No Title -Friday, March 05, 2004 -4:41 am-
Today was fun. As soon as I got up, I had an IM from Mary saying she was done with school several hours early. I boldly made my way through amazingly bad traffic (took me almost an hour to get there) and met Mich at Mary's place. The three of us headed off to Polaris mall for no real reason. We walked around for a good while, just wasting time. Eventually we wondered into Hot Topic. When did Hot Topic go goth? Hell, when did goth go mainstream? Last time I was in a Hot Topic (admittedly about a decade ago), it was a lot like a Claire's. Not anymore. Anyway, they were playing some great music. So good, in fact, that I bought the CD. You all must check out Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine. You won't believe it. After Polaris, we went to Westerville to Pasqualie's to eat. I think the girl's beat up on me throughout the entire meal. After dinner, we tried to go to Barnes and Noble at the Lennox. On the way there, one of Michelle and my friends from Junior year called me absolutely frantic because he computer was cracked out and she was going to have to reinstall Windows and had things due the next day. I tried to work it out with her over the phone, but it was going nowhere fast because her install of ME was so fucked that it wouldn't fileshare. I dropped the girls at Mary's house and went over to back up her data to my laptop so she could wipe the drive. By the time I got over there, they had figured out they could use AIM to backup her HDD (pretty clever, actually). Once the backup was done, I walked her through getting XP installed. She was in the never-ending hell of Windows Update when I left. Amazingly, while XP was installing, she asked me if there were anything better than Internet Explorer. I smiled, much like the cat that ate the canary, and told her about Firefox. Yay. Oh, and when I came out, I was parked in. Took me 30 minutes to get free. Guess how happy I was after fucking with Windows and then getting trapped. I rejoined the girls and we hung out at Mary's for several hours.
The Windowsness leads me to the conclusion that I am following Aaron and dropping support for all versions of Windows. I will spend whatever time it takes to work with you to get a fully functional Linux or BSD system on your existing hardware, or help you come up with a Mac to run OS X on. Don't bother me with Windows. Of course I'll still answer a quick question or help you migrate away from IE or whatnot. But no more reinstalls or severe troubleshooting! If you want my help, don't make my job harder!
My appreciation for Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine andMe First and the Gimme Gimmes, as well as many of the other things of that sort, make me wonder about my sense of humor. It seems I find most funny that which contains the antithesis to itself, or at least a surprising twist. I think this is why I find puns so amusing, the tweak the English language. I dunno, random early morning musing. Speaking of early morning, Owen was writing about sunrises for several weeks. I always found it amusing that the sunrises he was getting up to see were the same ones I went to be just after. A Jackie Chan movie I had never seen was just on. It was called Thunderbolt. While it ended with some of the most comically bad racing sequences I have ever seen, the main fight sequence was out of this world. Jackie fights a large number of men in a casino/pachinko palace. There's bits with trampoline-like decorations and tens of thousands of little silver balls that just astound me.
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