So after all the crap with ADD last week, I needed a break. Saturday night I went down to Mt. Eliza, and over that night & Sunday caught up with my mum & dad, and my mum’s parents. My dad’s parents were apparently out Sunday, which happens a lot of course. :) It was nice… Read more
Now, it’s well known that youngins of all species do not mix well with computers, given that they typically don’t understand the concept of “oh sweet jezuit that’s expensive don’t do that!”. ‘course, some people apparently don’t mind the occasional flirt with danger, such as the owner of this shiny new MacBook Pro. Thanks to… Read more
I was just Googling for an expression, something along the lines of “OMG lk thts so qte!”… I’m having a mindblank, but it’s one of the epitomal expressions associated with your typical 16 year old girl online. So I Googled first for “OMG cute”, which was too generic. I then added “16 year old” to… Read more
Ah-ha! I knew it; Enrico Colantoni – better known as Elliot DiMauro on Just Shoot Me – is one of the aliens in Galaxy Quest; so says IMDB. No one else figured it, but I was sure it was him… his physical appearance in Galaxy Quest is a little distorted, but that’s intentional; he is… Read more
On Friday I rocked up to the lab in the early afternoon, having taken the liberty of a good sleep in. Although my part was more or less finished at that point, with everything working fine – finally! – I wanted to add in some extra features, as I noted previously. Also, we needed to… Read more
I got my marked RFS assignment back today, the one here. I was given 87.5% for it, which I’m not too thrilled about. I think it was quite a good assignment, really. I understand the topic – I’ve been working in the area for years – and although my write-up does have some of the… Read more