• On Life and Love

    Good reading material.

    8/9/2005 /

    “A Hummer to make you happy?” – Honestly, do you really need that square boat? “Dear Holiday Inn” – Wanna stay at a Holiday Inn in Buffalo? Hmm… I think she’d suggest you reconsider. “Why I prefer no tabs in source code” – To tab or not to tab? I tab. “Outlook 2003 – Thunderbird Smack Down” – I recently switched to Outlook 2003. Of course, it’s freely available to me as a student at Rose, so that helps. “Bloody meta” – Not reading material per se, but a funny view, nonetheless. Violence warning. A review of Sheila Jeffrey’s Beauty And Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices In The West – I…

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  • On Life and Love

    Simply amazing.

    8/8/2005 /

    WO introduced me to this game this weekend called Typing of the Dead. It was one of those games that would have been made for an arcade where you had a gun used to shoot at zombies, like House of the Dead or something. Since it’s on a PC, though, you don’t actually shoot the baddies. You type whatever set of characters (maybe a word, maybe a few letters, maybe a sentence) that represents them. Speed matters, and too many typing mistakes gets you killed. But it learns. Things you type well come up less and less. Genius. It’s hard, but it’s fun. It’s also a bit dorky (FBI agents…

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  • Uncategorized

    Hoo-wah!

    8/4/2005 /

    Yesterday’s run went amazingly well, although my legs are tightening up again. I need to take breaks from work every couple of hours and stretch my calves. I wrapped up my 5 km just as WO was finishing his stint (I ran with him while he was there), at around 47 minutes. We were talking and chatting so much that I couldn’t believe I was actually done with my 25 laps when he finished. Today’s weight-lifting went really well also. I did weightless sumo squats in my office before heading down to the SRC. Those are going to be killer once I get some weight on them–I felt it all…

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