Surviving My Life

Hack The Planet

So here I am on a Sunday, hanging out at the apartment, trying to find something to do. Seeing as how I was at my parent's house bored out of my mind on Friday and Saturday, I don't really want to go there today - Actually, I would go. They're having cheeseburgers - but Cloey decided to eat half a slice of Pizza, and has discovered (to her chagrin) that there really is a reason why Cat Chow doesn't come in "Pizza Flavor". Yeah - she's tossing up on the carpet. Pretty exciting.

So, here I am trying to find something to do. I woke up around noon. I let myself sleep in to catch up with the sleep I lost Friday night.

You ever try sleeping in a recliner? It's possible, but not comfortable. I equate it to sleeping in a car. You contort your body into weird positions trying to get comfortable, and in the end wake up with a neck ache, you can't walk because one of your legs is totally asleep, and your face has a seat belt imprint on it from you leaning up against it. Basically you get out of your car and walk, talk, and look like a zombie for about four minutes.

Most intriguing.

Anyway, so right now, it's almost four. SciFi channel is running some pretty decent movies today including the gamer favorite, "Hackers". Watching the movie caused me to realize one simple thing - most of the stuff in that movie would never happen. Of course, being that the movie IS from 1995, the technology featured is a bit old. (The laptops they all had looked like they belonged in the Smithsonian Institute.)

They used equipment that I've never heard of, using hacking methods that don't exist, using operating systems that haven't been invented yet on computers that weren't even concieved of then.

Yes, I know what you're thinking - "Dude. It's only a movie". I know! And, as I'm thinking about it, they probably wanted to do it this way simply to make hacking look cooler. True hacking doesn't use all the color screens, animated visuals, and futuristic technology that these kids were using. True hacking involves a guy (or girl) at a command prompt. Usually, hackers use variations of Unix or Linux to break into Windows based systems.

Well, yesterday I bought the Star Wars Trilogy on DVD. I couldn't resist. Come on! The trilogy finally re-mastered and released out on DVD in all it's THX certified glory? You know you want it.

I think I'm going to go watch one of them now.

Chewbacca is calling my name.

posted by Jeremiah @ 14:49