202 -> 87 -> McDowell -> 101 -> office = 35 minutes...
…my best time yet. Not bad for rush hour.
Remember the original Ridge Racer for the Playstation? My commute kind of reminds me of that. Not because of the high speeds or the thumping techno soundtrack, but because of the beautiful, curving mountain roads and the tendency for airplanes to occasionally shoot overhead (I pass near two airfields).
It’s a good thing the drive is so cool, because I’ll be spending nearly an hour and a half on the road each day. :/
Read more...On the way home...
There was a dark blue felt-covered easy chair, sitting upside down in the middle of the 101.
Fortunately, traffic was moving pretty slowly due to rush hour, so motorists were steering around it without much trouble. It would have caused a serious accident at any other time of day.
I considered pulling over and dragging it off the road, but given some of the stories I’d heard, I realized that was a good way to get killed.
Read more...Latest inappropriate Kanji sighting...
A woman in the call center with 男 (otoko, or “man”) tattooed on the side of her neck.
Well, she did look kinda mannish. She must have a Japanophile friend who hates her or something. :P
Read more...rrrr....
We made another foray into the desert a couple weeks ago…
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Lenny shows off his mad hacking skillz…
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Here’s some video of a recent conversation I had with Lenny…
http://spook.myserver.org/movies/jay_mcgavren/2004/lenny_babbling_2004-04-10/hey!.MPG http://spook.myserver.org/movies/jay_mcgavren/2004/lenny_babbling_2004-04-10/one_one_one.MPG http://spook.myserver.org/movies/jay_mcgavren/2004/lenny_babbling_2004-04-10/fight_the_power.mpg
Read more...Diana and I were up until 2 a.m. playing Halo. :P I love that she’s shaping up to be such an avid gamer, but man, this is bad for my sleeping habits…
Read more...Wow - looks like CXBX, the XBox emulator, can succesfully run its first commercial game at full speed on a Pentium 4. And if you “overclock” it, the game runs at 4x speed.
http://www.caustik.com/cxbx/index.htm
Good to know that someday I’ll be able to play Halo with the same ease that I currently play Bomberman.
Read more...Grrr...
Have to study up on Java Server Pages for a job interview with the Professional Services department Thursday. Meanwhile, my mother calls me yesterday and tells me she’s about to hop in the car for the drive down here. (I had e-mailed her a few days ago telling her I’d need more warning.) I yelled at her, of course, but then told her she could come anyway, if she delayed leaving an extra day to let me study. :P She should show up sometime Thurday.
Read more...Here's how much respect my company has for our PC configurations...
Just got this company-wide e-mail from our Manager of Corporate Communications…
> It’s easier than ever to access the important information > stored on [corporate website], because [corporate website] > is now the default home page for everyone’s browser. > > Please be advised that if you change your default page, > [corporate website] will reset itself as your default page > every 90 minutes. (No, that’s not an April Fools prank, > it’s by design.)
When management needs to reassure everyone that IT policy is not, in fact, an April Fool’s joke, you know you’re in trouble.
Good thing I use a different Web browser than the rest of the company. :)
Read more...We can't take much more o' this, cap'n!
I adopted a cute lil’ Scotty fetus from Fetusmart! Hooray fetus!
Read more...Two-minute movie recap...
Dawn of the Dead was freaking awesome - A premise as creepy as the original, but with a much needed update to the makeup work. (Blueface, anyone?) I felt like it ripped off 28 Days Later for a lot of its visual style, but it’s a damn good film on its own merits. We’re talking all-time top 10 good.
Gothika wasn’t too original, and there was at least one plot hole big enough to drive a truck through.
Cabin Fever - A decent story, but the cast is unremarkable. And you know how every horror film has that asshole/snob/ditz that you hope is the first to die? Every character is like that here. Rent this one if you want to have your faith in humanity shredded.
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