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  • dude, you’re getting a … wait, pass the j man!

    ‘Dell Dude’ arrested on pot charge – heh. heheheh. Funny. Dell Dude. I’m waiting for Ellen Feiss to get charged with presenting a forged prescription now. (Just kidding!) beep beep beep beep beep beep beep!

    I worked my ass off today, yet again. And interrupting my normal work was the task of recursively retreiving the names from an MS Exchange distribution list and performing LDAP lookups on them. Half done that one.

    Made tacos for dinner! Homemade tacos, even if it’s just from a taco kit, are way better than any fast food.

  • News front pages from around the world – cool stuff. If only the images were then linked to the stories online…

    Today’s caffeine intake: high.

  • there’s no place that I couldn’t be without you

    Pthhh, let’s see. I had a cold all last week, and a ton of work to do. I worked my ass off to meet as many deadlines as I could, and it felt good, even if the cold medication made me feel as if I was floating 3 feet off the ground. Yesterday it hit me like a ton of bricks and I didn’t go into work. I slept in until noon and it was exactly the rest that I needed. Still wasn’t feeling 100%, though. Went and did some shopping in Waterloo. I needed some nice clothes desperately, and ended up buying a ton of stuff at the Gap. In the evening we had pizza with Laura and Erin & Dave and then went to see a play at the Guelph Little Theatre that one of our friends was in. The play was called “Cosi” and it was very very funny. We almost got lost on the way though – Laura had some bad directions to the place and so we were 10 minutes late. As a result, I ended up getting a parking ticket for… wait for it… parking faced in the wrong direction. Of all the stupid-ass infractions. I didn’t even know that it existed.

  • well what do you know…

    CBC News: Powell’s evidence fails to sway most of Security Council. Surprise, surprise. The show-and-tell session seems to have been filled with mostly hot air and unconvincing satellite photos. I’m sure I could pull up some satellite photos of some factory in the US from TerraServer and label some round things “chemical storage” and some rectangular buildings “missle assembly building”. Sheesh.

  • concertos, with only one ‘o’

    Yes, that’s an awful title. I know.

    My favourite way to give back to musicians lately is to attend concerts instead of buying CDs. Consider that the vast majority of artists will only get half a dollar or less per CD sold, while they get a decent percentage of the ticket price at a concert. After a debacle a while ago where I totally forgot to buy tickets for the No Doubt concert, I’ve been really trying to spot concerts that we would want to go to and snap up some tix. (And missing Sum 41 tickets was not my fault!)

    Anyways, we currently have tickets for two very different upcoming shows: Sleater-Kinney and Zwan. One’s an all-female indie punk-ish band from Seattle, and one is a new band from ex-Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain. Variety is the spice of life, you know… damn, I didn’t get tix for Swollen Members either!

  • *sniffly*

    Sandy’s got the flu. I’m not feeling too great either – I think I slowed down enough for this cold to catch up with me. And I’m out of tissues at work. Great.

  • “That’s it, I’m going on a diet. No more butter in my coffee.”

    one of my favourite pasttimes: communicating through Simpsons quotes.

    Seems like NewtonTalk is down right now. This, of course, sucks ass. I’ve been informed that a trouble ticket has been opened with our new hosting service. Update: it should be back shortly.

    Today’s Penny Arcade: it really is like that every time I go to EB.

  • looks a little nicer now

    I added a banner image at the top. It’s a little huge right now (120K PNG), but it’s not permanent. I personally like how it turned out, but please let me know what you think of it by leaving a comment in this entry. It should look fine in Mozilla and IE 5.5+.

  • scary ’cause it’s… well, scary.

    Cool-2b-Real is a pretty scary example of the culture-website-as-marketing-tool meme. This is a site that seems to be aimed at getting more young girls (seems to be age 12 or less, looking at the ages to eat, well, beef. Brought to you by America’s Beef Producers, of course. Especially check out the poll (“What type of beef do you most like to eat with your friends?”) and the “Smart Snackin’” recipes (which ALL involve ground beef as a main ingredient)

    Not only is this site hypocritical (on one page, it does talk about eating a balanced diet including non-beef foods and getting exercise outside, while offering example snacks that contain large amounts of ground beef) but it’s downright misleading. To quote Lisa Simpson: “They can’t seriously expect us to swallow that tripe!”

  • things I didn’t know about my manager, but I do now

    • Used to listen to hip-hop
    • Owns a pair of 1200s (DJ turntables)
    • Used to mix house tracks

    Apparently, all of this activity stops when you turn 30. Damn, I haven’t even bought my 1200s yet, and I’m gonna be 23 soon!