Jay McGavren's Journal

Air Force researching Antimatter weapons...

If humanity survives the 21st century without blowing itself up, I will be really surprised.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/04/1950217

On the positive side, anything researched for military use usually finds its way into civilian technology. As far as I know, antimatter reactors would be completely non-polluting.

Started a GameFly trial last week. My only complaints so far are that you can only have 50 games in your queue, and turnaround is somewhat slower than Netflix. Otherwise, it seems like a pretty good service. One game at a time will cost you $17 a month, or $22 for two.

Fable was the first item we queued. Guess we’ll be buying it; Diana’s been playing four hours a night. Her favorite pasttime seems to be tweaking her hairstyle and shopping for clothes, though. Such a girl. :)

I’ve decided I’ll be an evil assassin. (Got to love a game that gives you the freedom to decide such a thing.) I’m guessing it’s due to my evil ways that I’m slowly losing my hair (and not in an attractive way, either). My character will look cool when he’s totally bald, but for now he looks ridiculous. :P

My allergies are driving me nuts. Gonna stay long enough to keep my promise to meet Diana for lunch, and then I think I’m going home for the day.

My new beard’s been drawing some good reviews at work…

One guy told me about an episode of the original Star Trek where the crew was warped to an alternate universe. There they met Evil Kirk and Evil Spock, and evidently Evil Spock had a goatee. So when my co-worker first saw my new look, his first thought was: “Cool! Evil Jay!”

yakamoto (and others) may be interested to know that Mel Brooks is working on a SpaceBalls sequel.

> As far as a release date, Brooks says, ‘Best case scenario: > a week before the new Star Wars opens. Worst Case Scenario: > a year after the new star wars opens.’”

Picked up Dad's birthday present today...

He’s a George Lucas fan (not just Star Wars, but American Graffiti and others), so I went to Wal-Mart to pick up THX 1138. (I haven’t seen it yet, so I hope it’s good.)

The lady at the checkout (who was obviously not American-born), looked at the cover, which features a bald-shaven head with a barcode tag in the ear. She looked at me and asked, quite seriously, “Is a movie for your head?”

I guess there are more futurists out there than I thought.