Woo and Hoo!

This is the first post from the new improved, same but completely different computer Achilles! (Formerly Jeff of the ninja pirate space monkey fame) She’s up and running, but she needs a bit of work still. The 250 gig hard drive is awesome, but my old video card got broke, so I’m having to use the one that came with the new motherboard, it’s a piece of junk. It’s got 6 fans in it and five of them light up. But enough about my computer, lets talk about me.

I’m going to go see Les Mis at the Bass Hall tonight and it’ll be lots of fun,m but I have to manage to make it there and back. I was feeling bored because I started getting up at like eight in the morning and finishing all of my daily stuff before noon, so I went out and bought Splinter Cell for ten buckaroonies. It’s a pretty good game but I’ve just started playing it. Over the holiday weekend I went to four, count ‘em four different parties, including but not limited to one cast party for cheaper by the dozen, with some of the best barbecue I’ve ever eaten, provided by Mr. Dan-d-cue himself, Dan Duncan.

I also found this nifty link for this thing that makes you into a barcode here Barcode Yourself - Scott Blake aparently my barcode is worth $9.11, huh.

I’ll be leaving for Operation Catapult in Terre Haute, Indiana in like just over a week and a half. For those of you who don’t know or care, Operation Catapult is this summer program for people who are about to enter their senior year of high school, and are interested in the engineering field for college. (That’s me all right)

Last time I was at work, they were stripping sci-fi books (that’s where the cover gets torn off and sent back to the publisher, as proof that it wasn’t sold, but the books themselves are just trashed, so anybody that works at Barnes and Noble gets to take some of the coverless books home), and I got a couple books by Harry Turtledove, he’s the guy who writes books about alternate histories but with a sci-fi twist. I also got a book of short stories called “Men Writing Science Fiction As Women” it’s based on the whole idea that in the early days of sci-fi most women authors had to disguise their names or use pen names so that young boys (the target audience of early sci-fi) would still read their stuff. So this guy contacted a bunch of women sci-fi authors to write a short story from a first person male perspective, and also as if the authors themselves were men. Then in the spirit of fair play, the guy did the same thing with a bunch of male writers but with the rules flipped. Thus the book I mentioned earlier was born. It’s kinda interesting at parts even if the stories overall aren’t ground breaking.

Now I’m tired of typing.

We're Knights of the Round Table.
We dance whene'er we're able.
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot.
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.  ¶ 6/02/2004 01:42:00 PM