I can never use AOL when I want to. I always have to wait and wait for my sister to sign off. It's so annoying. Waaah! Whinewhinegripegripe.

You already know that part. Let's move onto the next lesson.

I should have gone a rented a movie tonight. I wanted to. I just didn't. I was too lazy. And now I'm bored with no one but myself to blame. Well...maybe Brian too. But that's a given. I could watch another Ranma 1/2 video I suppose...but then I might dream with subtitles again. I could read fanfiction again but I read through most of the good stuff already. The stuff that's left is just X-Men Erotica...and I'm sorry, that doesn't do it for me. I did read one or two of them though...they can be SO funny. It's like a bad porno with all your favorite X-Men doing each other.

Ooo, baby.

I could clean my room again. Or the dishes in the sink. But I don't really want to. My wrist hurts. I just wanna sit here and make my carpal tunnel thingy worse. Yeah. There's a party! Someone buy me a keg? Oh, wait...Social Dampening Field...my bad.

I noticed something cool about the Key The Metal Idol images I got the other day. One of them, the one of the Hitting People Bad Guy (As opposed to the MadMan Drooling Bad Guy), looks like Magneto. No...what obsession? No obsession here, really.

All the cool kids have Discussion boards now. Sandra got one, then Ray got one...I don't need another gadget. I have that chat room (Which is completely open to the public, by the way...). I don't need another gadget...but I must admit, they are so nifty I'm tempted. ...I wonder where THIS wagon goes...

I like to write programs. I decided this last night. I DON'T like to write programs that don't do something you can SEE. I'm learning assembly language in CS 220 and it sucks. I had to write a program that added numbers in hexidecimal and other annoying crap like binary...the catch was we never actually outputed anything to the screen. It was all stuck inside the computer. I was so bothered by this that I added little messages in the programs like "This is when it adds" so I wouldn't get so bothered by a screen full of nothing.

But I really like to write webpages. A lot. I have a little notebook that I carry around and draw stuff in and it'a about half full of notes, sketches, and designs for webpages. I actually have a frames-free version of this site in the works. I think it looks really cool so far. But I'm trying to decide where to post it...Geocities (AAAGGHHH!! RUN AWAY!!!) or AOL. Or just get another xoom address. The way this site is set up everyone would get tossed back to the main journal page...the framed one, everytime they left an entry of the journal, and that won't do.

Gee. That was dull for you, wasn't it. I'm sorry.

Better?

And now...a "quote" so long it had to be put at the bottom of the entry...

"Star Trek Lost Episodes" transcript.

Picard: "Mr. LaForge, have you had any success with your attempts at finding a weakness in the Borg? And Mr. Data, have you been able to access their command pathways?"
Geordi: "Yes, Captain. In fact, we found the answer by searching through our archives on late Twentieth-century computing technology."
Geordi presses a key, and a logo appears on the computer screen.
Riker: (looks puzzled.) "What the hell is `Microsoft'?"
Data: (turns to answer.) "Allow me to explain. We will send this program, for some reason called `Windows', through the Borg command pathways. Once inside their root command unit, it will begin consuming system resources at an unstoppable rate."
Picard: "But the Borg have the ability to adapt. Won't they alter their processing systems to increase their storage capacity?"
Data: "Yes, Captain. But when `Windows' detects this, it creates a new version of itself known as an `upgrade'. The use of resources increases exponentially with each iteration. The Borg will not be able to adapt quickly enough. Eventually all of their processing ability will be taken over and none will be available for their normal operational functions."
Picard: "Excellent work. This is even better than that `unsolvable geometric shape' idea."

. . . 15 Minutes Later . . .

Data: "Captain, we have successfully installed the `Windows' in the Borg's command unit. As expected, it immediately consumed 85% of all available resources. However, we have not received any confirmation of the expected `upgrade'."
Geordi: "Our scanners have picked up an increase in Borg storage and CPU capacity, but we still have no indication of an `upgrade' to compensate for their increase."
Picard: "Data, scan the history banks again and determine if there is something we have missed."
Data: "Sir, I believe there is a reason for the failure in the `upgrade'. Appearently the Borg have circumvented that part of the plan by not sending in their registration cards."
Riker: "Captain, we have no choice. Requesting permission to begin emergency escape sequence 3F ...."
Geordi: (excited) "Wait, Captain! Their CPU capacity has suddenly dropped to 0% !"
Picard: "Data, what do your scanners show?"
Data: (studying displays) "Appearently the Borg have found the internal `Windows' module named `Solitaire', and it has used up all available CPU capacity."
Picard: "Let's wait and see how long this `Solitaire' can reduce their functionality."

. . . Two Hours Pass . . .

Riker: "Geordi, what is the status of the Borg?"
Geordi: "As expected, the Borg are attempting to re-engineer to compensate for increased CPU and storage demands, but each time they successfully increase resources I have setup our closest deep space monitor beacon to transmit more `Windows' modules from something called the `Microsoft Fun-pack'.
Picard: "How much time will that buy us?"
Data: "Current Borg solution rates allow me to predicate an interest time span of 6 more hours."
Geordi: "Captain, another vessel has entered our sector."
Picard: "Identify."
Data: "It appears to have markings very similar to the 'Microsoft' logo..."

Over the speakers: "THIS IS ADMIRAL BILL GATES OF THE MICROSOFT FLAGSHIP _MONOPOLY_. WE HAVE POSITIVE CONFIRMATION OF UNREGISTERED SOFTWARE IN THIS SECTOR. SURRENDER ALL ASSETS AND WE CAN AVOID ANY TROUBLE. YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS TO COMPLY."

Data: "The alien ship has just opened its forward hatches and released thousands of humanoid-shaped objects."
Picard: "Magnify forward viewer on the alien craft!"
Riker: "My God, captain! Those are human beings floating straight toward the Borg ship - with no life support suits! How can they survive the tortures of deep space?!"
Data: "I don't believe that those are humans, sir. If you will look closer I believe you will see that they are carrying something recognized by twenty-first century man as doeskin leather briefcases, and wearing Armani suits."
Riker and Picard: (together - horrified) "Lawyers!!"
Geordi: "It can't be. All the Lawyers were rounded up and sent hurtling into the sun in 2017 during the Great Awakening."
Data: "True, but appearently some must have survived."
Riker: "They have surrounded the Borg ship and are covering it with all types of papers."
Data: "I believe that is known in ancient venacular as `red tape'. It often proves fatal."
Riker: "They're tearing the Borg to pieces!"
Picard: "Turn the monitors off, Data, I cant bear to watch. Even the Borg doesn't deserve such a gruesome death!"