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One year of Caligula, Ubuntu mplayer, and MST3K

Caligula is feeling better.

And today marks our one year anniversary with him! We brought him home from Pharo’s Best Cattery on March 13th, 2004.

baby Caligula
Then

Caligula now
Now

He’s such a great cat %)

Last night we went out with , , Barry and Rae for dinner and to see Robots. Robots was decent, if I were to do it over I wouldn’t pay $9.75 to see it. It had a couple original ideas, but like most of these computer generated films it seems like they spent too much on big actors and making it look great, less on story development. I did get to see the new Star Wars trailer though.. and even though I’m not a fan of the sequels, I can’t help getting excited about it, it’s Star Wars.

We had a nice time though, when we got home around midnight I was pretty tired.

This morning I booted up Ubuntu to try out the movie player that comes with it, Totem. I tried to play an .avi in it and it wouldn’t play. Can’t play an AVI? It’s under heavy development, so someday it might work as well as mplayer, but not now. I had to install mplayer. So I did a quick google search and found this Ubuntu Multimedia HOWTO. It compiles mplayer, and since the system is only 450 mhz it took about an hour to complete the install. It went flawlessly! And I had no trouble playing the avi, screenshot. Since I can play movies in Ubuntu now I decided to get out another monitor to use for it (I was using the second input in my 19 inch). Now I’m watching movies and getting stuff done on my computer %)

I’m watching MST3K episode 912 “The Screaming Skull” in that picture (and the screenshot). When came over on Friday for movie night he brought 3 DVDs full of MST3K episodes that he got from BT, which encouraged Michael to start getting some MST3K episodes from BT, yay!

I should go make dinner now

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