May 19th, 2001 @ 4:02PM
I had an interesting experience earlier this week: I walked up a flight of stairs at my university and found myself in the middle of a scene from Stargate SG-1. As you can imagine, I was quiet surprised. Instead of seeing my fellow university students, I found myself surrounded by humanoid aliens by chased around my bigger humanoid aliends with guns. While this wasn't the first time I've run into a film crew (Vancouver is "Hollywood North" after all), normally they hire people to keep bystanders from wandering in by accident. However, it seems that they didn't notice the stairwell from which I emerged. Once I realised what was happening, I tried to get out of the way, but, needless to say, since I don't look like a member of an alien race (or at least not one of the aliens races being portrayed at the time), I spoiled the shot. The director yelled cut and I was quickly ushered away.
May 12th, 2001 @ 1:05AM
Well, Ive always suspected this, but after some rigourous testing I think I've finally proved it: I am NOT a jedi. I tried for a good 15 minutes last night to use to force, but to no avail. I wasn't trying to do anything particular exceptional, no throwing around of robots. All I wanted to do was duplicate that scene where luke pulls a lightsaber along to ground towards himself. Of course, since I don't actually own a light saber, I was using my TV remote instead, which seemed to be a logical choice as it about the same size and weight (I think. Anyone know how much a light saber weighs), and I had about the same will to have it as Luke did his lightsaber (mind you, luke probably didn't have in the back of his mind the thought that he could just get up off the couch and pick up the remote/lightsaber). But, alas, all I got after holding out my arm for a quarter of an hour was a cramp. So, with the question "Am I a jedi?" out of the way, I can move onto more important questions such as "Am I the one?".
Burning computer update: my computer is back up and running pretty similar hardware to what I had before (you have no idea how long it took me to track down a replacement slot-1 motherboard with a ISA slot) (don't laugh). I'm very proud of myself for having made good back-ups. By doing so, I avert having a bad situation become something much worse. Let me just take an oppurtunity to remind anyone reading this: MAKE BACKUPS OF IMPORTANT DATA REGULARLY. If just that saves just one person from losing valuable data, then I feel I've done the world some good (hey, not bad for a non-jedi, eh?)
April 4th, 2001 @ 10:22PM
Power supply failures suck. I hope I never again see smoke and smell burning plastic fumes coming out of the back of my computer. Total damage: 1 fried motherboard, 1 fried CD-ROM drive, 1 fried hard drive, 1 fried SCSI card. Sucks...
