April 29, 2001

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I went to Islands of Adventure one last time yesterday, since our season passes expire May 1st, and then I'm off to college over the summer. Plus I had about $10 worth of arcade tokens to use up :) So needless to say I got a ton of DDRing in. I even had one 40 year old lady clapping for me (now that was interesting) and another time a crowd of about 40 people all in awe at my mad freestyle skillz (that or else wondering who the heck this guy making a fool out of himself was :).

The 2.4.4 Linux kernel was released the other day. In related news, out of the blue the first part of my soundcard configuartion now works, but it still fails on the second part. But it's really weird how it now all of the sudden partly works when I didn't even change anything.

In yet another step toward 1984, various retail stores have implimented BlueEyes, software that uses those cameras that are supposed to be used to spot shoplifters, instead being used to track consumer expressions and movements. It keeps tabs on how you react to instore promotions, and other things like that. So be sure to have a poker face whenever you go shopping, because you can never be sure who is watching for what anymore.

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