. The plot was way, way too depressing for our tastes: he gets in trouble with the British, Americans, and the Chinese Consul, then some gang tries to burn down his clinic, then the gang tried to kill him on behalf of the Americans, all of his students get jailed, his cousin gets kidnapped by the gang to be sent off to America to work as a prostitute, some random fighter comes in and challenges his superiority… That was around where we stopped watching. There was still a half-hour left in the film, but if one more bad things happened to him I wouldn’t be able to take it anymore. I much prefered Jackie Chan’s portrayal of a young Wong Fei-Hung in Drunken Master II. This was also the first Jet Li movie I’d seen that was produced in Hong Kong, and it doesn’t make me want to see any more.