This temporary position happened to coincide with the host of their external sites, ValueWeb, merging with Hostway and moving their servers to a different city… and they claimed the machines would only be down 12-15 hours. It turned out to be over 3 days with no external site or company e-mail, but what’s the difference, really? I’m glad I’m not hosting a business with them, I’ll say that much.

While some of it’s frustrating at times, I’m getting to muck around with Applescript. Oh, and it pays the rent too!

I’ll happily admit that I got pretty choked up when Optimus Prime was introduced. Lots of old memories and feelings came flooding back, mostly connected to his death in the 80′s movie. I was too young when it was in theaters, but I watched a whole lot of reruns and VHS a few years later, and I was asking for an Optimus Prime toy before I could properly pronounce his name. Odimus Pry could, to my mother’s frustration, potentially refer to Optimus or Rodimus.

Michael Bay’s movie did justice to my Transformers memories, and that gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling inside. It kept surprisingly close to canon and closed in a way that could either open it up for a sequel or simply tie it in as an alternate opening for the mythology. I do hope to see a sequel, perhaps with Leonard Nimoy returning to reprise his role as Galvatron. If not, I’ll still be adding this one to my DVD collection.

P.S. Ratatouille is awesome. See it. SEE IT.

Many creatures in nature collect what they see as scarce resources. If it might make their lives easier or better or just more fun later on, they’ll drag it back to their nests.

If I were living out in the wilderness in a cabin with no modern amenities or contact with the outside world, what would I do? If I had enough food, water, etc. to last me for a bit, I might wander the forest for 8 hours. Let’s call this my work day. Perhaps I pick up 3 shiny rocks and a really cool stick. This would be my pay for the day of work, yes? So if I pay for a Nintendo DS or a Video Card or some other materialistic object for my own enjoyment, that’s my day’s work.

A human creature whose needs are satisfied will fill their time by collecting objects for their own enjoyment, like a raccoon hoarding bits of shiny metal. “Materialistic” people do the same thing that any animal will do, and I really don’t see anything wrong with that. As long as one’s needs are met first, why not have fun with the rest of your abstracted money/time? It’s only natural!