As I attempt to get into one of Loki's download mirrors to get the Tribes 2 demo...

Last night or early this morning, I had a really wacky dream. I remember too little to really recount it, except one very particular event: StarFest. I was going. It had been a long time since last year's event, and I was in Tobias making my way there. I was very excited about it. I wasn't sure whether anyone else in "The Group" was going to be there or not, but I knew I was going, and I was ready for it.

I wonder if my dream was trying to tell me something. ;)

Actually, on more than one occassion lately I've had reason to wonder whether advertisers have been sticking product placements, sometimes outright promotions, into my dreams. ala Futurama. Seriously, a couple days ago, I dreamed a shampoo commercial. It was for an actual brand that really exists. I remembered it after I woke up, and was taking a shower; my real shampoo was not the brand that had been in my dream. It must have been very effective, because for a moment, I actually considered rushing out to buy the brand that had been advertised. In truth, I still might even try it next time I need some. In my dream it was good stuff for the hair! Seriously!

(And no, I will not reveal the brand name, but I know what it was.)

Proof positive that Bitscape is losing it. lol.

[Bitscape runs the freshly downloaded binary.]

Woah, freaky. One little GUI from which to download every Loki demo. All I have to do is check these little boxes (gtk rules!) which sit in front of my nose, and sit and wait while the downloader fills my /usr/local partition with all sorts of tantalizing demos. Clever, Loki. Very clever.

In other news, for the second year in a row, I will be attending the CLIQ again. This time around, the company I work for will not be doing a booth, and the event will be on a Friday. As a result, those of us who wish to go will be paying our own ticket, and taking it as a PTO day. On the bright side, there's no need to worry about taking turns at booth duty, so the whole day can be spent enjoying the fun. Looking forward to it.

And of course, there is the fest that is scheduled to occur one week from this moment. wheee...

Today after work, I went jogging again. Made it to the park at the top of the hill in 21 minutes. Slower than when I did it last week, but I think I paced myself a lot better. I was just really out of breath at the end, but not like I was going to keel over and puke like I did before. The key is to go painfully slow at the beginning, and then just keep going at that rate. Or speed up a bit toward the end. Then it feels really good. Oh yeah!

While I jogged, and on the way back, I was feeling so proud of myself that the thought of running in the Bolder Boulder again crossed my mind. I haven't done that for years. It is an invigorating idea. Perhaps even a goal to strive for? We'll see. I think I like the idea.

I am my own fucking mentor.

Watched my Farscape episode 2 on DVD again as I ate BBQ wings tonight. (He'll never admit it, but I think my dad is also becoming addicted to the show. He has joined me in viewing several episodes, including this evening.) The DVD is so fun, I've temporarily discontinued my progression through the "normal" episodes, and watch the super-hi-quality DVD instead.

The next couple episodes that are queued up for viewing on my hard drive (toward the end of season 1), are in the annoying asf format, which is generally of inferior picture quality compared to avi, and have this nasty habit of sometimes getting the audio syncing a few seconds off from the video. Leave it to Microsoft to design a shabby and inferior format.

So anyway, I've made a couple attempts to get "good" versions of these episodes off irc. But some fservs have this annoying problem of disconnecting people randomly during a download, accumulating large queues, and bandwidth shortages, etc. You know the deal. Ho hum. DivX forever! I know, I'm spoiled rotten.

Ok, that's tonight's content. I think I'll just have leave this Loki Demo fetcher running and go to bed, because it's still downloading stuff at a steady 56K/s. Maybe I checked a few too many of those boxes. :)

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Sleep!
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