“About 220 pounds of plastic explosives, fortified with anti-tank mines, were set off by remote control after people were evacuated from within a mile of the caves.
Ordnance inside the manmade caves continued to explode for hours; at least three rockets shot out and went whizzing across the sky. "
I have been experiencing the occasional system reboot since I installed my new video card…. I have begun to suspect that the 300W power supply in my computer (dual-processor, even) is inadequate… So last night I ordered a 550W low noise power supply… Hopefully that will fix the problems…
I was looking for some music to listen to, and I was looking through my MP3 directory, and noticed a directory titled “RECYCLER” and I thought to myself, . o O (MAN, THEY RULE!!!) Then I realized that it was just the Windows Recycle Bin and that I had never heard a band named RECYCLER before. I’m sure it exists, but I haven’t heard them…
Sometimes I am retarded. This is one of those times.
“Computer games don’t affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”
-- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
I love the internet. Here is a quotation:
“Those of us who have seen The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring know what an amazing director Peter Jackson is. When I learned that there apparently was to be a sequel, I was overjoyed. However, Peter Jackson has decided to tastelessly name the sequel “The Two Towers”. The title is clearly meant to refer to the attacks on the World Trade Center. In this post-September 11 world, it is unforgiveable that this should be allowed to happen. The idea is both offensive and morally repugnant. Hopefully, when Peter Jackson and, more importantly, New Line Cinema see the number of signatures on this petition, the title will be changed to something a little more sensitive.”
I just lost a bit of respect for Michael Mann. It’s one thing to be involved with a god-awful 80’s show, but it’s another thing to rehash it into a movie almost 20 years later…
Ok, time for bed.
The other day someone burned popcorn in the microwave at work and the floor needed to be evacuated after the fire alarm went off (RIT, anyone?)… Anyway, today, this bug was filed in our internal Bugzilla system:
[Bug 125301] Popcorn should only be cooked for 2:57, not 6 minutes
Popcorn is considered done after slightly less than 3 minutes. The current version of Nick cooks the popcorn for 6 minutes, causing the fire department to be alerted.
------- Additional Comments From Nick Quintanilla 2002-05-08 16:38 ——-
I’ll have to confirm this, but I can’t reproduce this result at the moment…
If it turns out to be Valid we may need to restructure the entire UI of the popcorn process.
------- Additional Comments From Carlos Soltero-Pales 2002-05-08 16:41 ——-
Due to the possible variability of environents, I believe that, in order to prevent further ocurrences of this problem, we should construct a 3-dimensional chart of cooking time (in sec.) vs. microwave power (in W) vs. weight of popcorn.
Gathering of empirical data from which to derive the chart should be top priority for the bug asignee.
Don’t worry Nick, we know it was all because the engineers forgot to put the ‘\0’ at the end of the time string, so the sscanf blew up! Duh! Of course that’s it!
------- Additional Comments From Nick Quintanilla 2002-05-08 17:01 ——-
I contacted customer service and they said there was a known compatibility issue with their old legacy servers and the “kernel” used in installation packages currently being distributed by vendors using the FUBAR standard rather than the IEEE standard. Christine said that they have ordered the latest version of GE’s super deluxe server which complies with both FUBAR and IEEE regulations so hopefully this should fix the problem
As I do every two weeks or so (since it holds 2 weeks of data), the other day I dug through the listings on the TiVo for both IFC and Sundance channels (since I am such a movie snob) looking for some good independent film. I noticed that one was showing Gray’s Anatomy and the other was showing Swimming to Cambodia. Well, I asked the TiVo to grab them for me and noticed today that Gray’s Anatomy had been recorded… I just finished watching it for the first time, and I enjoyed it… I know Pat always spoke highly of Gray’s monologue films, and I was really sad that I couldn’t make it to the marathon he and Hannah held, but to date I have only seen “Swimming to Cambodia”…. That isn’t on for a week or two, I believe (although the TiVo is so good at warping time for you, I really have no idea), and I am now looking forward to seeing it.
Working from home today so I can read my book without interruption…. It seemed like every time I started reading yesterday I was interrupted by something…. I should be able to focus better here in the house…
In other news, my landlord is a moron. The HVAC guy just got here, and I began to explain to him how we get no circulation at all upstairs, and how the a/c doesn’t work either, and he (politely) truncated my sentence to inform me that “Yeah, that’s because it was never finished….”….
And I was right about the thermostat upstairs, it was ‘sposed to have a “Hot/Cold” switch for it to switch modes… So he is still working, but he has air blowing at my legs under the desk, even if it isn’t cold yet.. :P
I was supposed to meet Jon Whitney for lunch but yet again we had to scrub it… We couldn’t get together last week because of my illness, and he had to go to a work lunch today, so that does it for this week… Where should I go?