Aleph Ersatz

Well I’ve had a busy month.  I’ve been working crazy hours due to a deadline, and a bunch of other stuff has been going on, so the few hours I do have to blog, I’ve been too damn tired.

I did managed to do alot of stuff in the last month though.

Saw Start Trek and Wolverine, but missed Terminator Salvation.  From what I know, Star Trek was the only one really worth watching.

Knowing more about Wolverine from the original Origins series, I was whole unimpressed with it.  They really twisted and diverged in ways that forced the script into lame-leaping jumps just to fix giant plot holes.  Had they stuck with the original, I would have been much happier.

Star Trek, however, I know little about, and actually thought was pretty good.  Using alternate universes was a good way to totally diverge and reinvent Star Trek, and yet keep the same rough feel.  However the overacting and constant borrowing of lines and plot devices was indeed cheesy, and somehow fitting for the film.  Not sure it was worth the $10 I paid for it, but was still pretty good.

Got my eye on The Hurt Locker, even if it came out a while ago.  Saw a preview in the theater, and looks damn good.

Also managed to see Lucky Number Slevin.  Fucking awesome, head trippy, witty, and the strangest role I’ve ever seen Lucy Lui in.  Brilliant, just brilliant!

Been reading alot.  Need to update the Otaku list a bit, but not much.  Managed to read Fullmetal Alchemist #18 and Kurosagi #9 recently, but that’s about it.  The rest of the time I’ve been plowing through The Talistman and The Zen of Zombie.  The Zen, of course, is an excelent self-help book with some actually real and good ideas for improving your life.  The rest of it is just good old fasioned, brain-eating humour.  Go try it for fourself! Braaiiiiinnnsssss…..

Also have the new Red Dward 3-part mini-series to watch.  Yay!

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On the other side of things, I’ve been working alot lately.  Did a 6-day, 65-hour week last week, and looks like I have another one ahead.  Damn deadlines are killer, especially so when you are two weeks past.

Going to be missing Anime Evolution again this year, and for the second year in a row too!  But will be at the Thunder Rally fund-raiser dance on saturday instead.  Still going to that this September at least.

Have been trying to help and update the Thunder Rally website while the main webmaster is off in Germany, but all I have is read-only access to a SFTP site.  Such a pissoff too, because if I had shell access I could easily fix what I needed.  Now I have to try and contact the webhost, via the webmaster, to get the access I need.

Not sure what else to write, but that’s what I’ve bene up to lately.  Been a lot more I’ve wanted to write on, but been so busy and tired, I always forget.  Hope to get back to it, though.  I hate abandoning projects half way through!

After getting stuck, once again, in downtown thanks to the stupid Skytrain, I’ve realized it would be really easy to paralyze the Olympics.  If three jumpers simultaneous hit Granville, Burrard and the downtown station for the Canada Line, it would effectively shut down the Expo/Millenium line, and would cripple the Canda line.  This woulc ause huge commuter chaos, breaking the entire system and showing the fatalities of our stupid system.

Wouldn’t that just frost our lame asses?  Not that seal-skin Olympic outfits are any better…

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As for answers, I’ll have them, once again, behind the break.

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Damnit, it’s been far too long since I’ve posted.  Not that much has changed.  I’m working, alot, and coming home to do more work, game, or work on side projects.  Not much exciting going on.

Managed to get out to the local pool hall that reopened a few months ago.  Figures, the night a few friends and I go, they have a leak in the room.  Not huge, but was raining buckets of water in the middle of the room.  Luckily, the rest of the pool area was safe.  Was all good, even though I had to walk one friend home and help him for a while.  Hey, at least it wasn’t me who was drunk!

I must remeber to fill in the answers for April.  Until I got lazy on posting, I had quite a few this time.  Don’t ask me why I do it, but I point it out because I doubt anyone but me cares.  Cataloguing my own oddities…

No no, I haven’t forgotten, just been playing too much Left 4 Dead.  If you want to play L4D or Zombie Panic with me, email me and I’ll give you my steam account name.

Saw a couple really good movies recently too…and some bad ones.

Yes Man sucks.  Has some redeming qualities, but not till the last 20 minutes.  Jim Carey is just not funny any more.

Slumdog Millionaire was absolutely amazing.  Powerful story of never giving up no matter how bad things are.  And apparently, in India, if you are poor, things are really bad.  Money runs India, and everyone is corrupt.  The wealth gap is huge, and rights are non-existant.  It’s an eye opener, and heartwarming.  Bring a girlfriend.

Milk was actually really good, although I doubt many people I know would sit through it.  Yes, it’s about gay men, and yes tons of guys are kissing.  If you can’t get past that and enjoy the film for the acting, the story, the lives these people led and waht they accomplished, then too fucking bad for you.

Well after two days, I can finally access my blog again. Not sure why, but I couldn’t get past the splash page. I think it was my connection though…
I’ve learned something very important today: organizing stuff is HARD. And time consuming! Why oh why do I do this to myself?
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OH MY GOD IT’S A WHALE!

Ugh, been one hell of a week.

I finally got Left 4 Dead, so I’m playing that a bunch now.

Been reading FMA and so far it’s even better than the anime!  Huge plot diversion from book 5 onwards, so lots of room to expand.  I wonder were the second season of the anime will got.

Finally bought a Tremolo Bar for my guitar.  Let’s hope I don’t damage the bridge before the Thunder Rally! ^_^

Managed to move offices today in under 6 hours.  All told, an amazing success so far.  We get the whole Nth floor of a building to ourselves, plus access to some wicket fast internet!  (80 Mb/s down!)  Too bad the bandwidth is monitored….

Very nice day, office is an A class building, lots of space, lots of room, lots of windows, plenty of nice food places, good view, etc.  Very very happy, was a great day at work, even if we did little work.

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Then I came home to problems with other kid’s parents, arguments with the wife, and a filthy house.  Instant rocket from extremely happy to totally pissed.  I love coming home to nothing but bullshit constantly.

I essentially have two jobs, and one of them I can’t quit.

It’s amazing how easily conversations with the right people can go awry. From a conversation discussing War Dialing, War Driving and War Games, we got to predicting the future of tech-wars. This somehow combined War Driving with the Internet Tubes to create: War Tubing.
The rest is an actual quote:

Co-worker #1: War tubing?!?

Aleph: Stay out of my tubes!

Co-worker #2: That’s what she said.

The worst part is, CW#2 said it without missing a beat! Such a cruel place for a TWSS joke!

The Grid Mural has picked up rapidly.  Three pieces up in the last two days, and the next few spaces being divided and conqured soon.  Check back tomorrow and I will have the B2 piece added in then.

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As promised, although slightly late, the answers for March below the cut.

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Managed to get out to a cafe last night and see both Distraction and Outspoken Worsmiths.  Wasa great show once the strange newbie poets finished.  Amazing beatboxing from the OW and Distraction was as awesome as always.

Unfortuantely, had to leave due to a family emergency just as distraction started.  So a crappy end to a good night.

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My first contribution to the GF Grid mural is up:

Check out the Mural Page to see how it fist.

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Will have the usual answers for March posted tomorrow.