I could be spending time working on the house.. You know, painting, cleaning out the garage, paying bills, selling my plasma so I can pay my little brother for buying electrical stuff, vacumming. You know. That kinda stuff.
So I get home on Friday.
And my wireless isn’t working.
And this is a catastrophie..
Wait. Scratch that.
It’s a national disaster.
So I do what any self respecting geek would do. I go online, get the firmware upgrade for the router, save my old config, and upgrade the config.
I then restore the old config.
At this point, a big red light starts glowing solid.
In my profession, big red lights are not something you hope for every day, in fact they are bad. To give you an idea of how bad, go watch a episode of Battlestar Galactica, which is a geek’s show. Notice the mechanical Cylons.
Do they have nice green eye thingies? No.
It’s a big red light.
That’s the stuff of a geek’s nightmares.
And it’s staring me right in the face.
At this point, I have a choice. Throw the router in the garbage and buy a new one.
Or spend two full days, and a night using a paperclip to short out parts of the flash on the motherboard.
I think you know which one I picked.
And it didn’t involve garbage.
So this morning, I had a idea hit me. And I got in, through a kludgy system of shorting the board, upgrading linksys firmware, upgrading to a mini dd-wrt firmware (all this over wireless, which is a big no no) and finally upgrading to a standard firmware.
And after four days of red light. It’s green. And I’m a freakin genius.
It’s 3am. I just finished watching Dark Knight and I’ll post a review of it later, but I have two things to say.
1) Christopher Nolan is a Genius of a Director and Writer. He understands the comic book mythos. He is able to portray his art in a way I have seen in only a very few filmmakers.
2) If Heath Ledger does not get an Posthumus Oscar for this performance, I may never watch the Oscars again. It was true, he was the Joker. He encompassed all the attributes of the Joker. The Anarchy. The intelligence. I can see where people feel like this performance is what pushed him over the edge. I can see how. I have never so believed that an actor was the real deal until tonight.
And I’ll be going to see it again. And probably again after that. That is something that I haven’t said in years.
JK Rowling, Stephen King and John Irving have been going around New York reading parts of their books. During one of the readings, Rowlings awnsered some questions. I’ve spoilered out the quotes, so if you want to see what she says, highlight the black area below. If you want to discuss this in the comments, please use the < spoiler > and < /spoiler > tages to open and close respectively what you want to discuss.
So without much ado
(Question about Aunt Petunia’s potential to love Harry): I will say this… There’s a little more to Aunt Petunia than meets the eye.
And then
(Question about upcoming deaths): You shouldn’t expect Dumbledore to pull a Gandalf. I need to be more explicit: Dumbledore is definitely dead. I know there’s an entire site out there called DumbledoreIsNotDead.com, and I’m sorry they’re not going to like this answer.
Which awnsers a question I’ve had for a long time…. And it makes me sad.
I guess Stephen King was asking Rowlings to not kill off Harry..
Oh well, it may seem that I’m just posting Video as of late.
Not true.
Ok, maybe true.. But this you can blame on my co-workers. They were discussing “The Balad of Bilbo Baggins” and I was mocked for my wierd, if a bit obsessive love for the Movie Xanadu. I even reviewed it here . Well, my co-worker mockery made me go look on Youtube.
And I found Xanadu.
I am mocked for liking bad movies. People don’t understand, I only like the REALLY bad.
So I give you Xanadu.. First up. “Clap Clap” Xanadu!
Ah.. Olivia in all her ELO singing, roller discoing, scary punk band, Neon colored special effects glory. You get to even see Gene Kelly! How cool is that!?!? More than worth the viewing.
Next, the Muses coming out of the wall (Second favorite). This is where the rainbow of fruit flavors happen. And a Irish Jig.
Some Don Bluth Cartoon (which just shows up halfway through the movie) oh how I wish I could woo a woman so.
Then some *totally* awesome ELO, neoned lined Love Ballads.
Some “Making Of” Xanadu. (I’m watching all the parts right now..)
And finally the peeps version
I seriously <3 Youtube.
And if your eyes survived that storm without bleeding tears.
Thanks to Justin, I’ve now seen oh, probably only the coolest trailer ever.
The one for BATTLESTAR Galactica. Or as a former girlfriend repeatedly called it “Supermodels and Robots”.
Which, from my experience of many years being a man, is really all a Sci-Fi show needs, isn’t it? I mean, really. Look at the audience they are catering to.
So without further ado, the trailer for Battlestar Galactica: Season 3
And yes, I know, I’ll get some good regular content up here soon.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were mass sucides in the Lobby after people had to watch this.
Or slaughtering of Pigs in an attempt to get this out of ones memory.
Say what you will though, if Hasselhoff and Shatner opened up a Acting school, I’d sign up in a minute.
Anyone who can act as bad as these two, and still get oodles of women, well they know something I don’t. That’s all I’m saying. I could be the grasshapper at their feet.
