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I am a geek.

I can't help it.

I am. although geeks now are way cooler than geeks before, and the sub-culture is far more fascinating and also more accepted, a geek is a geek is a geek.

so I was just perusing my downloads. I've been trying to download the ISO for Bust-a-groove and trap gunner because someone ganked both of those from me...

not cool.

so I figured I could find a rip somewhere.

yea on the first, still working on the second.

here's the problem. so I find the bust-a-groove and bust-a-move (which is the japanese version) ISO's and I rip them and try to play them on my mod'ed playstation. unfortunately I think I burnt out the motherboard or the mod chip a long time ago, so the burns don't play anymore.

think think think.

so I find three or four ps1 emulators online.

cool.

wait.

if I can find bust a groove, can't I find other games?

yup.

I have many many games for my PS1 - but they are CD's and they are at home.

I have now rediscovered Final Fantasy VII. I was pulled back into it because of the FFVII movie - Advent Children, but I forgot so much of the game, and now that I am 10 years older, I am picking up so much more from the game...

that and I'm probably so much smarter. :-P

anyhow, I have officially wasted 11 hours playing the game - it's nice enough to keep track for me.

the cool thing about playing on the laptop is that I can save states - which means I can save where I usually couldn't save - which is almost kind of like cheating, because I can undo mistakes, whereas I couldn't undo them before.

however, I only discovered this 9 hours deep... so I really wasn't able to use it to my advantage from the beginning. and I'm too far out to even consider back tracking...

too much time and too much happens and it's just too difficult to try to fix mistakes you made hours ago. it's only good for quick fixes, instant fixes. otherwise you just have no life... well, if you are spending that much time playing video games then I guess that's your life...

btw - since I know aeris(aerith) is going to die - I'm not even attempting to play her... straight up cloud, tifa, and barrett... and now, I actually understand how the materia works - I had no clue when I first started playing.

I'm out of ct by halloween. houston to follow... now I'm going to have to learn salsa and merengue and whatever other dances...

so let's say that you were just sitting around, thinking about stuff...

and suppose the following fact pops into your head:

-- you know you are better at some things than anyone you know --

it's not a matter of thinking you are better at those things than other people...

it's just a fact, you know it, and it just happened to pop in your head.

certainly there are things that are arguable, and you know this, but there are those things that are just plain obvious...

many times, these things are quantifiable. it's a matter of numbers, and those numbers just point out that fact.

Like my cousin who has held a track record at his junior highschool for over 20 years - it was recently tied a few years ago, but nonetheless, he was the fastest person at that age for that long... that may no longer be the case, but whatever - it happened and it was recorded. like all of those people that have accumulated world records, the fastest person, the oldest person, the strongest person, in whatever sub-categories... blah blah blah...

so let us suppose that you have a quality in which you know you are better than anyone... (for me this isn't the case, I was sitting here trying to think about things at which I was better than anyone and I pretty much suck all around. - but for argument's sake, let's just say you have a quality as such) so you're the best...

how weird is it to say... I'm the best [whatever] ever in the history of the world, no one else has ever achieved this.

that is nuts.

although most things that are achievable are usually beatable, over time - to be able to be the best at anything in the world should automatically make you rich, famous, powerful, influential, loved, respected, or any combination of all of them.

but it doesn't...

I'm thinking the one dude in the world that can do everything and do it better than anyone - he is probably going to live forever and he's probably hiding out...

he also probably knows the secrets of the universe...

so, there is, apparently, going to be a the princess bride musical...

I'm a little out of date, as this was announced august of last year... but considering I was two years late on the wicked band wagon, this is to be expected...

here's the thing...

I really love the princess bride - the movie - and I really love the book... (btw - s. morgenstern - doesn't exist, there is no sequel, and goldman is a genius for being able to make lorie and me look for it - despite the fact that we used the internet to try and find the "sequel" when the whole time we could have used it to discover the truth)...

but when they turn movies and books into musicals, it doesn't always turn out so well... for example - big, the secret garden, both great movies (and a great book in the case of the latter) but not so great as musicals... (I thought it the secret garden soundtrack would have been a good gift for lorie, but after listening to it... not so exciting...) wicked on the other hand, was a neat book, albeit slow, I understand what he was doing, but I wasn't enthralled... but then again, I like my books character intensive and I like to peel the layers of insight off whilst I read... and I also like them fun...

whatever...

I digress... if the princess bride musical ever gets produced, I'll probably see it if it is in the area...

whether if it is good or not...

"life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death... that's all."

"no more rhyming now, I mean it!"

I just now realized that the air compressor that I have (which I was supposed to use for blowing out my water main) can just as easily be used to fill up my nitrogen/compressed air tank for my paintball marker.

how awesome is that?

so, I really like how imdb has been updating their site... they have been making little changes over the years, and it is becoming more and more impeccable. I especially like how they are dropping the thumbnails nexts to the cast for movies, very helpful and convenient...

so I played with itunes a lot yesterday - I have yet to use the $50 in gift cards to buy music, since I have to either move the wireless router closer to the office or I have to get a usb wireless cardthe problem... there are additional complications to doing either, so I'm just going to sit on it until I absolutely need to do it.

but I digress... Itunes is neat - I'm not sure when cd companies started dropping the album/track/artist names on the CD (I assumed there was some database that got downloaded in the background and when itunes recognized the serial or whatever of the cd, it would associate that information to the cd) - but whatever it's cool, because I can rip all 400+ CD's lorie and I have without having to worry about the names and stuff... so helpful... I'm 5 cd's in... 400+ to go...

btw - I bought the suite of clones (dvd, dvd mobile, any dvd) they are dead useful - I didn't bother with clone CD because really, why would you need to clone a cd nowadays? if you have the CD - rip it to itunes, drop it in a playlist and then burn it again. ooohhhh.... it might take a whole minute longer, big whup. :-P

anyhow, I basically spent a good three hours in front of my computer yesterday (pushing the limit of when I have to leave my house to catch my flight on time) ripping alias season 4, a number of cd's, and organizing the 4500+ mp3's on my computer... I'm pretty sure I have some clean up to do, because that whole consolidate mp3's thing - yeah, not so helpful for cleaning up the ones that it copied. plus I have my video and audio files on separate hard drives, so I have to figure out how best to work through that since itunes copies whatever I add to my library to the designated file (yes - I know that you can turn off that option, but I get paranoid that I might lose files so I figure, what the heck - just copy everything over and over)... space really isn't an issue considering I have about half a terabyte of space on my pc...

lorie has introduced me to avenue q... as far as being on the ball with musicals, I am not. I was waaaaay behind on the whole wicked thing, and apparently, avenue q was the one that beat wicked out for the best musical.

crazy.

anyhow, it's on my ipod now, along with a number of other ripped cd's which if viewed by others would probably put into question my masculinity. to quote my roommate's former roommate "I didn't know that ipod's came in gay"

now if I could only find a copy of the boy from oz, then my musicals would be rounded off...

ahem.

...watched the first half of the two part macgyver legend of the holy rose episode... i couldn't remember watching it when eric told me about it, but after seeing the first artifact, it all flooded back to me.

that macgyver is so clever. I don't think I would have been able to make a plane out of bamboo, garbage bags, duct tape, and a cement mixer... let alone in three to four hours...

well... I should go to work now.