Author: chuma

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.

Sandy was up all night with a bug. Luckily, I didn’t have much to do today, so I mostly just stayed home and took care of her. We didn’t get to go to Josh’s party tonight, but I already went out last night, so I didn’t mind. We just stayed in and watched movies and played PSX. She’s feeling a little better now, she seems to be able to hold down some food now. That makes me feel better. Hopefully tomorrow she’ll be feeling well enough for us to do some grocery shopping.

So this morning was a morning of errands: I had to drop one of Sandy’s assignments off with her TA, drop off my key to the CPESSC office, pick up a cheque… it was like that for a few hours.

From weird little corners of the web:

Who Would You Kill?

Bored. Listening to Moby. Waiting to go to CASU Board Appreciation.

Today was course evaluation for CIS*3200: Software Engineering. I’ve had some really good instructors here, some average ones, and a few downright horrible ones. This course it in the “downright horrible” category. While the class was filling out the evaluations the room was silent. Everyone took at least 10 minutes to carefully fill in all of the little circles with pencil, and then filled both write-in areas with their comments. It was probably the best-done course evaluation I’ve ever seen done. Why? Because no one likes our instructor. Now if only students could take all course evaluations seriously, not just the ones in courses they have a problem with…

Made a new header image. I went to the 9th floor of the Arts building here at the university and took some photos of the main area of campus. I want to go up there and take some photos at night, but I’d need a tripod to take anything decent and I don’t have one.

I finally got rid of all of the old chip seperators and replaced them with nice, coloured bars instead. Bliss. Unlike, say, Chrominance, I don’t have time (or even the skillz) to do a complete site redesign (let alone use CSS positioning!). I just sort of change it every now and then when I feel like it. I was getting tired of the crappy seperators and <FONT> tags. Now it’s all HTML 4.01 and CSS compliant, and this makes my inner geek happy. Standards good.

Last night I dreamt that I won some fabulous contest, and was awarded with an enormous house and multi-million dollar cheques every day. And I was sitting down at a huge table eating some extravagant meal when I noticed that on the table were photos of all of the prizes that I had won or was going to recieve. The last one was a photo of a document (that looked like a cheque) that said that I would have to trade in my soul for a very large sum of money. Then I became very worried, because for some reason I didn’t have a soul.

Then I was doing laundry and there was a huge lineup of people behind me waiting to use the machine, and I was meticulously measuring and mixing different kinds of powered laundry detergent.

Then I woke up.

Song: Moist – Comes and Goes

Started my readings for my philosophy final project today. I also just cleaned by bed off, which felt good because it was a mess for a very very long time. I even managed to find time to update my Linux desktop to KDE2, which is AWESOME. I’m really impressed with it. Really really impressed with it. It’s slick. (I should install Linux onto Sandy’ scomputer one day and see if she can tell the difference. heh. She’d probably kill me).

I’m slowly replacing the old crappy graphic seperators on my site with the dark bars. Site design good. This summer I really need to redo Newton Resources

Finally updated my personal page, and added a quick LEGO page. I have way more LEGO photos to add, although I think Calum has most of them already.