Thought about pre-ordering the Star Wars MMO but 150 bucks for the collectors edition is a bit much.

 

In other news been swamped at work lately because we got a new boss and a big new project and two guys left for greener pastures. I've been tempted to leave as well but even though I've had a few offers I haven't had the right offer and I would feel bad about leaving in the middle of such a big project.

Thought about pre-ordering the Star Wars MMO but 150 bucks for the collectors edition is a bit much.

 

Yeah, i agree on that. I'm happy to shell out the money for the standard version and see what that first month is like.. but that much money for whats basically a figurine , a map, and a metal box.. (okay, and a few in-game tweaky items) seems rather on the silly side.

 

Hm, it's kinda interesting how shuttle-run type running takes it out of you a lot quicker then running the same distance straight..

With the heat index it's about 40C today; tomorrow around 46C.

 

"No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air" - Dogma.

Edited July 21, 201114 yr by Syraxis

Yeah, the heat is not fun. In the elevator with some suit that was soaked through his shirt, sheesh. Everyone's stinking today it seems, either that or just Toronto's general odour is stronger. Streetcar ride should be fun too, get to ride with sweaty homeless dudes, hipsters and scowling women, hah. Can't wait for winter, though, cold is easier to defeat than oppressive heat.

Edited July 21, 201114 yr by Malcador

this:

 

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Yeah, the heat is not fun. In the elevator with some suit that was soaked through his shirt, sheesh. Everyone's stinking today it seems, either that or just Toronto's general odour is stronger. Streetcar ride should be fun too, get to ride with sweaty homeless dudes, hipsters and scowling women, hah. Can't wait for winter, though, cold is easier to defeat than oppressive heat.

 

Hat + icecubes = instawin.

I'm engaged in a contest of wills with a Pineapple.

 

Maybe I should have researched first (like, before buying it) how you actually eat those things. It's currently sitting on my kitchen table, taking up a defensive position, with its thick scaly skin and strutting its spiky bits

 

I think I'll find the biggest, sharpest knife I have and do the "Psycho" thing. That'll teach it!

 

Next time, I'll buy it in a tin can.

Slice it with a sharp knife and then cut off the "skin".

the trick with a pineapple is twofold:

 

1) grasping it by the topknot, carve off the very outer portion of skin. Do not attempt to remove all the skin, i.e. those bits which are recessed

2)Still grasping it by the topknot, cut diagonal trenches from dent to dent.

 

If you do this it's quick, clean, and looks rather nice.

Working from home today. I ran a little too much yesterday and my ankle and I had a disagreement over just how far he would be willing to carry me before he gave out.

 

Note to self: Self (because that's what I call myself) stick to 2 miles or less

A testament to smelly Torontonians, lady in the office across the hall tells me I'm the nicest smelling man she's encountered all day. Probably should have handled that better than a "wha..huh? err.." . Today I battle insane bugs, have discovered that caffeine and anger works well with Juno Reactor for my productivity.

Well, been looking at the (apparent) major car bomb in central Oslo. Kind of glad it's not work for me, this time.

Not to ignore the bombing incident, but I've had a nice lift for the day.

 

Just got the phone call that told me that that report I did the other month had gone through the external examiners to everyone's satisfaction, and I've now got a job.

Well, have a final "interview" of sorts to go through where I get to see how it was graded, find the flaws and figure out exactly what I'll be doing.. but still. Rahr!

 

Now a glass of port to celebrate.

Hm, I might even break out a cigar..

It's a cool 100 degrees here in New Jersey today. Slowly learning that business casual and the heat are not good together. Off of work at 5 then the weekend. Sophisticated, well dressed young adult by weekday, drunken college teen by weekend! I feel like I'm living a double life.

Picked up the new car yesterday. Really enjoying it.

Just got the phone call that told me that that report I did the other month had gone through the external examiners to everyone's satisfaction, and I've now got a job.

Well, have a final "interview" of sorts to go through where I get to see how it was graded, find the flaws and figure out exactly what I'll be doing.. but still. Rahr!

 

Now a glass of port to celebrate.

Hm, I might even break out a cigar..

Congrats, a good moment for a cigar if there ever was one. I've roadmapped the final part of my dissertation so that I'm going to finish the day before deus ex hr, come hell or high water.

Slice it with a sharp knife and then cut off the "skin".

Yeah, flay it alive!

 

the trick with a pineapple is twofold:

 

1) grasping it by the topknot, carve off the very outer portion of skin. Do not attempt to remove all the skin, i.e. those bits which are recessed

2)Still grasping it by the topknot, cut diagonal trenches from dent to dent.

 

If you do this it's quick, clean, and looks rather nice.

 

There can be only one!

 

After a brief vicious fight, the alpha predator emerged victorious, knife in hand, covered in pineapple blood, letting out a victorious howl that send a shiver through the cringing masses...

 

Cut it's topknot off and then skinned it. All that sweet, yummy pineapple meat is all mine

 

Ok, so I only cut part of it off, the thing being too big to eat in one day. Wrapped up the remains and put it in the fridge. In the end, much easier to deal with than my ill fated encounter with the dread mango.

Mangos are even easier. Without cutting the skin, simply massage it's flesh until it goes all pulpy. Bite off one end, and suck out the juice.

I find that the pineapple 'topknot' gets in the way. Cut it off, along with the very top of the fruit, and the very bottom (to make it sit flat on your cutting board). Then take off the skin with downward slices, all the way around the fruit. At that point, you just have to deal with the fibrous inner core, and there are a lot of ways to go about that. I usually just quarter the whole thing, and then remove the fibrous part from the inside of each quarter.

Mangos are even easier. Without cutting the skin, simply massage it's flesh until it goes all pulpy. Bite off one end, and suck out the juice.

 

Odd, that's the same way you deal with a large zit.

OMG, wifey just told me that she'll buy me vanity plates for our new car for my B-day - "TRDS BLU"

 

The car is blue, obviously

 

SO. EXCITED.

Been digging through one of my exam papers. It's due tomorrow (well... tonight) at 5pm via email.

 

One thing I have found interesting while doing this (and talking about Dudley/Earl of Warwick/Duke of Northumberland) is the Poor Law that was enacted in Britannia in 1550.

 

Welfare is communist my FOOT! It's friggin monarchist!

Amy Winehouse died. RIP.

 

Is anyone really surprised. Killer voice, bit of a mess as a human being.

Amy Winehouse died. RIP.

 

Yes, my sympathies go out to her dealer.

 

It's kind of interesting how the split is with her death, people are either pushing to make it a grand tragedy and wail at the loss of such a great human being.. or they're taking the stance of its about time, she was such a bad human being, a bad example to kids etc... There seem to be very few people taking a middle ground stance.

 

Spending a chunk of my time cleaning up my sister's old laptop so my mother can use it. A lot easier for her to perch a laptop on her bed rather then twist to use her pc.

 

On a side-note, I have to say the whole biometric / webcam identify as part of the login on the Alienware laptop is quite funky.

Yeah, or they don't give a ****, like me. Always sad when young people die, fame doesn't impact my view of it one way or the other, neither do their habits.

 

And moving on to things I've done today, been working on the dissertation, as have been daily for the past two months. Aggravated as ****, have grudging respect for anyone insane enough to write a 1500 page manifesto.

Edited July 24, 201114 yr by Nepenthe