So another boring weekend\’s upon us. I don\’t even know why I look forward to the weekend all week long. Nothing ever happens. Instead, on the weekends I should look forward to the weekdays and…uh, that\’s not good either. Hmmmm…what should I do tonight?

Looking for a way to spice up your regular old keyboard? This is just the thing. Heh heh, now I can have more glowing lights to annoy my roommate when he\’s trying to sleep.

Jason came down to Irvine to visit today. A whole bunch of us went to the new Downtown Disney, next to Disneyland. I really didn\’t want to go to any place that Disney owned, but there wasn\’t anything else to do and Jason is leaving for Utah on Wednesday. At the very least we could freak out the tourists.

Anyway, we got to Downtown Disney around 10:00. Eh, I wasn\’t impressed. Just a lot of pricy stores that didn\’t interest me. Then again, it is Disney, so how much could I expect? There was an ESPN Zone, a Rainforest Cafe, and a House of Blues (or as George Carlin puts it, the \”House of Lame White Motherfuckers\”) that was closed for a \”private party.\” There was the biggest Disney Store I ever saw, and a pretzel store with a line stretching out the door. The coolest thing was the big Lego store, which had a ton of cool Lego sets. That reminds me, one of these days I want to get a Mindstorm set and build some wicked robots.

We decided to hang around the ESPN Zone and play some of their overpriced arcade games. What\’s with that anyway? I remember when arcade games used to cost 25 cents, 50 at the most. Now every game costs $2 and there\’s a timer so you can only play for a minute before you have to fork over another $2 to continue. Never going back there again.

So Downtown Disney\’s nothing special, nothing you haven\’t seen before. It\’s just another way to squeeze those last few dollars from tourists walking back to their cars. Afterwards we went to the Denny\’s near campus and ate and talked for an hour. Jason was leaving in a few days and we won\’t see him again for 2 years, and that was kind of sad. But oh well, these things happen.

Microsoft Says Rival Linux Has No Future, So Linux Industry Will Stop Now

Chastened Linux executives pledged to stop their \”crazy dreaming\” and disband their efforts Wednesday after an executive from Microsoft proclaimed Linux was doomed, and openly questioned whether the free, rival operating system should exist.

Well, it\’s all over. I guess I should delete my Linux partition.

Here\’s one guy\’s amusing, sarcastic account of his trip to the Metreon in San Francisco.

ACTUAL CONVERSATION WITH HUMORLESS SONY DUDE
Hi, I was wondering about Aibo\’s power source and thermal displacement.
Certainly, Aibo is powered by a lithium-ion battery, lasting from 1-3 hours
between charges. Huh. A lithium-ion battery seems kind of weak to power the
laser. Laser?
Yeah, doesn\’t it have a laser mounted in its the head.
No. It has a camera mounted in its head.
Oh. My mistake, thanks.

Months after the presidential election we finally find out how much George Bush lost the election in this article in LA Weekly. Personally, I think it was the most pathetic election ever. Bush won because of a Supreme Court decision! That\’s like the kid who loses the student body president election, then whines and complains to the principal until finally he\’s declared winner instead.

Last night we went to Alejandro\’s for burritos. We parked next to a lowered Honda Accord with a huge spoiler: the hood had 2 locks on it and the door handles were gone, so that the door surface was completely smooth. ??? Some people are really weird.

A French photo magazine has a rumor about Nikon\’s successors to the D1 digital camera. One model has a much larger buffer memory and another has a 5.3 megapixel CCD sensor. Of course, you know they\’re going to cost a small fortune.