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1) When I die, I want to die like my grandfather--who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car." --Author Unknown 2) Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two" and "Keep away from children." --Author Unknown 3) "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." --Drew Carey 4) "The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house." --Jeff Foxworthy 5) "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base." --Dave Barry 6) "Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, and the day before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp." --Bob Ettinger 7) "My Mom said she learned how to swim when her parents took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'" --Paula Poundstone "A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: "Duh." --Conan O'Brien 9) "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating a slow learner." --Lynda Montgomery 10) "I think I know how Chicago got started. Bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'" --Richard Jeni 11) "If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." --Johnny Carson 12) "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography." --Paul Rodriguez 13) "My parents didn't want to move to Florida , but they turned sixty and that's the law." --Jerry Seinfeld 14) "Remember in elementary school, you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?" --Warren Hutcherson 15) "Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same." --Oscar Wilde 16) "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." --Mark Twain 17) "Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student! At least they can find Afghanistan ." --A. Whitney Brown 18) "You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'" --Dave Barry 19) Do you know why they call it "PMS"? Because "Mad Cow Disease" was taken. --Unknown, presumed deceased 20) "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." -- W. C. Fields

For the general interest.. BBC News - Netherlands Court orders end to Pirates Bay Ban

TheNation - Verizon, FCC and what you need to know about Net Neutrality

This one just amused me.. http://youtu.be/8sx5fDGbVoQ http://youtu.be/2Bls1KKDwmo

I'm not sure why but I spent most of Monday crashing. Felt completely exhausted most of the day, and managed an early night, then woke up this morning and just dozed for an hour before actually stirring myself to face the day.

So Woldan, what do you think of that HIIT exercise regime that's been turning popular/trendy the last year or so? Short bursts of high-intensity interval training several times a week rather then hour long training sessions and all of that...

NYTimes - NSA Puts a furry smiley face on its mission "Just remember kids: Every month should be cybersecurity awareness month. No matter what the NSA tells you."

But exercise is 90% mental. So I'm working on that 90% right now.. and I'll get to the physical at some point in the near future... On a serious note, I find it hard these days to sort out time and money to get to a gym on any regular way. And frankly, if you can't make it a regular occurrence, it's pretty damn pointless. As such, I try to blend in exercises I can do around the house and during my daily routines. So while it might not make a great hour of cardio or anything.. Some walking briskly up and down the hills on extra long routes or circuits when going shopping. Jumping jacks or some other type of basic physical exercise while waiting for the kettle to boil.. Getting out a 100 squats as I brush my teeth. Having some weight near my computer so I can do shoulder raises or such like when I take a short breather from work while I'm sat there.

Clive Owen, Christopher Walken, and David Warner in one piece of cheesy, classic 90's game play.. http://youtu.be/ET6UEXAmc68

I think in general it was pretty much the strongest all the way around. I think the plot/character development was very nicely done. It was the strongest in the series in my opinion. I'd say it was the strongest all the way around for the series.

Reading more background materials, and refining this presentation. Think I've got a better grasp on it now. Also, this month has seen two ex's get back into communication with me at the same time, and both say similar sorts of things which is just a touch weird. One of which apparently has a husband who really dislikes me and who deleted my birthday from all of her calendars. I'm not sure if I should empathise with that, or feel my ego is stroked.

Heh. I think the classic I've heard is the rumours that the 5.56 was designed on purpose so it's more likely to wound then to kill, and thereby result in a further drain on the enemies resources. Of course, that tends to be from the same people who say things like "The USA started going downhill when they began to use weapons that were designed to piss off the enemy rather then kill them."

Wrapped up AC: Black Flag. They do seem to be trying to push the emotional buttons on that ending. The song being sung by the irish lass, the ship sailing into the horizon, the young daughter turning up, I get the feeling they were ticking off a check list.

One from just before Christmas.. Scientific American - Computers can be hacked using high-frequency sound

Got a nice headache and happen to have had about three hours sleep. A friend who was a little high on pain meds and muscle relaxers after a trip to the ER decided to call and needed to talk in the early hours of the morning.

Watched some Father Brown. The latest adaption of the G K Chesterton stories about a small parish Catholic priest in the 50's who happens to have an inquisitive mind and keeps helping the police to solve various crimes, even when they don't want his help. Interesting in a lot of ways, that he spends as much time working on the basis of the greater good and making sure everyone's souls are saved as much as dealing with strictly legal "good". Having been exposed to the horrors of World War 1 as a young man, and then a few decades of hearing confessionals, he tends to have a quirky understanding of the depths of human evil. Rather then being a deductive Sherlock Holmes type, he's more of the intuitive: "You see, I had murdered them all myself... I had planned out each of the crimes very carefully. I had thought out exactly how a thing like that could be done, and in what style or state of mind a man could really do it. And when I was quite sure that I felt exactly like the murderer myself, of course I knew who he was." This current series has Mark Williams in the lead role (as in, the Weasley father from the Potter films). I find it quirkily entertaining, but it never managed to quite match up to Alec Guinness' version in the old Father Brown film version.

Trying to get to grips with a presentation. Worked out roughly what needs to be said, but so far it's still in a general casual rambling way rather then an educational professional way. Also, I seem to have a small stitch just under my left rib, that's been lurking for about 2 days now, but at least it seems to be fading now.

Let's throw in the general assortment to keep things moving...

http://youtu.be/iyqfHvoUtkU

Well I've got all of Sleepy Hollow saved up. I've only watched the pilot, so I have to block out some time and do a marathon at some point. Oh, and the new Archer has started. Isis get's shut down and they turn to crime.. That should be interesting.

"The makers of Sesame Street released a statement saying Bert and Ernie aren't gay because puppets don't have sexual orientations."

Heh, with Iaido (at least in the UK) you have all sorts of fun legal issues on travelling to and from dojo. I actually have what's basically a pool cue case/bag that I have to carry my katana in when outside the house. On which note, I'll always remember when one of the visiting Masters came over from Japan. The guy was that literal "small, hunched, creaking, slow Japanese guy".. and then he shuffled out onto the floor..and boom. It was like Yoda. Fluid, smooth, fast. Wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am. He stopped, sheathed the blade..then went straight back into the hunched, creaky positioning, and shuffled off slowly. Hm, kind of lost the weekend in a weird mix of pillaging/plundering on AC:Black Flag and some phone conversations with an ex that have gone everywhere from supportive, general chit chat, talk about her kids these days and flirty memories.

For that Friday ending..

For one that'll probably appeal to Hurlshot.. io9 - Student Rickrolls his teacher in Quantum Physics paper

Urf. Back from a batch of errands around the village. Hm, it's 16:30, it's a grim day and I've just got in.. I think I'm going to call it quits for work, make a cup of tea, and then see what AC: Black Flag is like on the pc.