at last...

after taking the last month to reread Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune, i am now prepared to read Hunters of Dune.

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and so it begins...

GA just came out and asked if it was ok to start migrating data from old servers to our new ones in preparation of the active directory upgrade that is just about to happen. i just saluted and off he went back to the server room to kick things off. and so begins a new chapter in the IS department here.

the last 30 mins or so were kind of restful. things are quiet enuff at this time of day that i semi-dozed off. heeheehee.

and in preparation for tomorrow, i have a nice 19" dell LCD monitor on my desk. it's purty. and i can't keep it says DH. but i can use it this weekend to watch Pinky and The Brain which was supplied to me by my younger westward sibling. (anyone interested in getting me Animaniacs is welcome to)

but basically all i need to do is be here. DH wants an IS presence while GA & co. do their voodoo so i get to sit here for most of the day tomorrow, so i'll watch Pinky, read more of Chapterhouse: Dune. and i also need to start sifting thru the 400+ pictures M&i took on our left coast adventure the other week. so that is my plan for tomorrow. i'm hopeful that we'll be able to get everything done tomorrow, but as they didn't touch the new exchange box today (GA said they might be able to start building it during downtime this afternoon), i have the feeling that won't be done until tomorrow with the full upgrade done until sunday. that sucks as it kills my entire weekend. oh well. the price i have to pay to get the title. at least they are doing all the work, so if something gets fucked up (they swear it won't), it's their fault and not mine. i'm kinda glad that i'm not doing the hands on migration. it's a lot of work. fortunately they have done this a few times, so they have some sense of what to look out for. it's really only a few servers that are going to be truly affected, and the rest should just fall into place.

i'll try and put together some sort of summary of our west coast adventures as well, but we had a really good time in both PDX and SFO, so as trips go, it was really good. never been to either place, and we liked both. flights between BOS and LAS sucked, but the shorter flights were a little better, well, flying into PDX from LAS was rough, but more because we were tired of flying by that point.

anyways, i'll try to write something up, and maybe a few pictures as well. more later, maybe.

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huh....

found on Dark Horizons. i certainly never thought that this would happen, but i guess he managed to have a change of heart. there are some fairly significant changes in the story, some of which were approved by Frank Herbert, but then things got chopped into bits which is when Lynch got upset. so it will be interesting to see what he does for the 'director's cut' and hopefully it will help the movie make a little more sense.

1984's "Dune" by Director David Lynch to this day remains a hallmark of the sci-fi genre even though the film has gone through numerous cuts without the director's consent. His approved theatrical version to this day however remains heavily criticised for its truncated feel. As a result al sorts of different versions exist on DVD or video, and talk on an "Extended Edition" scheduled to hit May this year drew little excitement.

That's about to change though. The Digital Bits has done some digging with their sources at Universal and have learned the real reason behind their delay of the "Dune: Extended Edition" DVD (it's currently unscheduled) is that after years of saying he would never revisit "Dune", at the 11th hour director David Lynch decided that he wanted to be involved in the new DVD after all. This means that when it's eventually released, not only is the DVD going to include the original theatrical version of the film... it will include a brand new "director's extended cut" edited by Lynch himself.

i wonder if it will be as long as the Sci-Fi version...

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