Spiderman, Spiderman...
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elfsLast night, Yamaarashi-chan's mother came to pick her up for dinner so I had a free evening. FallenPegasus had IM'd me that he'd like to go see Spiderman 2, so I agreed to bus up to Capitol Hill and meet him at Vivace, one of the better espresso joints in the city.
I left work with a laptop full of a new stories and ideas and nifty programs. I must say now that I adore Gentoo and the 2.6.7 kernel. It's so much better than Redhat for power geeks like me. I installed MAME and can now nostalgize to games like Defender, Asteroids, Lunar Lander, Missile Command, and Stargate. These ancient programs run excellently under MAME on my little 266. My only complaint is that MAME is one big program with emulation subsystems for all the different game platforms and huge executables compiled for different video cards, which is silly when what it really should be is thousands of little plug-ins.
I also installed Wine, which really works! I managed to install an old version of MS Encarta and it even ran Half-Life, although terribly slowly because I don't have a 3D-capable video card on my laptop. I have two more experiments to conduct: will it run Quicken, and will it run Riven? If so, there are two fewer reasons to boot into Windows GameOS. Way, cool. Fewer and fewer reasons to pay my Microsoft tax.
I also wrote about 4,500 words yesterday but unfortunately only about 500 survived. Too many fish-heads. All I want to do is get the protagonist laid.
That was a fun movie. It took a while to get moving; I felt they were doing a bit too much exposition and soliloquizing, and perhaps the movie was a touch too long. But the action scenes were phenomenal; the animation has gotten so much better compared to the first film.
Tobey Maguire is hot, but Kirsten Dunst appears to have phoned in her role. The really great character in this film is Otto Octavius, who is played with great feeling by Alfred Molina, a great actor you've never heard of before even though he played the bounty hunter Cezar in Ladyhawke.
FallenPegasus drove me home, where sloppy joes and clean children awaited. It was just before bedtime, so I hugged and kissed the kids good night, and then after feeding FallenPegasus and seeing him safely on his way home, we headed to bed.
I left work with a laptop full of a new stories and ideas and nifty programs. I must say now that I adore Gentoo and the 2.6.7 kernel. It's so much better than Redhat for power geeks like me. I installed MAME and can now nostalgize to games like Defender, Asteroids, Lunar Lander, Missile Command, and Stargate. These ancient programs run excellently under MAME on my little 266. My only complaint is that MAME is one big program with emulation subsystems for all the different game platforms and huge executables compiled for different video cards, which is silly when what it really should be is thousands of little plug-ins.
I also installed Wine, which really works! I managed to install an old version of MS Encarta and it even ran Half-Life, although terribly slowly because I don't have a 3D-capable video card on my laptop. I have two more experiments to conduct: will it run Quicken, and will it run Riven? If so, there are two fewer reasons to boot into Windows GameOS. Way, cool. Fewer and fewer reasons to pay my Microsoft tax.
I also wrote about 4,500 words yesterday but unfortunately only about 500 survived. Too many fish-heads. All I want to do is get the protagonist laid.
That was a fun movie. It took a while to get moving; I felt they were doing a bit too much exposition and soliloquizing, and perhaps the movie was a touch too long. But the action scenes were phenomenal; the animation has gotten so much better compared to the first film.
Tobey Maguire is hot, but Kirsten Dunst appears to have phoned in her role. The really great character in this film is Otto Octavius, who is played with great feeling by Alfred Molina, a great actor you've never heard of before even though he played the bounty hunter Cezar in Ladyhawke.
FallenPegasus drove me home, where sloppy joes and clean children awaited. It was just before bedtime, so I hugged and kissed the kids good night, and then after feeding FallenPegasus and seeing him safely on his way home, we headed to bed.
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