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  • Great Wing-ding, put on the wobbly boot!

    Australian slang is very, very, very strange indeed. For non-Aussies, I guess.

    Two pictures of my scooter. It’s at the shop getting certified right now, I miss it already.

    Sandy and I got engaged on Friday, September 13th. We don’t have a date for a wedding, other than far, far in the future. Some aussies might say I got the rough end of the pineapple, I’d say that’s a pigs bum.

  • sprucing things up a bit, without any actual spruce

    What a difference a little CSS makes!

  • repent, repent!

    I think I’m going to have a new favourite news site. Google News is here. Flee for the hills, all you other pathetic news sites!

  • “all you can do with the parfait is eat it… and poop it out…”

    Will Ferrell is funny.

    I seem to have become transfixed by the methodological arrangement of numbers. I enjoy reading things like this. For example, here’s a list of interesting names that are registered to 555-XXXX numbers:

    • CRAIG ‘TAX FREEZE’ FREIS
    • “AMERICAN CITY DINER, INC.”
    • MIDDLE AMERICA TALK NETWORK
    • FRANK V. COSTANZA (isn’t that George’s father’s name, from Seinfeld?)
    • “QUENTIN H. SNIVELY, SR.”
    • “ABCD, INC.”
    • “EFGH, INC.”
    • “DREAM THEME, INC”
    • PAMELA ANDERSON
    • “INTERNATIONAL TELESIS, INC.”
    • “EXOTIC SERVICES, INC.”

    and even:

    • REVENUE CANADA
    • COMPUSERVE
    • CANADIAN COAST GUARD

    All those numbers… I wonder if the people who have them know that they’re publicly available…

  • “sometimes, I pee on the grass”

    A little kid at Student Health Services volunteered that important piece of information today. Oh yeah, and I’m still here, thankyouverymuch.
    There’s tons of stuff that I haven’t mentioned:

    • I passed my last class, with a 66. This means that I’m GRADUATING!
    • I have a new full-time job. Oh wait, I mentioned that already.
    • We bought a label maker the other day. It’s awesome. No one should be without a label maker. Also, Staples should have frequent buyer cards for label tape, you know, buy 10 get one free.
    • This week is frosh week. I’ve been helping out. It’s been busy.
    • I unleashed WikiWikiNewt.
    • We got a new cat. Its name is Oliver. It’s pure white and deaf. Stone deaf. And insane.
    • Sandy got a job too!

  • good things in the fun things department

    • New computer for me. Duron 900, 320MB RAM, 40GB disk. Let the server rebuilding begin.
    • Super Mario Sunshine will be in TOMORROW! OH MY GOD! YES!!!!

  • my first late night in a loooong time

    Made some site changes. Added my digital picture frame page.

  • wefunk

    I recently rediscovered WeFunk – a radio show out of Montreal that is damn good. And they have a ShoutCase stream that just plays old shows.

    Since I’m done university, I guess I should get a newer photo for the page header… (that one is a crop of the view from campus from the 9th floor of the Arts building)

  • let’s see…

    • University… check.
    • Girl… check.
    • Job… check.

    Hey, I think I’m doing okay.

    Over the weekend I worked some more on the homemade digital picture frame.
    The software’s pretty much worked out now: the laptop now has RedHat Linux 6.2. Graphics display is via SVGALib and zgv. Network connectivity will be via a Proxim RangeLAN2 wireless network card. Photos will most likely be read over the network from a SMB share. Now I just have to hack up the hardware to make it look nice.

  • die, you bastards

    I just wrote my last university exam EVER.

    I hope.