The Weekend...
May. 22nd, 2005 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsWell, the weekend was kinda a wash, mostly thanks to the rain. It wasn't until Sunday afternoon that it cleared up and, given that it's the end of Spring all of the fairs and carnivals are starting up, so we didn't get any yardwork done like we should have. Oh, well.
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fallenpegasus came over and we ate Omaha's delicious shrimp curry and then watched the MST3K edition of Samson vs. The Vampire Women, an incredible cheeseball of a black & white 1962 horror flick filmed in Mexico. It's apparently one of a series so the usual users of this stuff would be familiar with the setting since the hero's appearance seven movies prior, "Samson Vs. The Monsters." But none of us were familiar with the genre, so... about 45 minutes into the film the hero shows up and, well, it was so unbelievably silly Omaha just about passed from laughing. Even the robots were evidently agog. I won't spoil it. I was just... too much.
Saturday I made a great mistake and helped get GENS, a Sega Genesis emulator, onto Kouryou-chan's computer. Since Omaha and I still have a Sega Genesis rotting in the garage I felt no moral qualms about putting the games and an emulator onto Kouryou-chan's machine, and she's been having a blast with ancient games like Sonic Spinball and Dr. Robotnick's Mean Bean Machine. We're having to put a time limit on them, because she gets frustrated with them easily and because we don't want her to rot her brains too much.
Omaha and I played Neverwinter Nights. She upgraded her video card so she could finally play it, and after buying a copy of the "gold" edition from Half-Price Books for $14 I installed it and then overwrote it with the Linux edition. A few tweaks of my "start doom3" script and I have a "start nwn" that runs the game-optimized version of X. And it rocks. I died pretty quickly though. Not much of a role-player, I guess.
Sunday, we did housework in the morning and then headed out to the University Street Fair. We got there just in time for a storm to break overhead, but it passed within minutes. The rest of the day was sunny but very blustery.
Still, we all had a good time, Kouryou-chan especially after she was completely wired on strawberry shortcake. A bit whiny; she kept going after Omaha's caramel popcorn. She got whiny enough that we took her to the park next to the Ave and let her run around, then hiked down to the bottom of the Ave and worked our way back up to the top where the car was parked, taking in the sights and sounds. Instead of posting them here (I'll figure out how to do that eventually), I'll just link to my Flickr account for the day so you can see some of the pictures I took.
I tried driving a Segway. They're very easy to drive but, man, I looked like a complete tool riding one. Kouryou-chan was very impressed with the street magician's link-and-unlinked rings, but I caught a glimpse of the thumb action he needed to make them work. On the other hand, he had a "blank cards to arted cards to blank cards" trick that blew my mind. There were break dancers and musicians and a steel band with this really hot girl with great dreads on the lead drum, but I could never get a shot of her in frame; the glare from her drum overwhelmed the camera.
The picture labeled "PointlessDiscussion" is of the pro-initiative-901 people who were trying to get people to sign a petition that would place on the ballot an initiative banning smoking in public accomodations. Around them were people with "Don't Sign 901!" signs who were discouraging this on the grounds that it would make life hard for business that tend to attract smokers, like bars and restaurants. It was hard to argue with either side: the forces of light vs. the forces of goodness sort of thing, as FallenPegasus later put it. But I'm not signing it; I think business should have a right to invite smokers, and I think I have a right to visit places that don't permit it.
It wasn't a very foody weekend. Grilled cheese sandwiches, leftover home-made macaroni & cheese, home-made full-strength oatmeal, street fair bratwurst, and penne with home-made pasta sauce w/meat. Nothing special. I should cook more experimental stuff-- in my copious spare time. Yeah, right. I just don't want my subscription to Cooking Light to go to waste.
Friday,
fallenpegasus came over and we ate Omaha's delicious shrimp curry and then watched the MST3K edition of Samson vs. The Vampire Women, an incredible cheeseball of a black & white 1962 horror flick filmed in Mexico. It's apparently one of a series so the usual users of this stuff would be familiar with the setting since the hero's appearance seven movies prior, "Samson Vs. The Monsters." But none of us were familiar with the genre, so... about 45 minutes into the film the hero shows up and, well, it was so unbelievably silly Omaha just about passed from laughing. Even the robots were evidently agog. I won't spoil it. I was just... too much.Saturday I made a great mistake and helped get GENS, a Sega Genesis emulator, onto Kouryou-chan's computer. Since Omaha and I still have a Sega Genesis rotting in the garage I felt no moral qualms about putting the games and an emulator onto Kouryou-chan's machine, and she's been having a blast with ancient games like Sonic Spinball and Dr. Robotnick's Mean Bean Machine. We're having to put a time limit on them, because she gets frustrated with them easily and because we don't want her to rot her brains too much.
Omaha and I played Neverwinter Nights. She upgraded her video card so she could finally play it, and after buying a copy of the "gold" edition from Half-Price Books for $14 I installed it and then overwrote it with the Linux edition. A few tweaks of my "start doom3" script and I have a "start nwn" that runs the game-optimized version of X. And it rocks. I died pretty quickly though. Not much of a role-player, I guess.
Sunday, we did housework in the morning and then headed out to the University Street Fair. We got there just in time for a storm to break overhead, but it passed within minutes. The rest of the day was sunny but very blustery.
Still, we all had a good time, Kouryou-chan especially after she was completely wired on strawberry shortcake. A bit whiny; she kept going after Omaha's caramel popcorn. She got whiny enough that we took her to the park next to the Ave and let her run around, then hiked down to the bottom of the Ave and worked our way back up to the top where the car was parked, taking in the sights and sounds. Instead of posting them here (I'll figure out how to do that eventually), I'll just link to my Flickr account for the day so you can see some of the pictures I took.
I tried driving a Segway. They're very easy to drive but, man, I looked like a complete tool riding one. Kouryou-chan was very impressed with the street magician's link-and-unlinked rings, but I caught a glimpse of the thumb action he needed to make them work. On the other hand, he had a "blank cards to arted cards to blank cards" trick that blew my mind. There were break dancers and musicians and a steel band with this really hot girl with great dreads on the lead drum, but I could never get a shot of her in frame; the glare from her drum overwhelmed the camera.
The picture labeled "PointlessDiscussion" is of the pro-initiative-901 people who were trying to get people to sign a petition that would place on the ballot an initiative banning smoking in public accomodations. Around them were people with "Don't Sign 901!" signs who were discouraging this on the grounds that it would make life hard for business that tend to attract smokers, like bars and restaurants. It was hard to argue with either side: the forces of light vs. the forces of goodness sort of thing, as FallenPegasus later put it. But I'm not signing it; I think business should have a right to invite smokers, and I think I have a right to visit places that don't permit it.
It wasn't a very foody weekend. Grilled cheese sandwiches, leftover home-made macaroni & cheese, home-made full-strength oatmeal, street fair bratwurst, and penne with home-made pasta sauce w/meat. Nothing special. I should cook more experimental stuff-- in my copious spare time. Yeah, right. I just don't want my subscription to Cooking Light to go to waste.
