Alfred Adler:”It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” [Quotes of the Day]

(at least I didn’t screw it up today)

Tom Robbins: “Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.” [Quotes of the Day]

Not much to say. Big congrats to Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki for Spirited Away. It was most deserved (if you haven’t see it, do so when it gets re-released for getting an award). I still think the Kaufmans should have gotten best adapted screenplay. And it was cool to see Pedro Almodovar win an Oscar. More commenting if it strikes me later.

So, not more than an hour or two after putting the mouse to rest I look up to see (insert dramatic pause) ANOTHER MOUSE staring at me. I think they must use the same tailor because their outfits looked exactly the same. Now I’m paranoid, I think he’s going to want revenge for the death of his brother. I hope I can sleep okay tonight. I’m bringing out the weapons of mouse destruction and picking up even more tomorrow. Forget watching CNN, the war of the moment is happening in my apartment.

I probably should have figured there’d be more than one, because people have told me that there’s NEVER just one. I was hopefull though. More reports to follow.

I came home from Target today to find that the mouse was the victim of its own curiosity (or maybe clumsiness). There was a glass mixing bowl with about 1.5 inches of salty water in it sitting on my counter from making rice balls last night. In the water was floating the mouse, I’m assuming dead. So I figure he was either looking to see what was in the bowl, or fell while trying to get to something else. In either case, I am now (hopefully) mouseless. I do a dance of mouseless joy.

For some reason I feel slightly better that it wasn’t a trap that I specificly put out for it that caused its demise.

Oooo. I just found the disc for my copy of Sam & Max Hit the Road. Bah. It’s for the PC and I remember having a hell of a time getting it working (and I don’t even wanna think about getting it running under VirtPC). And there IS a mac version of the game. Anyone have the CD-ROM of it and willing to make an image for me? I wish places let you trade in one OS version for another. Though, if I were to get this I’d also have a new copy of Day of the Tentacle that could run on the mac. Anyone ever play the Indiana Jones game in this pack? Any good?

Earlier tonight I started working on ripping more CDs. I’d had a stack by the G4 for ages. Here’s where I’m at now.

• Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence (cd single)
• Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus (cd single)
• Depeche Mode – Violator
• Depeche Mode – Black Celebration
• Depeche Mode – Music for the Masses
• Depeche Mode – Some Great Reward
• Depeche Mode – A Broken Frame
• Depeche Mode – Construction Time Again
• Depeche Mode – Speak & Spell
• Adam Ant – Antics in the Forbidden Zone

The last one snuck in there becuase I’d been listening to it on my laptop earlier. So many good tracks.

I’m enjoying Gunparade march quite a bit for a show based on a video game. The only complaint is the show has a tendancy to go from quite lite to quite serious in two seconds time. I feel like I’m being continuously set up for a fall lately. But beyond that it’s a pretty good show. Very character driven, which I like.

Over on GameGirl Advance there’s a post about Game Blurring.

Game Blurring
Today, Jane was playing on a console. In the game, evening was falling, I saw a spotlight sweep the ground near her feet. “Look out!” I thought, “You’d better dodge that beam!” But then I blinked – the light came from a lighthouse; Jane was playing Animal Crossing and I was thinking of Splinter Cell. [game girl advance]

I do this all the time. In fact I was doing this with Animal Crossing the other day. I had to wash some chick’s car and she insulted my clothes. I wanted to just hop in that car and start driving around time like in GTA:VC. It would be great. All the animals in that town are completely insane. They take each other’s stuff, give things they are borrowing to other animals, insult you in snide ways. They need to be taught a lesson! Where’s my chainsaw?

So I found an old floppy and gave it a try. I think it came out okay. I really didn’t think it would work all that well but it did. It still looks pretty cheesy though. And as elthar said, it’s the ugly Enterprise-D.

Oh well, the things you’ll do when you can’t sleep. Time to go and start counting paperclips.