6:38 PM | !!
So another boring weekend's upon us. I don't even know why I look forward to the weekend all week long. Nothing ever happens. Instead, on the weekends I should look forward to the weekdays and...uh, that's not good either. Hmmmm...what should I do tonight?

3:24 PM | !!
Looking for a way to spice up your regular old keyboard? This is just the thing. Heh heh, now I can have more glowing lights to annoy my roommate when he's trying to sleep.

3:05 AM | !!
Jason came down to Irvine to visit today. A whole bunch of us went to the new Downtown Disney, next to Disneyland. I really didn't want to go to any place that Disney owned, but there wasn't anything else to do and Jason is leaving for Utah on Wednesday. At the very least we could freak out the tourists.

Anyway, we got to Downtown Disney around 10:00. Eh, I wasn't impressed. Just a lot of pricy stores that didn't interest me. Then again, it is Disney, so how much could I expect? There was an ESPN Zone, a Rainforest Cafe, and a House of Blues (or as George Carlin puts it, the "House of Lame White Motherfuckers") that was closed for a "private party." There was the biggest Disney Store I ever saw, and a pretzel store with a line stretching out the door. The coolest thing was the big Lego store, which had a ton of cool Lego sets. That reminds me, one of these days I want to get a Mindstorm set and build some wicked robots.

We decided to hang around the ESPN Zone and play some of their overpriced arcade games. What's with that anyway? I remember when arcade games used to cost 25 cents, 50 at the most. Now every game costs $2 and there's a timer so you can only play for a minute before you have to fork over another $2 to continue. Never going back there again.

So Downtown Disney's nothing special, nothing you haven't seen before. It's just another way to squeeze those last few dollars from tourists walking back to their cars. Afterwards we went to the Denny's near campus and ate and talked for an hour. Jason was leaving in a few days and we won't see him again for 2 years, and that was kind of sad. But oh well, these things happen.

2.2.2001

5:52 PM | !!
Microsoft Says Rival Linux Has No Future, So Linux Industry Will Stop Now

Chastened Linux executives pledged to stop their "crazy dreaming" and disband their efforts Wednesday after an executive from Microsoft proclaimed Linux was doomed, and openly questioned whether the free, rival operating system should exist.

5:20 PM | !!
Here's one guy's amusing, sarcastic account of his trip to the Metreon in San Francisco.

ACTUAL CONVERSATION WITH HUMORLESS SONY DUDE
Hi, I was wondering about Aibo's power source and thermal displacement.
Certainly, Aibo is powered by a lithium-ion battery, lasting from 1-3 hours between charges.
<Pause> Huh. A lithium-ion battery seems kind of weak to power the laser.
<Pause> Laser?
Yeah, doesn't it have a laser mounted in its the head.
No. It has a camera mounted in its head.
Oh. My mistake, thanks.

11:22 AM | !!
Months after the presidential election we finally find out how much George Bush lost the election in this article in LA Weekly. Personally, I think it was the most pathetic election ever. Bush won because of a Supreme Court decision! That's like the kid who loses the student body president election, then whines and complains to the principal until finally he's declared winner instead.

12:59 AM | !!
Last night we went to Alejandro's for burritos. We parked next to a lowered Honda Accord with a huge spoiler: the hood had 2 locks on it and the door handles were gone, so that the door surface was completely smooth. ??? Some people are really weird.

2.1.2001

1:57 AM | !!
A French photo magazine has a rumor about Nikon's successors to the D1 digital camera. One model has a much larger buffer memory and another has a 5.3 megapixel CCD sensor. Of course, you know they're going to cost a small fortune.

1.30.2001

9:38 PM | !!
I got a new lens for my camera today. It's a 105 mm Nikkor, perfect for portraits. Hopefully my roommates will let me take pictures of them. If not I'll get them when they're sleeping. Heh heh heh.

4:37 PM | !!
Ineffective Terrorist Metaphors and Similies

4. War shall be declared and rivers of blood shall flow through your streets, through your houses, into your sinks, where, by the glory of God, there shall be stacks of thirsty towels available for quick and easy clean-up.

3:45 PM | !!
Buggyballs just won my award for "Most Fucked Up Product of the Year."

1:32 AM | !!
I went on a Napster-mp3 binge tonight. I found a bunch of industrial-goth covers of Nine Inch Nails and Smashing Pumpkins songs, along with punk covers of Nirvana songs. Some of them are actually pretty cool. I've been kind of depressed lately. Nothing interesting's going on in my life right now. Nothing to look forward to. Hmmm...I need to take up extreme sports or something.

1.29.2001

9:20 PM | !!
Why Daddies Are Not Allowed to Pick Out Kids Clothing.

3:35 PM | !!
Drivers sign warns about speed trap. This is a brilliant idea. Some guy put up a sign warning other drivers about a speed trap. If more people would do this, the Man won't be able to keep us down.

3:32 PM | !!
TV comedy apologises to real fire safety officer. Heh, this reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Homer changes his name to Max Power cause there was a tv show with a character named Homer Simpson.

3:28 PM | !!
Sticky stamps have got gum licked. What's with these Brits? We've had self-adhesive stamps here in the States for years now.

12:54 PM | !!
Looks like the corporations won the mp3 war: Starting in June Napster will charge a membership fee. Royalties will be paid to artists who really need the money they lost through mp3s, like Metallica.

12:37 PM | !!
I sat next to the weirdest guy in class today. First he came in 15 minutes late. Then he took out a bag of potato chips and ate the whole thing rather noisily. After he finished the chips he played with the now empty bag for a few minutes, also noisily. Then he took out a notebook and spent the next 10 minutes removing the spiral. After that he took out the empty potato chip bag again and rolled it up. Then he stuffed the rolled-up bag into the spiral from the notebook. And for the rest of class he played with his creation. Geez, I'm surprised he didn't turn it into a MacGyver-like spit wad launcher.

1.28.2001

4:53 PM | !!
Today I went up to San Gabriel for a farewell party for my friend Jason. He's a Mormon and he's going to be a missionary in Caracas, Venezuela for the next 2 years. It sounds like a cool adventure, actually. He said the weather's 70 degrees year round, so that's a plus. The whole time I was thinking about Orgazmo and SLC Punk. Orgazmo is about a Mormon porn star and SLC Punk is about punk rockers in Salt Lake City. Yes, I'm weird that way.

I'm really glad I brought my digital camera along too, cause on the way home I got some excellent shots of the sun bursting out from behind a big turd-shaped cloud. I kind of neglected my camera for a few months, but lately I've gotten back into it and taken some good pictures.