I’ve got tickets to Return of the King tomorrow at a local theatre and for Sunday down at the Cinerama. . Yay for me.

Oh, and DIG #2 is out.

I got the Packet8 DTA310 about a week ago but just realized I have yet to post the number, so here you go: 1-206-384-4309

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ketchup is a vegetable.

I really need to work on this ‘going to bed at a reasonable time’ thing. As I’m typing this, my eyelids are getting heavier and heavier. And no, I can’t dope up on caffeine or guarana; then I’d never get to sleep. Ah, sleep…Such a wonderful word… For all I know this snow is just a figment of my imagination. Yes, I said snow. In Seattle. In November. It’s not much, but it’s there (mixed in with rain, slush, and hail). I love winter.

I haven’t posted in a while so there’s a few things to say: I picked up the Revolutions soundtrack a while ago. Most of the tracks suck, except Juno Reactor’s Navras. Described by critics as a “9 minute epic”, it’s the opera/taiko drums/african vocal thingy that plays at the end of the movie, during Smith and Neo’s duel. I love it.

What else is happening? I picked up a 4-port data transfer switch for $20 on Ebay that allows me to plug four computers into one monitor (although I’m only using 2). Yay for me. Now I get to move another one of my computers into my room for a yet undisclosed purpose.

The big news in my life is that last Thursday I switched Wintermute’s OS from Mandrake Linux 9.1 to Slackware 9.1. So far I love it. The packaging system is great, everything works, and I’ve learned a whole bunch more from configing everything via command line (It’s not a desktop distro, so none of that fancy GUI crap). I think my only complaint is printing. I configured CUPS, which perfectly suits my needs, but some apps seem to want lpr. I’ll have to get that setup this weekend. All things considered, Slackware 9.1 gets the Pig Monkey Sweet Lurv Seal of Approval. I recommend it for intermediate users looking to move away from the GUI world of Mandrake, Redhat/Fedora, and Suse. Although that’s not to say anything about the desktop-oriented distros. Speaking of which, has anybody used Mandrake 9.2 yet? Until I hear good things about it, I think I’ll recommend SuSE for beginners. In other news (of the OS-switching type), I formatted my laptop and put Libranet 2.7 Classic on it (which is just Debian with a nice installer).

Right. Well, I’m going to attempt to be in bed in…3 hours. Wish me luck.

Electric Sheep is a screensaver that, when activated, takes advantage of distributed computing power to create artificial organisms: sheep. The sheep are fractal flames that evolve, mate, and die based on specific algorithms and user ratings. I recommend watching the documentary.

If you aren’t already harnessing idle cpu time with distributed.net, download it and colonize cyberspace.

Not only has 2600 20:3 been released, but HOPE 2004 has been confirmed as well.

After a bried hiatus, 3jane is also back online.

I went to go see Alien at the Cinerama. I never realized how much those aliens really do drool. They need to learn how to swallow or something. Anyway, it was pretty good and would have been scary if I hadn’t seen the movie so many times already. They also had a preview for Alien vs. Predator, which looks likes fun for the whole family. My money is on the Predator. I mean, come one, he’s like an invisible monkey.

So, then I was like “he said that?!” and then she was like “totally!” and then I was like “oh my god!” and then she was like “I know!”

Oh, and I got Slack 9.1 running perfectly on my 500mhz laptop. It’s so beautiful. tear

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