To continue on with my current theme of postings, living in a real city is awesome. However I have not found too much to do in terms of making friends outside of the office. There is a fair going on down here this week, I went one day but it was hell boring without having any friends of the female sort around so I went home, after first leaving and walking around downtown Fort Wayne for a while that is.

A Google map of the area I walked.

I need to go back with my good digital camera and retake some of these photos I took... lots of cool city shots and plenty of urban exploration that I didn't even bother with without my good camera in hand.

I also found a cool pizza place that I marked in my phone GPS as a place to check out later called 816 Pint And Slice. I'm in love with the historical district, I will be checking that area out for apartments when my current lease is about to expire for sure.

While on the topic of my phone, I enabled unlimited text messaging and data transfer for the plan, so if you were wanting to text me now is the time. The navigation on the phone is great because I can (and do) get lost easy. Once I give up I can just tell the phone to take me home and away we go.

O.K. so bored out of my mind at 2AM I go to Meijer and wonder "what can I waste money on?" and for some reason I walk out with a Nerf gun. Then the next day I take it to work and get the bright idea to shoot the girl I get to work with from across office and nail her right in the face... and then she yells at me without even looking to see who had done it! Yeah well, guilty as charged. I hadn't even realized our other programmer was recording this, he is pretty fast with the Macbook camera when he thinks something funny is about to happen apparently.

I went and grabbed the final volume of the Addams family on DVD, so now I have the complete set of the original TV series, which is still an awesome show. I also impulse bought the Invader Zim series, which is the best cartoon ever made. A friend let me borrow the first three seasons of Stargate Atlantis, and another gave me a copy of the Battlestar Galatica. Atlantis I already knew was awesome.

Battlestar however I pretty much hate. I will continue watching it since it was given to me, but I cannot stand how there is no humour in it at all, and the blond Viper pilot I hate her so much I wish she would die already. However the blond Cylon in that one guy's head, she is awesome - and blonds are not even my usual thing. Another thing that pisses me off is that after all the flashbacks about what happened in the previous episode, there are flashforwards of what is going to happen in the current episode. It is even more annoying as that one series of CSI that flashes the scene they end on at the next commercial break at the start of that segment.

As much as it pains me to say it, Ubuntu has finally started to shape into a usable distribution for me. For the longest time I saw it as this newbie piece of crap (which it still is) however now this 8.04.1, since the wireless works fresh off the CD on my Mac Powerbook G4 800mhz PPC, I have decided to tolerate it. The fact that it uses Gnome makes my life a little easier too since I do a lot of GTK2 programming, and that my usual desktop is Xfdesktop+Compiz, so it works rather similar to how I expect. I tried OpenSUSE at the recommendation of an IRC friend and while it has the nicest looking non-LiveCD installer I have seen, nothing in it worked and KDE4 was unusable.