Ug. I have to get up now and go make stuff and clean things and decorate. Bleh.
But it's all for a good cause. See you all here tonight!
Friday, October 31, 2003
Thursday, October 30, 2003
Quick party update for tomorrow.
It's cancelled :)
Just kidding. It's still on. However, word has come down from on high that I should let you all know that there won't be any real MEAL per se. We're going to have a chocolate fondue and there will be lots of munchies and candy, but it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to grab a burger on the way over. Pizza might be a possibility if enough people want it though, but Julie has been on a bit of pizza overload lately.
It's cancelled :)
Just kidding. It's still on. However, word has come down from on high that I should let you all know that there won't be any real MEAL per se. We're going to have a chocolate fondue and there will be lots of munchies and candy, but it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to grab a burger on the way over. Pizza might be a possibility if enough people want it though, but Julie has been on a bit of pizza overload lately.
This is an interesting forum thread discussing the possible way that the Matrix trilogy MAY end up. He dubs it all as a big spoiler, but concidering it's all just conjecture at this point and he's just extrapolating what has been said and done in the first two movies, I don't really concider it a spoiler. It just gives you extra symbolism to look for and it would be interesting if everything in Revolutions DOES resolve itself like this guy has foretold.
The most interesting elements are:
Everyone is a machine that is in an EMP-pulse 'coma' and plugged into VR (like the robot in the last Animatrix short "To a machine, all reality is virtual reality."). This is also shown in the scene near the end of Reloaded where Neo knocks out the Squiddies with an EMP pulse and collapses himself.
The various Agents in the system, as well as the Twins, are actually former Ones that failed and were absorbed into the Matrix.
And lastly, The Matrix is the eventual result of all of Keanu's former movies rolled into one. (I'm not kidding! It's there at the bottom of the thread!).
There are some other neat points, but I'll let you read it yourself (you have to doubleclick on the text to highlight everything, or just do a Select All command to see it). Like I said, I don't really concider it a spoiler, so much as a possibility of how things could wrap as well as one interpretation of what has come before. Neat read though.
The most interesting elements are:
Everyone is a machine that is in an EMP-pulse 'coma' and plugged into VR (like the robot in the last Animatrix short "To a machine, all reality is virtual reality."). This is also shown in the scene near the end of Reloaded where Neo knocks out the Squiddies with an EMP pulse and collapses himself.
The various Agents in the system, as well as the Twins, are actually former Ones that failed and were absorbed into the Matrix.
And lastly, The Matrix is the eventual result of all of Keanu's former movies rolled into one. (I'm not kidding! It's there at the bottom of the thread!).
There are some other neat points, but I'll let you read it yourself (you have to doubleclick on the text to highlight everything, or just do a Select All command to see it). Like I said, I don't really concider it a spoiler, so much as a possibility of how things could wrap as well as one interpretation of what has come before. Neat read though.
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Hee hee. Gotta love Bash.org
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[Gothic] I put my PS2 in the microwave, and I ended up in the future
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[DJCubby] those nintendo songs are apparently done by New Tokyo Philharmonic I think
[SomeGuy] The Old Tokyo Philharmonic missed a beat and they all commited seppuku.
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[@ThinG|webbing] how do I zoom in with internet explorer?
[+|Sonic] move your face closer to the screen
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[Gothic] I put my PS2 in the microwave, and I ended up in the future
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[DJCubby] those nintendo songs are apparently done by New Tokyo Philharmonic I think
[SomeGuy] The Old Tokyo Philharmonic missed a beat and they all commited seppuku.
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[@ThinG|webbing] how do I zoom in with internet explorer?
[+|Sonic] move your face closer to the screen
I just got back from Mrs. Akin's funeral. It was good, as funerals go. She was much loved and will be missed, but she also had a good long life and it wasn't sudden.
I did learn a few things though while at the funeral:
1) Don't wear an orange shirt and khaki pants to a funeral. You will stand out.
2) Don't wear an orange shirt to a funeral the week before Hallowe'en, especially if your brothers are there. They will proceed to call you The Great Pumpkin and ask where Charlie Brown is for the entire wake.
3) The latest episodes and merits of Six Feet Under or Dead Like Me (which I'd provide a link to if it weren't for the fact that Showtime doesn't realize that the internet is a global affair and has locked out access to their sites from non-US computers) are not the best topics for discussion at a wake.
4) Even if you haven't eaten for the past two days and have lost 10 pounds in a week, your mom and grandma will still yell at you if you take more than two desserts.
5) Having a lot of family and friends come to your funeral and celebrate your life is a good thing.
Ah... I blame Julie for the orange shirt though. I don't know why I thought I wouldn't be very noticable. Oh well. I guess I could say that rather than mourn the loss of Mrs. Akin, I was celebrating her homecoming in Heaven... YEAH! That's it...
Sigh.
I did learn a few things though while at the funeral:
1) Don't wear an orange shirt and khaki pants to a funeral. You will stand out.
2) Don't wear an orange shirt to a funeral the week before Hallowe'en, especially if your brothers are there. They will proceed to call you The Great Pumpkin and ask where Charlie Brown is for the entire wake.
3) The latest episodes and merits of Six Feet Under or Dead Like Me (which I'd provide a link to if it weren't for the fact that Showtime doesn't realize that the internet is a global affair and has locked out access to their sites from non-US computers) are not the best topics for discussion at a wake.
4) Even if you haven't eaten for the past two days and have lost 10 pounds in a week, your mom and grandma will still yell at you if you take more than two desserts.
5) Having a lot of family and friends come to your funeral and celebrate your life is a good thing.
Ah... I blame Julie for the orange shirt though. I don't know why I thought I wouldn't be very noticable. Oh well. I guess I could say that rather than mourn the loss of Mrs. Akin, I was celebrating her homecoming in Heaven... YEAH! That's it...
Sigh.
Monday, October 27, 2003
Ok all my geeky friends. I'm having a wee little problem with my PC and one of you should be able to get me set back on track.
My CD-RW seems to have decided that it doesn't want to run Autoplay on any CD anymore. This just seems to have happened in the last week.
How do I turn the auto-detect back on? I had this problem on my old system and I never could get it to work once it turned off. Sob.
My CD-RW seems to have decided that it doesn't want to run Autoplay on any CD anymore. This just seems to have happened in the last week.
How do I turn the auto-detect back on? I had this problem on my old system and I never could get it to work once it turned off. Sob.
I took today off. I ate some soup at around 5pm or so, but that's really been all I've had to eat all day and yet I'm not hungry. Bleh. At least this way I'll lose some weight! :)
I have to go to a funeral for a family friend in Oshawa tomorrow too. I'm not sure how I'll be feeling, but I might just take the day off to be careful and recuperate so I'll be feeling fine for the party!
I haven't been sleeping much the last few weeks and I think that's finally what's catching up on me. Oh well.
I have to go to a funeral for a family friend in Oshawa tomorrow too. I'm not sure how I'll be feeling, but I might just take the day off to be careful and recuperate so I'll be feeling fine for the party!
I haven't been sleeping much the last few weeks and I think that's finally what's catching up on me. Oh well.
Sunday, October 26, 2003
Ug. I've been feeling really ill all afternoon and evening. I'm not sure if I have some kind of food poisoning or something (I've been really clammy and nauseous) or if it's an actual flu or cold or something...
Bleh.
I'm really tired too. This weekend of rest and relaxation has been anything but :P
Bleh.
I'm really tired too. This weekend of rest and relaxation has been anything but :P
November is National Novel Writing Month aka NaNoWriMo. I'm seriously concidering trying to do this. At least it'd get my brain and typing fingers moving in something akin to the write direction (yuk yuk yuk).
It's only 50,000 words... can't be TOO hard.
It's only 50,000 words... can't be TOO hard.
Hee hee. Found this on the LOTD on Userfriendly. All of the other staplers have a pretty pedestrian description, but not the SCREAMING, GLEAMING RED STAPLER.
WHAM WHAM WHAM!
WHAM WHAM WHAM!
Saturday, October 25, 2003
Well, I've got my costume, Julie's got her's and we had a crazy 4 hour drive around the entirety of Guelph today looking for a Value Village.
We also went to the place called Jos�'s Noodle Factory which was conspicuously lacking in the noodle department, at least on the lunch menu. I got a thing of popcorn shrimp and now I'm feeling a mite queasy. I hope it's just the fact that I was out till 1am, played games till about 3:30am and then was awakened at 7:57am by someone FROM ANOTHER GROUP HOME... grr...
We also went to the place called Jos�'s Noodle Factory which was conspicuously lacking in the noodle department, at least on the lunch menu. I got a thing of popcorn shrimp and now I'm feeling a mite queasy. I hope it's just the fact that I was out till 1am, played games till about 3:30am and then was awakened at 7:57am by someone FROM ANOTHER GROUP HOME... grr...
Ah ha! I actually beat Liam to this story.
Clay is key to the spark of life.
It's an interesting little read about how clay helps stimulate the formation of key nutrients and molecules. It's also interesting in that it has biblical corollary. So go read and ponder the connotations of this study.
Clay is key to the spark of life.
It's an interesting little read about how clay helps stimulate the formation of key nutrients and molecules. It's also interesting in that it has biblical corollary. So go read and ponder the connotations of this study.
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