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Grr
I'm still stuck without Internets at my new place. It sucks. Moving sucks, generally. I'm making use of Internet cafes at the moment, which irks me no end ( Read more... ) -
Moving on up...
For the last two days I've been moving house. It's a bit exhausting but not too bad. Moving into the new house was orders of magnitude easier than moving out of the old one. Everyone has been impressed with our new place, mostly because it's massive and awesome.
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Points
This week was pretty good - equal with my top scoring week at 75 pts. I could have easily broken a new record by attending a party (25 pts) but I felt too shy and antisocial for that. Which, of course, is the point of the achievement, but yeah. Most of my points were from cheering up a friend (50 pts), and socializing with girls (10 pts). Oh and I ( Read more... ) -
Legalese
The legal system seems to me to be like consensual abuse.
I was mostly thinking in the legal fees (abuse of society by lawyers) but I guess the original line applies much more widely. -
Data mining & Facebook
I reckon you should wander on over to Illuminating Science to see Joel's neat post on data mining Facebook' relationship status information.
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Er, No thanks...
My spam just gave me not one, but two offers for free LASIK evaluation. As in, for free, they shoot lasers into my eyeballs? What could possibly go wrong with that?
It is a bit better than the recent "Update your penis" email. What's that? Are you offering me an iPhone? -
Feels so wrong, but tastes so right
Today we had a "welcome back" lunch for a guy in my team that I've never met before. We went to the Ironbark Cafe in Manuka, which is a very Australian restaurant. I order the "Australian Tastes plate" which was crocodile, kangaroo and emu (sorry veg*ans), served with a salad made out of Australian leaves and herbs. I had a wild bush lime lemonade ( Read more... ) -
End of an Era
Yesterday I handed in my car to the insurance folk. This is the final step of the process of turning a damaged car into money. My new car comes soon ( Read more... ) -
To write and write again
Tomorrow I'm going on another writing retreat. It'll be familiar enough for me, so while the novelty might not there, I know I can do loads of good work there. I plan to keep you dudes updated. Watch how my writing style changes through the week as I throw off the mathematical/programmatic working-man shackles and become the wild artiste ( Read more... ) -
New Computer: Week 1
So I bought my beasty computer. So far, it's been pretty good. Games work absolutely fantastically on it. Crysis, the current benchmark of PC-killingness, requires a 3.0 rating to run on Vista, and 5.0 to run at recommended specs. My computer is a 5.6. I run it at the "Very High" level of settings and it looks beautiful.
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