Monthly Archives: May 2001

Tim and friends just came barging through looking for Matt. Unfortunately, Matt is asleep; he has to work tomorrow.
Oh yeah, he def. wants Matt.
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While Wargames was going on, Heathers was on another channel. I haven’t seen that movie in ages. I’m going to have to rent it sometime.
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Dabney Coleman (he was McKittrick. the head of the IS department for NORAD; did they call them IS departments back then? Anyway…) was also in another of the Computer Games Movie Trinity, Cloak And Dagger. Unfortunately, I can’t get a link between either movie to The Last Starfighter.
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Some of thememorable quotes for the movie are good too.
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Goofs for
WarGames (1983)
Continuity: The reservations for two airplane tickets to Paris are under Jennifer’s name, but at NORAD McKittrick tells David he’s got reservations to Paris and demands to know who he’s working with.
Continuity: David still has two lives left when his game of Galaga is “over.”
Continuity: The gum swaps between the hands of the woman that McKittrick gives it to.
Continuity: The General yells “Send out the F-16s,” but stock footage shows F-15s taking off.
Continuity: The code to launch the missiles is “CPE1704TKS” when displayed on the big screen, but it is “CPE1704JKS” when printed above the manual launch control.
Factual errors: When receiving and sending text from his home computer, the modem RD and SD lights do not flash. On a 300-1200 baud modem, the flashes would be very visible.
Continuity: After the computer plays itself in Tic-Tac-Toe, it simulates the U.S. First Strike first and the U.S.S.R. First Strike second. But when it lists the scenarios a few seconds later the U.S.S.R. First Strike is posted first
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**watching the end of Wargames**
Winner: None.
Watching that last sequence of Joshua playing Global Thermonuclear War by himself and thinking of President Bush and his whole early warning missile system idea….
And I got the strangest urge to go onto Amazon and to order a copy of this movie and have it shipped to the White House.
I think that dubba U could learn something…
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Guzzling down Tab and playing a round of Thermonuclear War with NORAD….
God, Wargames is one of the Holy Trintity of Computer Game movies of the 80’s
The other two being Cloak & Dagger and The Last Starfighter.
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Watching Wargames with Matthew Broderick….
Heh….8″ floppy disks.
Damn, where’s my Commodore 128 or my VIC-20 when I need it.
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It’s the show that Star Trek DS9 and Voyager should have been; O. K. I thought DS9 had its moments but Voyager just sucked. I wish some computer company would grab the rights to it and put out a game based on it. If done right, it could kick ass.
So the computer froze and I decided to open it up and poke around a bit. There were some wires loose, but the biggest thing was the dust. The heat sink and the fan were just caked with dust. So I spent a good 30-45 min cleaning out as much of is as I could. I think I should take it in to get professionally cleaned though. And it didn’t help cause as soon as I booted up, it froze. I think it has to do with the IDE connectors. There are two IDE connectors and then there is one for the floppy drive. I have everything hooked up to the IDE cause my floppy is a LS-120 Superdrive (I thought it would catch on, who knew). Anyway, I wonder if I should hook up the LS-120 to the floppy connector. If I do, I think the computer will just recognize…knock at the door..
There is a party @ 303 tonight and Tim (not my old roommate, but still gay) from 601 sent the birthday girl (Jenna?) and her friend (Lauryn) up to invite everybody. I declined, but gave the birthday girl one of my kitties (one of those good luck kittens from Japan that holds the coin in their paws, I forget what they are called). I have a pair, but I broke the ear off of one, so I’ve been planning on getting a new set anyway. Well, Tim also came up to invite us. I think he has a crush on Matt, cause when I see him in the elevator, he is always talking to me about Matt, trying to get info. I can kinda understand, cause Matt does give off blips on the Gaydar, even though he is homophobic gay. But Matt said that he has a crush on me; I think that Matt’s the object of Tim’s desire.
I’m not that big of a party goer; I am mainly an antisocial person, more at home staying at home than going out. But I’ve already done the whole party thing, the whole alcohol bingeing stuff, the drug stuff. And damn, Peter is always trying to get me to go out. I’m just selective on the stuff that I go to. I have shown up to parties and people know that I can have good times with them. Hmmm, it has been awhile since I have attended anything. I should start thinking about my next appearance. But not tonight. **sigh** Since their party is a @ 303, I won’t be able to do laundry tonight. I have enough to wear tomorrow at the picnic.
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Put aside the frivolity for a day and try to be a bit more serious. This is an important time to prepare for the future. Make sure you don’t take another step forward before you know you are on solid ground. This is an important time for you to establish your goals on a piece of paper. Writing them down will help you realize them in your life. Think about the long-term harvest. Security and grounding are key themes of the day. The trine between Moon and Saturn will help you stay disciplined.
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