Peruvian Nights and Jamaican Days

So today, my LaunchCast thang (see the link to "My LaunchCast Station" on the left) suddenly stopped working - nothing new, it's sketchy like that sometimes. But when I brought up the window to see what was up, it was all, "Dude, you are a heavy user. And we can't make any money off that shit. So start paying." So I brought up the "More info" thing, and it was all talking about how advertising was enough to pay for light, occasional users, but the demands of 'heavy users' was too high, so you have to pay. Something like $35 a year. So I clicked on the little button at the bottom - the "Need more info? Email us." thing, and I said "hey, go to hell. there are lots of other stations on line - probably most of them don't have that annoying-ass "Methamphetamine is bad" commercial every 5 minutes, either. Down with Yahoo!, hooray for Hotmail!!" So I've decided I should leave the computer on and Launch running whenever I'm not around. That'll teach 'em.

I mean, come on, don't take that kind of attitude with me. Nobody pays for stuff on the internet, and nobody ever will, cuz somebody else will always give it away for free. Why pay for the cow when you can get the sex for free?

That is just SO stupid, and pisses me off to no end. OK. Look for a link to a new music setup soon.

Saw Matrix Reloaded last night. Well. I'm not sure what to say. Some parts were pretty cool. You know, lots of martial arts action, and some cool special effects. But lots of it looked like a video game, as 'Tiska mentioned. Obviously, the technology isn't quite good enough yet. Some of it was so obviously animation that it was annoying. Then there's the plot. Holy Moses. You need a degree in Matrix to understand what the hell is going on, especially in the last half-hour. But that degree must also be tempered by a serious disrememberment (as Twain might say) of any sense of logic one has ever learned. Otherwise, the whole thing just seems silly and wrong. However, I still want to be Neo. Until Hulk comes out, then I'll want to be him for awhile.

My boss seems pretty fixated on me making up hours I missed during the whole 'Green River Trip' period. Even though I probably have less than 8 hours worth of legitimate work left to do, and two weeks in which to do it. So look for heavy blogging in the next few weeks.

So what else is new? Not a damn thing. Same old stuff. Except that my thesis work seems pretty bleak now. Data problems. Which sucks, but I'm pretty much past the point of giving a rat's ass. Just keep doing what I'm doing until somebody starts yelling or throwing stuff at me.

"Remember, no matter how bad life gets, there's always beer."
-Norm MacDonald


Not to mention, 'whisky.'

-m