Happy ENIAC day!
Feb. 14th, 2011 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6Yes, it's that day again... the anniversary of the unveiling of the first general purpose computer, ENIAC! I mean, what else? As usual, that is the only holiday that falls on February 14th. (SHUT UP, IT IS SO! Some of us have given up all hope of ever finding love and don't need to be reminded!)
My computers've been pretty good to me, so I think I might celebrate by getting a new wallpaper. Something Science-Fictiony. Well, two, one for each. I haven't decided yet. But shhh, keep it under your hat. I want it to be a surprise.
Of course, in 2 days, February 16th, it'll be Monster Day which I celebrate in spirit if not always in actual tradition. But, I did have a cool zombie-dream to relate.
This one I wasn't participating, I was watching a zombie movie. The movie was just titled
"Run!" That's all it was. No hiding, no holding up in a secure location (except for
just long enough to catch your breath), just a group of people running from the zombie
hordes. The star was Macauly Culkin, or maybe one of his brothers or something. Also starring was the guy who plays Abed on Community. He sacrificed himself - the group was
scaling a fence to get away from the hordes (zombies can climb, but not as fast), and
Culkin and someone else was over, Abed was near the top, and there was a girl who was
near the bottom, and having trouble climbing, and the zombies were catching up to her. So, Abed decided he'd jump back down so they'd go after him, the closer, lower target, instead of her. I never actually saw him get eaten so I hope he got away.
Anyway, shortly after that, another horde got after them, and some guy right next to
Culkin got bit, and they had a brief conversation like, "You know what you gotta do, right?" "Yeah. We agreed," and he ran back into the remaining horde to try to take down
as many as he could and slow them down to give Culkin more of a head start.
Finally, it was down to Culkin, who had a had a whole bunch of them after him, and was
running, through buildings, but not staying in them (basically hoping to lose a few).
Then the military laid down some firebombs and everything was on fire, and Culkin
started running into the fire to shake zombies, (I guess I was channelling some Left 4 Dead in that part - in that game, if you walk into fire, you get a little hurt. A zombie walks into fire, they auto-die). He was trying to survive long enough to get to the
military outpost, where they'd contained the outbreak.
I didn't see how the movie ended, though, last I saw he was a little burned but still
running on adrenaline.
My computers've been pretty good to me, so I think I might celebrate by getting a new wallpaper. Something Science-Fictiony. Well, two, one for each. I haven't decided yet. But shhh, keep it under your hat. I want it to be a surprise.
Of course, in 2 days, February 16th, it'll be Monster Day which I celebrate in spirit if not always in actual tradition. But, I did have a cool zombie-dream to relate.
This one I wasn't participating, I was watching a zombie movie. The movie was just titled
"Run!" That's all it was. No hiding, no holding up in a secure location (except for
just long enough to catch your breath), just a group of people running from the zombie
hordes. The star was Macauly Culkin, or maybe one of his brothers or something. Also starring was the guy who plays Abed on Community. He sacrificed himself - the group was
scaling a fence to get away from the hordes (zombies can climb, but not as fast), and
Culkin and someone else was over, Abed was near the top, and there was a girl who was
near the bottom, and having trouble climbing, and the zombies were catching up to her. So, Abed decided he'd jump back down so they'd go after him, the closer, lower target, instead of her. I never actually saw him get eaten so I hope he got away.
Anyway, shortly after that, another horde got after them, and some guy right next to
Culkin got bit, and they had a brief conversation like, "You know what you gotta do, right?" "Yeah. We agreed," and he ran back into the remaining horde to try to take down
as many as he could and slow them down to give Culkin more of a head start.
Finally, it was down to Culkin, who had a had a whole bunch of them after him, and was
running, through buildings, but not staying in them (basically hoping to lose a few).
Then the military laid down some firebombs and everything was on fire, and Culkin
started running into the fire to shake zombies, (I guess I was channelling some Left 4 Dead in that part - in that game, if you walk into fire, you get a little hurt. A zombie walks into fire, they auto-die). He was trying to survive long enough to get to the
military outpost, where they'd contained the outbreak.
I didn't see how the movie ended, though, last I saw he was a little burned but still
running on adrenaline.
