I saw this on SNL the other day… Kevin Spacey does a dead-on-balls impression of Christopher Walken screen testing for Han Solo….
If you haven’t seen it, do so….
…I love Root Beer Barrels…
I am 69% ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET.
I am pretty addicted, but there is hope. I think I’m just well connected to the internet and technology, but it’s really a start of a drug-like addiction. I must act now! Unplug this computer!
Tonight, Adam, Rory, and myself are going to the Middle East to see Tomahawk play. Should be tons of fun, considering my penchant for things Mike Patton..
OK, so yesterday I woke up rather early (8 am) to go down to the mall and try to get a GameCube (which launched that day). I knew supplies would be limited, and that my chances were probably slim, but I didn’t care, because it wasn’t like I needed to have one… I just thought it would be a fun diversion… So I got to the mall around 9am, and checked out Best Buy, which opened at 10am. The lobby to the store was jam-packed full of people, and the store was handing out numbered tickets corresponding to the number of units they had for sale. By the time I got there, they were already out of units.
I walked into the mall proper, which opened at 11am, and walked over to Electronics Boutique, where a few power-geeks had already begun to assemble. One of the people who worked for EB showed up and started selling right away (2 hours before the store was supposed to open), but it turned out that they were only selling units to people who had preordered… Thinking I had no chance of getting a unit, I meandered over to KB Toys, which had its gate down but there were some employees straightening up the store and the like… I beckoned one of them over and asked if they had any units, and they said they had 70. I asked for a number, and I got number 4, he told me to come back at 11am to do the deed. I went back outside to Best Buy, and the lobby was still packed, and there were many pissed off people complaining that they couldn’t get a GameCube… It was kinda chilly, so I went back inside, and got some breakfast at the food court. I rolled back to KB at 10:40, and they soon after started letting people in. I completed my purchase, and on the way out I saw the guy giving out the numbers still had a large pile of the tickets… I asked him how many numbers they gave out, and he said 20… 20 out of 70… So I quickly learned that people are stupid, and they didn’t realize that there were stores other than Best Buy which was selling the GameCube.
I got 3 games: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3, Luigi’s Mansion, and Star Wars: Rogue Leader. The GameCube is an amazing piece of engineering… It is this tiny little thing that weighs almost nothing, but has some serious graphics power.. The Star Wars games is easily the most beautiful game I have seen to date (and it is tons of fun at the same time). Luigi’s Mansion is very pretty, and has some really interesting new ideas for game play… Tons of fun… Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk, but that game is great for when I need something mindless to distract me from reality… :)
So all in all, if you are considering buying a GameCube, I think it is worth the money… The launch titles appear to be very strong, and I really think that the system will have some staying power.. Considering the last game system I purchased was a used playstation (which I bought with , and before that I owned a 3DO, I am not big into the console gaming… But every once in awhile a console catches my eyes, and this is one of them…
I am making Toffee Butter Bars, cookies that my mom always made for me… I don’t know if they are her recipe, but they rule.. Hopefully I won’t screw them up.. :)
Last night I hung out with Jon Whitney and we watched Fantastic Planet, which was pretty bizarre… :) Afterwards, we headed over to a party at Keith Whitman’s (a.k.a. Hrvatski), which was fun… I knew that Keith lived in the area, and I have thought highly of the songs of his that I have heard (especially the kid606 remix he did at the end of “Down with the Scene”), but I had yet to run into him… He seems like a good guy, gave me one of his CD’s that I hadn’t heard yet.. I don’t know if I could deal with having that large of a party in my house though… There were SO many people there…
I might try and get a GameCube tomorrow… I wonder if I will have any luck finding one…
What a worthless meeting….. Oh well, we don’t have many meetings, so I guess I shouldn’t complain… Adam made our logon box look much better, and I think we are ready to start considering a release… It probably won’t happen until after the holiday, but that’s ok…
Ok, I admit it, this is really self-aggrandizing, but I really do rule. The past few days I have killed some really annoying bugs and also came up with a totally bitching solution to a problem that has been plaguing this company since the beginning of time.. :) I have actually been doing some completely awesome stuff lately, which leads me to believe that maybe this computer science thing WAS the right career choice… :)
Bitchin’ Camaro…
Our QA database has a problem, and today the symptoms have been more severe… We are fairly certain that Oracle 8.1.7 is the culprit, as our machines running 8.1.6 are good as pudding… Fortunately, our production machines are running 8.1.6, and fortunately I don’t have to be bothered with that sysadmin nonsense… :)
Adam and Frances came over for dinner and to watch some TV last night, but Adam was kinda tired so he left before 9pm. Frances and I just chatted for a few hours and then she went back to the apartment to gather a few things and move the majority of her stuff back to her parents house… The rest will be taken care of today and she will no longer be around in the area, which kinda sucks.. “The gang” is now down another person, which sucks, and I know that Adam and Rory will miss having her cats around the apartment.. I guess I will miss the cats too, since they are so damn spastic…
Wish I could just fall asleep….