Okay.. Aeon Flux.. Aeon Sux. There were loop holes you could drive a Mac truck through. And I don’t know about you. But when I’m sent to kill someone the first thing I want to do is have some hot “I want to kill you” sex. And then there’s always the “Oh my, you’re so shot and so sexy” snogging. Yum.

I kept churning it all in my head “What’s wrong with this movie? Budget? Dialog? Concept?” I narrowed it down *laugh* The concept is fairly sound. It needed better writing, better direction, and a budget. It was interesting to see Jonny Lee Miller do something though. I commented that Angelina Jolie must’ve really chewed him up. And they really should’ve kept more inline with Chung’s original work.

Stacia also noted how you can tell a good actor from a bad in a scene between Miller and Pete Postlethwaite where Postelthwaite only says “But, the DNA’s good.” and clearly out performs Miller by a mile.

Speaking of Stacia… she got a new hair cut and I have to say she’s a MELF (Mom Everyone’d Like to F…) Uhh yeah…

Anyone at all familiiar with Click Once? I’ve written about it in the past.

At work they’re talking about wanting to be able to PrePatch an install. Basically, if we ship CDs and find issues after they’re sent out they want to ability to have the install process phone home and see if it should update the install files BEFORE installing. Admittedly this sounds kind of odd and when our manager insisted that the Windows install (this actual install of the OS) does this we had to kind of tell him it was apples and oranges.

One of my co-works is all pissed off and insisting that we should put mroe effort into testing rather than band-aiding the issue. While I agree, I’m totally caught up in the puzzle and since I love doing tools, I’m on it.

My solutions is to make the Setup/Launcher a ClickOnce enabled assembly, or more likely the Systems admin tool that I’m working on since the idea is to have it be the center point of the system and to have it push installs out to remote machines. So, if the Admin tool is a ClickOnce application with the actual MSI file and data files as it’s dependent files in the ClickOnce manifest then I can have the install ( and the Admin tool itself ) updated each time it’s run. So before the system is launched the user would have the latest copy of the install.

Justin thinks I’m nuts. That it’s overly complex and not elegant. I’m thinking it’s much more elegant than writing an entire “prepatching” system ourselves. This would solve many issues at once like keeping the users database scripts up-to-date and such. I’m setting to work on my proof-of-concept now.

I’m waffling so much on the sale of the bus that I should run for office. “I’m selling it” “No, I’m not” “Sorry, yes I am” “maybe” “Okay, no”

The best firework display on the Fourth was when the neighbors mortar fell over and began shooting multi colored fire balls around the neighborhood. I thought I was going to die laughing. A blue fireball bouncing off someone’s car and whizzing up into the air cracks me up. Like Stacia said.. it was like some Harry Potter-esque spell gone bad.

Umm last boring bit… I zoned out on Google Earth this weekend while I was supposed to be reading up on Hidden Markov Models. I hit most of the Russian Naval ports and was just flabbergasted by the number of sunken and abondoned ships. Little fjords full of capsized rusting hulks. Some were just sunken at the docks. I heard it was pretty bad for the Russian Navy after things collapsed. That there were nuclear reactors in subs that were half removed just sitting in dry docks abondoned when everyone walked away. But it’s creepy to see it. It’s like looking down on some post-apocolyptic earth.

And.. I found a Tyhpoon Class sub docked just outside of Archangel! That was pretty cool.

Okay, that is all.