...and running. and it could be my imagination, but it seems zippier today. of course, there are not many people in the building using the Net, but we'll see.

i'm sorry if the day and 1/2 absence of both ATDP servers caused inconvenience for any students or TAs. i had no idea the network outage was planned, and will complain to the campus netgods that next time they really ought to give sufficient warning.

random item #1: so i got up at around 1:30 p.m. today... since Angel persisted on staying at my office until 4 a.m. last night! (downloading MP3s and burning CDs) and since he lives with me during the summer, i had no recourse but to stay as well. but this was okay since it was a Saturday evening anyway. lol. it was kinda like this for us last summer as well, but then, it was because we were really into playing network Age of Empires.

random item #2: so anyway, it's a perfectly beautiful and balmy summer afternoon isn't it? so why am i sitting inside this office noodling around on the computer? ah. journals to respond to, weblogs to read, and TA reports to wait for. (yes, TAs, I need your student reports e-mailed to me no later than midnight tonight, please.)

random item #3: watched Shaft with Angel yesterday afternoon, while the T-Hall subnet was down. it was the usual Hollywood shtick -- somewhat bloody but not grauitously so, peppered with vile but funny language ('weak plot' according to A), but overall, entertaining enough. good enough for a matinee showing. the guy who plays Peoples Hernandez totally stole scene after scene ("Why'd you flinch, puto?!" lol!) but Samuel L. Jackson was marvelous as Detective Shaft ("It's my duty to service this booty..." lol!), and it was nice touch to have Richard Roundtree, the original Shaft, in the film itself. overall, a droll tidbit to while away part of a slow Saturday afternoon. i would've wanted to watch Titan A.E. or Chicken Run, but my companion wasn't into animation, hehe. anyone want to join me, David, Daniel ("Little Hunter"), Angel and me to watch Gone in 60 Seconds in downtown Berkeley?

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