Of Rabbit Holes....

[pyat]

... and I'm not talking about momentrabbit.

January 27th is that Livejournal "Down the Rabbit Hole" Day, where you are supposed to post as though you were living in an alternate version of reality. I don't think anyone on my FL did anything with it last year. I'm going to try and remember this year, since I have a dedicated icon and everything.

Also, this past week sort of was bleah. Insomnia, incredibly dry skin, allergies and so on. I crashed serious on Friday. I was unable to concentrate on anything, and had a horrible headache. I ended up spending most of the day in bed, catching up on the sleep I was unable to get in that very same bed the night before. Sigh.

velvetpage and I watched War Games last night, which made me feel thoroughly antiquated. Still, a curiously good movie, and I was struck by how "realistic" it was, at least for Hollywood. Ten years later, Hacker movies would involve slick hipsters blowing up things by furiously typing.

This morning, we designed a kitchen, and got a quote.

Comments

I dig it.

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Don't you start getting holey-er than thou on me, mouse. n.n

[relee.livejournal.com]

I'm so weird. I love holidays like Christmas and Valentine's day, but I find Rabbit Hole day to be terribly depressing. The first time I tried to participate in it, I wrote it out as if I was a social and friendly person instead of a cloistered recluse, and I felt just so TERRIBLE about how I lead my life...

I don't really know how to be social and friendly like the people I was emulating in that post, though. ;.;

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

Wargames is an excellent movie! It totally holds up. I watched it expecting an 80s kitschfest, and while the tech was out of date, the script was really tight and well written! I was thoroughly gripped by the ending sequence all over again.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the fact that they didn't make the high school kid a super-cool college sex magnet, though I would have appreciated a little more obvious role for the girl than, "I'm here so the main character has someone to explain things to, and a reason to hedge about what he was doing to the police!" Other than that, it was very enjoyable.

[bandersnitch.livejournal.com]

I loved how War Games remains such a good movie with the outdated tech.

And I dislike the animated computer representations they put on screen to make programming "look cool"

My ftp program doesn't look like the matrix with raining binary.

[shadow-maze.livejournal.com]

"Down the Rabbit Hole" Day?

Is that as if this is the alternate reality we are in now, and we are writing it as the "other" self looking at it or what? Sort of like Neo after he'd been woken to the truth?

I mean I do that sort of thing with Eidolon's Journals all the time, as an example, is that what you mean?

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Sort of, yes!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

*nods!* They had a trailer for a new War Games TV series supposedly coming out, and it looked awful. Slick, attractive 20-somethings with all sorts of stupid graphic interfaces, typing furiously.