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2004/08/15
 23:53:06

It was a pretty relaxing day. Although it's starting to get humid again, which isn't fun. I'll probably turn on the air conditioning and that means should clean the cottonwood off the condenser soon. Maybe it's time to acquire a hose.

Started off the day with Salem, which was good. Then Dave and I realised neither of us had much to do, so we went and looked at the wiring he spent all day working on with Ross on Saturday. It looks good guys. Then was home to see that Bethel's network connection was down. Oh well, not much I can do. Sat around for a bit just reading stuff.

After a few hours Dave and I went to go see The Bourne Supremacy, which I thought was a good movie. It was an interesting balance between explaining and allowing the viewer to figure it out, but I thought it made for a more interesting movie. The shakiness didn't really bother me. It was a little overdone and I can see how a couple certain scenes could annoy people, but the cool part was you were effectively watching the scenes from a bunch of perspectives at once. The odd focusing annoyed me a bit more - it's unusual to see the side of the face in focus but not the eyes. In some places it did fit, but others seemed out of place. What actually annoyed me the most about it was the copy serial dots. They're noticable enough in a normal movie, but when the movie is cut down to fractions of seconds and you're trying to track that, they're a lot more noticable. If they would have stuck with yellow instead of red it wouldn't be near as bad...

Now Bethel's network connection is up again, so I'm responding to emails. I hope I can finish up these projects soon, and then it's a while of keeping strict hours. Sometimes it's annoying having to test stuff while people aren't around (I suppose I could test during the day, but I don't think I'd be friends with the Help Desk people for long).