Deutschland, movies, cd's, and papers..
I slept in this morning. It felt good. Yeah, I blew off Gelnaw on the breakfast ride this morning, but he's been acting like enough of a twit lately that I'm happier not hanging out with him right now.

I stayed up late last night watching the idiot box. I caught a pretty good German indy flick on Bravo last night, Lola Rennt which was a pretty good take on the "What If/Alternate paths" theme. I won't ruin the plot for you, but I will say I recognized some of the places in Berlin (Sandy and I stayed at a pension right around the corner from one of the locations). Although I understand a little German, I was really happy to have the subtitles. It's a movie I'd recommend if you like low-budget indy flix, and besides Franka Potente's a hottie.

After sleeping in, I went and bought some new CD's. I picked up Rammstein's Mutter (is there a recurring theme??), 18 by Moby, and Duran Duran's Greatest Hits. Yeah, so Sirhan Sirhan may be seriously old school, but I happen to like many of the tracks and I haven't been able to get a copy of 1981's Duran Duran, which was their debut album, on CD..

This afternoon, after dutifully ripping the CD's into mp3's and downloading them onto my nomad, I caught the first half of the gator game. I did some coding to write a little tool to update ID3 tags while watching the game because the Nomad ripper screwed up the ID3 tags.. Sandy came home from studying around 5:30pm and said she wanted to dinner early, so we went ahead and left during half-time to go to La Fiesta. By the time we arrived, the Gators who had been up 19-0 when we left, were down 28-25. What the fuck??? Well, they won anyway.

After dinner, we went to Borders. I had a paper to write on Buddhism, and Sandy wanted to study a little bit more for her Sadistics [sic] class. I finished the paper up while at the store, then started working on some of my readings for the week. I wasn't done when Sandy announced she wanted to go home, but we left anyway.

When we got home Sandy wanted to walk stinky dog. After the walk I went ahead and finally watched From Hell, which I had rented a week ago, oops. It was OK, but a bit gory in some scenes; then again what do you expect given the subject matter??

While watching the film I also did a little bit of work for work. I'm trying to figure out how to get the linux yppasswd utility to use md5 instead of crypt for password encryption, but it's not working. As they'd say in Miami, "con yo".

Well, thats it for today.

Posted at: 04:27 on 29/09/2002   [ /diary ] #