So we went to a LAN party yesterday. We weren’t sure what to expect, and I for one didn’t know anyone there really (3 of the people were people from Myk’s work). It turned out to royally suck %D We got there and played some UT (ctf, yuck) and we were told that everyone had battlefield 1942 installed, but apparently they didn’t, and then the wanted everyone to get the v.1.1 patch… so it all took forever, finally some people were playing, but no one knew what they were doing, and it got sorta boring. This one guy showed up, you know the kind, COMPLETE loser in real life but doesn’t know it, so he’s loud, obnoxious, and annoys everyone but people are too polite to say so. I was the only girl there and he said (to Myk) “man you are SO lucky!” Myk said “huh?” and he goes “you have a woman who plays games! My wife left me ’cause I played games!” of course i chuckled and thought “oh i doubt that’s why…” Gah… he wasn’t the worst, around 8ish this guy sitting behind us got completely drunk… and started telling us about how bad his life sucked and how he had all these lawsuits out against things that happened to him (broken leg at a concert, passing out on the workplace because of propane, yes propane, very smelly, must be very stupid to pass out because of it)… then he started going into how he couldn’t pass algebra in college so he has to have crappy jobs (not passing algebra was not his fault either of course). And the neighborhood was creepy, we locked the Jeep each time we went from it to the house ’cause we were so paranoid… and inside the apartment it was hot and pretty cramped… and they had a BIRD (i have a bit of a bird phobia you see…). Anyway it all turned out to be pretty uncomfortable so we ended up leaving after talking to that drunk guy.
We got home last night and I was strangely tired, I don’t really know why.. it was only like 9:30. Ended up watching a couple episodes of MST3K we have on tape (Jack Frost and Prince Of Space), then wandered off to read for a bit. I am slowly getting through this DNS and Bind book, it’s all pretty interesting… and funny ’cause there was this one part in the book where they were talking about .edu extensions and they said “say your school is called Gizmonics Institute…” Now if any of you are MST3K fans you know what that is! Joel (the first host of MST3K) worked at Gizmonics Institute (completely fictional) before he was shot into space by Dr Forrester. Hehe, it was an interesting discovery anyway, and gives me that much more respect for the writers if it wasn’t just a coincidence.
Speaking of discoveries, when I was younger my parents had this strange movie player. I could never place exactly what it was, most people I asked about it just looked at me funny and said I was crazy, others thought I was talking about Betas for some reason… but this player had like, disks inside a plastic outer sleeve, you’d put the whole thing in the player, it would take the movie out, then you’d pull the plastic sleeve back out, empty. So I finally was thinking about this while a pretty smart guy where it comes to movies and formats is concerned was in #deep13. I asked him and he’s like “yeah those are CEDs” AH! Finally after a few years of being completely clueless about what they were I find out! See I wouldn’t care so much, but it was the first format I saw Star Wars on, and that’s pretty damn important! Hehee. Anyway he sent me to this site: http://www.cedmagic.com. Apparently people are still interested in these things, my friend said it was mostly because of the cover art of the movies… anyway, apparently this was the first movie format released with “special features” and such… pretty interesting. I just wish my parents hadn’t thrown out our player and the movies! Granted the player was broken… but I’d really like to have that copy of Star Wars (I can buy it online from a site linked from cedmagic.com, but I’d much rather not have to pay for it of course).
Star Wars CED… about the size of a standard vinyl record
Now remember all those problems I had with Network Solutions? Well they are VERY over now, I ended up transferring the domain ownership to gandi.net. It’s only $10 per year for registration (Netsol was $35! And even with special offers it was still expensive), and although it’s a French based register, we have some friends who use it and they are pretty happy with it. So we started the move to gandi.net on Wednesday, and it finished on Friday night, I was very impressed with how quick it was %) And that netsol didn’t deny the request (they have been known to do that, deny a couple times to see if you will really go, then finally let it through if your persistant… I guess they might have gotten rid of this practice after they got into a bit of trouble..). The whois is not completely updated yet, but the registar is all changed on it and stuff, I’m happy %)
I doubt we’ll do anything today… I’ve really been wanting a beer since like Friday. Friday night we were going to go out for dinner and get some beer, but since it was Friday everything was busy, so instead we went to a Whole Foods Market near our apartment, and picked up some rolls, swiss cheese, lettuce and tomatoes, then came home and made some hot chicken sandwiches, but no beer. We thought about going up to a beer store and picking up a case, but then decided we should save our money and get some really awesome beer, Myk said we might even be able to get some Lindemans Kriek (my FAVORITE lambic, cherry)… $120 a case. Ah just thinking about it makes me thirsty for it!
Anyway it’s after 2 and I’m still in my pajamas so I should do something about that %) *wanders off*