To the best of my knowledge, the hurricane missed us completely. I was sort of sleeping through most of the festivities. I awoke to find that it was a touch gusty yesterday, and that is that. Now I’m sorry I even bothered mentioning it.

Yesterday I sat around editing 10 minutes of pretty weird video into a only slightly weirder 1 minute video. This is all for the audio portion of a 3D group project and is incredibly boring to read about. The group picked my edit. Go me. Umm…. NEXT.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was one of those movies that I certainly should have seen a long time ago but hadn’t. I watched it last night. Wow. It’s fairly overwhelming. Screening it at 3am doesn’t help much.

I’ve restarted my diet. This is a quarterly exercise where I eat rather well for a month or so. At around mid-semester, the stress ruins everything, and I resume eating garbage. I’m not currently a beef mess, but I’d like to get down to a weight where I could get away with one of those cool “Thug Life” tattoos on my stomach. I have to look good for my woman, and if there’s one thing Cacie approves of, it is me expressing my fictionalized urban roots.

I miss her so much.

In this post I put up a link to a music video for a song about Silence of the Lambs. It rubs the lotion on its skin…

Right now we’re sort of waiting to see what is going to happen with this tropical storm. I live out on the islands in Savannah so flooding is apparently a major issue. I’m not sure what to expect given my limited experience with living a foot above sea level. Last year was a breeze, but this is THE YEAR OF THE HURRICANE. Que cera. School has been called off for today, which is a little troubling.

On Saturday we had a small Texas Hold’em game. I won my entry money back, which is good enough for me. Adam sucked. Hard.

I’ve added some character and layout drawings to my portfolio, and the photo gallery is still being updated every couple of days.

Tiny TV reviews:

Lost - CPR doesn’t do that. Also neat.

Battlefield Earth - I came in halfway, and I’m a few years late to this party… So feral hill people can learn to fly Harrier jets by spending a week or so training on flight simulators which I assume were being powered by magic given that the gas required to run the backup generators would have run out 1,000 years ago. The munitions and aforementioned jets also lasted 1,000 years, as did an atomic bomb. A map to Fort Knox is left in a fairly obvious place in Washington DC.

Actually… here are the last two paragraphs of a plot synopsis of the novel reprinted here. This stuff was only alluded to in the film. Frankly, I’m disappointed they didn’t make the movie 30 minutes longer.

Then, in an audacious financial transaction to blackmail himself out of captivity, Terl “sells” Earth to Jonnie’s bitter competitor, and—unaware that Psychlo no longer exists—blasts off haplessly into oblivion, leaving his teleportation apparatus behind. Things get even stranger when an interplanetary banker appears, claiming Earth as collateral on a multi-trillion dollar Psychlo loan, now in obvious default.

Realizing that Earth is in dire jeopardy, and defenseless against a galaxy of alien civilizations ready to take over the “bankrupt” Earth, Jonnie rapidly learns economic, social and political skills, which turn out to be more powerful than any weapon Earth could wield against these potential foreign invaders. To this end, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler uses Psychlo’s former subject planets and gets them accepted as an alternate settlement of the loan, saving humanity once again. The story closes as Jonnie gathers a vast congress of planetary emissaries, and gets them to agree to universal peace.