Yay for drugs-on-demand

Well, after five or six weeks of indecisive back and forth, dilly-dallying and backflipping, my right big toe decided it was going to get infected. I think it’s even contemplating coming off entirely – it’s half detached now anyway. Quit bitchin’ and just be lucky I didn’t post pictures. :P So now I’m packin’ 40… Read more

Statisticians have all the fun

As of about now, I have listened to my music collection for a sum stretch of 19 weeks, 2 days, 4 hours, 46 minutes and 34 seconds. Thereabouts. That’s about 4200 songs with a total play count of 49,855… 49,856, given one just finished playing while I wrote that. So a little under 12 plays… Read more

What value, a few words

Weekend… didn’t get up to a whole lot. Went to see Charlie Bartlett with Matt. It turned out to be as good as I’d hoped, which is to say, very good – set in a high school, but far from a teen movie. Clever, and funny. That aside… I worked. Yep, I suck. Well, I… Read more

SIGGRAPH animation finalists presentation

Thursday night I nipped over to DA3 where ACM SIGGRAPH were presenting the animations that were short-listed, more or less, in last years’ conference. They had 906 entries, or something like that.. 55 hours of animation, which they someone managed to review in 3 days. Of those, 36 or so were shortlisted, and those were… Read more

Suspiciously healthy

I had a quick blood test the other day, just tip-of-the-finger style, for blood sugar & cholesterol levels. And had my blood pressure checked, too. Blood sugar was 89 – one off ‘perfect’ of 90, but I think the Kit Kat immediately afterwards probably rectified that ;) – and the cholesterol was lower than they… Read more

Alpine Meadows skiing

So, skiing. Friday morning our plans changed – James, whom works at Loopt, was able to get their corporate cabin for the weekend, which is up somewhere just north of Tahoe City. So we cancelled the motel in South Lake Tahoe (pfft, $160 cancellation fee… arses) and planned to hit Alpine Meadows instead. The name… Read more

A new moon

Well, I was looking forward to the lunar eclipse, but wasn’t surprised when the clouds got in the way. It was clear to see as the moon rose above the eastern mountains, though – which was the best time, probably, because it looked so big and clear. At some points during the full eclipse the… Read more