Author: lvidmar

I signed up for Columbia House’s DVD club a week or so ago, and got my 6 movies yesterday. Costed me $17.34 (and I have to buy 4 more at regular price over the next 2 years). Not a shabby deal in my opinion. I figure I’ll have it mostly completed by Christmas time, then I can cancel my membership and wait for them to beg me to rejoin 🙂 I updated my movies list to reflect what I got here.

• Animal House
• Matrix Rev’s
• Office Space
• Slap Shot 2
• SLC Punk
• Transformers The Movie

If you’re interested in joining, I’m more than interested in referring you. You can get 5 DVD’s for about $2.48/ea (including shipping), agree to buy more within 2 years, and I get 2 free movies! Everybody wins.

Work has been über-busy this past week, and it’ll be even busier next week with everyone being on campus for classes and such. This is by far the most hectic time of year for us.. closely followed by about six months from now when all these people’s passwords expire. My department has been reasonably interesting the last few weeks, what with having some general projects to take care of. Today, I “upgraded” an instructor’s computer from a 7600/132 to a beige G3/300, and ran software updates on two small labs of eMacs.

More pressing matters, in my opinion… I finally got my schtuff together from my parents for filing for residency here in Oregon. Not only do I hope I get it, I need to get it, or I’ll be rethinking this whole degree thing. One thought that’s popped into my head (if I don’t get it) is taking winter term off to ski a lot. I want to say hopefully it doesn’t come to this, but it sorta sounds like a win-win when I think about it in this light! 🙂

Well work seems to be picking up lately, what with the influx of people wanting their computers to work before classes start next week. Lots of professors and students showing up with new computers they want to get working and such.

Life remains a tad boring. I have no disposable income to blow on “fun” things, and there is no snow with which to ski on yet. Roommate search is on, so far there is one strong candidate thus far.. I’ll be making my decision on Friday.

Also, I really, really want a new computer, and I’m eyeing up the new G5 iMac to replace my PowerBook (and potentially my beige g3 as well). I want to decide by Friday on this as well, as the $99 Final Cut Express (with a new computer) deal ends Saturday. Ah, dreams.

[edit]Yay, the FCE deal is extended a few more months![/edit]

In honnor of the holiday today, I decided to get my page translated. If it loads slow, it won’t be this way for more than a day, unless I forget about it.

Some links of interest today: Pirate Keyboard, Talk Like a Pirate Translator (made by a friend of mine from work), and WikiPedia.

I think I’m all prepared to meet with the admissions guy at the college to officially become an Oregonian in the eyes of the school. If that doesn’t work out, I may just become a ski bum for a year! Either way I win 😀

Firefox‘s one problem is when I upgrade to a newer version, all the search plugins disappear, and until very recently, all the plugins. So today I’ve been working on a small program that backs up the search plugins and can restore them later. I may or may not post it at some point, but someone wants it, I will. Note: it only works with OS X, and I’ve only tested with 1.0PR.

Mmmm, Vikings play tomorrow night!