Well, hrmpf.

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Well…as far as birthdays go, yesterday wasn’t the worst — but I can’t honestly say it was the best, either. Outside of my parents, all of three people have remembered it without obvious prompting on my part, and only two of those were actually on the day. Ah, well, more reasons for me not to worry about missing living up here too much when I bail.

Not that I’m cynical or anything like that.

So, that was about it for yesterday. I’m off to DJ a dance for UAA tonight, then will be working at Suncoast tomorrow during the day and Studio 99 in the evening, so am looking pretty busy. Will babble more when I get the chance…and I’m sure you’re all anxiously awaiting that, too — right?

Heaven forbid that happen!

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Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name…without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

— Bill Gates, 1983 (New York Times, 25 Sep 1983, pg. F2)

The van is back!

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This just rocks — my parents van, which was stolen about two weeks ago, will be back in their hands sometime today! Here’s what dad just e-mailed me about it:

I was driving down Muldoon Road yesterday at 4:30 PM and I saw Berta’s car right in front of me. I had my cell phone, so I called the police. They had me follow the car at a distance. When it got “lost” in a housing development, they sent out several cars to search, and the car was recovered about 6 PM. They took it to the station to do forensics (fingerprints, etc.) and we get it back today. It looks perfect on the outside; they did not want me to disturb the inside until the forensics were done.

Very, very cool…most of the time, if you don’t recover a stolen car within 24 hours, you’re not going to recover it. This is a great little turn of events.

So far the day hasn’t been going too badly…on a nice sugar high at the moment from the cake that was brought into the office by my co-workers. Woohoo!

Happy birthday to me!

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Well, I’m 28. We’ll see how the day goes.

Other notable May 3rd birthdays: Steve Jones (1955) (guitarist for the Sex Pistols), Frankie Valli (1937), Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), James Brown (1933), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), Pete Seeger (1919), Mary Astor (1906) (actress, female lead in The Maltese Falcon), Bing Crosby (1903), Niccolo Machiavelli (1469), Constantine III (612).

‘toons and Tunes

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Happy May Day! Only two more days ’till I turn 28…not that I’m keeping track of this for any real reason or anything. Just thought I’d mention it.

My friend Kirsten introduced me to some web-based comic strips I hadn’t found yet, and I’ve added links to them under the “Places to go…” heading over in the right column. They’re both wonderfully twisted stuff — Drinky Drink and The Parking Lot is Full. Just a quick warning — the Parking Lot comic, while I find it funny, has a tendency to be one of the more bizarrely offensive strips I’ve found yet…be warned! And lastly, though I’m probably not going to add this as a permanent link, you really should go check out MC Hawking’s Crib and download the .mp3 file for “Entropy”. Just trust me. You should.

The Emperor’s new Superman

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The Emperor’s New Groove: I generally enjoy Disney‘s films, but this one seemed to be kind of odd — for once, we weren’t subjected to the media blitz that Disney is so good at, and the movie kind of snuck through the theaters — I wasn’t even sure when it arrived or left the theaters here in town. But the closer it came to the release day of the DVD, I heard more and more people talking about how good this one actually was…and eventually just went ahead and got it. End result? Absolutely hilarious! I was quite literally laughing out loud quite a few times during this flick. It’s something of a step back in a way — visually it uses a lot less of the CGI that is becoming so prevalent, and concentrates more on traditional cell animation, and the humor is much more along the style of the sly, more adult humor of Aladdin. Very, very cool — a definite keeper.

Superman: It wasn’t until I actually started watching this tonight that I realized just how long it had been since I’d seen this movie…it was almost an entirely new experience for me, as I’d forgotten most of the movie. And what an experience! They’ve done an incredible job restoring the film, complete with a newly mixed Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack that is just incredible. What a wonderfully fun film, and a great little bit of nostalgia, too. All in all, not a bad evening of movie watching.

Tired, but had fun

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Got a call from the owner of the club I’m working at right now, Studio 99, that told me that as there was a rave tonight, they weren’t going to open and try to compete. Understandable, as the raves have a tendency to steal all of our crowd from us…but something of a bummer. However, it did give me a chance to go out with some of the Yahoo! Chat friends I’ve made. We started with a BBQ, then went out to the Last Frontier. Was a good night, overall.

Gladiators, gladiators, gladiators…and spacemen

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Not much went on today…other than the usual purchases of DVD’s to add to the ever growing collection. :) So — on with today’s bits (because I’m sure you’re all just incredibly captivated by what I choose to spend my money on…).

Spartacus: Yet another that I’ve been crazy enough to purchase sight unseen, based solely on the recommendations I’ve gotten on it — though it did seem to go quite nicely with my recent purchases of Ben-Hur and Gladiator. Besides, it’s a Stanley Kubrick film, who I generally really like, and the DVD is part of the Criterion Collection, who consistently does really incredible work with their releases. This is a 2-disc set with an absolute ton of extras…looking forward to spending quite a few hours delving into this.

Star Trek TOS Vol. 21: Finally, Paramount releases more Star Trek episodes! I’m so hoping that when they decide to put out Next Generation and Deep Space 9 they do it in season sets rather than trickling out two discs of two episodes each every few months like they’ve been doing. Anyway, enough of the soapbox…this volume contains two of the most known comedic shows that Star Trek made — I, Mudd, and The Trouble With Tribbles.

Star Trek TOS Vol. 22: Kind of funny, actually, since the first of the two episodes on this one fits right in with the gladiatorial theme I’ve got going. Two episodes on this disc, as usual — Bread and Circuses and Journey to Babel.

Okay, that’s it. It’s almost 2am, and I’m tired. Time to head off to bed.