Dream Come True

So ever since I went to see the Christmas lights in Temple Square, clear back in my freshman year, I wanted to come back with my family someday so they could see it too.

Mom's in town this week, so last night my sisters and I went up with her to Salt Lake City. We had dinner at the Lion House and then headed over to check out all the lights.

One more thing to check off my life bucket list! :)

Watch out... the Robots are coming for us

So you may have heard Stephen Hawking predict that artificial intelligence would destroy the world.

Well, I think it may have begun already. Tonight Melissa and I tried to watch a movie. She'd just set up my DVD player this weekend. She watched I Robot on Saturday, and it worked fine. She tested a few other DVDs, and they worked fine. We put Bride Wars in on Sunday just long enough for me to see that it was working.

Tonight, we put in about 20 DVDs before we got one to work. Melissa has a lot of burned ones, so we thought that was the problem. Nope! We tried an official DVD, no luck. We tried a million more movies, we tried to clean out the inside of the DVD player, nothing. Finally, Melissa stuck I Robot in since that's the only full movie she'd watched on it.

It worked.

And for the next 45 minutes, nothing else would, no matter how many disks we tried.

It was clear that the DVD player had taken on a life of its own and was going to kill us in our sleep.

Although, we did come up with an alternate theory eventually. We finally got it to play the first half an hour of Kate and Leopold. Have you seen it? Basic premise--guy from modern era time travels back to 1876, and accidentally gets followed home by the guy who invented the elevator. As soon as Elevator Guy gets to our time, all elevators in the present stop working.

So we're watching. Elevator Guy goes to our time. The movie switches to Meg Ryan, innocently waiting in an elevator, not realizing it's about to freeze...

and the movie dies.

So... hypothesis number two: Somewhere in the past, something has happened to the inventor of the DVD player.

On a completely unrelated note... can anyone recommend a good DVD Player?