Category: my ramblings

I made poetry. Positronic.

I guess this really doesn’t reflect well on my fellow students, but some of this stuff is too good to pass up. Let’s have a lesson in microwave safety:

Jan 12 0237 Report of a small fire in a microwave oven in Addington Hall. ACTION: Guelph Fire and University Police attended. Damage caused by activating empty microwave. People: microwaves are capable of concentrating a large amount of microwave energe in order to heat things. If you don’t put something in the microwave to be heated, then when you turn it on, it will start heating itself. In case you haven’t noticed, most microwaves are not made out of a metal alloy with a high melting point. Plastic burns. Thus endeth the lesson.

Fat lip, yes. Pain for pleasure, no.

The things you find in uog.police_security reports:

Jan 09 1635 Report of 3 males going door to door trying to sell marihuana in Lennox Hall. ACTION: Area checked by Police, no sign of suspects. sigh

I have determined that the video for “Days of the Week” by Stone Temple Pilots is the best music video ever.

Last week was hectic as heck. Between classes, work, meetings, scheduling other meetings, realizing that I was working, and so on, not a lot of sleep was happening. But this week should be better. Especially because it’s not the first week and I don’t have an assignment due. That helps.

Well, it’s the second day of class. Whoop-ee. Yesterday I was getting ResNet work orders in my e-mail in the middle of the day, and I suddenly remembered that I was working this week. Scrambling around later, everything was arranged around it, many thanks to my Newton for keeping me sane.

Books on the to-read list:

• Godel, Escher, Bach, which is still in progress
• All the Harry Potter books
• All of the Lord of the Rings books (hopefully, I’ll get these done before the second movie comes out)

That’s only seven books, most of which are over 500 pages. Wheee!

All in all, I had a great Christmas holiday. I stayed for four days with Sandy at her parents’ house where I was put to work in the fields and toiled for…. heh. No, it was really relaxing. I wish I had a hot tub.
I would live in it, and it would have waterproof consoles so I could IRC from the water. Yeah. Anyways, after that I went and stayed at my parents’ cottage over Christmas proper. It finally snowed on Christmas eve and every day after, so I got to take the snowmobile out! It was great seeing my cousins for Christmas dinner. Lucky kids got a PS2.
Grrrr. Oh well. I got a LEGO Train, a wireless keyboard, and a 40GB drive. Ahhh, toys.

I just retired my IBM Modem M keyboard. I rescued it myself from my old high school, and popped off every keycap and cleaned them individually with a toothbrush.
Unfortunately, someone who I live with obtained for me this Logitech Cordless Freedom keyboard/mouse set for Christmas. I like my old Model M’s noise, but I also like having the extra shortcut keys on the top of the keyboard. The cordless optical mouse is nice too — I just can’t figure out why sometimes, when I leave it alone, the LED on the bottom of the mouse flashes in time with my SCSI bus activity light. Anyways, it was a lovely gift. But if I happen to break this keyboard (which I have done before — I am hard on keyboards) the Model M is coming out again.

Semester’s over. I’m on vacation. That is all. See you December 28th.

Damn, it’s been a while.

Things I hate right now:

• Canada Post. After mailing at least a hundred UNNA CD sets in the same padded mailing envelopes using lettermail postage, this week they decide to return my latest two mailings because they do not conform to lettermail specifications. They’re actually “oversized lettermail”, meaning I get to add an extra $0.70 postage. Thanks for telling me now… I need smaller mailers.
• Rogers Cable Internet. I thought the transition was going great, but then today they’re having massive problems with DHCP. Should be fixed tomorrow, they say. gah. ‘scuse me while I set up a cron job for DHCP…
• Mozilla builds have been sucking hard lately.

Okay, that bit of venting is done. Things that are good right now:

• One exam down, three to go. Only one nasty exam to go.
• Many Buffy VCDs. Yay.
• Related to the above, I got my ATI TV Wonder card the other day. Works great for recording to VCD files. Kickass.
• Oh yeah. The semester’s over. And I might just pass and get decent grades in all my classes, for the first time ever.
• This page now over 15 000 hits. w00t.

That is all.

This morning I downloaded today’s Buffy episode, 10 hours before it will be broadcast. Yum.