I knew I should have bought a Dreamcast Ethernet Adaptor when I had the chance.

Thing was only $30 a couple years ago.

Ok. So Beach yesterday? Fun. Haven’t been in the ocean in a while. It was nice seeing Angela again after a long ass time. Played some spud, waited around a while. Then we went to Denny’s to partake in some french fries. Then we saw Spiderman 2.

It sucked.

Nevermind the people smoking in the theater. Nevermind the guys making stupid/vulgar jokes in front of us. It just wasn’t that great a movie.

So this physicist guy comes up with an idea to create a renewable self-sustaining fusion energy source. o0o0o. Ok, so far, I’ll buy that. But then, in order to manipulate this source in its containment field, he develops a set of cybernetic arms that interface with his brain using an advanced Artificial Intelligence (which is apparently capable of self-preservation).

Ok. We’re getting a little out there. But its a movie, based on a comic book. So I can deal. But then it hits you. Why didn’t he sell the AI? Or even just the arms? You’d make billions off of selling either! Think of the uses in replacing limbs from amputation. Then it hits you again. Wait, this guy is a physicist. And he managed to create an AI that is far more advanced than any number of Computer Scientists out there could do, despite it being their life’s work. All while working on a Fusion reactor.

Ok. Minor plot inconsistency. Maybe he just missed his calling. Afterall, the AI seems to work masterfully, and the Fusion experiment is a dud.

But then we’re beat over the head with a Spiderman who is apparently losing his powers. And the movie is trying to tell us that he’s losing his powers because, deep down inside, he doesn’t want to be spiderman anymore.

Eh? So because he’s pissed cuz he’s not getting any and his aunt thinks he’s a full on loser and he can’t keep a job or good grades, its as if he was never bitten by a radioactive (er… genetically engineered) spider and his DNA now de-mutates?

Ok. If this was Batman, I could believe it. See, Bruce Wayne is a regular guy. It’s all his training and gear that makes him kick ass. If he decided he just wanted to hook up with a chick and ditch the bat suit, you couldn’t complain, cuz thats the man’s decision. (of course, it would be entirely out of character, but at least it would be consistant with our current suspension of disbelief)

But this ain’t Batman. This is a guy with genetically altered DNA. So its hard for me to keep that belief going.

Then, the train scene! So spidey loses his mask, and everyone on the train swears they won’t tell a soul? There wasn’t one greedy person on that train? No supervillains in the making? The little kids wouldn’t brag to their friends? None of those people could be coerced into telling?

Then the final scene. We’ve got to destroy the new, bigger fusion reactor. So what do we do with a fusion reactor thats self-sustaining and growing larger by the second? I know! The river! Let’s just dump it in the river! That’ll stop it! (…) So its dropped in the river, and when this thousands of degrees hits the water? No steam. Not even a hiss.

Then spiderman takes off his mask for about the 15th time in the movie and shows Mary Jane who he really is. At the end of the movie, Spiderman has everything he could ever want.

Wow… just downloaded a live Pearl Jam (almost spelled that ‘perl Jam’) cover… and yeah… much as I love Pearl Jam, they just aren’t pullin off the whole Nirvana thing.

I look out my window and think, oh God, oh God… Let it rain today. I don’t wanna leave my house today.

In case you’re wondering why I’m up at this unwholesome hour, its cuz I just had a horrible nightmare where Tom died, and I woke up in a panic and now I can’t get back to sleep.

I guess my last entry didn’t make sense…. I wrote it after a night at Chili’s with a few drinks ;o)

Note: Ultimate Electric Lemonades at Fridays are good. Especially cuz they’re big and blue.

And the reason the title says “His name is Robert” is cuz in diaryland, you type the title of your entry after you type the entry. I couldn’t think of a title, so I moved the last sentence to the title. So my rubberband ball’s name is Robert. Named after Robert Palson

Anyway. I’m going to the fair tomorrow, its going to suck!

Today though, I’m playing with SDL, which is kinda cool, cuz its a programming API (non-techie approximation… think of a recipe for food. Now think of a book that describes what an egg is, and the difference between beating it, scrambling it, whipping it, or mixing it… thats pretty much what an API is.) that makes it easy to draw things on the screen or move sprites or icons around on the screen. It’s also teaching me about C++ classes, which is cool.

Mollie’s outta town, so that pretty much means that Chevy’s just really bored. Me n Chris took her to play tennis a couple days ago, but aside from running around with the kids on bikes, she wasn’t too into it.

Oh. Thought this was nice… Apparently a recent Internet Explorer hole has gotten a lot of press, and the Department of Homeland Security has recommended people switch from IE to an alternate browser… then a day or two later gave a press release saying that they’ve switched to Mozilla themselves! Not Netscape, but Mozilla. Thats impressive. To me. But everyone else probably doesn’t care.

In other news, work has put Dan in charge of the Saltwater side of Fish, and its totally gone to his head and he’s totally turning into an asshole. For some reason he thinks he’s in charge now…

I had a dream about Christine last night… for some reason I was in Sacramento, walking around and she just happened to be there, so I said whats up and then left… I think its cuz this new girl at work looks a lot like her.

Ok, well, I just installed the newest version of Slackware (kernel 2.6.7, w00t) so I’m gonna go get it all setup

Shit. I just had a fuckin blue thing, and then a fuckin black thing. And I’m feeling good. But not so good I can’t remember HTML tags. Wow, I’m a full on d0rk.

Oh yeah. And last night, a customer threw a box of filters at me. And I’m in the process of making a rubberband ball.

“Eh? I was all ready to watch a pirate movie… then I get muppets? That’s bull shit! You can’t just do that” – Dad upon realizing we were watching “Muppet Treasure Island”

Happy Birthday Mollie!

Everyone should call her cell phone and wish her a happy birthday

You know what I want?

A metal spork.

So I’ve been asked a couple times why I said “May sucks”. Well, its fairly easy. May was a crappy month. Guy died. I failed my history class. I almost lost my job. Twice. Mollie almost lost hers. It all just put me in a mood where I didn’t want to write, and I didn’t want to talk to anyone who wasn’t directly in front of me (which is why I was almost never on aim, either).

Oddly (or perhpas not so oddly) the less I wanna write, the more I wanna code. So I’ve begun working on a script (in perl) which will split up the contents of my entries (currently 5 long files) into hundreds of separate little files, each containing a post, a date, a title, and maybe one or two other things.

I also managed to finally get this computer configured to run Apache, a kick ass open source webserver (MacOSX comes with a version of Apache built in). I’ve also got it auto-updating at dyndns.com, so that whenever my computer’s IP address changes, a little script I have sends the new IP address to dyndns.com, which then changes bobthecowboy.is-a-geek.net to point to my computer again. Eventually thats where this diary is going to be. Right now its just a mockup. Let me know if it looks funky on your browser.

Which leads me to another project: my CMS and Blog. CMS stands for Content Management System, a fancy term for ‘program that lets you add new diary entries, and sort through your old ones’, and a Blog is just an online web log, or a diary.

Then I have another project. I want to remake Castle of the Winds. Although, not an exact remake. I really just want to make a game thats a 2d tile based game, with a kind of dnd backend to handle combat. I actually managed to get ahold of the original creator of Castle (who, incidentally has given the game to the public domain, and so its free for all to download and play). Anyway, I’ve always wanted to make a simple game, and what could be more simple than a game engine that just moves a bunch of flat icons around? Guess we’ll find out, heh.

Anyway. Back to my journal splitter.