Whilst assisting a co-worker with something today, we got talking about how folks in our lines of work tend not to have any actual lives outside of work. Well, that somehow led on to a brief, but quite horrific discussion of what would happen if one's employer started fixing it's single employees up with arranged marriages! OMFG! (and this is ( Read more... )

You know - RPGs are great & stuff... But, there's nothing better for brightening up a decidedly lacklustre Monday, than flying around 10ft off the deck, blowing the crap outta things. Thank you Ace Combat4...

Good grief - I knew I'd been kinda been burning the physical/mental candle at both ends (and at a few selected spots in the middle) recently, but I had no idea that I'd gotten so tired until today's lunch coma claimed me. That quick half hour kip turned into 6 hours! o_O ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3122432.stm

Time 4 bed. No more SC2. Well, maybe 1 more stage...

Hee. Talim shares my birthday! That must be why why she's my favourite kicker of butts!

Since today appears t'be Talk like a Pirate Day, here be somethin't'tickle ye fancy ( Read more... )

Heh. My spam filter just datadrained a spam from a .biz addy in China, advertising, of all things, spam protection software. I find that horribly amusing. Surely nobody actually buys spam protection software from a spammer??! That's akin to paying a bank-robber to be your security guard... oh wait, I think that's been done... nevermind...

Whilst waiting for a verification job to finish, I ended up reading an article on the BBC news web site, which described that the government are planning to introduce a Britishness test for would be immigrants. Since we don't have presidents, we'd have to ask about King Henry VIII, or Ethelred the Unready, or suchlike ( Read more... )

Lotsa stuff seems to have been on sale of recent, so my compy has just gotten a UPS box, some more disc space and a Wacom to play with (the wireless mouse is great for iRO, BTW). As for Limey himself, he just got another DVD to watch - LOTR-Twin Towers. Yeah, I know they'll come out with a special with umpteen extra hours of stuff in short order, ( Read more... )

Modern life has taught me many things. If one needs rain, simply wash the car, or water the lawn (we've all seen those sprinker systems that blithely continue to spit water into a typical Texas torrential downpour). Well, today I learned a new lesson ( Read more... )