Some observations

[mikailborg]

Well, I'm actually feeling a bit accomplished these days. This weekend, I shook the rust from my joints and did some serious database programming, teaching it how to build (static) webpages for manual upload. Today, I forced our server (which recently graduated from peer-to-peer file sharer to real server) to take an OS upgrade that it supposedly can't, getting better networking and filesystem performance from it.

Turns out that the only reason it "couldn't" support the OS upgrade was 'cause Apple wanted people with machines of that vintage to buy newer machines, instead of upgrading the OS. During installation, the installer says "Which model Mac are you?" and on older machines, says "Well, I would run fine on you, but Apple doesn't want me to. Sorry!" and reports to the user "This machine can't take this version of the OS."

So, instead of taking that lying down, I just hacked the installer to stop asking such silly questions and to trust me. Now my server is much faster and happier.

Has anyone ever noticed that when a Jedi fights a lightsaber-wielding villain, things usually don't go well for the Jedi?
Ep.4 - Obi-Wan vs. Vader, ends with Obi-Wan dead.
Ep.5 - Luke vs. Vader, ends with everyone calling Luke 'lefty.'
Ep.6 - Luke vs. Vader, ends with Luke almost succumbing to the dark side, then lying on the floor sucking Sidious' energy bolts.
Ep.1 - Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan vs. Maul, ends with Qui-Gon dead and Obi-Wan having to train Anakin. (Yeah, that all works out well.)
Ep.2 - Obi-Wan & Anakin & Yoda vs. Dooku, ends with 'lefty' Anakin, injured Obi-Wan, defeated Yoda, and Dooku flying off in his ship cackling, pausing only briefly to skywrite "Surrender Dorothy" on his way out.

Okay, I exaggerate a bit, but if I were a Jedi, and saw the other guy light up a laser blade, I'd be pretty depressed about how things were going.

Comments

[polar-bear-sama.livejournal.com]

/Please!!/ if nothing else, let's at least call him Darth Tyrannus (sp)! *muzzlepaws* A kick-ass name like Darth Tyrannus, and all movie, they call him "Count Dooku." *shakes his head*

Anyway, everyone knows that the Dark Side is just /that much/ cooler than the light side. Which would you prefer: Shoot lightning bolts while alive OR Become your own night-light when you're dead?

PB

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I agree that Dooku is just too dumb a name for Christopher Lee, but I just couldn't remember "Darth Tyrannus". Must have been all that horrible "love" dialogue between Anakin and Amidala driving it from my head.

Personally, I'm on the Cheez-Whiz Side, but I don't talk about it much, 'cause it's boring.

[polar-bear-sama.livejournal.com]

Yoda!
You know. I met Yoda once.
I met him in a swamp down on Degobah, where it babbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda.

PB

[corin-wolfkin.livejournal.com]

So, you're saying you saw the little runt sitting there on a log?

[polar-bear-sama.livejournal.com]

Yup, I asked him his name and in a raspy voice he said, "Yoda. Y-o-d-a. Yoda. Yo-yo-yo-yo-yoda."

PB

Completely off-topic

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this will get to you, because I don't have your current e-mail address, but I wanted to let you know that we are gaming at Chez O'Brien tomorrow night (1/31/03). You are welcome to swing by after work if you'd like!