Friday morning in the office we received the final XBox 360 devkits. I went on to unplug and pack the two Beta kits I was using. A relatively slow process, as I have to get under the desk to reach for cables and make sure that I don’t mix the cables of one console with those of the other one (every item/cable has a sticker with an ID).
Then I proceeded to setup one of the new kits. Updated the BIOS, etc etc. Once I verified that all worked, I went to place the second console next to the first one.. and BOOM ! The first console fell ! The power display went red and the system was dead. Could do nothing but replace that one (more packing and unpacking work for me).
So, basically, Microsoft is going to ship a console with an hard-disk, that can stand vertically… ummm ! This is not even the first time that this happens to me. This time however the console was turned on.. so the HD was spinning. The devkit is a bit taller than the actual console, so the center of mass is a bit higher, but I don’t think that that makes such a big difference. There is always going to be an opportunity to knock the thing down.. and I can see this as potential recurrent problem..
Friday night I went clubbing. Not much motivation to do anything. The friend that went with me (or rather, I went cause he went) started off in a not very sober state (not very active). The music was awful. It’s not ever RAP anymore, now they play some sort of tribal pseudo-African music. I think it’s pushed by artists like Sean Paul, whose music I can’t really seem to appreciate (and I think for a good reason !). At one point I just sat down tired and activated my MP3 player at the tune of A State of Trance (a state of trance ? I wish !). However, even with my silicon ear-buds, the music coming from outside was too loud (yo ! yo ! yooooo !!). I really wished I had noise cancelling headphones to at least try to mitigate the effect of the music coming from outside. Sony released some new, not so large, noise cancelling headphones (actually ear buds) but I’m still debating on whether I should buy them. Perhaps it would be more economic to just avoid BS music.. is that’s possible anymore !
Saturday I went to the swimming pool for a few hours. It’s an indoor one, but there is some outdoor space (filled with tanned men in tight briefs ..ouch !). Being the summer over, the space outside was officially closed, but luckily, was actually open.
Then I went again clubbing ! This time with a different friend (one that speaks louder than the music ! So I can just listen to him if I don’t like the music 8). This time around, the music was much better. Different club, several nice girls, none really seemed too interested in socializing with me.. and I surely wasn’t in the mood to go begging for attention.
Speaking of begging ! Supposedly two girls wanted to meet me this weekend (wow !). But I surely haven’t seen much of them.. other than a few keitai-mails (keitai = cellphone).
Those Tokyo girls all seem to be so busy with either school, work, golf, scuba diving, wtfucking ?!
To meet a girl in Tokyo, you may actually have to schedule it one or two weeks in advance ! If you are scheduling a future meeting while in the middle of a meeting, some of them will actually pull out their cell-phone and start checking their schedule on the calendar… …I’ve always hated that ! It truly pisses me off.. leave scheduling to business, I just want to see you, talk, get a coffee !!
Even worse, this can happen not just with a friend, but with your actual girlfriend ! “Dear, can I see you this weekend ?”, “well, let me see my schedule… sorry this weekend I’m busy, let’s meet next weekend”. ..a typical dialogue, possibly done just by keitai-mail.. no need to waste time with voice.
I regard myself as a generally logical person. Someone that likes to discretize human behavior, a de-romanticizer. But, at the same time, I realize that everyone should take a break from things.. break a schedule for the sake of feeling free to do so.. to assert one’s individuality.
However that doesn’t seem possible. Schedule must come first ! But, dear Davide, I may be able to squeeze a few hours to see you.. oh yeah ? Fack that ! ..I say ! I’d rather stay alone than meeting someone by the tight bounds of a sacred schedule. This is somehow, still a way to assert my individuality and my freedom. (Perhaps I’m starting to become a social bum when it comes to women 8)
It’s important to accept some compromises, but sometimes the cost is too big. More than once I had to kill a potential relationship from the start, just because I couldn’t bend at the will of the God of Schedules.
My conclusion, is that tolerance should be kept to a safe level.. sometimes I accept big compromises, but that’s in the name of curiosity, personal recreation: “I really want to see how far is this woman is going to go”. But normally, no bullshit should really be accepted.. and that includes those that message you in the middle of the night when something in their head rings.. but can’t actually move their asses to answer a mail for days after you kindly invited them because “they so much wanted to meet you and recently asked you to, please, invite them”.
Bull-shit !
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