RICO: GRUMPY
I'm really not sure but I think my lack of sleep is getting the best of me. I haven't really slept well in the last couple of days - primarily because i changed beds last sunday and attended the manila film festival awards night (of which the company i work with was a major sponsor). things have been rotten at the office in the mornings. it seems i have a very very short fuse 'specially when dealling with people who are just too full of themselves. normally i would just let any slight they would have pass but for the last couple of days i felt i just had to say something in their face to let them know they can't always get what they want.
*sigh*
i think i'm going to sleep early tonight just to break the trend.
RICO: Two weeks and my computer is still dead.
As suggested by the more technically inclined people I know, I tried changing the battery of my computer unit but still to no avail. I did a small experiment and removed the connections to the hard disk just to check if it was the one error but the computer still functioned the same way, so my assumption is that it’s more of a hardware problem rather than just an OS problem. I guess I have no choice but to send the computer to the repair shop.
As suggested by the more technically inclined people I know, I tried changing the battery of my computer unit but still to no avail. I did a small experiment and removed the connections to the hard disk just to check if it was the one error but the computer still functioned the same way, so my assumption is that it’s more of a hardware problem rather than just an OS problem. I guess I have no choice but to send the computer to the repair shop.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
RICO: PERPETUAL STATE OF BLAH
My computer's still busted. It's not really that it can't be repaired - well I don't really know if it can be or not 'cause I just don't have it in me to get it checked up, and if necessarily, repaired. There's not even the drive to open it up and see what's wrong with it, much less, bring it to the shop at Alabang. Normally I would have been in a state of panic over not being able to use the computer at home. I have a guess on why: For the last couple of weeks, I've been in a perpatual state of blah - some sort of blank-ness.
I don't think it's burnout. That kinda has some sort of negativeness atatched to it. This state I'm in is simply ... um ... nothing. I can go on with my daily grind but when I stop I just get BLANK. Don't really know how long this funk is going to last but until it does I'm keeping myself busy with work, photography and volleyball.
My computer's still busted. It's not really that it can't be repaired - well I don't really know if it can be or not 'cause I just don't have it in me to get it checked up, and if necessarily, repaired. There's not even the drive to open it up and see what's wrong with it, much less, bring it to the shop at Alabang. Normally I would have been in a state of panic over not being able to use the computer at home. I have a guess on why: For the last couple of weeks, I've been in a perpatual state of blah - some sort of blank-ness.
I don't think it's burnout. That kinda has some sort of negativeness atatched to it. This state I'm in is simply ... um ... nothing. I can go on with my daily grind but when I stop I just get BLANK. Don't really know how long this funk is going to last but until it does I'm keeping myself busy with work, photography and volleyball.
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Thursday, June 17, 2004
RICO: Computer's busted ... again
*sigh*
it's that time of year again when my computer at home is acting up again. this time it just won't start. well, it powers on but doesn't do anything from there. i'm thinking on playing around with the battery later, but if that doesn't work it's off to the shop.
*sigh*
i guess all my projects will be temporarily put on hold until i get the unit running again. i guess we really are getting too much dependent on technology.
*sigh*
*sigh*
it's that time of year again when my computer at home is acting up again. this time it just won't start. well, it powers on but doesn't do anything from there. i'm thinking on playing around with the battery later, but if that doesn't work it's off to the shop.
*sigh*
i guess all my projects will be temporarily put on hold until i get the unit running again. i guess we really are getting too much dependent on technology.
*sigh*
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Thursday, June 10, 2004
JOSHUA: Movie Review: Shrek 2 - Easter Egg Hunt!
Funny! Funny! Funny! That’s what I have to say for the movie. Not only are the voice talents, the storyline and the animation superb, but also there seems to be an endless number of “Easter eggs” in the film itself. Well, for me Easter eggs are those tiny bits of inside jokes the producers and filmmakers put into their films much like an inside joke. It is this type of stuff which once again, transforms me into that idiot that laughs by himself, while the rest of the audience are staring at the screen waiting and my seats mates are giving me the are-you-crazy-or-something-stare. Sometimes I hate it when that happens but then again, I guess I shouldn’t mind, cause if there was Easter egg there in the first place then I guess I (and possibly the ones who placed it there) should be happy that it was found.
Anyways, here’s a couple of the instances where I found laughing all by myself:
There’s a part where Puss and the gang were caught in the raid and eh said something like “Don’t you hate Mondays?” I remembered that that was Garfield’s (another orange cat like Puss) who always says that.
There’s a poster at the ‘ceiling’ of Princess Fiona’s bed that has a poster of Sir Justin. I guess it was pretty obvious by the picture that it was that of Justin Timberlake. It was pretty normal to assume that the teenage princess would have a poster of a “pop star” in her room, but was more funny was that Justin is the real life sweetheart of Cameron Diaz who’s the voice actor of Princess Fiona.
“What in Grimm’s name?!” Obviously a reference to God and the Grimm Brothers, te latter the creator of most of the fairy tales.
There’s a couple more, which are pretty obvious, the star bucks reference, the stay puff marshmallow man, pretty woman, the references to different stomach medicines and love potion ix (number nine) references in the potions factory. Anyways, I’ll leave it to you guys to see it yourself and find the other Easter eggs on your own. Enjoy!
Funny! Funny! Funny! That’s what I have to say for the movie. Not only are the voice talents, the storyline and the animation superb, but also there seems to be an endless number of “Easter eggs” in the film itself. Well, for me Easter eggs are those tiny bits of inside jokes the producers and filmmakers put into their films much like an inside joke. It is this type of stuff which once again, transforms me into that idiot that laughs by himself, while the rest of the audience are staring at the screen waiting and my seats mates are giving me the are-you-crazy-or-something-stare. Sometimes I hate it when that happens but then again, I guess I shouldn’t mind, cause if there was Easter egg there in the first place then I guess I (and possibly the ones who placed it there) should be happy that it was found.
Anyways, here’s a couple of the instances where I found laughing all by myself:
There’s a part where Puss and the gang were caught in the raid and eh said something like “Don’t you hate Mondays?” I remembered that that was Garfield’s (another orange cat like Puss) who always says that.
There’s a poster at the ‘ceiling’ of Princess Fiona’s bed that has a poster of Sir Justin. I guess it was pretty obvious by the picture that it was that of Justin Timberlake. It was pretty normal to assume that the teenage princess would have a poster of a “pop star” in her room, but was more funny was that Justin is the real life sweetheart of Cameron Diaz who’s the voice actor of Princess Fiona.
“What in Grimm’s name?!” Obviously a reference to God and the Grimm Brothers, te latter the creator of most of the fairy tales.
There’s a couple more, which are pretty obvious, the star bucks reference, the stay puff marshmallow man, pretty woman, the references to different stomach medicines and love potion ix (number nine) references in the potions factory. Anyways, I’ll leave it to you guys to see it yourself and find the other Easter eggs on your own. Enjoy!
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004
GENE: Webpages
was planning to update the old campaign webpages when i found out that geocities has already taken the pages down due to inactivity. no more spelljammer, thorngate and cauldron websites. i swear, the agents of winter are working ovetime.
on the bright side, the rokugan community has set up a website wherein they submitted fan art. it's at http://rokugan.deviantart.com
i tried to submit one art rourke made but i still can't figure out how to add it to the rokugan page. anyways, it's in the default page and am still waiting for the rokugan page owner to upload it himself. for now it's at http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7410825/ and is gathering some interesting reviews.
(addendu: Ha! was able to retrieve most of the files for the website. Hopefully, I'll be able to retain them this time)
was planning to update the old campaign webpages when i found out that geocities has already taken the pages down due to inactivity. no more spelljammer, thorngate and cauldron websites. i swear, the agents of winter are working ovetime.
on the bright side, the rokugan community has set up a website wherein they submitted fan art. it's at http://rokugan.deviantart.com
i tried to submit one art rourke made but i still can't figure out how to add it to the rokugan page. anyways, it's in the default page and am still waiting for the rokugan page owner to upload it himself. for now it's at http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7410825/ and is gathering some interesting reviews.
(addendu: Ha! was able to retrieve most of the files for the website. Hopefully, I'll be able to retain them this time)
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Thursday, May 20, 2004
GENE: To blog or not to blog
was talking with a circle member yesterday and he said he was kinda sad that whenever he would check out the messages from the yahoogroup he would find that there are few messages posted on the group - fewer even than the already minimal amount the group has been receiving aside from the occasional forwarded messages, web links and weird quotes.
i guess the reason for that is that most of the members of the circle have either been busy with their own lives and/or have found another means of output in the form the blog. i found it curious though that even if basically, the blog is supposed to be a place where one can rant and share his thoughts to the rest of the world it has, it would seem, also have been a way of distancing one's self from the others who are already around him.
i don't know if this is indeed part of the goal of a blogger (to distance himself) when he first sets up his site, as each blogger has his or her own agenda when setting up his blog. but, just maybe, blogging is in itself a just a narcissistic and self-absorb way of saying: me! me! me! not really that good when you look at it from the other side of the mirror, eh?
another curious thing though, the yahoogroup tagline is 'a group of changelings in their fight against banality' - with the dwindling messages and blogs popping up, does this mean winter is winning?
was talking with a circle member yesterday and he said he was kinda sad that whenever he would check out the messages from the yahoogroup he would find that there are few messages posted on the group - fewer even than the already minimal amount the group has been receiving aside from the occasional forwarded messages, web links and weird quotes.
i guess the reason for that is that most of the members of the circle have either been busy with their own lives and/or have found another means of output in the form the blog. i found it curious though that even if basically, the blog is supposed to be a place where one can rant and share his thoughts to the rest of the world it has, it would seem, also have been a way of distancing one's self from the others who are already around him.
i don't know if this is indeed part of the goal of a blogger (to distance himself) when he first sets up his site, as each blogger has his or her own agenda when setting up his blog. but, just maybe, blogging is in itself a just a narcissistic and self-absorb way of saying: me! me! me! not really that good when you look at it from the other side of the mirror, eh?
another curious thing though, the yahoogroup tagline is 'a group of changelings in their fight against banality' - with the dwindling messages and blogs popping up, does this mean winter is winning?
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004
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