I am catching up on a few things that I've been meaning to post.



I am totally lagging behind a thousand other weblogs with this one, but for those of you who haven't seen the Star Wars Kid yet, watch this!  (Requires Windows Media Player)

Some kid used his high school's video camera to record himself busting some serious Star Wars moves. Apparently, he forgot to remove the tape, and some punk came along and posted the footage to the internet. Within days, this video was circulating all over the world.

Enter another nameless punk(s), whose talent is exceeded only by his/her/their free time, and voilà: check out the Star Wars Kid Remixed!

At the center of this story is Waxy.org, who seem to be one of the first sites to post the video. Waxy went on to raise some money to compensate the kid (who surely is somewhat embarrassed by his sudden fame) by buying him an iPod. Actually, they managed to raise 421 donations, totaling $4,334.44! Wow! I've got some embaressing videos myself. Hmmm....



In other news, for those of you that discovered the billions of groovy internet radio stations that are listed on TastyCat (see this post): I've been informed that the links I previously gave you are being phased-out and replaced with this database-driven link. There is SO MUCH good stuff here: check it out.



I saw the Matrix this week. I did not plan on reviewing it, and I'm going to make this short. It was good. Lots of action. Here are the highlights, from my (geek) perspective.

My absolute favorite scene was when the Nebuchadnezzar (Morpheus's ship) was returning to Zion. Do you recall Zion's flight control center? There was this woman who was sitting at a computer with a holographic display. She would manipulate arrays of data with her fingers. Oh, I could watch two hours of that!

After Morpheus addressed the people of Zion, they busted out into this mass dance/ rave/ moshpit. All I could think was, ewwww. I mean, all those dreaded guys flicking their sweat everywhere! And I mean please, I know they are exiled to a city miles within the earth's core... but can't they manufacture some sort of laundry detergent down there?

Finally, toward the end of the move, Trinity brought down the power of a whole city block by hacking into the Matrix by using Nmap on a laptop running some flavor of Unix. I know they have to appease the hardcore geek crew who make up a large portion of the first Matrix movie's cult-base, but didn't you find it a bit, well, un-futuristic that Trinity could defeat the defenses of the Matrix (AD 2199) with a few commands on a Unix box?!

UPDATE: Apparently I'm alone on this criticism. It seems that Trinity's exploit has generated quite a favorable buzz on the internet. Even The Register is commending the Matrix's producers for "the first major motion picture to accurately portray a hack." Right.



And finally, for those of you who have been reading Super Fast Computer for some time (or those who are bored enough to read the archives), you surely will remember the Computer Geek Goddess. Well, I'm prepared to give you an update.

She's back in Montreal, and doing very well, thank-you-very-much. It seems that she met a lucky bo in South Africa that may (or may not) be in her future plans. As for my marriage proposal, while she did not directly turn me down, the best that I could get out of her was, "Who knows? Maybe one day".

Have no fear: this is one geek that does not give up easily.