is supposedly visiting today with his girlfriend, but he said he was going to be here between 11a and 12p (because they had to meet people in Manhattan at 1pm). But I haven’t seen or heard anything from him, so I am not expecting to see them today, but who knows. I didn’t really have any plans for today, so sitting around waiting really isn’t terribly inconvenient.
According to our source, the movie is more-or-less a prequel to the cartoon G.I. JOE series. Set before the rise of the COBRA organization, the film will show how the man the world will one day call Cobra Commander created his terrorist organization and honed it into a worldwide threat. Other COBRA characters, such as Destro and Stormshadow, are being planned to be included in the film. While Cobra Commander doesn’t wear the costume he is best-known for during the bulk of the film (the blue COBRA garb complete with hood), by the conclusion of the film he will be decked out in it.
Talk about being transported back in time. I have been reading the series of articles on folklore.org about the development of the original Macintosh. It is written from an engineer’s perspective, so it is pretty interesting to me.
But as I am reading the articles I come to this one, entitled Disk Swapper’s Elbow which describes copying a disk in the low memory environments of the 128k Mac. Every once in awhile I think about the days before hard disks, jockeying floppies around like mad. But this article drew me right back to the days when I was using my C=64 (which had 64K of RAM and whose disks were 180k [at least with the 1541]).. I mean, I had completely forgotten how even basic tasks like copying a disk involved several swaps. And we got the 1541 disk drive for the Commodore as an aftermarket upgrade. Before that we were using cartridges (We didn’t use a cassette deck with the C=64, but we had with my Dad’s Superboard III kit).
Mom, Dad, and I drove my sister, ’s special someone to her in Bloomsburg on friday. She didn’t have a clue, and it was awesome seeing her all flustered and surprised. I crashed hard on the trip home Friday night in the car and had trouble sleeping last night because of it… I was up real late and didn’t wake up until after noon on Saturday.
Today I hung out with Chuck, Johnny, and Calmie. We went to Chili’s for dinner and then retreated to John’s house to play another round of Pop-Culture DVD Trivial Pursuit. I won again, of course. :) I also cranked up iDVD to make a DVD of the Stellafane footage that Chuck shot back in 2000.