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12:50: Press Return

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I just got back from Jill and Eric’s house. Under pressure from me, with backup from Annie and Corey, they agreed to watch Pi. Needless to say, I came home ready to do cutting-edge things with my computer (though I will probably settle for posting here and making a new hammerspace).

Jill and Eric didn’t seem to get much out of it. After the movie ended, they both had that overwhelmed sort of “what-the-hell?” look in their eyes. I was amped, Annie was happy because she had finally figured out where all the samples on the Pi soundtrack came from, and Corey was asleep.

I’m starting to wonder if this is one of those movies that only appeals to geeks (and ultra-religious Jews). I know the first time Miles and Steve and I all saw it, we all walked out completely excited. We practically ran back to the computer lab, with Miles and Steve excitedly babbling at each other about programming.

There’s just something about watching the main character build his own computer, and rack mount them by drilling holes through the motherboards and assembling his own tiny clean-room for his classified government prototype processor. It just gets you excited if you’re a geek.

“12:45, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.”

Black and White and Dr. Drew

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I am extremely excited for two reasons. One is geeky, and the other is actually really cool.

The first (and geeky) reason is that my new computer game, Black & White, paid for with my first paycheck from my new jobs, will be here by the end of the week!

The second reason is that Dr. Drew, from the radio/TV show LoveLine, is coming to CWU for some sort of lecture this term. Jill the News Producer at the radio station managed to talk him into doing an interview with us. Guess who gets to do the interview? That’s right, I get to meet Dr. Drew. …oh, and Annie will be there too.

New Jobs and Hammerspace

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Jill has asked me to watch Gavin (her 1-year old son) a couple days a week, for which she will pay me. This is cool, because we already watch Gavin frequently, so it doesn’t really feel like extra work. Also, Jill is the News Director at the radio station, and her News Producer recently graduated, so she needs someone to fill that spot on a very part-time basis (like six hours a week). But it’s a paid position, and she asked me to do it! (for those who don’t know, producer is not as impressive as it sounds in radio… it means literally the person who does the production… I’m the grunt labor). As with Gavin, I go in and help with the news now and then already, so both of these feel like a little extra money for doing something I don’t mind at all!

Also, I finally got off my ass and posted a new hammerspace comic. The way Annie and I looked in the comic has been bugging me for awhile, so I fixed them. Well, I fixed Annie. I found out that there’s no good way to draw a beard on a hammerspace character so I quit trying and just redid my character without it, which I think works better than the freakishly overextended jaw it had before. But the reason this is exciting is because, as dumb as it sounds, I wasn’t into doing hammerspace because those two characters were bugging me. Now that I got their appearance nailed, I’m hoping to start doing new comics much more regularly… at least once a week, and hopefully more frequently than that. So keep an eye on it!

Thanksgiving 2000

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Yesterday was kick-ass! We decided to have a local thanksgiving dinner with friends, and the whole thing just kept getting bigger. I guess everyone thought it was a good idea, because everyone came! We had two turkeys, like three bowls of stuffing, and a ton of other food.

Annie and I were there, of course, and Annie’s parents came, with her two bothers. Then Eric and Jill (and Gavin) came over, and then Urn and Kat showed up with Urn’s mom, and then Jesse and a friend showed up.

It was great. I was a little nervous as we frantically cleaned the house, but it went really well. Everyone was laid back and seemed to have fun. We watched Thumb Wars (a star wars parody), The Grinch, and goofed around on Am I Hot Or Not. At least, that’s what we geeks did. I’m not sure what all the women and adults were doing, except that Kat and Annie did their usual trick of disappearing into a bathroom together, emerging ten minutes later wearing each other’s clothing and giggling.

On Wednesday night, we’re hitching a ride to Tacoma with Urn and Kat to visit Annie’s family. Dave and Zach (Annie’s bothers) are already plotting to see how many computers they can get together so they can do a lot of network gaming. Should be fun!

Oh, and Urn and I will probably find out today whether or not we get the specialty show.

That's a Lot of Food!

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I almost forgot to post this… Kat agreed to buy me lunch today. I walked back to the table with the lunch tray containing both my lunch, kat’s lunch and Urn’s lunch. When I set it down, Eric, Jill and Annie all looked at the tray, and looked and me. Annie said: “Jeezus, Honey! That’s a lot of food!”

I paused for a moment, not really believing it. “It’s not all for me!” Perhaps Obeso the Pirate wasn’t the smartest name choice in the world, but it stunned me… Did they really think that I could eat four large burritos, two sodas, a hostess snack cake and a bag of sour apple rings? Come on!