I plan on taking my son to Spiderman this weekend. My son's birthday is Sunday and he will be 8, and though I am not totally sure if the movie is good for someone of his age or not I really want to take him. I absolute devoured Spiderman comics when I was about 12 till I was about 20. I collected all I could find and loved them. I actually think they may be doing the film correctly too. Peter Parker (Spiderman's non-superhero identity) is being played by Toby McGuire, and well he is kind of what I would expect. Not overly good looking, like they tend to try and make the superhero, even if he is supposed to be a dweeb or nerd, and Peter Parker is most definitely that. So they have gotten a basic concept correct, which is a nice change. I am really looking forward to seeing it. And of course Star Wars, which is coming out soon. Unlike Episode 1, I am not going to have a company thats decided to be nice to its employees and rent out a theatre for the opening night, so I guess I will miss the first night, but soon after that...

Is what you do consistently good? I mean whatever your "job" is do you consistently do it well? Say 75% of the time maybe? Well why is it on most CD's you get only really two of the songs are good? Say there are 7-9 tracks, only maybe 3 are really good songs, everything else you could have done without. But this is expected. Is creativity that hit or miss? Or our artists just really giving us 30% of their effort? Do I expect too much?

THIS is why linux will not take off on the desktop (snipped from here): After several hours of investigation on the Web and experimentation, I could not find an answer. I tried different IRQs, changed settings in the CMOS, checked the phone line ... nothing. So, in my desperation, I decided to confirm that the darn modem actually worked. I pulled an unused Windows ME distribution off the shelf, installed it, and loaded the modem driver. To my surprise, the modem dialed the phone. I checked the settings under Windows and found they were identical to the default settings detected under Linux. I reloaded Red Hat and played some more. No change. I could get replies to the AT commands, but I could not get it to do anything remotely productive with the telephone line. There may be a solution to this, but it certainly isn't obvious. (end snip) If you have to install Windows to figure out if something works or not, and it DOES, that should tell you something about the OS. That normal people are NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO USE IT. I use Linux everyday, I love it, its great. But no way is it going to take over the desktop when even people who are extremely proficient in Linux resort to Windows to help trouble shoot something. No your desktop belongs to Windows for now. But maybe, just maybe, if Apple decides to port Mac OSX to the Intel line then it might change...

Ahh yes, maybe I am sick, maybe I am twisted, but you to can visit the Torture Museum. Find out exactly the best way to get that information you want.

Here you be the judge, whats better?

Just what you all wanted out there lots and lots and lots of boobies. Tons of them... Oh did I mention they are all guys?

I am re-reading The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice. I do not get a chance to read a lot as I am usually brain dead by the time I get to sit down and vegging in front of the TV seems to be the easiest thing to do. But I decided to read this again, as I read it a couple years ago and I tend to read a book at least a few times over. In fact I have some books I have read almost ten times. And I am sure thats rather silly, but its like watching a movie over again. If you like it, its worth it. Even though you know they always all die in the end.

Hehe. They needed a snowplow to clean a mess of chili off an interestate out west. Gesh. Guess I should not complain about our re-occuring snow...

Well I think I am switching to Mozilla as my browser of choice. I have been using Opera, and its great. I love the mouse gestures, and the tabs, and the popup killing. BUT Opera seems to continually eat up memory the longer you run it. I can run it for a few hours and it will be taking up 80 megs of memory. For my machine at work thats just way too much. So using StrokeIt and Mozilla that seems much better. I have been using it all day and its only up to 30 megs. I can have the same tabed affect, and links I want to will popup and links I do not ask for will not.

Off of Desktopian.org ( a site for those who like to modify what their bland windows looks like) I found a link to this cool app GKrellM for Windows. Its a port of a Unix app. Being a port you kinda have to grab some files (he links them) in order to get it running but once you do its pretty damn cool. Lots of stats and graphs to watch what your system is or is not doing.

GRUBS!!! Yup that was what was causing all the issues with my lawn. Raking quite heavily this last weekend I noticed the buggers, and with a trip to Home Depot I identified them as Grubs. Aparently they like to munch on succulent grass roots. Damn bastards. And with the rain this weekend my lawn looks like a mud bowl. All I can hope is that the stuff I got to kill em will work and will still let the new grass come in. If not I am gonna be right pissed!

Am I weird, I like to take frozen blueberries, available at most grocery stores, and put them in the bottom of a bowl, put some cereal on top and pour milk on it for breakfast. The blueberries freeze the milk a little and its really good...

I hadn't listened to my favourite band, Jethro Tull, in a while. Played a couple cds yesterday. Man I wish they released stuff as good as their old stuff still. Ian Anderson's solo album, Divinities was awesome, and Tull's Catfish Rising had some good stuff on it, but they were not quite the way of Passion Play or Crest of a Knave, or Minstrel in the Gallery. I need to find my "A Little Light Music" cd...

*Sigh* more yard work. No we really do not have that big a yard, but we have a lot of large dead spots. First I rake it to get all the dead grass and junk up. I believe the technical term for that is dethatching. Then I use a for lack of technical term, hard tined metal rake, to turn up the dirt a bit. Then I spread seed, then I spread the fertilizer, then I get the hard tined metal rake again to turn the seed and fertilizer in the dirt a bit. Then I water. A big pain in the arse.