Seeing old friends… sort of… PART II
After showing my friend Sam my last post he told me he was talking to our friend PJ. Apparently PJ has been having very weird dreams lately. Lately I’ve had the feeling of a presence when I’m out and about. I don’t know if it means anything, but I gotta admit these seem to be unlikely coincidences.
Listening to System Of A Down - Chic N’ Stu.
The past few days someone has been logging into a friends AIM account. The wierd thing is, he’s dead. He died in May of 2001. I don’t think anyone knows his password. I checked the users profile and it was his profile. AOL didn’t recycle the screen name. It could be his parents going through his stuff, turning on his computer and AIM auto-logging in. I dunno, its both wierd and kinda creepy. Who knows, maybe they have internet in the afterlife.
Things like that get you kind of thinking. Makes you wonder what things would have been if they were still alive. Most of all it just makes you think about them. Jamie, if your out there, you rule!
Listening to The Beatles - Paperback Writer - 9412 The Rock Station. Now With Live DJs!.
I found this amusing picture whilst looking through a forum. Its pretty funny. Its about 450kb, so please let it load. When watching this its hard to believe there are people that say that animals dont exibit human-like tendancies. It may not be what it looks like at all. I’m no expert on animals after all, but it does look like that penguin is getting pushed into the water by another penguin. It may be that its 6:18am and I still havent slept yet, but thats the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. It could also be that I’m easily amused. Especially when I’m bored. Waddle, Waddle, Waddle, THWAP, SPLASH!
Well last night I had a scare. I noticed I had a full recycle bin so I went to empty it. It popped up with a dialog box asking “Do you want to delete WINDOWS?” That totally caught my off guard. I went into the recycle bin and it had NO files in it at all. At this time I started AVG to hunt for any viruses. Nothing. I then tried the disk clean up wizard and got nowhere. I then tried a long shot and it worked. I logged out of my windows account and logged back in.
Well today was a nice one at work. I clocked in and was told not to log into the computer because the server was down. We all sat there for 2 hours and 50 minutes before they told us to go home.
Apparently the calls we make are routed through the server and through T1 lines. From what I overheard the server couldnt connect with the T1 lines and Qwest couldn’t come out till tomarrow to fix it. They did what they could and couldnt get the server working.
As much as I would have liked to stay the whole shift so my paycheck is as big as it can be, I’m happy we got sent home. I just hope the server is working Friday so I don’t have another day off.
I just read an intresting article about escaping from the universe in the event of ours comming to an end. It will happen, just not in our lifetimes.
Apparently with physics as we currently underatand it, its possible to escape this universe and enter a universe next to our own. It involves wormholes (sometimes called Einstein-Rosen bridges) to travel from one to the other. The article also goes into detail about making artificial wormholes in case we cant find one to use.
I was thinking today. While I’m not a sports fan, I think the Nintendo DS could be a good system for certain sports genres. Imagine a game like football that doesn’t use the touch features of the DS until you pick your play. With the DS you could actually draw your own plays. Then you could play the game like any other football game.
Another idea would include a web browser cartridge that connects to a wifi (802.11) network and you can surf the net and use the stylus like one would a mouse. Would be cool to have Mozilla DS. I hear they are actually working on something like this though.
I’m going to get a DS eventually. Then I’ll give or sell my Gameboy Advance to my sister. My only problem is the fact it wont play Gameboy or Gameboy color games. I’ll have to pick up a Gameboy Color to play my old games. Who knows maybe somewhere down the line someone will make an adapter to play them on the DS.
I’m sick and tired of people saying violent video games are bad! Everyone has violent impulses. Whether or not we act on them the impulses are there.Violent video games allow us to act on those impulses without hurting anyone. Matter of fact, I see violent games as a way to get the impulses out of our systems temporarily. After a particularly bad day at work its nice to sit down with Mortal Kombat or something to get the feelings out of my system. I was borrowing a copy of Grand Theft Auto 3 from someone, and even though I didn’t care much for the game, it did wonders for my stress level.
Speaking of Grand Theft Auto, I have a few things to say on that game. We all have thought of commiting crimes. We’ve all jay walked. We’ve all littered. Some of us even have stolen things. In the GTA games we can do much more than that. For most people it gets those thought out of our heads in a safe non-illegal way. For some people they blame their crimes on the games. I personally think that those people would have done the crimes anyway without the games. Sure, the games may desensitize us when it comes to crimes, but I’m personally desensitized from watching the news. I hear about crimes and murder all the time on the news. Personally I think the evening news is more violent than any video game. That violence is REAL.
Since my VCR doesn’t seem to work for recording, I rely on my co-workers to tell me whats happening on Star Trek: Enterprise. And from what I hear, none of what I hear about whats going on in the series actually happened based on what I hear on the other series’. I can only assume Star Trek: Enterprise takes place in the alternate universe, the “Mirror universe” if you will. The attack on earth and the fact the Vulcans aren’t the ones we are familiar with on other Star Treks could explain some of why the “Mirror Universe” with the I.S.S. Enterprise from the original series episode “Mirror, Mirror” is so brutal and warlike. The Vulcans on Enterprise believe Mind Melds are wrong and they believe that the Katra (The Vulcan equivilent of a soul) can’t be transfered to another (as shown in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, Where Spock transfers his Katra to Bones before dying.). Only a small movement on Vulcan actually believes in Katras being able to be placed in anothers body. If this is truely the dirrection they are going, it could get intresting to find out how the “Mirror Universe” got so brutal.
