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# Why is the sky so dark?
My morning routine is thus: alarm goes off at 6.00 and I reach over and turn it off without bothering to actually wake up. About ten minutes later, usually, I do wake up properly and crawl out of bed, wake up tWM, shave, breakfast, clean teeth, dress and leave the house by 6.30. On occasion, I get woken up at 7.00 by D’s alarm. It is at the point where I generally have no memory of turning off my alarm; if I wake up I’ll check my watch to see if it is after the time that my alarm should have gone off and assume that it did.
This works well, usually. This morning, it did not. It looked like ten past six when I looked at my watch this morning. I got out of bed, did all the morning things and walked out of the house at half past. Looked at the sky. Thought to myself, "gee, it’s dark today.". Glanced at my watch. Thought to myself, "Why is the little hand behind the six?".
Walked back inside. Sent tWM back to bed for half an hour. Took off just my shoes, coat and scarf (yes, Sarabian, it does get cold enough for woolen goods. As soon as it drops below 30C…) and went back to sleep. I fully expect to be exhausted for the rest of the day. Which is good, because $client->executives0 is coming in today to bitch and whine and generally try and make his penis feel large. Being exhausted will help me get through it.
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# Links for 2005-07-29
- Ashes Photo Gallery
Heroes of the Seventies ✴
- Ashes Photo Gallery
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# Links for 2005-07-28
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# In this case, I think "They" are people who live in cities.
You know, it takes real skill in the art of the argument to write an op-ed piece on the detrimental consequences of capitalism that includes an ad hominem dig at "violent anti-capitalists" who hijacked; the "anti-globalisation movement".
Or, you know, maybe just being an intellectually dishonest water-carrier for the "if they’re fer it, I’m agin it" crowd.
All hail the Holy Farmers, for they are Better than Us.
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# A Lord of the Rings quiz
This interesting newish blog that I was pointed to by Catallaxy has a short quiz on The Lord of the Rings. I’m by no means a fanatic, I’ve only read Hobbit, LotR and Silmarillion, but he claims that you could theoretically answer most of the questions on a single reading of LotR – although that probably means most of teh first ten and maybe a few of the last six. I’ve read them more than a few times and I definitely missed some of these.
In particular Question 4, how many Ring-bearers were there. I get six (Sauron, Isildur, Gollum/Smeagol, Bilbo, Frodo and Samwise) but I am guessing from the choices that Ring-bearer doesn’t just mean someone who had the Ring for a time.
I wish there were answers with it so I could see if my interpretations are correct for the parts of the book the last six questions concern themselves with.
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# Links for 2005-07-27
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# Links for 2005-07-26
- Bullshit Bingo
I suspect the game would be over too quickly for it to be any fun here at $company ✴
- Bullshit Bingo
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# Links for 2005-07-25
- Energy beam weapon may lower Iraq civilian deaths
I wonder what the cancer rates will be like in Iraq ten or twenty years from now ✴
- Energy beam weapon may lower Iraq civilian deaths
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# South of the border, down Mexico way.
Oh fuck. The company is sending me to Melbourne next Thursday. I hope I’ll be allowed back into the country afterwards.
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# It starts
I just outdid myself for dopiness. I was playing Civ 3, a game at Warlord to get myself back up to speed after fifteen months of no play. I had just got to the point where the sun really didn’t set on my empire, there was no longtitude on the map that did not have some Russian brown staining it like a rampant spill of militant paint. I had just all but wiped the Chinese off the map with a swarm of tanks and stealth bombers when I decided I couldn’t be bothered moving my transports all the way around a continent just to finish off a couple of cities on another landmass, so I made peace. Just to rub it in, I even gave them back their crappy city in the Arctic.
I had the United Nations because I hadn’t been paying attention and one of my cities built it after finishing the last component of the spceship. Oh yeah, I had finished the spaceship, and no-one else had even started. I was bored, so I figured I’d just finish the game when it asked me if I wanted to hold UN elections. Who did I want to vote for, Alexander or Catherine. Alexander, I vote. Shit! Wait, no, Cath…NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
I was handed a humiliating defeat by myself. What made it even more humiliating was that my score was higher than everyone else combined. Dopey :- )
So I had a good weekend. Technically I should have been stressed because there is no way I am going to deliver the final three reports on time for $project. It goes live on Wednesday, and even if I wasn’t taking Tuesday afternoon off to go see my haematologist, I probably don’t have enough time to do the reports and the functionality. So, as I was saying, I should be stressed, but I made a point not to bring home any work. And particularly not to be stressed around D and tWM.
My Mum told me last week that no matter what happened at the small business Dad co-owns, he never brought it home with him*. Part of what I plan to do at work to make it over into an IT company is to adopt a rule I picked up from XP; nobody works overtime, and when you leave the office you leave the work there. I don’t care what your actual hours are – I arrive at the office at 7.45 and leave at 17.00, one of the other guys arrives at 10.00 and leaves sometime after me. Like many of the other things I do in the next six weeks, I suspect it will be lead by example.
