star wars, old school computers

I had a really freaky dream last night that I was driving all crazy in a cartoon-drunken manner and doing things like dropping a person off and not even letting them close the door before I swerved away, bumper-car-ing all over the place while I parked and stuff. And the worst part about it was that I couldn't stop! I sort of wanted to just stop the car and get the fuck out, but I couldn't.

It was really stressful, so I woke up pretty worn out.

We don't get TV reception at my mother's place, so we decided to watch a really old tape of Star Wars: A New Hope over dinner. That movie kicks so much ass. I think R2D2 is what future iPods are going to be like. A gadget that does everything for you, plus has a personality.

My mom started talking about what computers were like in the late 60s in Japan. She was an office lady for some company, and she said there was a Computer Room that was huge and temperature controlled with big giant gears or wheels or something. And that big huge computer used to do something with a punch card, and keep track of everyone's salary. They used to also use a calculator that was so big and heavy, it had a handle. Kind of like a briefcase or something. And those were what everybody used, and that was the cutting edge technology. How times have changed.

Meanwhile, jesus christ, the stupid internet just keeps going down every few minutes, sometimes for hours. Since the internet is only working a fraction of the time, then I think we should only have to pay a fraction of the total cost. It's only fair.