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So after I had dirtied my towel by wiping up some soda in Japanese class, I decided I needed to clean it, so I headed to the office to rinse it. I spent about half an hour there before I left for the train, and nothing much happened, though I bitched about the USPS, because, well, they'd pissed me off.

Eventually I left for the train station, and when I got about half an hour later, and with about half an hour until the train showed, I got an email from a coworker letting me know that, guess what? My packages had arrived. Gah, I think this is simply karmic balance. You see, in one of the packages were birthday presents for my mother and brother, while in the other package was the DexDrive I had ordered. A DexDrive allows me to transfer playstation save games to and from my computer, so I would have been able to transfer my Chrono Cross saved game over to Rincewind (my PowerBook) and use Connectix Virtual Game Station to play Chrono Cross for twelve hours on the train, which would have been very nice, as I haven't had any time at all to play it.

Where does the karma come into this? Well, I'd been taunting Pi about my "portable playstation" for the last week or so, and I think this is how the universe is getting back at me for taunting him, because now, instead of playing Chrono Cross on the train, I'm writing this on the train.

However, since my trip is about half way over, I've obviously done more than just write this. I also spent quite awhile reading Mac OS X developer documentation, and I'm now incredibly impressed with the system. I can't imagine why any sane programmer would want to develop for any other system. It's so well thought out.

I also watched the QuickTime trailers that Apple installed with OS X before I deleted them. Too bad my sound was muted in OS 9 and I didn't want to reboot to turn it back on. Let's see, these trailers included Charlie's Angels, Disney's Atlantis, and The Emperor's New Groove. First, The Emperor's New Groove looks completely ridiculous, while Atlantis looks reasonably serious and might be worth seeing. And then there is Charlie's Angels, which will succeed because it depicts cute women kicking butt. First, however, I must comment on the Video Game continuity of the movie. In the below image, we see clearly see Squall from Final Fantasy VIII during a battle on the Television, Drew Barrymore not dressed, and two boys with Playstation controllers in their hands. If you watch the rest of the clip, both of the boys are obviously supposed to be actively playing the game, because they don't immediately respond to Barrymore's presence. Final Fantasy VIII is a one player game! I kind of doubt this was a product placement, because it would have made more sense to have a placement for Final Fantasy IX, which comes out within weeks of the release of Charlie's Angels. Obviously, the producer in charge of Video Game Continuity for the movie was a lazy fellow. And oh yeah, the color of Drew Barrymore's Hair in this movie looks really good on her.

Speaking of beautiful actresses with red hair, there's a very pretty woman sitting in front of me who, who, according to what I've overheard, is an actress originally from New York. She has long red hair down to her low back and is very tall. Too bad she's marred her face with a nose ring and an eye brow bar, and I wouldn't be surprised if she had a tongue piercing too (Not to say that I have anything against piercings, just that her face would look much better without them.)

As nice as this is, there is yet more Karmic Balance involved. You see, she got onboard about halfway through. The people sitting in the seat before her were mentally impaired. I mean, really, very, impaired. When I sat down, they both turned around in their seats and said "Hi" or "Hello" to me. I said "Hi" back and proceeded to get out my laptop with them staring on until someone else sitting down distracted them. One of them also had a very badly scared or burned face, which isn't something that I would normally comment on, except that the contrast between that face and the actress is just another point of balance. When we were passing the Richmond Bridge, the conductor started talking about the nice view from the train. The conductor then mentioned that a worker had fallen 150 feet from another bridge that was in construction and was in the hospital. The conductor then mentioned that we'd be passing the C&H Sugar Refinery after we went under the bridges.

Some time went by and then we got to the refinery, and one of the retarded people said "Oh, that's the C&H sugar factory, that's where our brown sugar is made." Then the other one said "Did you hear about the worker who fell off that bridge? He's still in the hospital, I heard." It was almost as though they didn't know that that information was just acquired five minutes earlier, and hence they didn't know that the other also knew. What was even more amazing was that each of them reacted as though what the other person had said was news to them, even though they had both heard the information a few minutes earlier. I find this fascinating, but I got really, really tired of this, because it happened for hours. Oh, and they turned around and said "Hi" or "Hello" to me at every stop. I guess they thought I was a new passenger each time. I found myself really wishing I'd brought my Rio so I could drown myself in some music.

In other words, the beautiful actress in front of me who isn't talking much comes as quite a relief. I apologize for parts of this message seeming a little judgmental.