ok, so that last entry was part of an analogy.

so like. see. it goes like this. I was reading this article about a 4 wheeled, Segway. But I was perplexed – they engineered the segway so that it was made to not fall over. Why put 4 wheels on it?

So then we were talking about how George Bush was the only person I’d ever heard of that had fallen off of one. So of course, I had to explain that it was possible to fall off of one, but it was made so that it wouldn’t tip over of its own accord. So I explained its like a ball – you can’t really tip over a ball, but you can fall off of one if you really want to.

you can’t tip over a ball.

Ok, Lisa is no longer the coolest cashier at Petco.

That title now belongs to Alexis.

That is all.

so… say you’re lonely. and also shy…

nevermind.

Dude, I drank a lot last night. It was pretty funny.

anyway, its ni-night time.

I can’t get this song out of my head.

I talk to you;
It’s cold out there
But i’m telling you;
I’m lonely too.

dude. ok… so like there’s this chick… and she’s the lead singer from Rilo Kiley.

And then there’s this chick. And she’s the leading female voalist for The Postal Service.

AND THEY’RE THE SAME PERSON!

IT’S CRAZY!

[space geek mode = on]

Woohooo! Today Space Ship One/White Knight landed its second flight in two weeks to qualify to win the Ansari X-Prize ($10 million).

They’ve got a pretty neat setup, where one plane carries the other off the ground, then the larger one (White Knight) drops the smaller one (SS1) which then rockets off into Low Earth Orbit.

Congratulations, Scaled Composites.

And special thanks to Paul Allen (formerly) of Microsoft! This guy donated about $30 million dollars to Scaled Composites so they could actually make the flight.

Now why is it a big deal that some guys spent $30 million to win 10 million? Well, they’re the first guys who weren’t part of a government agency to do it. That’s a pretty impressive feat. From there it’s not too much of a stretch that they can start working on actual Orbital flights, or even lunar landings – something NASA hasn’t done in decades.

Anyway.

[Space geek mode = off]

yay, it works again! huzzah! I just had a big ass margarita! w000!

my default user account on win2k insists I install directX under the admin account, but the admin account says I already did it… fuck it and fuck my current lack of Super Mario World.

w0000 speakeasy. its all fast n shit… I wanna do some online gaming, but no one is fucking online, and half-life is taking a god damn forever to copy over

hey, fuckin fajitas and margaritas at my place next weekend.

Rilo Kiley r0x0rz. Thanks Alexis. Anyways, check them out. Butterfly Effect is pretty cool, too. Yeah. And I finally got around to cleaning up my plant tank a bit… I’ll see if I can’t take some pictures of its shit, not that anyone cares, heh

Static IP, yay

Ok bye.

Note for essay: “alcohol ad. note sense of belonging.”

So. SBC shut off our internet cuz they’re dumb. Speakeasy will get ours up by friday, supposedly.

Apparently SBC’s Phone division is every bit as inept as their DSL division! It’s good to see that level of consistency.

So I called up the Speakeasy guy the day our new DSL modem arrived in the mail. He said that even though the modem made it there ok, their side isn’t set up yet. For that to happen, our phone company (which happens to be SBC) has to come out and flip some switch or something (the window where they’d come out was between 8 am and 5 pm, and someone was supposed to be there the whole time… on a fuckin tuesday). After they do their thing, they’re supposed to call Covad (Speakeasy’s DSL company, as it were) and they’re supposed to turn something on at their end.

Well, I got up Tuesday morning around 9ish, and sure enough, no internet. So now I’m wondering if SBC did something stupid.

I imagine there’s some on-off switch that says “DSL Availability” for our apartment. And all the SBC guy did was come over and flip the switch, which was set to “on”, not realizing that we still wanted DSL, just not theirs.

So I think tomorrow I’m going to call Speakeasy and see if maybe they were supposed to leave that switch alone.

Other than that, not much going on.

Stop… Talking… About… Sims… 2…

I didn’t even realize the game was out til about a week ago. And now I can’t stop hearing about it. So and So’s diary mentions it. /. runs two stories a day on it. Somethingawful.com did a (hilarious) bit on it. And now penny-arcade reminds me of just how The Sims stole my life away the first time it came out.

But thankfully, it doesn’t run on Linux. And that’s one of the few times I’ll say that. Not cuz I don’t want to play it… but because if I were to play it, I’d put more time into it than I would Half-Life 2 (delayed again, btw), FarCry, and Doom 3, put together.