Yesterday

Yesterday was the first time I have gotten up early, by my own free will and volition, to get something done, in who knows how long.

I got up at 7.15am, took a shower, and went to catch the 151 bus with Marissa's headlamp. Even tho the bus came a few minutes late, it got me to granville and hastings about 5 minutes ahead of time, however that works. I walked down to Waterfront station, and met Marissa and her group of campers from SFU's OOC and PIRG. I was going to leave after dropping off the lamp originally, but I had a cinammon bun, caught the SeaBus over to Lonsdale Quay with them, and saw them all off to the bus. I took pictures with a digicam along the way, so I'll post those up a in a bit.

While I waited for the SeaBus back, I got a cup of hot chocolate. Went back, got on a 160 bus, thinking that I could get off at Holdom and Hastings, but no, the bus doesn't stop to let off passengers normally! Argh! How evil is it to trap people on the bus? Eventully at Sperling and Hastings somebody else was getting on the bus, so I got off there. Stupid Translink. Caught a 135 back to Holdom and Hastings, and walked up to Jon's place. In the park at the back of Capitol Hill elementary school, I heard something beeping, it was a cellphone, batteries nearly dead. I picked it up, and found a home phone number on it, and called to say I had the phone. I said the batteries are about to die, my number is 604-339..." then the phone died. I'm trying to find a charger that will fit, so I can charge the phone up to call the owner.

At Jon's place, I set up a Linux router running Slackware 8, while watching all of Serial Experiments Lain. That is a freaky show, but really neat in some ways. I like their computer systems!

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DJ Armin Van Buuren - Live at Club O 18 03 2000:

(Catchy tune)
This is da SOS.
Sound of Saturday!
(Catchy tune)
Raise em up!
Raise em up!
(Catchy tune)
Raise em up!
(Extra Catchy tune)
DJ Armin van Buuren!
...

This piece really rocks. It's got a really nice beat, plus great synth work.

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Just thinking. Not having Marissa to talk to, makes me lonely :-(.

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Armin Van Buuren - Live at Club O 18 03 2000 Today

I had a meeting with Norm and Mick, about our business idea for a web development/hosting/programming company, and had lunch, before going back to work.

In research presently, Tom has me working with a pair of USB webcams, trying to do some funky video stuff. We wanted to get four webcams working together originally, but we can only get two going together so far. I need to see if I can find another pair of identical cameras to use. Then we will get stereoscopic webcam vision on the FakeSpace system once I write a little program for it. Hopefully the other researcher is going to stay at TechBC as well, and I can see about getting another job in Research!

On my way home today, I stopped firstly at FutureShop Metrotown to buy a blank DVD-R. They had Verbatim DVD-R's on special, for $14.99+tax each. Then I got a 130 bus up to Hastings, got a Slushie, bought a DVD-ROM drive and some USB D-brackets at Fly Computers.

Then, I went to Mac's on Holdom and Hastings, and finished the process of returning the cellphone that I found yesterday. The owner's parents were happy to have recovered it. Their son, who is 17, and attends the high school at Canada Way, has lost four cellphones including this one. I guess this is my good deed (mitzvah) for a while, since I don't actively seek to do anything good for somebody most of the time. I generally just go, and if I feel like it, do some random act of kindness.