Linux is now working as it is supposed to. I can watch DVDs, DivX and Xvid movies withough any special effort. Also I have anti-aliased fonts which look much nicer than the ordinary fonts. The only thing that I cannot do in Linux is compress DVDs to DivX, but I think I may look into that soon. I also can't play games, but I didn't do much of that when I was in Windows. Now if only my monitor supported high resolution and a high refresh rate.
Yay! Our heat is fixed! Now my fingers arn't falling off due to cold+typing.
Haven't done an update in a while so this will be long. And reverse-chronological for fun!
It is rather cold in our apartment today, I am now convinced that the heating is broken in some way. I know for sure that my ears are much colder than they should be inside a house. I hope it is fixed soon.
The weekend was fun, Matt and Adrienne came to visit. On Sunday we went to Krispy Kreme donuts and got a dozen death objects which are now mostly gone. Michael also came over on Sunday and watched me play with Debian while doing his Chemistry homework.
On Saturday, Matt and I installed Debian Linux on my computer and it seems to be working pretty good. Only complaints are that DVDs don't play right (so far) and that I can't play anything encoded in DivX 5 or XviD (for now). I really like apt-get and being able to login to my computer from anywhere that has a Secure Shell Client. On Saturday evening we went to the Mongolian Grill with some of Adrienne's friends (total of 9 people). It was very busy and they forgot to seat us until we complained. It turned out alright though because we got to eat on the comfy couches and they gave us the Feast meal (unlimited trips to the grill) for the price of the normal meal (1 trip only). Also the manager came and apologised a great deal.
On Friday Adrienne and Matt showed up and Angela came over and we went to Pizza Hut for supper. I got to drive Adrienne's car which was fun because it had more power than any other car I had ever driven before. After Pizza Hut we watched the movie "Pulp Fiction" which was excellent.
I had my second macroeconomics midterm on Thursday and it was much easier than the first. Also the lecture was very entertaining because Larry Smith finally revealed the secret of the "Matrix" which he has been talking about all term. I cannot relate the secret here though because it is apparently too much for the average person to handle.
I think that is enough now, especially since my fingers are starting to get numb and they will soon be unable to typeeslas.f
Mmmmmm...pancakes and assorted meats. Jen and I went to Brad's house (as did Rob and Chris and Sean, Brad's roommate+fiance were also there for a bit) last night for pancakes because it was pancake Tuesday, also known as Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday. Apparently "Mardi Gras" actually means Fat Tuesday (which is pretty obvious if you have ever learned some French) and so, logically, Mardi Gras just happened in New Orleans. I did not know this previously and I thought that Mardi Gras was just some random drunken, naked, bead filled party/riot.
Anyway, the pancakes were very good (there was also bacon and sausage) and after eating we watched Superman 3 which was clearly a very bad movie. Then we played a really good card game that had a name, but people kept pronouncing it differently and it sounded too hard to spell regardless. The end result is that I didn't get home in time to study much for econ before I feel asleep.
Look! Its a new month and my website handles it right! Yay!
Yay weekends! On Friday I got to go to the Mongolian Grill with my dad for his birthday. Mongolian Grill rules. On Saturday I went to my grandpa's with my family because it was his birthday recently. Sometimes the family visits can be boring but it wasn't too bad this time. We didn't get home until around 10pm, so I didn't start the rest of my evening until late. I went to Liz's and we had really good cake (Snickers cake I think). Then we watched the Princess Bride which is always an inconceivably good movie. Finshed up with some South Park episodes and some stimulating discussion about flexibility and religion. Got home about 4am, but I am surprisingly alert this evening. Yay stamina!
The drive back to Waterloo was pretty bad this evening, really high winds with lots of drifting as well as very slippery roads. I saw two cars actually go off the road (one right in front of me), and I saw dozens of cars in the ditch.
My economics lecture was quite amusing last night. Our teacher (Larry Smith) likes to role play and I got to be America while he was Japan. He was talking about trading partners and the global economy and such. So he basically talked completely to me for 15 minutes in a class of 300 students. Then he went on to say how tightly trading partners are linked and to demonstrate he made me hold hands with him for another 5 minutes while he continued to talk. Everyone at the University of Waterloo should take a class with this man, he is an excellent teacher.
Also interesting about last night was how both Mike and I brought our respective girlfriends to the lecture to show them the amazing Larry Smith without previously planning to do so on the same night. I am beginning to be disturbed by coincidences. Maybe Robert Anton Wilson is right (see the Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy).
The weather outside was also cool this morning: frozen mist. Its like normal mist except frozen. Interesting smell and interesting feeling when it enters your nose. :)
Weekends are fun, so much better than the week, where i have to work and stuff. I got free panzerotti on Friday night because the people at the Pizza Place thought they burnt it. It was actually just a little bit brown but it still tasted good! Then I went and saw the movie "Daredevil" with Kim, Matt, Chris, Liz, Emily and some other girl. The movie had many, many bad moments but was still pretty cool (not worth ticket price though).
I was supposed to go to my grandpa's house this weekend cause its his birthday, but on Saturday the weather forecast called for badness so we stayed home instead. I got to help Kim babysit Thomas instead. That was alright because I got yummy food and got to watch a movie.
The weather forecast was right, it was bad. That was the reason why I took the bus home today instead of getting a ride. The bus driver sucked though, he didn't know how to get to the bus station so he had to keep asking people for help. The guy behind me kept screaming "I'm just a Girl!!" whenever the bus drive asked something. It was weird. Especially since my brother apparently performed that song (by "No Doubt") with his band on Friday at Medway's coffee house. I like random coincidences. Like how I saw 4 limousines this weekend while I haven't seen one in a long time before now.
I am downloading Metallica MP3's tonight because I liked the Apocalyptica covers of some of their songs. The real stuff is also quite good, lots of energy and more like real music than all of the crap available today. I wonder if I will ever buy music again. Interesting that Metallica was one of the first bands to take action against MP3's and yet I had no problem getting any tonight.
I also watched the movie "Signs" on Sunday, it was weird. The movie could have easily degenerated into typical horror film campiness, but it managed not to. It still had a couple plot holes though. Like why a species that is hurt by water would come to a planet that is mostly water. Or why they wouldn't bring weapons like ray guns or at least swords or something. Also why does Mel Gibson's face move the way it does? Oh well, the movie was ok, not sure if I will burn it yet.
When I was walking to work this morning there was a weird guy with a giant furry ear flappy hat walking slowly in front of me. Because of the snow I wasn't able to pass him so I crossed the street. While I crossed the street he kept moving forward so he got a little ahead of me. I eventually caught up again, but when I did he completely stopped walking and turned to look at me. It was kinda weird.
It is really nice out today, smells like Spring. That is one of my favourite smells: morning while winter is trying to change to Spring. I hope it succeeds because I don't really like winter and I want all the snow to be gone and it to be warm enough out to not need a coat.
