Dear Pittsburgh,

This is what you're going to do this weekend. I probably won't be able to join you in any of this, but I can guarantee it'll be awesome.

• Friday: Between 16:30 and 20:00 there's a Malaysian food festival in CMU's University Centre
• Friday or Saturday you're going to see Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a wonderfully dark and twisted play, in the Southside, for $10 a ticket.
• For Saturday night, Ceremony, which is no longer only 21-and-over

I am irritated to find two things about my computer:

• mplayer can't write to my root window using the "xv" driver (when it tries, it just gets sparkly for a second). Using the "x11" driver means it won't scale the video.
• Ndiswrapper makes the system much less reliable and sometimes causes keyboard or mouse events to be dropped.

Word out.