Conserve gravity!
Nov. 11th, 2005 06:09 pmTop scientists agree that with the present rate of consumption, the earth's supply of gravity will be exhausted before the 24th century. As man struggles to discover cheaper alternatives, we need your help. Please...
CONSERVE GRAVITY
Follow these simple suggestions:
(1) Walk with a light step. Carry helium balloons if possible.
(2) Use tape, magnets, or glue instead of paperweights.
(3) Give up skiing and skydiving for more horizontal sports like curling.
(4) Avoid showers .. take baths instead.
(5) Don't hang all your clothes in the closet ... Keep them in one big pile.
(6) Stop flipping pancakes
CONSERVE GRAVITY
Follow these simple suggestions:
(1) Walk with a light step. Carry helium balloons if possible.
(2) Use tape, magnets, or glue instead of paperweights.
(3) Give up skiing and skydiving for more horizontal sports like curling.
(4) Avoid showers .. take baths instead.
(5) Don't hang all your clothes in the closet ... Keep them in one big pile.
(6) Stop flipping pancakes
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Sep. 29th, 2005 07:23 pmNot very enlightening but nevertheless entertaining Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman interview:
JW: I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.
NG: Yes. It really is this thing of executives loving the smell of their own urine and urinating on things. And then more execs come in, and they urinate. And then the next round. By the end, they have this thing which just smells like pee, and nobody likes it.
(Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead was pretty deritative and uninspiring . I quit watching after Josh ( spoiler! ))
JW: I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.
NG: Yes. It really is this thing of executives loving the smell of their own urine and urinating on things. And then more execs come in, and they urinate. And then the next round. By the end, they have this thing which just smells like pee, and nobody likes it.
(Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead was pretty deritative and uninspiring . I quit watching after Josh ( spoiler! ))
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Aug. 20th, 2005 11:21 pmWhoops! I asked ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
electromoon to interview me a week or two ago and I totally forgot she replied! Sorry!
You know how it works by now; ask me to interview you in the comments and I shall ask you five penetrating questions.
( So here are my belated answers. )
Another meme:
1. Ten years ago:
I was in year five, playing Captain Planet and reading White Fang obsessively. Upon reflection, I might be too young for this meme.
2. Five years ago:
I was in year ten, reading atrocious books for English, getting utterly bored with Italian, and deep in the thrall of DAAS fandom.
3. One year ago:
I was in Italy, wishing I'd paid more attention in year ten Italian.
( more )
Now go forth and meme also!
electromoon to interview me a week or two ago and I totally forgot she replied! Sorry!You know how it works by now; ask me to interview you in the comments and I shall ask you five penetrating questions.
( So here are my belated answers. )
Another meme:
1. Ten years ago:
I was in year five, playing Captain Planet and reading White Fang obsessively. Upon reflection, I might be too young for this meme.
2. Five years ago:
I was in year ten, reading atrocious books for English, getting utterly bored with Italian, and deep in the thrall of DAAS fandom.
3. One year ago:
I was in Italy, wishing I'd paid more attention in year ten Italian.
( more )
Now go forth and meme also!
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Jul. 25th, 2005 10:48 pmThe War on Terror as viewed from the Bourne shell
$ cd Taliban
$ ls
soldiers
$ rm soldiers
$ cd ..
$ rmdir Taliban
rmdir: directory "Taliban": Directory not empty
$ cd Taliban
$ ls -a
. .. .insurgents
Very cleverly put together!
ETA:electromoon has just posted something rather similar: If WWII was an RTS :-D
Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks!
paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks
T0JO: lol
Roosevelt: o this fockin sucks i got a depression!
benny-tow: haha america sux
Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool?
Hitler[AoE]; sure whatever
Stalin: cool
$ cd Taliban
$ ls
soldiers
$ rm soldiers
$ cd ..
$ rmdir Taliban
rmdir: directory "Taliban": Directory not empty
$ cd Taliban
$ ls -a
. .. .insurgents
Very cleverly put together!
ETA:
electromoon has just posted something rather similar: If WWII was an RTS :-D Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks!
paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks
T0JO: lol
Roosevelt: o this fockin sucks i got a depression!
benny-tow: haha america sux
Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool?
Hitler[AoE]; sure whatever
Stalin: cool
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Jul. 22nd, 2005 09:43 pmNice Washington Post article on James Doohan and the cultural effect of Scotty:
The real tribute to James "Scotty" Doohan, 39 light-years after he first saved the USS Enterprise's heinie (and did it many times over), is that it's now almost impossible to have a boyfriend or husband who can't do a somewhat reasonable impression of Doohan's famously stressed-out burr: "We've got nuh powrrrr, Cap'n!" Or "She cannuh take much moor."
Although I would like to point out that BOYS are not the only geeks who dobad terrible Scotty impressions.
The real tribute to James "Scotty" Doohan, 39 light-years after he first saved the USS Enterprise's heinie (and did it many times over), is that it's now almost impossible to have a boyfriend or husband who can't do a somewhat reasonable impression of Doohan's famously stressed-out burr: "We've got nuh powrrrr, Cap'n!" Or "She cannuh take much moor."
Although I would like to point out that BOYS are not the only geeks who do
Ok so this is going to be long, I think.
Anyway,lainy122 has done a photo post and covered all the pertinent bits, and melinda_goodin has already written up a couple of panels excellently. Also, docbrite's reactions (and her bird-related squeeing) are great. So probably this is all redundant :-D
Right, well, first up, I adored Melbourne. ( Melbourne; Meagan; fabulous purchases )
Sad farewells to Meagan, and then we started trying to make our way to the Hilton, which is where the con was at. I left the map at the hostel and got us totally lost and poor Lainy had to walk about 2k out of the way with a busted knee.
( Vampire panel; Blankety-blanks; first-time con-goer panel )
That night was the Great Debate, which had us all laughing our bleached anuses off. ( Great Debate )
( martial arts panel; slashgirl parTAY )
Saturday morning we began with the Moving out of Genre panel with Jack, Neil, Poppy and Fiona, and it was really interesting. ( Neil and Poppy stuff, mostly )
( Neil's GOH speech, Mirrormask, Dave McKean )
The forensics panel, like everything else, was interesting. ( More on this )
( Fantasy and Fairytale panel )
Somewhere in there we had a great Chinese dinner with a lovely old-school fan and slasher named Donna (if you're reading this, Donna, drop us a comment!) and hooked up with Jess from Perth (who kindly allowed us to stash our stuff in her room, and whose lj name I have no idea of) to watch an episode of Firefly ("Arial") and the bloopers (hee!) and the Serentity trailer (eee!). Then at night it was the masked ball, which Lainy and I didn't exactly prepare for, like, at all. But a cool dude was making balloon hats and he gave us one each! The costumes were absolutely amazing. There were any number of gothy outfits, some furries, Danny Oz and his wife and someone else as the Joker, Harley and Ivy, a Jack Sparrow, a TV's Frank (I think! But he didn't have the right hair), and so on. Amazing work by some people. Also somewhere in there we went to Neil's and Poppy's signings (squee!) andmelinda_goodin made a Harry Potter run, being nice enough to grab me one at the same time :-D
Sunday morning we got up ridiculously early for the first panel, Myths of Warfare. ( More on this )
The Australian Folklore and Fairytales panel was extremely interesting and I was really looking forward to it (Lainy went to the Stephen King panel at this time, so ask her for info about that). It began with the panellists noting that they had a really interesting experience going to Europe, where mythology and history are tied directly to place and especially nature, and how this is not their experience within Australia. Of course this segued into Indigenous mythology and the Australian landscape, and the bulk of the discussion was about how appropriate it is to use Aboriginal mythology in fiction if you're a non-Indigenous Australian. ( More on this )
Not having read any of her work, and having had the impression throughout the con that she didn't really want to be there, I was not expecting to enjoy Robin Hobb's Guest of Honour speech quite as much as I did. ( on writing and having children; Important Lessons Jessie Learnt from Robin Hobb )
( LOTR in the style of... panel )
During the lunch break we watched Neil's A Short Film About John Bolton, a funny mock documentary about a vampire-obsessed artist. It managed to be both completely predictable and extremely entertaining.
Then was Poppy's GOH speech in which she was the cutest thing ever. ( Witness: )
( Gods and Monsters panel; Neil being amusing; Research and Methodology panel; blogging panel )
( Slash panel! )
Then there was the closing ceremony, then Melinda gave us a ride back to our hostel, then I ate an extremely nice Chinese meal, then we caught the train, then I read HBP, then we got home, the end. My god!
Anyway,
lainy122 has done a photo post and covered all the pertinent bits, and melinda_goodin has already written up a couple of panels excellently. Also, docbrite's reactions (and her bird-related squeeing) are great. So probably this is all redundant :-DRight, well, first up, I adored Melbourne. ( Melbourne; Meagan; fabulous purchases )
Sad farewells to Meagan, and then we started trying to make our way to the Hilton, which is where the con was at. I left the map at the hostel and got us totally lost and poor Lainy had to walk about 2k out of the way with a busted knee.
( Vampire panel; Blankety-blanks; first-time con-goer panel )
That night was the Great Debate, which had us all laughing our bleached anuses off. ( Great Debate )
( martial arts panel; slashgirl parTAY )
Saturday morning we began with the Moving out of Genre panel with Jack, Neil, Poppy and Fiona, and it was really interesting. ( Neil and Poppy stuff, mostly )
( Neil's GOH speech, Mirrormask, Dave McKean )
The forensics panel, like everything else, was interesting. ( More on this )
( Fantasy and Fairytale panel )
Somewhere in there we had a great Chinese dinner with a lovely old-school fan and slasher named Donna (if you're reading this, Donna, drop us a comment!) and hooked up with Jess from Perth (who kindly allowed us to stash our stuff in her room, and whose lj name I have no idea of) to watch an episode of Firefly ("Arial") and the bloopers (hee!) and the Serentity trailer (eee!). Then at night it was the masked ball, which Lainy and I didn't exactly prepare for, like, at all. But a cool dude was making balloon hats and he gave us one each! The costumes were absolutely amazing. There were any number of gothy outfits, some furries, Danny Oz and his wife and someone else as the Joker, Harley and Ivy, a Jack Sparrow, a TV's Frank (I think! But he didn't have the right hair), and so on. Amazing work by some people. Also somewhere in there we went to Neil's and Poppy's signings (squee!) and
melinda_goodin made a Harry Potter run, being nice enough to grab me one at the same time :-DSunday morning we got up ridiculously early for the first panel, Myths of Warfare. ( More on this )
The Australian Folklore and Fairytales panel was extremely interesting and I was really looking forward to it (Lainy went to the Stephen King panel at this time, so ask her for info about that). It began with the panellists noting that they had a really interesting experience going to Europe, where mythology and history are tied directly to place and especially nature, and how this is not their experience within Australia. Of course this segued into Indigenous mythology and the Australian landscape, and the bulk of the discussion was about how appropriate it is to use Aboriginal mythology in fiction if you're a non-Indigenous Australian. ( More on this )
Not having read any of her work, and having had the impression throughout the con that she didn't really want to be there, I was not expecting to enjoy Robin Hobb's Guest of Honour speech quite as much as I did. ( on writing and having children; Important Lessons Jessie Learnt from Robin Hobb )
( LOTR in the style of... panel )
During the lunch break we watched Neil's A Short Film About John Bolton, a funny mock documentary about a vampire-obsessed artist. It managed to be both completely predictable and extremely entertaining.
Then was Poppy's GOH speech in which she was the cutest thing ever. ( Witness: )
( Gods and Monsters panel; Neil being amusing; Research and Methodology panel; blogging panel )
( Slash panel! )
Then there was the closing ceremony, then Melinda gave us a ride back to our hostel, then I ate an extremely nice Chinese meal, then we caught the train, then I read HBP, then we got home, the end. My god!
Funny stuff
Jul. 6th, 2005 11:22 pmMargaret and David from the Movie Show are Zappa fans! They are so cute (she tried to say in an uncondescending manner).
The Homepage of Sir Peter Maxwell.
I gather this Live 8 nonsense is in order to pressure western governments into writing off African debt. Absolute rubbish. The day when the chap in Downing Street starts to listen to the highly improper rantings of semi literate Irish peasants like Bob Geldof or that Bobo chap is the day I will leave the country.
The Da Vinci Code 2: The Dundee Code.
"Sophie, you can call me 'mate'. We're now in Australia (a country located south of Indonesia, which is about 12,000 miles from Oregon). People call each other 'mate' here," Langdon said, "as they are very friendly, and have national characteristics such as anti-authoritarianism, tough individualism and a touch of idleness, just as Asians are just one big lookalike monoculture, and bad people have German accents, and you French are arrogant and smell like garlic. But Aussies are achievers and hosted the famous Olympic Games right here in Sydney in 2000 – you might have seen it on le télévision in your native France, Europe, way east of New York. Australians are a bit like Americans, only with bad accents."
Links found via Wikipedia. Speaking of, random MST3K qoutes!
( Crow: It was a dark and stormy night. I'd taken a creative writing class. )
The Homepage of Sir Peter Maxwell.
I gather this Live 8 nonsense is in order to pressure western governments into writing off African debt. Absolute rubbish. The day when the chap in Downing Street starts to listen to the highly improper rantings of semi literate Irish peasants like Bob Geldof or that Bobo chap is the day I will leave the country.
The Da Vinci Code 2: The Dundee Code.
"Sophie, you can call me 'mate'. We're now in Australia (a country located south of Indonesia, which is about 12,000 miles from Oregon). People call each other 'mate' here," Langdon said, "as they are very friendly, and have national characteristics such as anti-authoritarianism, tough individualism and a touch of idleness, just as Asians are just one big lookalike monoculture, and bad people have German accents, and you French are arrogant and smell like garlic. But Aussies are achievers and hosted the famous Olympic Games right here in Sydney in 2000 – you might have seen it on le télévision in your native France, Europe, way east of New York. Australians are a bit like Americans, only with bad accents."
Links found via Wikipedia. Speaking of, random MST3K qoutes!
( Crow: It was a dark and stormy night. I'd taken a creative writing class. )
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Jun. 22nd, 2005 07:59 pmAhahahahaha my bitchy review of RotS got picked! I won! Well, with three other people. And, erm, they spelt my name wrong. But I still get a SW graphic novel (any recommendations as to which one to choose, if I get a choice?) and a double pass to see Sin City! So lainy122 and frostmourne, looks like I can go with you to see it after all *is smug*
Another interesting Balkin link, although this is by a guest contributor: Would you cross the street to avoid marrying in a heterosexuals only jurisdiction? The actual op-ed it links to is not all that interesting, and it's all aimed at heteros only of course, but the concept is. I've long thought that I'd never get married because of my various objections to it (namely, legitimating some relationships at the expense of others, and throwing in a whole bunch of rights to seal the deal), and that even if I would get married, I'd never get married till I could marry a girl as well as a boy. But the above is an implication of legalised queer marriage I hadn't thought of.
lainy122 and frostmourne, looks like I can go with you to see it after all *is smug*Another interesting Balkin link, although this is by a guest contributor: Would you cross the street to avoid marrying in a heterosexuals only jurisdiction? The actual op-ed it links to is not all that interesting, and it's all aimed at heteros only of course, but the concept is. I've long thought that I'd never get married because of my various objections to it (namely, legitimating some relationships at the expense of others, and throwing in a whole bunch of rights to seal the deal), and that even if I would get married, I'd never get married till I could marry a girl as well as a boy. But the above is an implication of legalised queer marriage I hadn't thought of.
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Jun. 14th, 2005 09:23 pmWikipedia is the ultimate procrastination enabler. Seriously. How can you stay away when shit like this discussion of Wookie language appears in it?
Examples
* Wyaaaaaa. Ruh ruh. ("Hello. How are you?")
* Huwaa muaa mumwa. ("Can I buy you a drink?")
* Wua ga ma uma ahuma ooma. ("I think my arm has been pulled out of the socket.")
So! Much! Love! for wikipedia. Check out![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
wikipedians for amusing trivia and so on.
PS: I think it's safe to say, expect more random/insane/spammy posts from me tonight as I battle the essay demons once again.
Examples
* Wyaaaaaa. Ruh ruh. ("Hello. How are you?")
* Huwaa muaa mumwa. ("Can I buy you a drink?")
* Wua ga ma uma ahuma ooma. ("I think my arm has been pulled out of the socket.")
So! Much! Love! for wikipedia. Check out
wikipedians for amusing trivia and so on.PS: I think it's safe to say, expect more random/insane/spammy posts from me tonight as I battle the essay demons once again.
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May. 25th, 2005 08:05 pmLainy, the Continuum panels have been elaborated upon!
( One or two I might wanna possibly take a peek at )
( One or two I might wanna possibly take a peek at )
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May. 21st, 2005 12:17 amOh my god, Michael Rosenbaum is such a huge, huge geek, and he has so many toys that he's so happy to show off to people. theantimodel has posted a clip of him on MTV Cribs and hahahahahahaha!
theantimodel has posted a clip of him on MTV Cribs and hahahahahahaha!random moment of dork love
May. 5th, 2005 11:19 pmYou know what's great about wikipedia.org? It can have reams and reams of info on something that's not even usually in an encyclopedia, because it's not constrained by physical bulk. And anybody can change it! I love the internet.
HA! I have discovered where Firefox caches its quicktime stuff, at least. Documents and Settings-->[user name]-->Application Data-->Mozilla-->Firefox-->Profiles-->[random folder name]-->Cache. Then just sort by size. My lord they like to hide it away. Ah, for the good old days when it was just in Temporary Internet Files and even had the right extensions :-(
Meanwhile can anyone get sound on this movie? It has Zach from the OC and is apparently quite porny so obviously I am keen to see it. I dunno if the lack of sound is my bad or Planet Out's; I've tested my plugin and it seems to be ok, but none of their movies have sound for me so I doubt it's a problem at their end.
Meanwhile can anyone get sound on this movie? It has Zach from the OC and is apparently quite porny so obviously I am keen to see it. I dunno if the lack of sound is my bad or Planet Out's; I've tested my plugin and it seems to be ok, but none of their movies have sound for me so I doubt it's a problem at their end.
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Mar. 17th, 2005 01:06 amGuide to Destroying the Earth. Seriously brilliant.
This is not a guide for wusses whose aim is merely to wipe out humanity. I (Sam Hughes) can in no way guarantee the complete extinction of the human race via any of these methods, real or imaginary. Humanity is wily and resourceful, and many of the methods outlined below will take many years to even become available, let alone implement, by which time mankind may well have spread to other planets; indeed, other star systems. If total human genocide is your ultimate goal, you are reading the wrong document. There are far more efficient ways of doing this, many which are available and feasible RIGHT NOW. Nor is this a guide for those wanting to annihilate everything from single-celled life upwards, render Earth uninhabitable or simply conquer it. These are trivial goals in comparison.
This is a guide for those who do not want the Earth to be there anymore.
There's even a gay marriage joke in there if you look hard enough!
This is not a guide for wusses whose aim is merely to wipe out humanity. I (Sam Hughes) can in no way guarantee the complete extinction of the human race via any of these methods, real or imaginary. Humanity is wily and resourceful, and many of the methods outlined below will take many years to even become available, let alone implement, by which time mankind may well have spread to other planets; indeed, other star systems. If total human genocide is your ultimate goal, you are reading the wrong document. There are far more efficient ways of doing this, many which are available and feasible RIGHT NOW. Nor is this a guide for those wanting to annihilate everything from single-celled life upwards, render Earth uninhabitable or simply conquer it. These are trivial goals in comparison.
This is a guide for those who do not want the Earth to be there anymore.
There's even a gay marriage joke in there if you look hard enough!
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Mar. 8th, 2005 09:20 pmThe first of some 5,000 magnets that will bend particles at near light-speed around a huge tunnel under Switzerland has been lowered into place.
The {Large Hadron Collider] will recreate the searing-hot conditions that existed just fractions of a second after the Big Bang.
Scientists hope this will enable them to see new physics, and discover the sought-after Higgs boson, or "God particle", which explains why matter has mass.
Researchers may even find new dimensions and generate mini-black holes.
On the one hand, this is so totally amazingly cool; and on the other I'm kinda worried we're all going to get blown up. Ah well!
theantimodel has uploaded a bizarre mp3 of the Batman theme song and the Beatles' "Taxman" mixed together it's very amusing and worth downloading for the name alone. And also very disconcerting and slightly freaky if you're at all familiar with either of the songs. Hearing "batman" where "taxman" is supposed to be reminds me of other Beatles lyrics where they stuck stuff in on the sly, such as in "Girl" (are they in fact saying "tit tit tit"?) and "Baby You're A Rich Man Now" ("baby you're a rich fat Jew" referring, of course, to Epstein).
The {Large Hadron Collider] will recreate the searing-hot conditions that existed just fractions of a second after the Big Bang.
Scientists hope this will enable them to see new physics, and discover the sought-after Higgs boson, or "God particle", which explains why matter has mass.
Researchers may even find new dimensions and generate mini-black holes.
On the one hand, this is so totally amazingly cool; and on the other I'm kinda worried we're all going to get blown up. Ah well!
theantimodel has uploaded a bizarre mp3 of the Batman theme song and the Beatles' "Taxman" mixed together it's very amusing and worth downloading for the name alone. And also very disconcerting and slightly freaky if you're at all familiar with either of the songs. Hearing "batman" where "taxman" is supposed to be reminds me of other Beatles lyrics where they stuck stuff in on the sly, such as in "Girl" (are they in fact saying "tit tit tit"?) and "Baby You're A Rich Man Now" ("baby you're a rich fat Jew" referring, of course, to Epstein).
I had to share this
Feb. 4th, 2005 09:44 pmToday's astronomy picture of the day is one of the freakiest things I've seen in a while. It's like if Star Trek was crossed with that monstrous foetus that appeared those couple of times in Lucifer. Weeargh! You can see its evolution here. Jesus!
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Jan. 14th, 2005 08:47 pmSeems like the past couple of weeks has been human tragedy after human tragedy, so it's nice to remember that some history is being made atm that is not in the least tragic. The Huygens probe is getting closer and closer to touching down on Titan. I am SO EXCITED. It feels like it's directly out of an Asimov short story and his Robot stuff was practically a religion to me growing up. It's just SO! COOL! vvvrrrrt, clank, blip, beep, and 67 minutes later the data reaches us and we've landed something on one of Saturn's moons! OMG! *spazzes out*
Ironically, they're watching Starship Troopers 2 in the other room. It is SO BAD. But I was never much of a Heinlein girl.
Ironically, they're watching Starship Troopers 2 in the other room. It is SO BAD. But I was never much of a Heinlein girl.
OMG SQUEEEEE
Sep. 27th, 2004 01:36 pmOMG, PJ Harvey is playing Thebarton Theatre on my birthday!! And my mum and Anton have bought me a ticket for my birthday! Yaaaaaay!
In sadder, but not really, news, I ran Windows Update on Saturday and it totally broke my computer. So because I'm so freaking sick of Windows I'm installing Linux. My dad has a copy of Suse 9.1 so we're sticking that on. Well, he's sticking it on and I'm sort of sitting there next to him. We tried all Sunday but there were some major, mysitfying problems, so we'll give it another shot when I go back next weekend.
In sadder, but not really, news, I ran Windows Update on Saturday and it totally broke my computer. So because I'm so freaking sick of Windows I'm installing Linux. My dad has a copy of Suse 9.1 so we're sticking that on. Well, he's sticking it on and I'm sort of sitting there next to him. We tried all Sunday but there were some major, mysitfying problems, so we'll give it another shot when I go back next weekend.
