Easily Distracted

I sprained my ankle, today. Went for a run and it just kinda rolled over, sending me into the gravel and dirt.
…
*cough* lame! *cough*

Damn… Omega Pirate just totally kicked my ass.

No, the other kind, unfortunately. :’(

The box I shipped to myself from Japan just arrived yesterday. It was
amazingly undamaged. I had some winter clothes, shoes, books and other
boring stuff in there. But I also had my underwater housing for my IXY
camera and the gifts I got from my department. My department gave me a
nice ceramic lamp for my birthday and a Japanese curtain (‘noren’) for
my going-away party – so I guess they don’t hate me… but I’ll never
KNOW! < -- that bothers me.

Oh, and my coworker brought me back this freaky Thai statuette from his
business trip to Thailand (cuz I helped w/the English in his
presentation). When it’s not giving me nightmares, it’s pretty cool.

Today, I read and played video games. Ah, the good life. I finished The
Wheel Of Time Book 2, today. Sweet, only 9 more to go. …. ~ugh~

<geek>

I was looking for a minimal web browser to run on that computer I’ve
been setting up. “Dillo” is cool, and it’s super lightweight (thus
running easily), but guess what one of the main uses for this computer
will be? Hotmail. *shudder* Okay, so I had to find something that could
do more complicated websites and not require any more than 32MB of RAM.
Minimo looks interesting, but is at version 0.1. I chose Opera. Plus,
it supports mouse gestures, which I love.

Another note with that computer: Debian package management. I’ve pretty
much figured out apt-get, but a higher-level program
is recommended for package management: dselect. I’ve
never been more confused by something that should not be confusing, at
all! After not being able to figure out why it would not install the
packages I had selected (I tried maybe 5 times), I gave up and
apt-got them with no problems. Huh? I thought they
were suppose to do the same thing?

I read somewhere that dselect is the preferred method and just
works! Uh huh.
The first two bugs listed on the dselect man page:

1) The dselect package selection interface is confusing to some new
users. Reportedly, it even makes seasoned kernel developers cry.

2) The documentation is lacking.

</geek>

Steve needs box!

Oh my god…. today was going so well… until…

So I woke up earlier than usual, biked
to the gym and had a good workout w/my oldest stister. Then I went to
the pool for a nice, relaxing swim. My shirt, however, was soaked with
sweat from the workout. I decided I’d run it under the shower and hang
it up on some hooks to dry off somewhat when I’m done in the pool. I
have my swim, and it was also nice; mixed in with a bit of hot tub and
sauna to relax the muscles. I finish in the pool, and my shirt’s gone!
WTF! Who the hell takes a soaking wet shirt?!
AAAaargh… so pissed off. That was one of my favourite UNIQLO shirts I
brought back from Japan! >.<
Biked home w/no shirt.

I’ve really been enjoying my time of nothingness. Really, I
have. It’s
so welcome. I should try actually doing something, though. Anyways,
today, I killed some time browsing lj communities and such; I’ve never
really done that before. I can’t remember exactly how I found them, but
I found some that are practically exhibitionist communities. yes, I
joined them – who knows when I’ll be bored next? Maybe I’ll even
whip out the digi-cam and try some artsy self-portraits… – don’t
worry, I highly
doubt it.  eheh

And, on a related note, I can’t believe how many communities follow
this simple formula:
1) Look at me!
2) You’re pretty.
3) Thank you.

Nothing really wrong w/that, I guess….  always good to have
an ego-boost.

Anyways, I found one group in particular that is fucking
awesome:
ninjasvspirates

That’s
right.  It’s for people to talk about why a ninja is better
than a pirate, or vice versa; it’s a pretty tough call. 
Pirates
definitely have a unique fashion sense, and they’re allowed to drink
and have fun.  But ninjas… c’mon… they’re
NINJAS!  True,
ninjas probably only eat enough to give them sufficient energy to hang
their 30kg frames from ceilings using their thumbs – and even then,
it’s probably beans and tofu type substances – and not starve. BUT if
you take it literally, “Ninja VS Pirate,” the pirate’s fucking dead
before he gets his hand on his cutlass.

“But pirates have guns!” you say….

Example:

Pirate: “Oh shit!  A
ninja come to kill me!”  Pirate reaches for single-shot
handcannon….
Ninja: smoke bomb.  blow dart to the neck.  Ninjas
don’t miss.
Pirate: Dead on ground with gun
still in his pants.
Ninja: Gone.

And now, GeekyStuff…
I gave up trying Gentoo on a 166 w/32 MB of RAM.  I had it
installed from the liveCD, but when I did the following:
emerge -u portage

It commenced on a never-ending-page-swapping horror story. 
After
a couple days of it stuck on the same place in a configure script, I
just rebooted it.  But there was something wrong with the hard
drive, and linux wouldn’t fully boot.  Maybe I coulda fixed
it,
maybe not.  I just thought I’d give Debian a try,
instead.  I
think it’s more suited to the hardware.  So I’m currently
installing Debian.  At least I won’t have to compile
everything…. ^^

Oh yeah, I finally bought a gamecube.  Got one at the
pawn-shop for $80 CDN.  I’ve borrowed six games off my
friend:
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Zelda: Wind Waker, Resident Evil, Metroid
Prime, Burnout, Tony Hawk 4

I haven’t played all of them, yet, but I know they’re good
games.

I must buy Smash
Bros….. the greatest game on earth.