Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Attention! Rampant complaining ahead!
Yeah, so this is why I like having a blog. I can bitch and rant and carry on without people telling me to shut up. If I were to tell all the following to someone in person, it would likely induce rage and violence (or even voilence!). However, the internet was made so people could be free to say what they wanted, whenever they wanted, free of persecution. The trick, I suppose, is that it's much easier to just not pay attention or to skip ahead. Like most people have already done by now.
At any rate, things weren't so bad in the morning today, since I only forgot to make a lunch and scrambled to slap one together at the last second. After that it was smooth sailing until about mid-afternoon, when I get the phone call saying that I won't be able to continue my stay with the government. In very choice words, I'm out on my ass come April unless I find another job for the summer term. That rather fouled things up from then on. The weather was gorgeous when I left work, but I guess Nature decided to make it nice and sunny and clear only to show the world how ungodly cold it was. I got to ride an immensely crowded bus to Billings Bridge filled with a ton of dumbass high school students that were causing a rather large racket. The bus cleared up after that, which made me think things were going to be ok again, but the one I got on when I tranferred was just as bad, only with less students and more "people who smell like garlic sitting next to me". When I finally got home, I decided to go skating to unwind and try out my skates, but it turns out the ice is quite choppy and was akin to skating on gravel. Last, but not least, I managed to get my head all woogy going up the stairs to the road from the canal, and was having trouble focusing and balancing. On the stairs. Fun.
Things have somewhat gotten better since I got home again, but I fully expect to catch SARS, cancer and herpes before I go to bed, and then just as I'm falling asleep, an orangoutang will try and rape my ear. If I don't post tomorrow, don't be all that surprised.
A bunch of oddball topics in rapid succession!
There's a guy who I work with that has a giant rubber ball for a chair. I don't know how he resists the urge to bounce around and roll on it.
Apparantly you can get really good deals on eBay if you can find the same item you want to buy, only severely misspelled.
I saw a picture of a cow with a hole in it! Er... the cow had the hole in it, not the picture. Yeah, slightly different idea, no?
There's a rather neat exhibit going on at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography about this screen some artist made out of butterfly wings. It sounds neat!
I saw some bus crazies a week or so ago. One was wearing a faux-fur leather jacket with the whole goth get-up, the other had her hair in 8-inch long spikes. They were talking about trying to figure out basic French.
For a while, I couldn't delete things from my email account through Mozilla because there wasn't enough disk space. Ironic!
Every time I think I could use a laptop, I think of some reason why I don't need one, but that always leads me to another reason why it would be nice to have a laptop. I think I'm always going to want one and not want one at the same time, like a paradox.
Saw an article about a book called The Cuckoo's Egg. I guess it's about these Bell employees that baited this German hacker with bogus data and caught him that way. Sounded neat. I'll probably read it if I find it.
Someday, these links could be worth money...
So this site has the most INSANE terms of service evar. Literally, it doesn't end. Someone put up an article discussing it here, and some of the highlights are pretty funny.
Some more things you can do with Photoshop. These are definitely more simplistic, but they're no less trippy. I don't think I would want to see myself as a baby juxtaposed with myself as a adult, but to each their own.
Finally, artists that see sense! These guys, as stated on the page, have decided to ship their album with 2 black CDs, both of which have the same label as the album. Seems that they'd rather you rip their music and spread the love by sharing rather than try to hoard their music to a select few. Well, actually that's probably not the story at all, but it's comforting to think that way. Of all the artists out there, I think Bowie is on the right track. He sees the future of music being more concert driven than anything else, and I think he's right. If a band spends less time in the studio and actually records less songs, they can use those songs as advertisements that are freely distributed. People can then keep these tracks and make their own albums, or they can go to the concerts and hear more new music and get a better show, in my humble little opinion. This will probably never happen (probably because it's easier to record an album and let the dough roll in than it is to tour), but one can hope.
Coming soon, to a blog near you!
So I'm toying with the idea of making my own website. The whole deal, domain and all. If I start tinkering around enough and get something worth looking at, I might just put it up on my University or Sympatico webspace and y'all can take a look. I'm going to try and maximize what I can do with this site for now though, mainly because it's free and already made. Either way, there may or may not be some changes coming to this little corner of the internet. I'll keep you posted. Until then, I should probably clean up the mess I made making egg-nachos tonight. Yeah, egg-nachos. They're good! Here's what'cha do:
What you need:
-Meat like you would want in a taco. That means fried sausage, or browned ground beef, or diced cooked poultry. Whatever you got.
-Grated cheese. Handful of cheddar works, but again, whatever you got.
-Misc. stuff like you would want in a taco. Peppers, lettuce, hot sauce, etc etc etc. Be creative or something.
-Eggs. I like the white kind over the brown. Maybe I'm an egg racist...
-Tortillas. I use the 8" white flour ones since they happen to be just right for size. If you experiment though, I bet the big ones work too.
What you do:
1. Preheat the oven to about 450F.
2. Dampen the tortillas on both sides and place them on a non-stick or greased baking sheet. Try and do about 2 per baking sheet.
3. Make a ring of cheese on the tortillas with a circle approx. 3-4" across in the middle. Sprinkle the rest of the stuff on top of the cheese.
5. Crack the eggs in the middle of the rings. They should just fit.
6. Put the tray in the oven, and bake for about 10 minutes or until the eggs set. The cheese should also go all melty-like.
7. Top with salsa or sour cream or whatever and eat the suckers.
Easy! ¶ 4:49 p.m.
Yeah, so this is why I like having a blog. I can bitch and rant and carry on without people telling me to shut up. If I were to tell all the following to someone in person, it would likely induce rage and violence (or even voilence!). However, the internet was made so people could be free to say what they wanted, whenever they wanted, free of persecution. The trick, I suppose, is that it's much easier to just not pay attention or to skip ahead. Like most people have already done by now.
At any rate, things weren't so bad in the morning today, since I only forgot to make a lunch and scrambled to slap one together at the last second. After that it was smooth sailing until about mid-afternoon, when I get the phone call saying that I won't be able to continue my stay with the government. In very choice words, I'm out on my ass come April unless I find another job for the summer term. That rather fouled things up from then on. The weather was gorgeous when I left work, but I guess Nature decided to make it nice and sunny and clear only to show the world how ungodly cold it was. I got to ride an immensely crowded bus to Billings Bridge filled with a ton of dumbass high school students that were causing a rather large racket. The bus cleared up after that, which made me think things were going to be ok again, but the one I got on when I tranferred was just as bad, only with less students and more "people who smell like garlic sitting next to me". When I finally got home, I decided to go skating to unwind and try out my skates, but it turns out the ice is quite choppy and was akin to skating on gravel. Last, but not least, I managed to get my head all woogy going up the stairs to the road from the canal, and was having trouble focusing and balancing. On the stairs. Fun.
Things have somewhat gotten better since I got home again, but I fully expect to catch SARS, cancer and herpes before I go to bed, and then just as I'm falling asleep, an orangoutang will try and rape my ear. If I don't post tomorrow, don't be all that surprised.
A bunch of oddball topics in rapid succession!
There's a guy who I work with that has a giant rubber ball for a chair. I don't know how he resists the urge to bounce around and roll on it.
Apparantly you can get really good deals on eBay if you can find the same item you want to buy, only severely misspelled.
I saw a picture of a cow with a hole in it! Er... the cow had the hole in it, not the picture. Yeah, slightly different idea, no?
There's a rather neat exhibit going on at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography about this screen some artist made out of butterfly wings. It sounds neat!
I saw some bus crazies a week or so ago. One was wearing a faux-fur leather jacket with the whole goth get-up, the other had her hair in 8-inch long spikes. They were talking about trying to figure out basic French.
For a while, I couldn't delete things from my email account through Mozilla because there wasn't enough disk space. Ironic!
Every time I think I could use a laptop, I think of some reason why I don't need one, but that always leads me to another reason why it would be nice to have a laptop. I think I'm always going to want one and not want one at the same time, like a paradox.
Saw an article about a book called The Cuckoo's Egg. I guess it's about these Bell employees that baited this German hacker with bogus data and caught him that way. Sounded neat. I'll probably read it if I find it.
Someday, these links could be worth money...
So this site has the most INSANE terms of service evar. Literally, it doesn't end. Someone put up an article discussing it here, and some of the highlights are pretty funny.
Some more things you can do with Photoshop. These are definitely more simplistic, but they're no less trippy. I don't think I would want to see myself as a baby juxtaposed with myself as a adult, but to each their own.
Finally, artists that see sense! These guys, as stated on the page, have decided to ship their album with 2 black CDs, both of which have the same label as the album. Seems that they'd rather you rip their music and spread the love by sharing rather than try to hoard their music to a select few. Well, actually that's probably not the story at all, but it's comforting to think that way. Of all the artists out there, I think Bowie is on the right track. He sees the future of music being more concert driven than anything else, and I think he's right. If a band spends less time in the studio and actually records less songs, they can use those songs as advertisements that are freely distributed. People can then keep these tracks and make their own albums, or they can go to the concerts and hear more new music and get a better show, in my humble little opinion. This will probably never happen (probably because it's easier to record an album and let the dough roll in than it is to tour), but one can hope.
Coming soon, to a blog near you!
So I'm toying with the idea of making my own website. The whole deal, domain and all. If I start tinkering around enough and get something worth looking at, I might just put it up on my University or Sympatico webspace and y'all can take a look. I'm going to try and maximize what I can do with this site for now though, mainly because it's free and already made. Either way, there may or may not be some changes coming to this little corner of the internet. I'll keep you posted. Until then, I should probably clean up the mess I made making egg-nachos tonight. Yeah, egg-nachos. They're good! Here's what'cha do:
What you need:
-Meat like you would want in a taco. That means fried sausage, or browned ground beef, or diced cooked poultry. Whatever you got.
-Grated cheese. Handful of cheddar works, but again, whatever you got.
-Misc. stuff like you would want in a taco. Peppers, lettuce, hot sauce, etc etc etc. Be creative or something.
-Eggs. I like the white kind over the brown. Maybe I'm an egg racist...
-Tortillas. I use the 8" white flour ones since they happen to be just right for size. If you experiment though, I bet the big ones work too.
What you do:
1. Preheat the oven to about 450F.
2. Dampen the tortillas on both sides and place them on a non-stick or greased baking sheet. Try and do about 2 per baking sheet.
3. Make a ring of cheese on the tortillas with a circle approx. 3-4" across in the middle. Sprinkle the rest of the stuff on top of the cheese.
5. Crack the eggs in the middle of the rings. They should just fit.
6. Put the tray in the oven, and bake for about 10 minutes or until the eggs set. The cheese should also go all melty-like.
7. Top with salsa or sour cream or whatever and eat the suckers.
Easy! ¶ 4:49 p.m.
