I'm back!

Wheee..... I now live in Thunder Bay.

We left at 6am on Saturday. The early part of the drive was rather boring up until Barrie, as I've been up there before. After we started to see the first signs of the Canadian Shield, I fell asleep until we reached Sudbury. Sudbury is a nickel mining town and they aren't afraid to show it. There's a giant Canadian nickel on top of a hill there. The place was very cold, but I think that's because of a cold snap rather than the normal weather.

It was after Sudbury that we started to see the trademarks of Northern Ontario; the trading posts, very high gas prices, moose warnings, etc. People claim that the north starts after you pass Barrie, but Barrie is nothing.

The road leveled out somewhat followed the coast after Sudbury, so we thought that driving would be slightly better. WRONG. Around Blind River we lost the treads on our back tires. Thankfully we were a block from a new tire place that just opened. They fixed us up and dad commented that unlike the tire shops at home, these people knew what they were doing. I can't remember the name of the place, but it's on the east end of town.

An hour later we hit Sault Saint Marie, or the Soo for short. The local Best Western had a strange water slide that we saw from the road. It was indoors, but outdoors at the same time. The rest of the Soo was forgetable compared to the next of our misadventures.

North of the Soo are mountains. Many mountains. I thought that the Shield didn't have any mountains because of its history . Stupid high school teachers. Ever driven through unknown mountains in the dark? It's pretty scary and dangerous.

Somehow we made it to our hotel. The next morning we pushed through the last few hours to Thunder Bay. So I'm here, stuck on the third floor of a student residence at the college. We're grouped roughly according to our field of study; my hall is all multimedia and film students, while the next one over is all airplane flight management. At least the view from my window is passable. Sure I see the packing lot, but after that there's a nice looking golf course and then mountians.

I'll post photos when I get them developed.

Filming Starts On Friday!

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The Commanderteddog Show (TNN, 5:00): Commanderteddog (Vince Vaughn) burns slwatson (Eric Bogosian)'s ottoman. Nearby, moonygirl (Joan Cusack)'s new friend alienates nacey (Michael Moore). Hilarity ensues.
What's Your LiveJournal Sitcom? (by rfreebern)

Yeah, it's random, but it's also funny. ^_^

Okay, I'm a bad little person because I'm playing an illegal copy of Maniac Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle with SCUMMVM. It's a floppy copy with few little voiceovers and the few that are there are of bad quality. Green, for some reason, reminds me of Sonic the Hedgehog. There's a simular "twang" in both their voices. I'm going to play through a copy which uses the anti-copy codes to test something out... ::runs off::

Mystery Solved!

I've wondered if the was a story difference between the floppy and CD versions of DOTT. I now know there is, slighty.

In the cutscene where Bernard finds the super battery plans, a brief part of the scene is cut out.

The versions are the same until after Dr. Fred says "My ingenious super-battery design, please." In the CD version, Fred takes the plans from Bernard, glances at them brief and then stuffs them into the time machine/toilet.

In the floppy version, Fred looks at the plans and we get some extra dialogue(as follows):

Dr. Fred: Drat! This will never work! I forgot, I never quite got these proportions correct.
Bernard: Maybe I can help. I got an "A" in physics class.

Not much, but it reflects both characters' personalities well. It does raise the question of "what is Bernard's field of study at college?" The canon is not very clear, but I thought that it was most likely that he studied physics as a major (taking into account his profile in the first game). I guess not. More things to work out for my fanfic. :-)

We also get to see the battery plans themselves. The battery is actually called "Edison's Super Salad Battery" and it runs on croutons and lettuce as well as the vinegar, gold and oil that you have to find later in the game. Cool stuff.