Ages

27/06/2009

Is what it seems like I haven’t written in. Sorry about that. It’s not like there’s been any less things happening in my life, just that either they stopped being that exciting or I’ve just gotten lazier at actually writing them down. But, seeing as how I’m just sitting around right now in my room, with the window open, and a nice breeze, blasting Russian music from a band that I’m not sure I’m ever going to see live now (especially seeing as how one of their band members just passed away recently), but I digress.

I figured I’d write something of an update. But yeah, since I’ve been updating here at a snail’s pace, I thought about the snail valley that I sometimes walk through on my way to work. It’s this path, that I get to about half way to work. There is high grass on both sides, and it seems that at night, the snails just love to try and cross this path. Now the first time I noticed this, was because of an unexpected ‘crunch’ sound as I was walking. From then on, I’ve been making an effort to avoid slaying anymore snails, but you can see plenty of old, broken snail shells on the path already. About two days ago, I killed another one :( — for whatever reason I turned away to look at another person behind me, and before I could look forward again, there was the ‘crunch’ sound again. Damn! Okay, that’s all I’ve got on snails (exciting).

Also, more later. Mleh.

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Stop motion beauty

30/04/2009

What happens when you take enough still pictures of something beautiful? Then put them together in a video? Well, I’ll let you decide (full screen recommended)…
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Source, I wish they just let me embed the HD version in the first place.

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YouTube comment failures

30/04/2009

I was checking out some YouTube videos recently, instead of working. So nothing new there, but I think I need to find a Firefox plugin that blocks comments on YouTube. Because it’s getting to the point where they are my main argument for why we may be a failure as a species : (

Let me present some not so carefully chosen exhibits:

I propose we divide countries by ability to use spelling and grammar.

manuyinter

take ur middle finger and put on ur nose.
2.say a name of someone u like.
3.that person will ask u out or say they love u tomarrow.
4. heres the thing copy and paste to 2 other vids
dnt read this(cuz it really wrks). u will gt kissd on the nearest frieday by the love of ur life. 2mara wll b the bst day of ur life hwever if you dnt post ths comment 2 at least 3 vids u will die withn 2 days

Solutions to world problems inside.

shadow45545

whats point of hip hop i mean before it came out music was music thats why some ppl are getting crazy and shooting raping and all that crap

The username is pretty relevant on this one.

sylvesterstallone09

No you stfu little guy im 20 and 90kg muscle … ur ghey fuking computer nerd

Brilliant use of the Eiffel Tower.

transformed21

just look at urself 4 example. how u can see, walk, talk,smell,love all these things. how do people believe that everything came from nothing. the big bang my days. the bible says in their wisdom they will become fools. the eiffel tower is not there because it just landed there someone had to build it. every great thing has a Creator. U know believing in God takes faith its not rocket science. if u want God to touch u He will but He’s not goin to force u. “He stands by the door and knocks.”

There’s just so many more…

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3.5 observations for the day

20/04/2009

1. I had an exam today and it was 100 multiple choice questions (exciting!). About 60 of them were the regular multiple choice questions where you either know it or you don’t. And the last bunch were multi step problems. So you get some data and formulas and then the next couple of questions require calculations and you just choose the answer you get in the selection. So I’m rushing through this exam, because I have to meet another professor, who’s office hours keep falling on my exams, about another exam, still with me, and this one section of 12 problem questions isn’t making any sense. Frustrated I just put down the answers I’m getting, even though they don’t feel right and don’t make sense when taken together. 10 minutes after this, just as I’m about to hand this whole thing in, the professor announces a typo in the original formula, which makes all 12 questions wrong, and especially all the 12 I’ve just finished. FFFFUUUU–. At least they made sense the second time around. And it made me feel better about the 4 questions on the end, where my reaction was basically o.o – what the hell is this – q_q

2. I went to Best Buy today. More on this later. But at the mall that’s opposite it, there were a bunch of high schoolish kids. And they looked shady as hell. So, to prove me totally right, as I was walking past, about 10 of them decided to just start a fight. And drag each other on the pavement and all. Good use of your time guys. Bright future ahead, I can tell!

3. So, I bought a 16GB Zune. I did this for two reasons. First, I keep getting asked what my music player is, and I keep saying I don’t have one, and people are shocked to find this out. Second, it was a really good deal. But I went to Best Buy because they had a promotion where you get the charger with it for free, but I was also price matching it with FutureShop because it was cheaper there. This should have been easy, but instead the conversation went like this:

me: Hi there! Can you help me out for a minute.
sales guy: Sure.
me: Well, I just want to price match and buy the 16GB Zune
sales guy: oh, okay, let’s go see if we have any in stock
*we stroll over to the counter*
*sales guy looks around*
sales guy: Oh, they’re actually over there, by the cashier, next to the fruit loops.
me: Uhh, the fruit loops?
sales guy: Yeah, *walking over there*.
me: So in the ad, this comes with the free power adapter, where is that?
sales guy: You don’t get that. Because you’re price matching?
me: Oh?
sales guy: Yeah.
me: How come?
sales guy: Because that’s two separate promotions.
me: What?
sales guy: Yeah, you can’t double dip.
me: Double dip???????
sales guy: Yeah.
me: Well, I don’t want to waste time, so lets just ask your manager! :D
Walks over to the manager, and because I can hear them, these are his words: “Should I price match this bundle?”. Well obviously she’s going to say no if you put it like that!

*conversation ensues, I’ll save you the time, but finally we get to the downfall of his argument*

sales guy: I promise you, if we price match this when we ring it up the deal won’t go through
me: Oh, yeah, I bet you it will
sales guy: *without a word walks over and grabs the stuff, walks over to the kiosk computer, punches it all in* MAGIC!
me: :D
sales guy: Well, uh, it doesn’t usually work like that.
me: Yeah, actually it’s $124 dollars, not $129, you forgot the 10% difference.
sales guy: Yeah…
me: :D
me: :D

In other news, I’d make an excellent used car salesman!

3.5 Oh god, oh god, I posted an update!

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It’s that day again!

14/02/2009
Oh, I see what they did there
Credit to VJMorales
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I hope we all learn to fail

11/02/2009

There are some times when all we can experience is success. Whether it is academic, personal, professional success. But, in every lecture, every interview and every conversation I’ve had with a person I could learn from that had been out and experienced life in the real world, has almost uniformly started by talking about failure. I agree…

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So, here’s to learning to fail gracefully, timely, and learn from our mistakes.

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12:56am

30/01/2009

Hello my faithful, or the spam bots that visit here so often, just to get their work crushed by Akismet. I sometimes feel bad for spam bots, they’re so robotic, so simple, work so hard, and in my case, get nothing accomplished. There, there little guys, keep at it!

So, Alice sent me this pretty awesome article on procrastination, so I thought I’d take its advice (hahahahaha) and post a blog post instead of finishing this analysis paper due in… 7 hours and 29 minutes. At least it’s almost done, but I’m pretty sure I’ve dragged out what could have taken 30 minutes to finish into the last 4 or so hours.

What’s new in life? Well, I’m super busy, and it’s been a month since this term started. I don’t even know where this month went, but I’m fairly certain it’s taken a slight toll. I’m quite honestly kind of exhausted. It’s partially because I’ve really not had a weekend since the term started, every single one has been busy with one thing or another, and this one is no exception. I’ve got some small errands and some reading on Saturday, before Sunday is entirely eaten up by a “retreat” for donning and sports. At least I get some energy from playing sports! It’s an important game for us in indoor soccer, probably our hardest of the regular season, and since we joined the wrong skill bracket, we have no excuse for not winning it all, and that means we can’t lose. Which brings me to the fact that we can’t find any space to practice, apparently the biggest gym on campus doesn’t allow us to play indoor soccer, or anything involving a soccer ball, even if we bring our own nets and all. Fuck that. You set up badminton nets for 6 people and waste an entire gymnasium.

It’s still cold. Supposed to get warmer after next week. Lots of snow. I really like how the orange street lamps look like with the snow and the mist outside right now.

Okay, okay, going to attempt the conclusion of this paper now!

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Goodbye 08, Hello 09!

24/12/2008

It seems that now may be the best time to write this up, since I don’t know where I’ll be exactly over the next few days and what kind of Internet access I’ll have. And it’s becoming very obvious just how much missing that Internet access affects me. On that note, for the first time ever a few days ago I thought about being able to use an iPhone as my cell phone. Up to now, I’ve pretty much been under the assumption that people with iPhones look like giant cocks – except of course girls who use one, they’re just hot. But really, I’ve been using a touch phone recently and in a way it’s kind of nice. So, an iPhone in my future? Andrew would laugh, Alice would steal it, Adam would set an unwanted alarm.

Speaking of Andrew, I was talking to him today and he fessed up to downloading and enjoying the Super Smash Brothers Brawl soundtrack. Well, Andrew, here’s another recommendation on me. Get the Tour De Japon collection (and no, I didn’t make a spelling mistake, I’m too purfect).

Alice is going away again for 4 months, good thing my life never changes and I’ll still be in Waterloo when she gets back! Har, har.

One of my friends just had his first kid, born yesterday. This is crazy and scary at the same time. Having just spent a whole day with kids running around the house I’m 100% confident I’m not ready for anything that resembles that. Good times, excuse me while I run around the house myself.

I visited Katie earlier in the week and stayed at her house. It’s super nice and is right on the lake shore in Toronto. Their kitchen is sexy, I would cook in it any day.

McFarlane has disappeared into the depths that is Kincardine and I’ll hopefully be working for Hewgill in the summer (maybe even with some more volleyball on the side).

I’m almost done school! Well, relatively speaking, I only really need to take 4 more classes to graduate, but I’ll actually be done by the end of Fall. To balance out my level of excitement, a class that I should be able to take has informed me that I do not meet the requisites when I tried to add it on our infernal class selection system (no surprise there).

No DSLR this year again. I just don’t have the money, officially, unless I drag out paying my student fees until they start threatening to drop my classes, not like I haven’t had that before XD Also, for some reason HR decided that they are going to single me out to be paid in the new year, instead of yesterday like everyone else – I think someone in that department is out to get me.

I’m still not talking to her, because she refuses to meet in person, but I hear Sanya is back on coffee. Lu is around and giving me ideas to spend money on food!

Jessi, who I was donning with for the last 4 months has decided to take off to an exchange program in Russia. Actually, she’ll be in St. Petersburg, where I lived. It’s pretty awesome and Dmitri and me have done a bang up job of teaching her all she needs to know about the intricacies of being a foreigner in Russia.

I’m really missing playing soccer right about now and can’t wait to get started again come January. I already miss more friends that have graduated this last term, it’s really hard to stay in touch with everyone when they spread out. I wonder where I’ll go when I graduate? I’ve been asked that question a few times in the last couple of days. Maybe a masters degree is looking more likely now, but I definitely need a break, like a work 4 months to get money and just take off for a bit kind of break. That would be fun!

I saw my cat today. He’s living under the house. I’d like to think he came out because he heard my voice. Apparently he’s been missing again for a while. It was raining, so he didn’t spend too much time hanging around to be petted, but he did enjoy the cat food which I brought out. I think that cat is probably about 18+ years old now, thinking he might be a lion.

So, what now?

Good question!

Now new years resolutions this time around, I’ve met all but one from last year. Lets just see what this new year brings and have some fun with it. I think that will be fun! : )

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F5

15/12/2008

I have an exam tomorrow.

As of right now…
There are 4 YouTube video tabs open with songs, I’ve played them all over at least 3 or 4 times.
There’s a DeviantArt tab open, I like the picture, but haven’t saved it, and haven’t closed the tab.
I also have a picture open about Pokemon, because it’s serious business.
I’ve now refreshed my WP admin page at least 3 times, all I got was more spam : (
I keep checking Twitter in hopes of something awesome, and then Facebook when I realize nothing happened.
It’s 12:16am and I said for sure I’ll be in bed by 12:20, because I’ll have to wake up at 8 to study more, but I still have to brush my teeth.
Just hit play again on one of those song tabs.
Right before I type this line this post was exactly 128 words, remember when 128mb of RAM was awesome? I’m old : (
This term needs to finish, and then the next one needs to be more fun academically, I’m mentally exhausted.
Night!

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A human(e) declaration

13/12/2008

I do totally recommend using the full screen option.

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