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News ·Wednesday September 13, 2006 @ 00:40 EDT (link)
On Sunday we drove into town to pick up a power adapter for the Nintendo (NES) and some DVDs (The Manchurian Candidate, the Final Destination trilogy (interesting but logically unsound and inconsistent), Basic Instinct 2, Mad Max (Mel Gibson's first film, and not really all that good), When a Stranger Calls, Mask of Zorro (another victim of the move), and Starship Troopers, a corny but fun flick). Circuit City didn't have any adapters over 500 mA, and the bottom of the Nintendo said 750 mA; I'd tried a 300 mA universal adapter but the power kept blinking on and off (the Mario start screen did come up, however briefly), so we went to the Radio Shack opposite and shelled out $20 for an 800 mA 9V adapter. Brandon Smith had given me the Nintendo back in elementary school when he got his SNES, and I had played it a couple of times and then put it in a box. Honey's played her way through a few games already; I have Super Mario 1 and 2, RC Pro Am, Ninja Gaiden III, Castlevania, Dracula's Curse, and Gauntlet.
I got my IEEE ballot, but they'd made an error, so I'm waiting for a new one since they won't take the old one, even though the names are all right, they just switched two category headings (oops).
Back to the grind at work; I had eight bugs Monday morning, was down to two when I left, got about 4 more Tuesday, and left with just 1, a "Dr. Watson" crash dump bug in the printer code. Most bugs were puntable ("by design" or "won't fix"), some were already fixed; many required investigation, only a couple actually needed code changes: I've submitted a few for triage tomorrow, and have a PR (private release) build for another.
"Damn kids, get off my lawn!" No, not my lawn, x_lysistrata_x's dad's; some kids threw trash on his lawn while he was splitting wood, so he chased one of them, wondering why the kid was running so fast... then realized he'd forgotten to put down the hatchet. They didn't do it any more after that.
Standoff, a new show on Fox, looks interesting. I caught the pilot in WV; the male lead is the main character from Early Edition (the show where the guy gets tomorrow's newspaper and rushes around to prevent Bad Things from happening; guess he never caught Butterfly Effect). Quote: "Did anyone else see [Standoff] tonight? If so, it just goes to show the damage that is caused when the childfree [at] heart have kids they don't want." A kid turns Mohammedan for the bombs, and threatens to blow up a coffee shop, because his mother never loved him. Tragic, I suppose, although they do get him out safely and it's good (especially for Fox) to emphasize that not everyone wants kids.
Title alludes to a call I got from my parents shortly after we got back; turns out they'd been moving some furniture and pulled out a cable. I always get blamed for those things, comes from being the guru; I'm sure many can relate.
