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November 2004 Bandwidth

It's November, so that means I need a post so that my website isn't blank. But I'm still busy so it won't be a long one.

Back when I lived at Helene Crescent there was a small issue with my room in that there turned out to be a deep hole filled with water under the carpet in the corner. This disturbed both me and my landlord and everyone I showed it to. Fortunately the landlord got it fixed and everything was happy (especially me with brand new carpet). Here is a picture of what it looked like.

My Waterhole!

The hole was over a foot deep and liked to overflow and soak the carpet. The only thing that prevented me from falling in was a board that went on top like a sewer cover. The board did not stop water from leaking though.

October post, too busy for more than nine words.

I've been to almost all of my classes now and they seem alright. I think this will be a hard term though (although it is of my own making so I shouldn't complain).

I know I said that I would add a comments feature to my site, but it looks like I didn't and I probably won't any time soon. Oh well.

So I think I've reached that point in my life where I have no home. My mom moved at the end of August into a townhouse in London so when I go home now it is actually like I am going to my mom's house, not mine. I guess it was bound to happen but it is still a bit strange. The whole situation has made me want to get rid of everything I own except the essentials (clothes, books, electronics) so that I can move quickly and easily. Kinda weird but whatever.

I'm officially living in Waterloo again now. Moving sucks.

So we built my brother's computer, here are the specs:

• P4 2.8GHz with Hyperthreading
• 1GB PC-3200 DDR400 memory
• Intel 865 chipset on Asus P4P800 SE motherboard
• ATi Radeon 9550 256MB video card
• 120GB Seagate SATA harddrive
• Antec Sonata Case

It makes me jealous becasue it runs so nicely. Unreal Tournament 2004 is perfect at 1024x768 with all of the detail settings at maximum. The case and motherboard worked really well and everything was easy to assemble. It looks really good too, but my brother managed to put the main case sticker on upside down (picture coming soon). Oh well, still pretty cool. Must resist urge to upgrade computer...

Jen's birthday was pretty fun as well. A lot of people showed up and we had dinner at a nice restaurant (the Hot House) down on Front Street. Michael came up for both the meal and some of the computer fun. We took him to lunch at Zelda's at Church and Wellesley which is a really great restaurant. Working in Toronto has been amazing, but going back to Waterloo where there are more people will be really cool too.

Haven't updated in a while, not for any reason though.

I wrote my exam for my distance course on Saturday, it was pretty easy and I'm glad I'm done. I don't think taking a distance course in the summer while living in Toronto was a good idea. Now I just have to write a work report. Ug.

Not much else has happened lately, but this weekend should be interesting. My brother is coming to Toronto and we are going to build a computer for him. It is also Jen's birthday and a bunch of people are going out for it. Should be fun. Hopefully Michael will come join us.

That's it.

I saw two movies this weekend: I, Robot and She Hate Me.

I had hoped that I could read the Issac Asimov work that I, Robot was based on before seeing the movie, but that didn't turn out and I've been told that the movie is only "inspired" by the book and so it probably doesn't matter. The movie was pretty good; typical Will Smith stuff for the most part, but with the occasional thought provoking moment. And killer robots are cool!

She Hate Me was a bit more of a special experience. It is the new Spike Lee movie, but it isn't coming out until July 28 and that is only in New York and Los Angeles. It is scheduled for general release in Canada in about a month. So yeah, I'm all special because I got to see it early. Not that it was hard to do, they were showing a free screening of it at Harbourfront last night and all you had to do was show up in time to get a seat. The movie itself was pretty good, it dealt with lots of "issues" like corporate corruption/greed and non-traditional families. I really liked it and will probably go see it again when it comes out for real.

Other than those two things my weekend was fairly quiet. I read a couple books, watched some Futurama and slept a bunch. Yay weekends!

This weekend was fairly tiring, but still cool.

On Friday I went to Pacific Mall and bought a DVD of questionable legality, but it was a DVD that I can't buy in any other way so I don't exactly feel bad about it. The movie is called Hero and it is a Chinese movie starring Jet Li that is going to be released in theatres in North America in the near future. I saw a preview for it when I saw Kill Bill 2 and it looked good. After watching it I would say that is was very good. The movie paid a lot of attention to visual presentation and was very pretty and artsy. I'm glad I bought it, especially because it was only $8 (no tax, yay Pacific Mall).

On Saturday I went with Adrienne to various parts of the Street Festivals that happened here this weekend, but we didn't see anything too exciting. The best was the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit, which was at Nathan Phillip's Square and was a show with something like 500 artists displaying their work. Lots of good stuff. The only other stuff really worth mentioning was the food. We had lunch at a random vegetarian Chinese restaurant that gave massive servings. We split a $6 meal and we weren't able to finish half of it between the both of us. And for supper we ate pasta in the Italian section of Toronto that was pretty good and not very expensive.

Today was much better as far as the festival goes. We went and saw a break dancing competition that was really good. The music (courtesy of DJ Serious) was amazing as well.

The rest of my weekend was fairly relaxing; I spent a bunch of time with Kim and slept a lot.

On Saturday Kim and I went shopping, saw Fahrenheit 9/11 (which was moderately interesting) and then had supper at Mongolian Grill. Pretty good day.

And today I had lunch with Kim's family (roast beef) and then rode a bus to Toronto, yay!