Entries this day: Dream Movie_tickets Nice Secret_Window_movie

Dream

12:33pm JST Wednesday 17 November 2004

I looked outside up at a billboard that said smvrfing a few times and I knew it must be a type-o, and was horrified that it might have been my billboard. Did I submit it with a type-o? I looked at the product they were selling and determined no - I had never sold that product; it was not my error.

The product was a hampster tube shaped like a ring, and it had no decorations on the inside of the ring, so Boss Lady told my friend to add pictures to it to spruce up the ring. I turned around and she was typing in commands on a computer screen and the hampster ring with a large radius was inside a glass enclosure, and an computerized arm was slapping stickers onto the inside of the ring. I was impressed that the robot arm was so versatile; it could select the right sticker, or maybe print the right sticker, put it in the right spot on the ring. Plus I couldn't even see the arm.

I was like, "how does it work? where is it?"

And she was all, "there, by the phone inside the enclosure."

I jokingly thought that if the computer arm is getting information by phone, it would have to repeatedly say, "ちょっと待って" and then "もしもし" over and over as it listened to what it needed to do on the phone and then did it. hahahaha! A robot arm talking on the phone.

Rene and Jesse were there; Jesse was complaining that OS X should be able to give users a useable map of the filesystem. I was like, "just use locate and updatedb," but he didn't seem satisfied with that solution; he wanted to see inside each file instantantly. "well, wait for the google desktop for OS X."

Movie tickets

5:27pm JST Wednesday 17 November 2004

It took me 1.25 hours to ride TJ Bike to Cinecitta, park illegally, debate his security while walking to the ticket windows, buy front-row-center movie tickets to _Secret Window_ for 9:15, walk back, find TJ well, and ride home.

On the way there, I carried TJ over an intersection on the pedestrian bridge.

On the way back, I almost smashed into the back of a bus while trying to merge with traffic to go around the bus. But I recovered and didn't even have to stop.

Haha; I like how I titled this entry "movie_tickets."

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Now, it's laundry and shower time.

Nice

8:27pm JST Wednesday 17 November 2004

I *just* made it onto Nambu line. As I was going through the ticket gates upstairs, the first people were coming up the escalator. I *busted* running toward the escalator, barely squeezed between the wall and in front of someone walking to the escalator and rizan down the steps, squeeped through the crowd and the doors were closing, but I got my arm inside.

Either drag my body to Kawasaki or let my ass in.

Secret Window movie

7:56pm JST Wednesday 17 November 2004

The movie starts in 2 hours, but Ikumi is texting me and it seems like she thinks the movie starts really soon. I'm working on my site, but I may go out there if she wants to chow before the movie.

2:01am JST Thursday 18 November 2004

Movie was pretty good. Good enough to see on video, but not really worth full feature price. It was just another, "wait, but if you're me, then who am I?" plotlines.

Suspenseful fo sho, but not too terrible. Ikumi said she may have problems sleeping tonight, but I'm sure she'll be okay.

We ate at Jonathon's in Kosugi after the movie. I'm thinking of more specifically writing Japanese journal entries. でも、大変です。