kids are awesome: "He's my brother. I'm allowed to hit him. I own him."
On Wednesday I took over POETS (thanks Owen and WatSFiC!), and threw a movie night. We watched Medabots ep.1, Hackers, and Mortal Kombat. w00t!! A fantabulous way to celebrate Valentine's Day, I tells ya. Sadly,
scapegoat_5 apparently got in trouble because I returned the key late. Not that he had anything to do with the key :D
spoonkun and
anna_marie were of the many people I forgot to invite to the last-minute Mortal-Kombat-party-at-POETS (sorriez!), but last night they held their own mini-movie-party in apt.303. As on wednesday, we watched Mortal Kombat and Hackers back-to-back. So for lolz:
- I saw Hackers and Mortal Kombat back-to-back twice in three days
- Their excellent soundtracks both feature my favouritest song ever: Halcyon+On+On, by Orbital
- Last night I watched them in a row but each with a different female guest (eeks!), both of whom I bought dinner (!!eeps) not that this means anything, of course, just in retrospect, I guess it's kinda weird, lolol
- Dee still hasn't seen Mortal Kombat, which is why I got it in the first place!
Research-craziness is still nuts. I gave a talk on Friday for random profs/grad students and it went okay, even though I was positively freaked out for no particular reason. Ali is awesome. My CSC talk is on the Tuesday after reading week, and I'm kinda excited!
I keep forgetting that I'm getting paid. Moniez! So now I'm laptop-shopping, trying to find something cheap and linux-happy and that I can use for code and scientific computation :o I don't need it to last; once I ever get a real job, I'll instantly replace it with a happy black macbook. My current price range is < $600, but that's barely enough to get something new; although used is probably the way to go for me. If I could find a place willing to give me one of them skeeetchy sell-your-soul-in-little-pieces-over-a-year-or-few deals, and I could just get my macbook now with a decent down-payment, I'd totally go for it. But any other comments would be happy.