{"id":255,"date":"2001-11-12T10:06:56","date_gmt":"2001-11-12T18:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=255"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:56:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:56:19","slug":"gee-im-real-sorry-your-mom-blew-up-ricky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/11\/12\/gee-im-real-sorry-your-mom-blew-up-ricky\/","title":{"rendered":"Gee, I&#8217;m real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16756,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.klipsch.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260305172151\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.klipsch.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 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Friday Rick left a message for me while I was at work letting me know that all the stuff had arrived, and so I spent Friday evening shuttling back and forth in a cab from my place down to Rick and Tim&#8217;s apartment at 1<sup>st<\/sup> and Denny. It took two round trips to get the big pieces (one for the three 17&#8243; monitors, and the second for the two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klipsch.com\/\" title=\"Klipsch\">Klipsch<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klipsch.com\/products\/cutsheet.asp?id=101\" title=\"Klipsch KG4 speakers\">speakers<\/a>) &#8212; and then the rest of the evening was playtime. I started by getting the monitors set up and started the process of wiping and re-installing the system software on the mac, then while the &#8216;puter was thinking I got the speakers hooked into my stereo and plopped down to watch the Pod Race sequence from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003CX5P\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace\">Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace<\/a>. Sure, the movie&#8217;s easily the worst in the series, but I&#8217;d been wanting to hear it in true surround since it came out &#8212; what a kick!<\/p>\n<p>A lot of Saturday was spent running around. I&#8217;d gotten the upgrade CD to move up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/\" title=\"Apple: Mac OS X\">Mac OS X<\/a> 10.1 in the mail a week or two back, so I had started by wiping my drives. Unfortunately, I hadn&#8217;t thought about the fact that the CD was an upgrade disc, not a full installer, and my OS X 10.0 install CD was still at Casey&#8217;s from when I installed OS X on his G4. Oops! So most of the day Saturday was spent on the bus and talking with Dez as I grabbed the stuff I needed to actually install the system on my computer. By the time I got home I&#8217;d gotten slightly motion sick (it&#8217;s rare, but it happens sometimes), which was a bummer. Casey has just gotten a job working for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/\" title=\"Intel\">Intel<\/a> and was having a celebratory get together, but I wasn&#8217;t up to another bus trip at that point and had to beg out.<\/p>\n<p>The evening, however, was a blast. Heather came over a bit after 8pm, and we hung out until about 10-ish when Chad, Dez, and Rick showed up. The five of us spent some time at my apartment, then headed over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.citysearch.com\/profile\/11276618\/\" title=\"CitySearch: Egyptian Theater\">Egyptian Theater<\/a> for a midnight showing of a classic 80&#8217;s comedy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005JKFA\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Better Off Dead\">Better Off Dead<\/a>. Despite a less-than stellar presentation (including three false starts as the staff tried to figure out how to work a movie projector), the movie was as funny as ever, and having a chance to see it with a theater full of people was wonderful. After the movie, homeward bound for all of us.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday was a combination of laundry, working on the computers, and hanging out with Heather. She&#8217;s as much of a movie buff as I am, so we&#8217;ve been having fun introducing her to a bunch of the flicks that I&#8217;ve collected that she hasn&#8217;t seen yet. We started with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/6305313687\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: American History X\">American History X<\/a>, then after some time to recover from such an intense film, lightened the mood with what&#8217;s rapidly becoming one of my favorite recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disney.com\/\" title=\"Disney\">Disney<\/a> flicks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003CXQY\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: The Emperor's New Groove\">The Emperor&#8217;s New Groove<\/a>. Also during the day, Rick came by with two pieces of artwork that he&#8217;d brought down for me that I hadn&#8217;t been able to get into the cab on Friday &#8212; one a painting by a friend of mine and my brother&#8217;s, Aaron Morgan, of the logo for Beefadelphia, the band that Aaron and my brother were in a few years back; and the other a print of a painting by German dadaist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchive.com\/artchive\/E\/ernst.html\" title=\"ArtChive: Max Ernst\">Max Ernst<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openbook.gmxhome.de\/ernst_Jesuskind.jpg\" title=\"Die Jungfrau z&uuml;chtigt das Jesuskind vor drei Zeugen: Andr&eacute; Breton, Paul Eluard und dem Maler\">the Madonna spanking Christ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, things are definitely coming together &#8212; two out of my three prize pieces of artwork have made it down, my monitors are here and the computers are up and running. I&#8217;m in the process of getting a &#8216;net connection (it&#8217;ll be dialup [shudder] at first until I can afford a good <acronym title=\"Digital Subscriber Line\">DSL<\/acronym> line), and this morning I ordered myself a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officedepot.com\/shop\/catalog\/sku.asp?ID=247588376&amp;LEVEL=SK\" title=\"&quot;OfficeDepot: Global&reg; Drafting Chair, Kate II Fabric, Gray\">good drafting chair<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officedepot.com\/\" title=\"OfficeDepot\">OfficeDepot<\/a>, since constantly standing at my table to work on the computers just isn&#8217;t worthwhile. Not a bad start to the week.<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230;back to the copiers&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a less-than stellar presentation (including three false starts as the staff tried to figure out how to work a movie projector), the movie was as funny as ever, and having a chance to see it with a theater full of people was wonderful. 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