So, first day at a new client today and at about 9:45 the announcement comes over that there will now be a practice evacuation of the building. This is followed by the world's perkiest receptionist in a bright red hardhat asking if 'everyone could evacuate now, if that's OK'.

This is followed by an immense traffic jam on the fire stairs, and two ( Read more... )

Not in the literal, out-on-the-streets, can't-manage-to shave sense, but still ( Read more... )

Oh my! Love the CG picture.

http://i.imgur.com/hiGbF.jpg

Well I suppose that technically I'm not, not until I graduate in April, but I have officially completed all the requirements of my degree and if people would really like to start calling me 'master' earlier then I'm sure not going to stop them. And I'm still yet to make a decision on the whole 'Master of Evil' thing, so there are some wrinkles left ( Read more... )

As I plummet towards the finish line of my masters degree I'm starting to be able to tick off 'lasts'. Last Essay has already gone by the wayside. Last Assignment is lining up for this Friday. And last week, in a triumph of poor scheduling that saw me sit two exams on the same day, I slew Last Microsoft Exam. As a result I'm now officially ( Read more... )

... For I will not miss you ( Read more... )

I've been spending quite a bit of time with 'Watchmen' recently, reading and watching, and though the execution is excellent in both cases the sentiment is vile.

Such a failure of hope is despicable in every way.

(Yes, I'm a bad man who never writes in his LiveJournal. I hope to be catching up with everyone soon. Or soon-ish. In the meantime, here are my thoughts on some of the electron-drug I've dosed myself with lately ( Read more... )

So, yes, it's been about a million years ...

Actually it's not so far off one year, but the internet has time dilation like nothing else. Honestly, you can either accelerate to 99.99% the speed of light or you can connect through your router ... the effect is much the same. Of course it's not much helped by the fact that I'm very bad at keeping in ( Read more... )

You'd think that, being reasonably intelligent, I could have done something about this ( Read more... )