Spring 2005 semester
722 Object-Oriented Programming
622 Computer Networks
A little help from anyone would be nice.
Snowdays
It’s snowing! Winter finally makes her presence known.
IMDb bottom 100
Pete over at APCB, the initials to the best named blog, ever, lists the movies he’s seen that are in IMDb’s bottom 100. I’ll do the same, but I find it a little bit unfair to try to match a professional blow by blow.
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Bats — And I found this one interstingly hilarious.
Iron Eagle II
Jaws 3D — They used the 3D gimmick as an excuse to send a shark at you.
Tarzan, the Ape man
Jaws, The Revenge — Must be a shark thing.
Hercules, in New York — Saw during a bout of insomnia. Who knew that Arnie with a dubbed vocals could be so funny? Why not his own?
As you can see, I like watching quality films! Although, honestly, I have partially seen plenty of the others on the list, but these are the ones I actually sat through.
Codename: Amy
Codename: Amy. An interesting blog found via the infamous Fleshbot. It’s just a bunch of pictures of a woman. Blonde. Young. Professional. It is a very narcassistic in that the pictures are mostly self portraits taken via a phone cam. Some of them even feature her naked. It is a thought provoking blog.
Ding-dong! The witch’s dead!
Finally, after making the latest version of the Amazing Race close to unbearable to watch, Jonathan and Victoria have been eliminated.
I started out enthusiastic about the Amazing Race, but lately it has been a pain to watch. I think that it is because there are not many likeable teams left. It’s been since Thanksgiving that the hotties have not been around. Even the old couple were fun to watch, but now there is no team that makes me want to root for them. There are even no teams that make me want to root against them. They’re all either boring or bickering. I can’t stand the fact that the majority of teams are quarreling. It is a turn off when every one of them yell at each other. It is tough to watch.
Alternative Radio
With the demise of WHFS, I suggest you check out 89.7 (WTMD) or 103.1 (WRNR) for the spirit of HFS. In fact, 103.1 is filled with former members of HFS.
Battlestar Galactica
Last year, I had TiVo’d the miniseries well ahead of its broadcast on NBC last week. At that time, I did not like the touches they had done. Starbuck a girl! Boomer an asian girl! Cylons as humans clones even?! Hrmph! Not to my liking.
Well, this year it has become a full blown TV series. From the first two episodes, I like it better. I had seen some of the orignal series and now beginning to understand why they set up the story line like this. The original was one long story arc: find Earth and the lost tribe of space humans. This one tries to do the same. I must stay tuned to see if they can do it. Set Tivo.
House of Flying Daggars
All movies in the end are love stories none more so than House of Flying Daggars. With that title, you would expect a return to Kung Fu theatre. To wit, “Damn! Those house of house of flying daggar dudes rank right up there with five deadly venoms!” Alas, it is not happening. I was bored to tears by this movie. The last time someone throwing side kicks up some dude’s head put me to sleep, David Carridine was walking on rice paper. I think the art house kung fu flick is now dead. Bring back Bruce Lee. More martial less art!
2 of 5 stars.
Why I thought I needed an AirPort Express
Decided today to buy a Apple AirPort Express. I wanted it in order to achieve two goals. First, to hook into the stereo in my den to stream music with iTunes. Second, to solve the perplexing problem I have been having with my wireless network. Actually, I think the second goal the more important of the two. Ever since I got DSL and set up a wireless network, I have been having trouble using it. I believe it is the layout and construction of my condominium which makes it troublesome.
Here’s how it goes. My desktop computer (Win95-233 MHz PII!), dsl modem, and wireless router reside in my office, a back room on the upper floor of the condo. The furnace sits to its front and side, basically centered on the second floor, acting as a big metal sink soaking up the wireless signal. Another aspect of the building is that it uses the cement board in floor to dampen sound, but it also dampens the wireless signal to the bottom floor. I am limited to 50% signal strength outside of my office. Not much of a signal coming downstairs, and a washed out signal in my bedroom at the front of the second floor.
I bought the AirPort Express to alleviate some of these problems. I wanted to set it up to increase the range of my signal. So I placed it in my den/music room to take advantage of line of site to my bedroom and to have some signal spill down the stairs. It took me 2 hours to get it set up correctly. At first, I set it up as a client to the wireless network. That was not what I wanted. I searched the internet and found this which helped, but was confusing. When I was setting the AirPort Express up to use WDS, I was searching using my wireless network which caused me to continually fail the configuration updating. One tip: if you try to do this, when updating the configuration of the AirPort Express select it as the network you are updating. Once I got that correct and it was extending my range, I had problem connecting to the internet. This had to do with using a bad MAC address. I am still confused about what the right MAC address is. I saw on my router configuration 2 different MAC addresses. I don’t know why the one I am using works, because it isn’t one of the two. Has it worked?
Achieving my goals has not happened. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe I haven’t tested it enough, but I still receive sucky signal strength in my bedroom and down stairs. Rats!