TV makes Andrew’s brain…something something.

July 18, 2003

I swear, my Dad’s computer is like a never-ending Pandora’s box. Every time he opens it up, something else evil goes wrong. He’s had some issues with it since he performed an upgrade of the motherboard, CPU, and RAM, and I’ve come over here multiple times to help him out, and every time we apply the “duct tape” fix it seems to work and then craps out later. Well we may have finally solved the biggest of the problems, and it may be traced to a RAM module. He has three, however, and finding out which one is causing the trouble is turning out to be harder than expected.

As you can see, the site is getting a bit more colorful. I’m going to work this next week and see if I can actually make a new logo that works beter with the design I have now. I like the collage of pictures of me as a logo, but there’s something missing…or too much there. I’ll figure it out, eventually. I can’t do much on it now, however, since I’m at my Dad’s and all my pictures are at my Mom’s on a different computer than the website.

Speaking of being at my Dad’s, turns out that my quick oil change will be a little longer. I brought my car over here to go into the shop for an oil change and to get the new dipstick installed. Dipstick installed, you say? Why not remove the old one and put the new one in? Apparently it’s not that easy, my Dad tells me. Doesn’t seem like it would take that long nonetheless, but my Dad is also having some brake work done, which will take a few days. That car’s brakes are pretty…well, not bad…but not very sensitive. You have to push pretty hard on the brakes to make anything happen at all, something I’ve gotten used to, but my Dad doesn’t like it. I’ve had actual problems with the brakes in the past, but not recently. I guess that means I get a loaner in the meantime. Where’s that Escape key now, anyhow?

Julie was so right in the comment she left in my last entry. “Dune” is remarkably cool. If you want to make me happy, go down to Blockbuster and rent “Frank Herbert’s Dune” that has a copyright date of 2000 on it, not the David Lynch 1984 mush, and then watch it. well, that won’t necessarily make ME happy unless you tell me about it and then we can gab, but it’ll certainly make you happy. Certainly don’t watch the David Lynch version on TV. Do that and you’ll never understand Dune at all, maybe you’ll even hate it.

And “Urban Legends”? That’s not a scary movie. That’s as scary as “Scary Movie,” for that matter. Ha! Take that!

I saw an interesting story today. The British microbiologist who testified in front of the British government that he wasn’t the source that leaked information saying that the reports covering Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction were embellished turned up dead. He told his wife he was going out for a walk, and then he was found dead five miles away. Coincidence? Maybe. Who knows, really. This is getting ludicrous. There’s definitely something funky going on at high levels of both the American and British governments, but I don’t know what, exactly.

Well now that “Seinfeld” is on I’m having trouble concentrating on writing, so I have to end one. Sorry folks, but “Seinfeld” takes precedence in this case. Later, all.

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