This week has one too many days in it I think. I am drained. Not tired...just drained. I'm glad tomorrow is a day off from everything. I can't wait.
On the other hand, my new washer and Dryer and dishwasher come very soon. Maybe today...or at the latest tomorrow.
Mee hee.
I have to wait until my Dad comes in October to hook them all up to use them, but still. Appliances that actually work with out kicking assistance or sounding like there is heavy construction going on in the house! A dishwasher that will close without cursing and using a screwdriver! A dryer that has a door handle!
Meep.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
A few too many
I really prefer it when people overestimate things. It makes it more pleasant to do less than you thought, and you get finished early.
The alternative...my day. What was described as a "few" samples to sort, log and divide up was described as ~40. "OK, not too bad" I thought. When I arrived, it turned out to be only 38, BUT with 5 samples each from those 38, so ACTUALLY 190. And, oh, each has to be divided into 4. And labelled. And no rush, but they're needed tomorrow. And did I mention that one set of the 190 are in duplicate?
Sooooooo, in the end, only, oh, 950 odd tubes to label...no biggie. Certainly only a "few" wouldn't you say?
Yeah.
Good times.
I want a king hat so I can demand absurdities form people while not letting them know what they've agreed to until it is too late.
This is the same gob I wanted to tell off about a month ago.
A real charmer that one.
Off to tubetown for me...just had to vent a bit.
The alternative...my day. What was described as a "few" samples to sort, log and divide up was described as ~40. "OK, not too bad" I thought. When I arrived, it turned out to be only 38, BUT with 5 samples each from those 38, so ACTUALLY 190. And, oh, each has to be divided into 4. And labelled. And no rush, but they're needed tomorrow. And did I mention that one set of the 190 are in duplicate?
Sooooooo, in the end, only, oh, 950 odd tubes to label...no biggie. Certainly only a "few" wouldn't you say?
Yeah.
Good times.
I want a king hat so I can demand absurdities form people while not letting them know what they've agreed to until it is too late.
This is the same gob I wanted to tell off about a month ago.
A real charmer that one.
Off to tubetown for me...just had to vent a bit.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
A meme for a frosty morning
I’m a busy girl, and it's chilly, so to not feel like I’m neglecting the webospere (blogoworld?), here’s a little meme I’m far overdue for:
Current clothes: My “Save the Woolly Mammoth” tshirt, black specs, jeans, running shoes and black socks. My underwear colour is none of your concern.
Current mood: Tired. I’m psyching myself up for working for 2 weeks and volunteering at the pledge drive in the evenings for 2 weeks. It makes me tired just thinking about it…
Current music: Thievery Corporation: Sounds from the Thievery Hi Fi. A nice mellow reggae influenced album to get some work (ahem) done to
Current annoyance: Not enough time. There’s a lot in life I need to focus on that is far more important than all this work crap…oh for the time. I volunteered, so it’s my own fault, but I’m starting to wish I could put up a flag and just sit at home and read for a while.
Current thing: Trying to appreciate all the little things in every day life that I used to take for granted.
Current desktop picture: A fractal by Diddums
Current book: I’m in the middle of the Time Traveller’s Wife. FANTASTIC book..
Current song in head: 2001: A spliff odyssey, Thievery Corporation (it’s playing at the moment).
Current DVD in player: Disc one of Season one of the Venture Brothers. I borrowed season 2 from a friend and we got hooked, so we had to pick up Season 1. We’ve been watching an episode at night to unwind…
Current refreshment: Just finished some cheap coffee. Stop! Jittertime!!
Current worry: How do you deal with problems and still live life, when life is part of the problem…how do you make enough time for everything?
Current thought: I’ve gotta get to work…
Current clothes: My “Save the Woolly Mammoth” tshirt, black specs, jeans, running shoes and black socks. My underwear colour is none of your concern.
Current mood: Tired. I’m psyching myself up for working for 2 weeks and volunteering at the pledge drive in the evenings for 2 weeks. It makes me tired just thinking about it…
Current music: Thievery Corporation: Sounds from the Thievery Hi Fi. A nice mellow reggae influenced album to get some work (ahem) done to
Current annoyance: Not enough time. There’s a lot in life I need to focus on that is far more important than all this work crap…oh for the time. I volunteered, so it’s my own fault, but I’m starting to wish I could put up a flag and just sit at home and read for a while.
Current thing: Trying to appreciate all the little things in every day life that I used to take for granted.
Current desktop picture: A fractal by Diddums
Current book: I’m in the middle of the Time Traveller’s Wife. FANTASTIC book..
Current song in head: 2001: A spliff odyssey, Thievery Corporation (it’s playing at the moment).
Current DVD in player: Disc one of Season one of the Venture Brothers. I borrowed season 2 from a friend and we got hooked, so we had to pick up Season 1. We’ve been watching an episode at night to unwind…
Current refreshment: Just finished some cheap coffee. Stop! Jittertime!!
Current worry: How do you deal with problems and still live life, when life is part of the problem…how do you make enough time for everything?
Current thought: I’ve gotta get to work…
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Well duh...
For all you dying to know your geekatype...I fixed the link. Tadah!
| What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Science/Math Nerd (Absolute Insane Laughter as you pour toxic chemicals into a foaming tub of death!)
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| Artistic Nerd | |
| Literature Nerd | |
| Gamer/Computer Nerd | |
| Drama Nerd | |
| Social Nerd | |
| Anime Nerd | |
| Musician | |
| What Be Your Nerd Type? | |
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
I've had this part of Across the Universe in my head all morning for some reason. Great little film...think I'll have to watch it again very soon.
Monday, September 22, 2008
I couldn't have picked a better one if I tried...how'd they know?
Your DJ Name Is: |
 DJ Robotic Muppet |
Mee hee...I claim it as mine (if I ever play a set...oh to dream). :)
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And this came out rather well too...
You Are Guinness |
 You know beer well, and you'll only drink the best beers in the world. Watered down beers disgust you, as do the people who drink them. When you drink, you tend to become a bit of a know it all - especially about subjects you don't know well. But your friends tolerate your drunken ways, because you introduce them to the best beers around. |
Sunday, September 21, 2008
I heart community radio
Well it is our annual pledge drive for the community station again. I'm volunteering every evening for 2 weeks to keep the drive running....we are in a new location now and it is so much nicer - windows, a fridge, a microwave. Wo hoo. We've moved up in the world. And there's honestly nothing like community radio.
Right now, it's Greg's show, There Goes That Song Again. He plays old music from the 20s 30s and 40s. He just had a trivia contest of sorts: he plays tunes on the kazoo to see if anyone could guess the tune...and if noone can he plays until someone calls in and donates to make him stop :) Next is one of my Favourite shows Play. HE plays old radio dramas from the 40s and 50s...the Shadow and stuff like that. My grandpa had tonnes of old radio programmes on vinyl and I have many memories of listening to them curled up in the easy chair in his trailer with the headphones on when I was little.
I love community radio. We broadcast in over 20 languages, play music of all genres and give open word access to a lot of community groups. All our hosts are volunteers and there are only 4 highly underpaid staff to keep the place running. I hear music I like on CFCR. Unfortunately like all public broadcasting we don't make much from advertising, so we have to grovel for cash once a year to stay on the air...and every year the people who appreciate us donate and keep us going. And that is what FMPhasis is: our annual fundraiser.
This year our motto is "Keeping it Up". We've moved to a new location and we're hoping to get bigger and better, and continue to be a great service to the community.
If you want to hear us, go here. There is a link to listen to us on-line on the website...check us out. In October we'll be back to normal, playing great stuff. Check CFCR out.
You could even...you know, donate. (to J's show, the Afternoon Buzz on friday?? plug plug)
It's good for the soul...
Right now, it's Greg's show, There Goes That Song Again. He plays old music from the 20s 30s and 40s. He just had a trivia contest of sorts: he plays tunes on the kazoo to see if anyone could guess the tune...and if noone can he plays until someone calls in and donates to make him stop :) Next is one of my Favourite shows Play. HE plays old radio dramas from the 40s and 50s...the Shadow and stuff like that. My grandpa had tonnes of old radio programmes on vinyl and I have many memories of listening to them curled up in the easy chair in his trailer with the headphones on when I was little.
I love community radio. We broadcast in over 20 languages, play music of all genres and give open word access to a lot of community groups. All our hosts are volunteers and there are only 4 highly underpaid staff to keep the place running. I hear music I like on CFCR. Unfortunately like all public broadcasting we don't make much from advertising, so we have to grovel for cash once a year to stay on the air...and every year the people who appreciate us donate and keep us going. And that is what FMPhasis is: our annual fundraiser.
This year our motto is "Keeping it Up". We've moved to a new location and we're hoping to get bigger and better, and continue to be a great service to the community.
If you want to hear us, go here. There is a link to listen to us on-line on the website...check us out. In October we'll be back to normal, playing great stuff. Check CFCR out.
You could even...you know, donate. (to J's show, the Afternoon Buzz on friday?? plug plug)
It's good for the soul...
Friday, September 19, 2008
No Heroics please
I ran across this show. It reminds me of the Tick and the live action show they put out of it a while back. I'm in the middle of a Venture Brothers stint at the moment, so cheesy supervillains and superheroes in an average world are just the thing to make me smirk right now...I'd like to check this show out. Hopefully it'll come over here relatively soon...or at least be on region 1 DVD eventually.
Wish it would come to us over here...I mean we just get the new season of Doctor Who today for gods sake. I'm willing to vote out the conservative party just to get the arts funding restored so we can have better scifi back on the CBC and Space channel...well OK I suppose other artforms could use some cash too, but seriously. We geeks pay our taxes too. What's in it for us? :)
Wish it would come to us over here...I mean we just get the new season of Doctor Who today for gods sake. I'm willing to vote out the conservative party just to get the arts funding restored so we can have better scifi back on the CBC and Space channel...well OK I suppose other artforms could use some cash too, but seriously. We geeks pay our taxes too. What's in it for us? :)
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Grapecat to the rescue
I was just thinking "I'm bored. And boring...I have nothing to write about today"...
But then Grapecat had this little food meme there and Kaplah! Meme fodder for me.
So here we go... the deal is you list these 100 items of food, and bold those you have eaten, and cross out any you wouldn't want to eat. I'm not sure how to do the cross out thing, so I'll just put ** before and after the ones I will not eat...and see what goes with that. Because I love unique identifiers and qualifiers (science geek) I am putting a # beside those that I have eaten but did not like...just cuz I feel the need to.
(and it turns out you can't see bolding on this template, so I'll make the bold stuff yellow...complicated enough for you? OK. Lets go...)
The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison (I love it, and buffalo)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. **Steak tartare** (parasites anyone??)
5. Crocodile (I've heard it tastes like chicken)
6. **Black pudding** (No added blood in my food. Who comes up with this stuff??)
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari #(didn't like it...it's all chewy)
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich (I don't like peanut butter...so I wouldn't unless I had to)
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses (??)
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21 Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. **Foie gras** (not only do I not like liver, but it's cruel to the ducks)
24. Rice and beans
25. **Brawn, or head cheese **(never ever ever...have you seen that shit?)
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters # (not a fan of the texture)
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda ??
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (yum...I love bread bowls...)
33. Salted lassi (I want to try this...)
34. Sauerkraut # (Tastes fine, but the smell makes me retch)
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (how I celebrated my uni grad actually!)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail (just not that interested)
41. Curried goat
42. **Whole insects ** (No way. Am I starving? No? then no bugs...)
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk #
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more (that's the good stuff...)
46. Fugu ??
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel #
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (don't have Krisy Kreme up here)
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi #
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. **McDonald’s Big Mac Meal** (No thanks...their burgers are made of spun blood products you know...my parents hated McD's so we never went thankfully)
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini # (prefer vodka martinis myself..and dont' like olives either)
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips #(can you say chalky?)
61. S’mores
62. **Sweetbreads ** (no. just...no)
63. Kaolin (??)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis # (I'm scottish so it was forced on me...but not again. YUCK)
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette #(never again...had to try chitterlings once...it's a mennonite thing. DISGUSTING)
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini # (not a fan...it's a texture thing)
73. Louche absinthe # (Foul tasting. Plus there is wormwood in it...)
74. Gjetost, or brunost (I LOVE gjetost)
75. **Roadkill** (WTF?? No...jeez)
76. Baijiu (??)
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong (??)
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam# (Mum used to fry it up for spamburgers. Yuk. Never again)
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (so good...)
100. Snake
I scored 71 - I don't know what some of this stuff was...but now I want to try them. I suspect if I didn't have an odd urge to try things I've never heard of when they present themselves and work with a lot of foreign grad students I'd have a much lower score.
How about you?
But then Grapecat had this little food meme there and Kaplah! Meme fodder for me.
So here we go... the deal is you list these 100 items of food, and bold those you have eaten, and cross out any you wouldn't want to eat. I'm not sure how to do the cross out thing, so I'll just put ** before and after the ones I will not eat...and see what goes with that. Because I love unique identifiers and qualifiers (science geek) I am putting a # beside those that I have eaten but did not like...just cuz I feel the need to.
(and it turns out you can't see bolding on this template, so I'll make the bold stuff yellow...complicated enough for you? OK. Lets go...)
The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison (I love it, and buffalo)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. **Steak tartare** (parasites anyone??)
5. Crocodile (I've heard it tastes like chicken)
6. **Black pudding** (No added blood in my food. Who comes up with this stuff??)
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari #(didn't like it...it's all chewy)
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich (I don't like peanut butter...so I wouldn't unless I had to)
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses (??)
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21 Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. **Foie gras** (not only do I not like liver, but it's cruel to the ducks)
24. Rice and beans
25. **Brawn, or head cheese **(never ever ever...have you seen that shit?)
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters # (not a fan of the texture)
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda ??
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (yum...I love bread bowls...)
33. Salted lassi (I want to try this...)
34. Sauerkraut # (Tastes fine, but the smell makes me retch)
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (how I celebrated my uni grad actually!)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail (just not that interested)
41. Curried goat
42. **Whole insects ** (No way. Am I starving? No? then no bugs...)
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk #
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more (that's the good stuff...)
46. Fugu ??
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel #
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (don't have Krisy Kreme up here)
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi #
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. **McDonald’s Big Mac Meal** (No thanks...their burgers are made of spun blood products you know...my parents hated McD's so we never went thankfully)
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini # (prefer vodka martinis myself..and dont' like olives either)
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips #(can you say chalky?)
61. S’mores
62. **Sweetbreads ** (no. just...no)
63. Kaolin (??)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis # (I'm scottish so it was forced on me...but not again. YUCK)
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette #(never again...had to try chitterlings once...it's a mennonite thing. DISGUSTING)
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini # (not a fan...it's a texture thing)
73. Louche absinthe # (Foul tasting. Plus there is wormwood in it...)
74. Gjetost, or brunost (I LOVE gjetost)
75. **Roadkill** (WTF?? No...jeez)
76. Baijiu (??)
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong (??)
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam# (Mum used to fry it up for spamburgers. Yuk. Never again)
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (so good...)
100. Snake
I scored 71 - I don't know what some of this stuff was...but now I want to try them. I suspect if I didn't have an odd urge to try things I've never heard of when they present themselves and work with a lot of foreign grad students I'd have a much lower score.
How about you?
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Walk without rhythm and it won't attract the worm...
Go here please...
Because I think you all need a little Christopher Walkin in your lives.
(And youtube won't let me embed it...)
Because I think you all need a little Christopher Walkin in your lives.
(And youtube won't let me embed it...)
Tell you what I want, what I really really want
I can't concentrate...
Why?
Well, what I really want now, more than anything, is a big piece of pie.
Key lime pie to be specific.
Anyone?
Why?
Well, what I really want now, more than anything, is a big piece of pie.
Key lime pie to be specific.
Anyone?
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