Month: January 2008

Ok, this might contain spoilers, so be warned. I saw Cloverfield tonight. All in all, I very much enjoyed the movie. It had me on the edge of my seat the entire time, and it was original with a good story. The constant movement of the camera was a little much. I read something on Slashdot where one person mentioned that not even an armature would be that bad… I have to disagree. Most people these days don’t hold the camera to their face. They hold it out a couple feet and look at the screen which doesn’t make for steady video. I’d really like to know more about the monster and where it came from and stuff, but maybe it’s best left alone. It doesn’t really matter. Oh, and one thing about the camera… it says in the beginning “SD Card” as if it was a digital camera using flash memory… it would have had to be a film (as in tape) camera because of the film cutting in and out as it did. Film is susceptible to vibration, flash is not. Ok, so not really any spoilers to speak of. But whatever. I liked it. If you didn’t, well boo to you.

Also. Star Trek. O. M. G. Can’t. Wait.

Ok, so I have a sewing machine at my house that my mother has given me/let me borrow (I’m not exactly sure, she may come to me one day and steal it away). I am finally starting to get the urge to learn how to use it. It must be all of this button sewing. So I am starting by actually reading (*GASP*) the manual. The last time I tried to use it unsupervised, the thread just bunched up in the bottom (the bobbin! WOOT!). But I was going on memory, and it wasn’t doing well at the time I guess. Of course, I still don’t get all of the terminology. And I don’t actually have any fabric to sew. But, I do have old shirts and stuff that I can play with. Maybe I’ll sew designs on it.

This just requires profanity. Zune, sucks. Royally. A customer asked me to put some of their personal data on their Zune. So I am installing the software on my laptop. It’s now been an hour, and the install is still NOT done. And it’s not a slow computer. It took 15 minutes to check for updates. Then it “prepared” my computer three times. It has now been stuck on 99% of “installing” for about 15 minutes. Microsoft really screwed this one up. I don’t know who they bought out to get the Zune, but you’d think they would have actually put a little effort into polishing up their software before just slapping their name on it. It is SO not an iPod killer. At least Macs come preinstalled with iTunes. And the standard iTunes install is done in 5 minutes. Goodbye from Lakeland.

Update: Now, just as I get ticked off enough to just cancel the setup and see if I can run the program manually, the screen starts to flicker, and the battery goes dead in the laptop I was using. Thank you Microsoft for such a fine product. Keep them coming. Not.

So I had the most interesting dream last night. I was with a group of people in a house at night, but we could not leave because there were these not-so-dead zombies waiting outside for us with their backs turned to us. So I got outside and climbed a tree to see if I could find a way out. That’s when they noticed me and started to climb the tree. I pushed some of them out of the tree where they plummeted to their death (remember, they weren’t “dead” zombies). During all of this time, I was viewing from first person. Then it switched to third person (is that the right way of expressing it, or is that only in writing?) and I climbed higher into the tree where I miraculously swung out of it while most of the zombies where in the tree. It was like something you’d see in a movie. That’s when I started to fight with the zombies. One by one I was taking them on and defeating them. I suppose it was a bit gory (amnesia is already starting to set in). Once I killed the last one, I walked to the house and slammed on the window in the door with blood all over me with a look on my face that was like “Yeah, you guys couldn’t do that.” So I have no idea what the dream was about, except that when I woke up (10 minutes before my alarm was to go off), I felt good. It was the most vivid dream I’ve had in a long time. One of the few that I will remember for years. Of course, I’ll ignore the Freudian part where I started off as a woman, but when I got out of the tree, it was manly me. I don’t need any interpretations of that one, thank you.

I am thinking I should write a book about it. Develop it into a whole zombie story. Michelle Ryan can play me in the movie version so I’ll have to work close to her on a more personal level to fully convey my dream. I’ll have to read the Zombie Survival Guide first though.

Well, first off, I did not get the kitty. I went there Friday to drop off a key (which I forgot to do!) and they said someone else was interested and they had three little girls, so I said that a family should have it instead. Maybe some day Meiko will have a friend besides me.

So I am finally going to go to Ikea. I love the idea of cheap furniture. It’s supposedly been around for a few months now in Orlando. I was supposed to go with my mother, but instead I will be going with my friend Kristen who has already been there and is interested in their furniture also. I of course will not be purchasing furniture tomorrow. I have much more important things to spend my money on, such as a house to store the furniture and a vehicle to move it around. But I can plan for the future.

So I went to a “House concert” last night. It was a woman named Karma. It’s indie music. It was interesting. However, it only reinforced my problem with listening to music where I can’t here the words. I have no idea what the songs were about except for one where she explained her “air miles”. Beyond that though, I have no idea. I was also given a large bottle of Grey Goose vodka from a copier salesperson for helping her out at one of my customers during a copier setup. I am uncertain if she was flirting with me, or if she was just trying to a salesperson… :-p Christina, who was on the verge of being drunk, was trying to set us up, but used the line “You know, his ex-girlfriend was named Jessica” (which was the name of the salesperson). I don’t think that would be a good pickup line for me in the future.

I am also considering starting a separate blog just for computer stuff that I run across when at customers sites. They’d be things that I would like to share and help other people out with similar problems. I’ll keep you posted as to when I actually get around to doing that… if ever.

So I was at a customer’s office today, and there was a kitten running around. As soon as I mentioned it, they wanted me to take it. They said they found it in the back. Funny thing, I am actually considering it. Meiko realllllly needs a friend to play with during the day. And this particular cat seems to have the same playing style that Meiko does. One of the most important things, it’s naturally litter trained… so no having to worry about that. Bad thing is, I’d have to get it spayed. I’m not sure how long I could wait on doing that. I think it’s better to do it before they reach a certain age. Anyone know anything about that?

Ok… who did it?? Who put the letters “WTF” on my fridge using my letter magnets? It had to have been someone at the little Christmas party that I had. So fess up!

I have discovered xkcd, a “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”. I am really starting to enjoy it. You should check it out… a few of the comics I can relate to, as I think about the same thing:

Movie Seating
Pillar
Paths
Hallucinations
dPain over dt

And a few I just like:

Nerd Girls
Valentine – Heart
Exploits of a Mom
Laser Scope
That Lovin’ Feelin’
In The Trees
Christmas GPS
Nash

And there are a few that I like that I should just not link to.

So I’ve discovered that I actually like the show 30 Rock. Granted, most of it may be Tina Fey. However, the show is really hilarious. And Liz Lemon… I don’t know why, but I find her intriguing. As Jack on the show describes her, “New York third-wave feminist, college-educated, single-and-pretending-to-be-happy-about-it, overscheduled, undersexed, you buy any magazine that says ‘healthy body image’ on the cover and every two years you take up knitting for…a week,” just seems to be my type. And because Tina Fey is hot.

Back in my high school days (ages ago, I know), when there would be fights in school students would rally around the fight to see what was going on. I’d usually be heading the other way. I thought it was stupid and immature. I find it interesting though that my cat would like to see a fight too. At the moment, somewhere outside two cats are hissing at each other ready to start a fight. I can not see it from my house, but I can hear it as I have my windows open. Meiko however, is dying to see the fight. She is anxiously waiting by the nearest opening in my house to see if I might just open it so she can get a step closer.