Dave Kellam

Right, it was supposed to be a day off. I went to bed at four, expecting to sleep until noon at least. The phone woke me up around 9:30 and a voice told me that I was wanted at the course soon. Bah.

Afterwards, I ended up going out to see Star Wars. I watched it awhile ago on my computer and was aware that the movie itself is awful. But the look of it on the big screen combined with the sound is amazing. Visually stunning, verbally challenged. Lucas could have handed me the script the night before he started filming and I could have come up with better dialogue. It doesn’t help that two of the principals seem like they wouldn’t be able to act their way out of a box in this movie.

That was three days in a row of being up before the sunrise to be at work for 6am. It’s not that it was difficult, I’d just rather be in bed. They let me off on the early side; it was a tournament day with more people than usual on (just to get things opened up quickly). So, I chilled for a bit and took off with Cameron to hit up a Bruce’s party near Bowmanville. Work hard for a few days and party harder. It appears that I became obsessed with the fire at some point, judging from the number of pictures I took. Lots of fire. I’ll sort through them and post a few later.

It looks like the exploding whale has been around for a long time. Apparently mixing dynamite and whales isn’t the brightest idea.

It’s not foosball, nor soccer, it’s pegball. Another internet game that will keep you entertained, for a few minutes.

Mozilla has gone gold, 1.0 baby. Standards compliance, people who listen to bugreports and fix them, what more can you ask for? Go get it.

I ended up watching SLC Punk last night. I’m sure that some people will find dozens of clichés and such buried inside this movie, impacting their overall enjoyment. If you’re going with plot, the movie isn’t really that good. If you’re going for comedy and subplots, it was great. That is all.

Here’s a nice theme for mozilla, it’s the one I’m using right now. I’ve been enjoying mozilla; the tabbed browsing, pop-up killer, sidebars. You can make groups of bookmarks too. Say you had five news sites that you visited every morning, you could bookmark them together and open them all up at once in tabs.

I ordered some singles on vinyl from gbv, they came promptly and I was impressed. However, I don’t actually have a record player. Small problem. Something to seek out during the summer months, and an amp and some speakers.

Not a whole lot going on. I have three operating systems installed; windows – working but on the g: drive, mandrake linux – installed but not booting properly, and beos, working but no internet. So, I have some things to play around with. I’ll probably be spending most of my time in windows for awhile longer.

After I arrived home this aft, the weather proceeded to produce thunder, lightning and borderline torrential downpour. By the time I had to head back to work it was bright and sunny. The extreme amounts of rain caused them to close the course right as I showed up. That water also turned the range into a giant sponge. No picker, I had to walk around for about three hours in the sun on a giant sponge with two handpickers. It was shit. Makes me glad we usually have the motorized picker, so much easier.

I got off work sometime around 9 last night, in again at 7 this morning. It’s tournament day, tons of people. The morning draw ended up getting cancelled after a couple holes, thunder and lightning and whatnot. I had to drive a cart through sheets of rain looking for stragglers. Now I’m home for some food and an hour or two of chill time, then back in at 3 for a range shift that I took for someone else. It adds up to a 12 hour work day.

Well, I ended up only having two days off instead of three (i took someone’s shift today). The two days I had were spent fucking around with the computer. I decided to mess with partitions and install Mandrake Linux. I really tooled around my box, ending up with a fresh windows installation and weird drive letters. I now have windows installed on my g: drive, it’s kind of weird. Mandrake never really ended up working. I don’t think the boot loader was calling the partitions right and I think the linux partition was crossing the 8gb boundary, which I don’t think it particularly likes. However, I didn’t reinstall Office, I’m going with OpenOffice.org, Eudora and Mozilla to see how I get along without it. Clean installs are nice, they just take awhile to get things back. There were a couple things I forgot to back up like contacts in outlook and my bookmarks.

I picked up a couple of new optical drives as well. I used to have a dvd/cdr combo drive, but I was starting to get a lot more burn errors. I picked up a Pioneer 16X DVD drive and a LiteOn 32X cd writer. The dvd player is slot load, which is kind of cool and the cdr is a whole lot faster than my last one (<4 mins for a full burn comparted to >15).