Aloha Mars

As of last week, I am the proud owner of the Futurama Volume 1 DVD set. Yeah, I know. Volume 4 is already out, and I'm behind the times. I ended up waiting until the first one went on sale. I'm not sure if I'll do the same for the rest of them, or, for that matter, whether those ever WILL go on sale. Anyway, last night, I watched the first seven episodes with commentary. There were some interesting things said, especially the unused ideas for the pilot. Some of the commentaries were better than others, though. For "Love's Labors Lost in Space," there were several periods where nobody said anything, and then they would talk about the animation. I'm sure that's interesting to some people, but I'm more into the story than the technical aspects. When I watch a commentary, I often see something on the screen that the commentators are totally ignoring, and think, "Hey, why aren't you addressing THAT?" That's probably common, though. I also watched the animatic, which was kind of cool to see, but difficult to watch. There was also a script for the pilot, which I tried to read, but couldn't get through. The thing is, if that script were online, I'd probably be all over it. I have a hard time reading things on a TV screen, though, and I was kind of tired anyway.

I had a dream last night that bethje and I went to a convenience store to buy some hot dogs and potato chips, and it ended up costing over $90. It turned out that we had gotten some kind of premium chips, which were really expensive. We had already eaten them, so we ended up having to pay, but I was really pissed off, and walked around some mall being mean to people.

Out on the free freeway

Why does Thomson West send the library multiple copies of the same supplemental pages for the administrative code? It's a mystery of the univarse, I suppose.

In my last entry, I forgot to mention another dream, or perhaps another part of the same dream. In this one, I was driving on the freeway in the northbound lanes, but a bunch of other cars were driving in the opposite direction in the same lanes. There were no collisions, fortunately, but I wondered what was happening. It turned out that they were re-routing the lanes, but they had apparently made no provision for the actual northbound traffic. It was kind of scary.

Fortunately, that didn't happen in real life. I DID get stuck in the snow while driving up bethje's driveway, though. I'm terrible at maneuvering through narrow spaces (like, say, a shoveled passage through the snow).

And, finally, here are the results of an intelligence quiz that I got from zaph:

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