2 Bit Hacker

Old building wiring is such a pain. Near as I can tell, our floor has 5 circuits, one dedicated for the washer dryer, then 4 that are apparently used at random around the floor. Somehow, I think we managed to do something very bad to one or two of them. Earlier this evening, we had two air conditioners running (one in bedroom, one in living room), two computers running (same room, but one powered from the other bedroom), and Delia attempted to make nachos in the microwave, which apparently put something over the top, and blew at least one circuit. Here’s the weird part; resetting the breakers in the basement did nothing. They weren’t even tripped when I went down there. We have no power in the bedrooms or the dining room/kitchen. We do have power in the front half of the living room, one plug on the outside wall of the dining room/kitchen, the bathroom, and the pantry/kitchen. I was only able to determine that one of the breakers actually does anything.

I really have no idea what’s wrong with it at this point. I’m guessing either something in the panel fried (though it’s brand new, installed just after we moved in) or some of the wiring along the way cooked itself.

At least we still have one A/C working, so we’re not cooking in here, and I managed to use some heavy duty extension cords to get my computer, the cable modem, and the router back up. Not going to leave them up though, since I have no idea what’s going on with power at the moment.

Overall, today has sucked.

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You will always be surrounded by true friends.

While I was updating some old posts to use the new fortune cookie banner thing, I ran across this fortune and it’s associated comment. What with Andrea getting in touch with me again recently, it makes me think. She probably thinks I’m quite the jackass at this point, but do I really care what she thinks of me anymore?

You will always have good luck in your personal affairs.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAH

Ahem. cough yeah.

Anyway, those of you who read my home page, rather than the LiveJournal copy of it, might notice that fortune cookies now have a little fortune cookie icon with them. I think it looks neat. No idea if it’s actually showing up in Internet Explorer though.

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So, I’ve been pretty busy this past week, too busy to post anything apparently. For the most part I’ve been up to no good, hanging out with Delia a lot, Dan and Tim a bit as well. Evil Dave is back in town for this week, spent some time with him over the weekend as well. Most of last week is a blur, though I do remember staying up all night on Wednesday, hanging out with Delia, Shadow, and Tom at Denny’s for far too long, then deciding there wasn’t enough time to sleep and go to work, so we just stayed up for an extra hour and then I went to work. It was an interesting night.

Oh yes, and Thursday, while Ben, Dan, Delia, Tim and I were enjoying a pizza at the local Pizza Hut (no longer in Milford, as that one has shut down) someone driving what I can only guess to be a rather large truck backed into my Focus. I now have a nice dent in the panel above the driver’s side rear wheel. It could be worse, there’s nothing broken, just a big dent. I should probably see about having it pulled.

Friday I hung out at JLC with Dan, supposedly for an upgrade, though nothing terrible upgrade-like happened. Saturday, Dan, Delia, and I went geocaching, finding one of the caches that Big Dave and I tried for before but could not find. Delia made quick work of it, finding the second point and the final cache with little help from Dan or I. We tried for a second cache but gave up, deciding it was too cold for us to continue.

Sunday, Dave and I had planned on going to see Big Fish, and ending up stealing Delia to go with us. Upon arriving at the theater however, the showtime was gone; either sold out or just gone, I don’t know. So we decided after some debate to see The Passion of the Christ instead (it was either that or Along Came Polly “at least we don’t have to watch the previews for it anymore”.) Not being the religious sort, I’m not too opinionated about the movie. Yeah, it was bloody, but assuming these are even close to the events described in the Bible, then they should be bloody. Overall, I thought it was fairly well done, and it probably worth seeing, though I don’t think I’d bother renting it to see again any time soon.

Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise.

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Had a pretty good weekend, despite it being Valentine’s Day. I was originally thinking I wasn’t going to have anything to do, so made plans to head up to the Loft to hang out with the ninjas, play video games, and whatnot. Instead we had a bit of an Anti-Valentine’s Day get-together on Friday night with Amanda, Dan, Delia and Tim. We played some Jenga and just generally hung out at the apartment. Dan mentioned doing a movie night at his place sometime, which would be cool.

Saturday I spent most of the day working on Shadow, the HTPC, so that Delia could watch some of the episodes of Invader Zim that I’ve got in DivX. It’s at the point now where it outputs to the TV and can play stuff, but overscan is still having issues (apparently nVidia broke it in one of their driver versions) and I need to get the remote working again. Picked up Delia from work in the evening, hung out at her place for a bit, and ended up heading to one of the pizza places downtown to meet angry_amy and some of her friends. That was rather odd for me, since she was quite drunk. Cool to meet new people though. Hope to meet them again when they’re sober sometime.

Today has been pretty quiet. Worked on Shadow and Terra a bit, and have been thinking of doing some work on the I-Opener, but haven’t gotten that adventurous yet. Maybe I’ll save that for another weekend. Did go out for a bit to grab dinner with Tim and Ben at KFC, mostly to annoy Amanda for a bit. Also swung by Wal-Mart and picked up Metroid: Zero Mission for GBA. Played it a little bit so far, seems to have been done very well. I’ll write up a review later on, maybe.

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• Saw a car as I was leaving the apartment complex this morning with a Strongbad sticker on it’s rear bumper. I thought it was kindof funny, since I ordered those shirts yesterday.
• Passed a car that had swerved off the road with the license plate METRON1, I kindof wonder if it has any relation to metron2001, one of doornail’s friends.
• Been thinking of writing a conduit to post specially formatted memo’s from my Clié, maybe I’ll tackle that over the weekend. I don’t think it’ll be hard, but I’ve never written a conduit for coldsync before.

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Had a fairly eventful weekend. Started off somewhat late on Friday night, heading over to doornail’s to start watching The 10th Kingdom, which has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen. Funny though, just need to find the time to see the rest of it now.

Saturday I had a late lunch with Delia then picked up Tim, Dan, and Amanda to head back to my apartment for the afternoon. Upon arriving at home, I found my kitchen sink full to the brim with a somewhat murky water and the remains of what appeared to be rice. This was rather odd, since I hadn’t even used that sink in the past week or so. Called up maintainance, the first guy attempted to plunge the thing, but it did nothing, so he called in reinforcements. The second guy brought some heavier ammunition, and ended up vacuuming the liquid out of the sink and pouring some sort of acid in to break the clog. I guess the people in the apartment above mine dumped out something stupid, and it clogged the drain, causing it to flow back into my sink.

Eventually, after the kitchen was finally usable again, Amanda made us linguine with a vodka sauce, which I thought was quite tasty, despite her repeated claims otherwise. At some point in the evening I picked up Delia, and she joined us in playing Jenga and Scategories for a while. A good time was had by all.

For Sunday, we had planned to do a Godzilla marathon as a sort of anti-superbowl party, but I ended up sleeping through most of one Godzilla movie (I hadn’t gotten to sleep until about 7am the previous morning, and even then didn’t sleep very soundly) and woke up to the sounds of Dan and Tim playing Soul Calibur 2. Around this point Delia showed up, and we proceeded to play a game of Star Wars Monopoly. I didn’t do so well, and Delia eventually won, after Tim eventually surrendered.

Today was a fairly standard day at work, got some stuff done, nothing terribly exciting. This evening has been spent doing some minor cleanup around the apartment. It’s kindof odd being here alone after having people around all weekend. And to think I used to like being alone.

Oh yeah, Friday I also made up a little graph of the interconnections between my friends. Remember when LiveJournal used to have a link to do that? I’ve been thinking of having it display a different color for friends depending on how many interests you have in common with them. Just a fun little diversion.

Also, I’ve completed the first month of my diet, and have decided to share my data with the world.

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