Today my monitor managed to get broken, how you ask? Well that in and of itself is an excellent question, one I really wish I knew the answer to. But the fact is myself, my roommate and my ex were all tinkering with my computer case & monitor today, hooking up/un-hooking the KVM switch, etc. so I really don't know who exactly broke it... but someone managed to bend about 3 of the pins and break off another 2 pins in the connection that connects the monitor to the back of the computer. Which means my computer monitor does not work, not even kind of... so I can't use my new computer or my server and that means that I can't finish setting up the server! GRRR
So my ex came over today to look at the pins and to tell me it was impossible to bend them all back into place so I had to either get a new monitor or a new end. 21" monitors run these days about $600-800 and that's flat screen and no one sells the "old kind" that I like to use... so the option I chose was buying a new end and a soldering iron and attempting to repair the connection... Well surprisingly in this equation the end was the easier of the two things to find. I say surprising because I was sure the end would be the task that frustrated me. But no, the end we were able to order from a Calgary based wholesaler who agreed to send it down here express post, so it should arrive tomorrow. The soldering iron I had to go on a quest to find:
The quest began at the Source, formerly Radio Shack, where I was told none of the soldering irons were fine enough for what I needed. I left and went to London Drugs, who didn't sell soldering irons, nor did Future Shop, I continued onto Canadian Tire who did sell the soldering iron I quested after, only it was a super craftsman one that ran on butane and had a million accessories and would have cost $60. So I decided against it... so I came home without a soldering iron and a part on the way... Tomorrow I will continue the quest, I suppose, although short of traveling out to Home Depot I'm running out of ideas.. if anyone knows of anywhere I can get a soldering iron I'd appreciate it... LOL
11.09.2005
11.07.2005
11.06.2005
Random Fact of the Day
The song in the Nivea commercial where people around the world are using Nivea lotions is:
"New Days" by Asher Lane
"New Days" by Asher Lane
First Snow
Sometime during the night it snowed, the first real snow of the year. I recall a bit of a flurry the other day, a Thursday I suspect, as I arrived at work to inform my colleagues it was snowing. Really though I did this more for shock value (they are very concerned with the weather) as in fact the snow melted before it even hit the ground. I didn't go out today until gone 2pm and there was still small patches of snow on the ground. So I guess perhaps this means I need to admit that winter is here. Perhaps I need to forego my sandals and find more adequate footwear for the months ahead. Dig my toque and mittens from storage. Determine if I still do in fact own winter boots and try to decide what I should do with the armchair I have sitting on my deck... lol
On the upside the snow was gone by sundown... So perhaps we can avoid it, and it's implications for a bit longer...
On the upside the snow was gone by sundown... So perhaps we can avoid it, and it's implications for a bit longer...
11.05.2005
Random Fact of the Day
The song in the Honda Civic commercial where the people are driving through the outdoors (trees, mountains, etc.) and speaking in think bubbles is:
"Nature Anthem" by Grandaddy
"Nature Anthem" by Grandaddy
11.04.2005
No More Privacy for Wireless Users?
So here's something... MIT in Cambridge, MS is now able to track wireless users across their whole 9 million square foot campus! I don't know know how I feel about this though, I mean really it's a bit of an invasion of privacy to make this information public. I could understand them tracking for research purposes, but to make it public like this? I mean I understand that you only have your name displayed if you want to... But it's a bit to Marauder's map fro my liking, and who really wants to be able to be tracked all the time? I mean maybe if they did it like on msn where you can "appear offline" or not have your name displayed or something, but if you have to always be visible if you're online, that's not the best thing... It could really lead to problems with stalking... Also it would make it a lot harder to have any sort of a private life, if you went to the coffee shop everyone would know it, and I don't think that's the best thing ever.
Here's the main points:
*MIT has setup a network that watches anyone carrying an activated Wi-Fi device on their campus. Whether it is a laptop, cell phone, PDA you show up on a computer map accessible to any MIT network user. Your identity can be revealed if you allow.
*MIT developed electronic maps that track users day and night. This works due to recent wireless network upgrades that now extends to the entire 9.4 million square foot campus. Since the upgrade study labs are used less; cafes and lounges used more.
*One map with red dots shows concentrations of users, while another with yellow dots shows individual users with their names if available. "This raises some serious privacy issues," said Director Ratti, whose lab created the maps.
and the actual article:
MIT Wireless Network Tracks Info on Users
By BROOKE DONALD Associated Press Writer
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- In another time and place, college students wondering whether the campus cafe has any free seats, or their favorite corner of the library is occupied, would have to risk hoofing it over there. But for today's student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that kind of information is all just a click away.
MIT's newly upgraded wireless network - extended this month to cover the entire school - doesn't merely get you online in study halls, stairwells or any other spot on the 9.4 million square foot campus. It also provides information on exactly how many people are logged on at any given location at any given time.
It even reveals a user's identity if the individual has opted to make that data public.
MIT researchers did this by developing electronic maps that track across campus, day and night, the devices people use to connect to the network, whether they're laptops, wireless PDAs or even Wi-Fi equipped cell phones.
The maps were unveiled this week at the MIT Museum, where they are projected onto large Plexiglas rectangles that hang from the ceiling. They are also available online to network users, the data time-stamped and saved for up to 12 hours.
Red splotches on one map show the highest concentration of wireless users on campus. On another map, yellow dots with names written above them identify individual users, who pop up in different places depending where they're logged in.
"With these maps, you can see down to the room on campus how many people are logged on," said Carlo Ratti, director of the school's SENSEable City Laboratory, which created the maps. "You can even watch someone go from room to room if they have a handheld device that's connected."
Researchers use log files from the university's Internet service provider to construct the maps. The files indicate the number of users connected to each of MIT's more than 2,800 access points. The map that can pinpoint locations in rooms is 3-D, so researchers can even distinguish connectivity in multistoried buildings.
"Laptops and Wi-Fi are creating a revolutionary change in the way people work," Ratti said. The maps aim to "visualize these changes by monitoring the traffic on the wireless network and showing how people move around campus."
Some of the results so far aren't terribly surprising for students at the vanguard of tech innovation.
The maps show, for example, that the bulk of wireless users late at night and very early in the morning are logged on from their dorms. During the day, the higher concentration of users shifts to classrooms.
But researchers also found that study labs that once bustled with students are now nearly empty as people, no longer tethered to a phone line or network cable, move to cafes and nearby lounges, where food and comfy chairs are more inviting.
Researchers say this data can be used to better understand how wireless technology is changing campus life, and what that means for planning spaces and administering services.
The question has become, Ratti said, "If I can work anywhere, where do I want to work?"
"Many cities, including Philadelphia, are planning to go wireless. Something like our study will help them understand usage patterns and where best to invest," said researcher Andres Sevtsuk.
Sevtsuk likened the mapping project to a real-time census.
"Instead of waiting every year or every 10 years for data, you have new information every 15 minutes or so about the population of the campus," he said.
While every device connected to the campus network via Wi-Fi is visible on the constantly refreshed electronic maps, the identity of the users is confidential unless they volunteer to make it public.
Those students, faculty and staff who opt in are essentially agreeing to let others track them.
"This raises some serious privacy issues," Ratti said. "But where better than to work these concerns out but on a research campus?"
Rich Pell, a 21-year-old electrical engineering senior from Spartanburg, S.C., was less than enthusiastic about the new system's potential for people monitoring. He predicted not many fellow students would opt into that.
"I wouldn't want all my friends and professors tracking me all the time. I like my privacy," he said. "I can't think of anyone who would think that's a good idea. Everyone wants to be out of contact now and then."
Article Found Here
More Linkys:
http://ispots.mit.edu/
http://senseable.mit.edu/
Here's the main points:
*MIT has setup a network that watches anyone carrying an activated Wi-Fi device on their campus. Whether it is a laptop, cell phone, PDA you show up on a computer map accessible to any MIT network user. Your identity can be revealed if you allow.
*MIT developed electronic maps that track users day and night. This works due to recent wireless network upgrades that now extends to the entire 9.4 million square foot campus. Since the upgrade study labs are used less; cafes and lounges used more.
*One map with red dots shows concentrations of users, while another with yellow dots shows individual users with their names if available. "This raises some serious privacy issues," said Director Ratti, whose lab created the maps.
and the actual article:
MIT Wireless Network Tracks Info on Users
By BROOKE DONALD Associated Press Writer
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- In another time and place, college students wondering whether the campus cafe has any free seats, or their favorite corner of the library is occupied, would have to risk hoofing it over there. But for today's student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that kind of information is all just a click away.
MIT's newly upgraded wireless network - extended this month to cover the entire school - doesn't merely get you online in study halls, stairwells or any other spot on the 9.4 million square foot campus. It also provides information on exactly how many people are logged on at any given location at any given time.
It even reveals a user's identity if the individual has opted to make that data public.
MIT researchers did this by developing electronic maps that track across campus, day and night, the devices people use to connect to the network, whether they're laptops, wireless PDAs or even Wi-Fi equipped cell phones.
The maps were unveiled this week at the MIT Museum, where they are projected onto large Plexiglas rectangles that hang from the ceiling. They are also available online to network users, the data time-stamped and saved for up to 12 hours.
Red splotches on one map show the highest concentration of wireless users on campus. On another map, yellow dots with names written above them identify individual users, who pop up in different places depending where they're logged in.
"With these maps, you can see down to the room on campus how many people are logged on," said Carlo Ratti, director of the school's SENSEable City Laboratory, which created the maps. "You can even watch someone go from room to room if they have a handheld device that's connected."
Researchers use log files from the university's Internet service provider to construct the maps. The files indicate the number of users connected to each of MIT's more than 2,800 access points. The map that can pinpoint locations in rooms is 3-D, so researchers can even distinguish connectivity in multistoried buildings.
"Laptops and Wi-Fi are creating a revolutionary change in the way people work," Ratti said. The maps aim to "visualize these changes by monitoring the traffic on the wireless network and showing how people move around campus."
Some of the results so far aren't terribly surprising for students at the vanguard of tech innovation.
The maps show, for example, that the bulk of wireless users late at night and very early in the morning are logged on from their dorms. During the day, the higher concentration of users shifts to classrooms.
But researchers also found that study labs that once bustled with students are now nearly empty as people, no longer tethered to a phone line or network cable, move to cafes and nearby lounges, where food and comfy chairs are more inviting.
Researchers say this data can be used to better understand how wireless technology is changing campus life, and what that means for planning spaces and administering services.
The question has become, Ratti said, "If I can work anywhere, where do I want to work?"
"Many cities, including Philadelphia, are planning to go wireless. Something like our study will help them understand usage patterns and where best to invest," said researcher Andres Sevtsuk.
Sevtsuk likened the mapping project to a real-time census.
"Instead of waiting every year or every 10 years for data, you have new information every 15 minutes or so about the population of the campus," he said.
While every device connected to the campus network via Wi-Fi is visible on the constantly refreshed electronic maps, the identity of the users is confidential unless they volunteer to make it public.
Those students, faculty and staff who opt in are essentially agreeing to let others track them.
"This raises some serious privacy issues," Ratti said. "But where better than to work these concerns out but on a research campus?"
Rich Pell, a 21-year-old electrical engineering senior from Spartanburg, S.C., was less than enthusiastic about the new system's potential for people monitoring. He predicted not many fellow students would opt into that.
"I wouldn't want all my friends and professors tracking me all the time. I like my privacy," he said. "I can't think of anyone who would think that's a good idea. Everyone wants to be out of contact now and then."
Article Found Here
More Linkys:
http://ispots.mit.edu/
http://senseable.mit.edu/
11.03.2005
Famous on eBay 2
So here's another one...
I couldn't find the actual listing on eBay for this one, but it was on the http://www.comcast.net/news/strange today (and as it's the only news I read...lol) So anyways this woman is selling her house with herself included! It's crazy:
The article reads as such:
Interested Homebuyer Can Get House ... And Wife
(CBS) DENVER A woman has opened up bidding on eBay for both her Denver home and herself as a wife.The opening bid is being set at $600,000, and the bidder who gets chosen (presumably a male) would get Deborah Hale's furnished house in Washington Park and her hand in marriage.
Hale, 48, said decided to sell her home in Washington Park on eBay in hopes she might find a husband. She said she tried dating services, blind dates and connections through friends, all to no avail."I'm looking for what every person out there is looking for, and that's true love," Hale told CBS4.
Hale created a Web site to showcase the house for sale and posted pictures of herself. eBay offered an opportunity for a "non-binding" transaction, which according to her site "provides a means to advertise with neither party being obligated to complete the transaction.""If they like the house, I'm open to that, of course, because the goal was to sell the house," Hale said. "If they like me and not the house, I'm open to that as well."
On the Web site, she writes "I hope to find that special man, who wants to build a life with me and share this special home with me. Ideally that man is between 40 and 60 years old, is well educated and well spoken, and has a professional career."
Hale's neighbors said that at an asking price of $600,000, any man would be crazy to pass up the deal."I think if you buy the house and the wife, you have a ton of kids on the street already, so you have friends for the future," said a neighbor.
Interested buyers and suitors can apply either online or by mail.
Hale says she will make her choice on Valentine's Day.
http://kutv.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_305221101.html
Here's the linky:
http://housewithbride.com/
I couldn't find the actual listing on eBay for this one, but it was on the http://www.comcast.net/news/strange today (and as it's the only news I read...lol) So anyways this woman is selling her house with herself included! It's crazy:
The article reads as such:
Interested Homebuyer Can Get House ... And Wife
(CBS) DENVER A woman has opened up bidding on eBay for both her Denver home and herself as a wife.The opening bid is being set at $600,000, and the bidder who gets chosen (presumably a male) would get Deborah Hale's furnished house in Washington Park and her hand in marriage.
Hale, 48, said decided to sell her home in Washington Park on eBay in hopes she might find a husband. She said she tried dating services, blind dates and connections through friends, all to no avail."I'm looking for what every person out there is looking for, and that's true love," Hale told CBS4.
Hale created a Web site to showcase the house for sale and posted pictures of herself. eBay offered an opportunity for a "non-binding" transaction, which according to her site "provides a means to advertise with neither party being obligated to complete the transaction.""If they like the house, I'm open to that, of course, because the goal was to sell the house," Hale said. "If they like me and not the house, I'm open to that as well."
On the Web site, she writes "I hope to find that special man, who wants to build a life with me and share this special home with me. Ideally that man is between 40 and 60 years old, is well educated and well spoken, and has a professional career."
Hale's neighbors said that at an asking price of $600,000, any man would be crazy to pass up the deal."I think if you buy the house and the wife, you have a ton of kids on the street already, so you have friends for the future," said a neighbor.
Interested buyers and suitors can apply either online or by mail.
Hale says she will make her choice on Valentine's Day.
http://kutv.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_305221101.html
Here's the linky:
http://housewithbride.com/
Famous on eBay
So here's something... this guy puts up a pair of leather pants for sale on eBay with a very comical description and over 2.1 million people visit the auction (most after it has already closed) at least two sites of subsequently published the article... it's absolutely nuts!! LOL
Description:
You are bidding on a mistake.
We all make mistakes. We date the wrong people for too long. We chew gum with our mouths open. We say inappropriate things in front of grandma.
And we buy leather pants.
I can explain these pants and why they are in my possession. I bought them many, many years ago under the spell of a woman whom I believed to have taste. She suggested I try them on. I did. She said they looked good. I wanted to have a relationship of sorts with her. I’m stupid and prone to impulsive decisions. I bought the pants.
The relationship, probably for better, never materialized. The girl, whose name I can’t even recall, is a distant memory. I think she was short.
Ultimately the pants were placed in the closet where they have remained, unworn, for nearly a decade. I would like to emphasize that: Aside from trying these pants on, they have never, ever been worn. In public or private.
I have not worn these leather pants for the following reasons:
I am not a member of Queen.I do not like motorcycles.I am not Rod Stewart.I am not French.I do not cruise for transvestites in an expensive sports car.
These were not cheap leather pants. They are Donna Karan leather pants. They’re for men. Brave men, I would think. Perhaps tattooed, pierced men. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say you either have to be very tough, very gay, or very famous to wear these pants and get away with it.
Again, they’re men’s pants, but they’d probably look great on the right lady. Ladies can get away with leather pants much more often than men can. It’s a sad fact that men who own leather pants will have to come to terms with.
They are size 34x34. I am no longer size 34x34, so even were I to suddenly decide I was a famous gay biker I would not be able to wear these pants. These pants are destined for someone else. For reasons unknown - perhaps to keep my options open, in case I wanted to become a pirate - I have shuffled these unworn pants from house to house, closet to closet. Alas, it is now time to part ways so that I may use the extra room for any rhinestone-studded jeans I may purchase in the future.
These pants are in excellent condition. They were never taken on pirate expeditions. They weren’t worn onstage. They didn’t straddle a Harley, or a guy named Harley. They just hung there, sad and ignored, for a few presidencies.
Someone, somewhere, will look great in these pants. I’m hoping that someone is you, or that you can be suckered into buying them by a girl you’re trying to bed.
Please buy these leather pants.
linky:
To find them on eBay go to http://www.ebay.com and type in the search bar 8335653541 http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/000286.html
http://www.poormojo.org/cgi-bin/gennie.pl?Rant+247+bi
Description:
You are bidding on a mistake.
We all make mistakes. We date the wrong people for too long. We chew gum with our mouths open. We say inappropriate things in front of grandma.
And we buy leather pants.
I can explain these pants and why they are in my possession. I bought them many, many years ago under the spell of a woman whom I believed to have taste. She suggested I try them on. I did. She said they looked good. I wanted to have a relationship of sorts with her. I’m stupid and prone to impulsive decisions. I bought the pants.
The relationship, probably for better, never materialized. The girl, whose name I can’t even recall, is a distant memory. I think she was short.
Ultimately the pants were placed in the closet where they have remained, unworn, for nearly a decade. I would like to emphasize that: Aside from trying these pants on, they have never, ever been worn. In public or private.
I have not worn these leather pants for the following reasons:
I am not a member of Queen.I do not like motorcycles.I am not Rod Stewart.I am not French.I do not cruise for transvestites in an expensive sports car.
These were not cheap leather pants. They are Donna Karan leather pants. They’re for men. Brave men, I would think. Perhaps tattooed, pierced men. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say you either have to be very tough, very gay, or very famous to wear these pants and get away with it.
Again, they’re men’s pants, but they’d probably look great on the right lady. Ladies can get away with leather pants much more often than men can. It’s a sad fact that men who own leather pants will have to come to terms with.
They are size 34x34. I am no longer size 34x34, so even were I to suddenly decide I was a famous gay biker I would not be able to wear these pants. These pants are destined for someone else. For reasons unknown - perhaps to keep my options open, in case I wanted to become a pirate - I have shuffled these unworn pants from house to house, closet to closet. Alas, it is now time to part ways so that I may use the extra room for any rhinestone-studded jeans I may purchase in the future.
These pants are in excellent condition. They were never taken on pirate expeditions. They weren’t worn onstage. They didn’t straddle a Harley, or a guy named Harley. They just hung there, sad and ignored, for a few presidencies.
Someone, somewhere, will look great in these pants. I’m hoping that someone is you, or that you can be suckered into buying them by a girl you’re trying to bed.
Please buy these leather pants.
linky:
To find them on eBay go to http://www.ebay.com and type in the search bar 8335653541 http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/000286.html
http://www.poormojo.org/cgi-bin/gennie.pl?Rant+247+bi
11.02.2005
Improv Club
The U of L has an Improv club and I'm the publicity girl. It's a good job and all. I make posters for events, call up radio stations, go to meetings, build and maintain the webpage, etc. Not too challenging, but I seriously am feeling under-appreciated. I go out of my way to do all my jobs and any other jobs I can find to do and when I forget to do one thing I get ragged on, which totally sucks because when I do the bazillion other things I do no one says thank-you or recognizes that I've even done the job, only when it's not done... It just doesn't seem fair!
Today I forgot to go to the S.U. council meeting, well forgot isn't the right word, I didn't go 'cuz I didn't know it was today. I thought it was next week and I guess no reminders were sent out from S.U. or at least not sent out until it was too late for our prez to forward it along to me, but then he gets upset at me for not being there! I didn't even know about it... :( It just makes me so bummed out, I work hard and I try to do things well and good and it frustrates me when all my hard work seems for naught!
Oh and btw here's the webpage for the Improv club, it's in need of revision (I'm working on it, and as soon as I figure out vector layers in paintshop I'm laughing.)
http://people.uleth.ca/improv.club
Today I forgot to go to the S.U. council meeting, well forgot isn't the right word, I didn't go 'cuz I didn't know it was today. I thought it was next week and I guess no reminders were sent out from S.U. or at least not sent out until it was too late for our prez to forward it along to me, but then he gets upset at me for not being there! I didn't even know about it... :( It just makes me so bummed out, I work hard and I try to do things well and good and it frustrates me when all my hard work seems for naught!
Oh and btw here's the webpage for the Improv club, it's in need of revision (I'm working on it, and as soon as I figure out vector layers in paintshop I'm laughing.)
http://people.uleth.ca/improv.club
11.01.2005
Depressed
Lately I've been very depressed and I really don't know why... well that's not completely true, there are many factors in my life that are probably contributing to my depression, I'll name a few in no particular order: having no boyfriend, not being able to go home for Christmas, my best friend having a girlfriend, my other best friend moving away to grad school, having no close girlfriends in Lethbridge, I don't know if I should apply for grad school, I don't' know if I'll have enough money to get through the school year, I get made fun of at work for not knowing as much as other people, I'm under-appreciated at school... etc. etc. I'm really not trying to be mopey either, it's just that these are honestly all issues I am having and any one or two on their own I could deal with, but all together like this? forget about it!
Anyways... why would I put personal info like this in a blog you ask? Well the answer is this: I wanted to explain to some people what I've been going through, I wanted to explain to them and apologize to them for having to put up with me while I've been down. I know I'm not easy to put up with right now, I'm very moody and I'm acting very dependent on people, which is normally not in my character. I get lonely easy and I try to hard to make people like me right now and it's all resulting in my coming across very freaky to some people and scaring some people away. I totally understand why people wouldn't want to be around me right now, I scarcely want to be around me right now... but I just hope that people will give me a chance to feel better and become myself again before they judge me too harshly or choose not to like me because of my recent behaviour.
I really just haven't been feeling myself... I hope to be better soon, for those of you who do so, please pray for me, pray I'll be myself again soon... Thanks.
Anyways... why would I put personal info like this in a blog you ask? Well the answer is this: I wanted to explain to some people what I've been going through, I wanted to explain to them and apologize to them for having to put up with me while I've been down. I know I'm not easy to put up with right now, I'm very moody and I'm acting very dependent on people, which is normally not in my character. I get lonely easy and I try to hard to make people like me right now and it's all resulting in my coming across very freaky to some people and scaring some people away. I totally understand why people wouldn't want to be around me right now, I scarcely want to be around me right now... but I just hope that people will give me a chance to feel better and become myself again before they judge me too harshly or choose not to like me because of my recent behaviour.
I really just haven't been feeling myself... I hope to be better soon, for those of you who do so, please pray for me, pray I'll be myself again soon... Thanks.
November
In November’s gusty gale I will flop my flippy tail
And spout hot soup. I’ll be a whale!
Spouting once, spouting twice, spouting chicken soup with rice.
And spout hot soup. I’ll be a whale!
Spouting once, spouting twice, spouting chicken soup with rice.
10.31.2005
Song of the Week
"Whiskey in the Jar"-Metallica
and a 2nd in honour of Halloween:
"Freaker's Ball" - Dr. Hook
and a 2nd in honour of Halloween:
"Freaker's Ball" - Dr. Hook
Halloween
Today was Halloween, a day I normally look forward to and enjoy thoroughly, unfortunately I just wasn't able to get into the spirit of Halloween this year. I went to school in a witch's hat, dressed all in black with big-buckled shoes and although I thought about wearing witchy make-up the whole affair seemed too much work, so I was a non grotesque witch. Very few people at the U were dressed up today, which added to my dismay. I mean of course we're all adults there, but can't adults have fun too? I was watching the news on Global tonight and they were discussing how more adults buy into Halloween these days than children, more adult parties, etc etc. I think that is super. Did you know the average person age 18-36 spends $75 on Halloween each year in Canada? It was on the news so it must be true... LOL.
I considered going out trick-or-treating this year but as I couldn't find an "adult" to go with me and I couldn't find any children to steal it didn't work out. Also I had made plans for supper with a friend but they fell through, as they always seem to do and I also had drinking plans with other friends but as one has been ill they too fell through. :( sigh!
My roommate and I did go out though, we went and saw "Flightplan", which I suppose is as good a Halloween movie as any...
I'm hoping next year I'll be in the spirit to celebrate it properly.
I considered going out trick-or-treating this year but as I couldn't find an "adult" to go with me and I couldn't find any children to steal it didn't work out. Also I had made plans for supper with a friend but they fell through, as they always seem to do and I also had drinking plans with other friends but as one has been ill they too fell through. :( sigh!
My roommate and I did go out though, we went and saw "Flightplan", which I suppose is as good a Halloween movie as any...
I'm hoping next year I'll be in the spirit to celebrate it properly.
10.29.2005
Quote of the Day
"As of this writing, the internet is feeling tired."
http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/barrios/blogs/tools/tools3.html
http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/barrios/blogs/tools/tools3.html
Reflections
Today as I read over yesterday's blog, I notice the line "year's end' and begin to think about all I've done this year, all I'm not proud of all that has happened, all my failures, shortcomings and moments of neurotic behaviour. I mean I can do the positive spin as well and think of accomplishments, friends, etc. But for right now I'd like to dwell on the negative, the apartment is cold, there is frost outside, I don't want to turn on the heat just yet, that would be admitting winter is coming, as would bringing out mitten and toques, work is looming in the near future as a place I have to go to (not that I don't love work.... but sometimes it's hard to get there when I feel like this) So I sit and think and type and shiver, wondering somewhere in the back of my mind if I'm getting a cold and think about the past year.
10.28.2005
First Frost
Today we had the first big frost of the year. I woke up early to run some errands and was out of the house by just after 9 and there it was. The grass, buildings, etc. were all glistening with ice crystals covering them. They looked so cold and so peaceful. I love and hate this time of year. the transition from fall to winter. Fall is my favourite time of the year and I do enjoy winter, when there is snow but the transition between is always hard for me. On the one hand I love the brisk mornings and the instant wake-up they provide when you leave the house. I love the delicate carpeting of frost on the world, the shiny crystalline way of it. I love how blue the sky is, and will be, for but a few more short weeks. I love the colours of the leaves that still cling to the trees. On the other hand I hate not being able to sleep with my window open, I hate having to wear 3 layers out the door only to know by midday at least of two of them won't be necessary, I hate how dead and shriveled the leaves on the ground look, no longer freshly fallen, I hate that as fall comes to an end winter begins, bringing with it Christmas and another year's end. It is a sad thought, on some deep-rooted personal level, to think about the year's end. For now though I will dwell on the ice crystals, their almost magical quality, the briskness of the morning, the beauty of the sky and the another beautiful day.
10.26.2005
Theory & Aesthetics Part 3
Last night I returned yet again to "the Den of the Dorks' for another 2 hour lecture and hour of game play. You know the thing is the longer I go the more I enjoy the company of these people. They don't distress me near as much as they used to. I find their social inadequacies charming and their social faux pas humourous. I enjoy their childish sense of humour and the fun they have with life.
This week we played action games and I spent over an hour sitting in a group of students playing "Fable" a game where you can choose to be good or evil and your character grows up based on the choices you make. It's quite a neat theory for a game... but as we played we laughed and joked and teased one another. I actually may have flirted with some of them. We joshed about kicking chickens and hitting people with swords and giving our characters (one was playing while we all called out ideas) a goatee and shaving him bald, giving him tattoos and making him evil. At one point we even had him go around in his boxers just to see what the townsfolks would do. It was quite an enjoyable evening.
I still don't like half the games they play, or agree with half the things they discuss or care about a lot of what is discussed but I definitely look forward to class every week. If for no other reason than to hear what will be said next....
This week we played action games and I spent over an hour sitting in a group of students playing "Fable" a game where you can choose to be good or evil and your character grows up based on the choices you make. It's quite a neat theory for a game... but as we played we laughed and joked and teased one another. I actually may have flirted with some of them. We joshed about kicking chickens and hitting people with swords and giving our characters (one was playing while we all called out ideas) a goatee and shaving him bald, giving him tattoos and making him evil. At one point we even had him go around in his boxers just to see what the townsfolks would do. It was quite an enjoyable evening.
I still don't like half the games they play, or agree with half the things they discuss or care about a lot of what is discussed but I definitely look forward to class every week. If for no other reason than to hear what will be said next....
10.25.2005
Disney DDR
So I want the Dance Dance Revolution Disney Mix game and it is apparently the hardest thing in the world to find. I've searched E-bay and the only ones I can find are in sets and I don't' really have $150 USD to pay for DDR games at the moment. LOL I've also only found the CD mix for sale via the internet, and not the actual game itself. I am getting quite disgruntled! If anyone can tell me where to get a copy of this hard to find game I'd love you forever and ever!!
Here's a linky to what I'm talking about:
http://www.redoctane.com/ddrremolutiondisneymix.html
Here's a linky to what I'm talking about:
http://www.redoctane.com/ddrremolutiondisneymix.html
10.24.2005
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