Mac Users and the PC guys
As you can see from this Penny Arcade cartoon, Mac Users tend to have an air of nonchalant snootiness, don't you think so Lee?
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005
As you can see from this Penny Arcade cartoon, Mac Users tend to have an air of nonchalant snootiness, don't you think so Lee?
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Nice fight
Belated congratulations to Manny Pacquiao for his 6th round win over Hector Velazquez. Condolences to Erik Morales, who provided another interpretation to his nickname when he lost by decision to Zahir Raheem. I have no doubt Morales would have won if he had taken Raheem seriously. At least Morales-Pacquiao II is still on, though Morales' loss probably took a zero or two from his projected paycheque.Kudos also to Brian Viloria and Rey Bautista for their victories.
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My crib
And this is the place I'm living in. Actually, I live in the basement, and you can see the stairs leading there on the right side of the house. This picture was taken by my landlord with her digital camera, which is why it looks much better than the ones from my phone.
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New/old pics
So, I'd already put these pics into my online account but had forgotten they were there. They're from the first week of September. Anyway, this is me with my new cell, the Motorola v551. Like I said before, it was really humid that week, which is why I look so damp. The phone has no lasers and is not a Robot in Disguise, so I don't recommend it at all.
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Sunday, September 11, 2005
Kendrick goes hunting.
"This suit is great. It's battle-tested and the armor can withstand level 5 rocket attacks." Kendrick thought to himself. "Now if only they told me how to relieve my jock itch."
Character design and digital rendering by Biboy.
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Friday, September 09, 2005
No pictures
Ok, so I just found out that my cellphone bill for this month is higher than I expected, and it's all due to the pictures and videos I've been uploading (or trying to, anyway). So until my laptop and the USB cable I ordered get here, I'll be uploading no more multimedia stuff.
In other news, I just met the other grad students in my program and they all seem like interesting people. Last night I got a native Haligonian's tour of Halifax. Half of the city is apparently haunted. The other half isn't.
In other news, I just met the other grad students in my program and they all seem like interesting people. Last night I got a native Haligonian's tour of Halifax. Half of the city is apparently haunted. The other half isn't.
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Thursday, September 08, 2005
Tita Julie is recuperating at home.
Hi everyone!
After eleven days in the hospital, four of which were spent in ICU, your Tita Julie is finally back home. According to her doctors, she still needs a few days to fully recover from her hospital confinement. Her lungs still have traces of pneumonia so she is still under medication for that, but otherwise she's doing fine. In fact, she lost quite a few pounds which is good for her.
While we were in the hospital, Lulan and Tita Baby had been trying to reach me. Unfortunately, our phone system here still sucks, so they weren't able to talk to me back then and I couldn't get to a computer so I really had no way of getting any word to you guys.
In any event, here's a very big THANK YOU! to you all.
After eleven days in the hospital, four of which were spent in ICU, your Tita Julie is finally back home. According to her doctors, she still needs a few days to fully recover from her hospital confinement. Her lungs still have traces of pneumonia so she is still under medication for that, but otherwise she's doing fine. In fact, she lost quite a few pounds which is good for her.
While we were in the hospital, Lulan and Tita Baby had been trying to reach me. Unfortunately, our phone system here still sucks, so they weren't able to talk to me back then and I couldn't get to a computer so I really had no way of getting any word to you guys.
In any event, here's a very big THANK YOU! to you all.
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Happy Birthday, Richie!
Happy 30th birthday, Richie!
So sorry it took me this long to greet you. It's only today (September 8, 4:52 pm Manila Time) that I can finally get to go home. I've been staying at Medical City since last Monday (August 29) with your Tita Julie. She sends you her warmest greetings too!
So sorry it took me this long to greet you. It's only today (September 8, 4:52 pm Manila Time) that I can finally get to go home. I've been staying at Medical City since last Monday (August 29) with your Tita Julie. She sends you her warmest greetings too!
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Sunday, September 04, 2005
Believe it or Not!
The following are all true. A team of scientists, researchers, historians, and other specialists have spent their lives verifying these claims.
Believe it or not...
...the modern flush toilet was popularized by a man named Crapper! Thomas Crapper was head of a London plumbing concern that bought the patent rights from Albert Giblin and proceeded to market the device to great success!
...Michael Jackson owns the publishing rights to all of the Beatles’ songs! In 1984 the ATV Corporation, then owner of the rights, sold its 4000 song catalog for $47.5 million! Although Jackson owns the publishing rights the estates of Paul McCartney and John Lennon still receive their songwriter’s share of royalties!
...Life Savers candy are so named because its inventor’s daughter choked to death on a solid mint! Clarence Crane created the holed candy to allow choking victims to breathe even when the candy is lodged in their throat!
...while it’s untrue that Richard Gere was once admitted to a hospital with a gerbil stuffed up his rectum, it’s true that he prepared for his role in Pretty Woman by repeatedly soliciting prostitutes! He was eventually arrested for this behaviour but the studio arranged to have his record and the arresting officer “disappear”!
...Marie Antoinette was the first to discover cold nuclear fusion! In 1788 she described the process in her journal, calling it "an astounding discovery" with "far-reaching implications". Unfortunately, all her papers detailing the process was lost in the chaos of the Revolution!
...Nostradamus' mistaken prediction of a Saxon reinvasion of France in 1888 was actually supposed to read 2008 and was due to a mathematical error! An enigmatic figure known only as "Charles the Commander" shall rescue France in her darkest hour. Modern translations indicate that "Charles the Commander" actually means "Charles in Charge"; the French government has already secured Scott Baio in a secret bunker in Provence to await the fated day!
...Albanians are born without a heart! The exact process is a secret, but it's known that they must grow one from the seed of a camphor tree and water it with tears from a heartbroken crocodile. Only by tending the tree can they learn to love, though the heart itself must be installed by a qualified cardiologist!
...most people are aware of prima nocta or "first night" from the Mel Gibson movie Lethal Weapon 2, but in real life medieval lords actually performed the act of ultima nocta or "last night"! This was the right of the nobility to enact sexual congress upon persons right before or right after they die. It grew out of fashion in the mid-1700s, primarily because the practice was scientifically proven to be immoral!
...Abraham Lincoln was a secret practitioner of Zhaquan wushu, while his rival, Gen. Robert E. Lee, appropriately enough studied Hung Fut Pai, a southern style of kung fu! During the Battle of Gettysburg the two dueled in an abandoned barn a scant 30 miles from where the great conflict raged. Upon defeating Lee the Great Emancipator ritualistically emasculated his enemy with his bare hands. For the rest of his life Lincoln would always keep the trophy in a jar close at hand, though he would only show it to his closest associates!
...the secret society of Alamut (more commonly known as the Assassins), generally believed to have been destroyed in the 13th century, actually survives to the present day through a process known as Photosynthesis!
...the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on Kelo v. New London extended the definition of eminent domain to "physical property on one's person being underused or not generating enough tax revenue where such seizure is for the public purpose"! This means the U.S. government is now authorized to take into possession any citizen's heart, lungs, spleens, etc. if it can demonstrate that such organs are underutilized and its seizure can serve the public good!
...the newest science of eschatology describes the study of the LiveJournal postings of Jennifer Eschat of St. Paul, MN, greatest of all modern thinkers! Stanford University has already begun offering a bachelor's degree in eschatology and has plans to expand the program into graduate-level studies!
...the Jesuits are the literal Army of Christ! Ignatius Loyola, their founder and the first General Superior, started the society after dreaming of Christ and him on a beach with a varying number of footprints. His Spiritual Exercises actually contain cleverly concealed lessons drawn from history's most famous and infamous battles, and more are added every ten years. The ubiquitous schools are essentially indoctrination centres where the most promising are trained in the military arts. When the final trumpet is sounded the Societa Jesu will take up their swords and cruise missiles and charge the army of the Beast written of in Revelations, who, in a surprising turn of events, will turn out to be Scott Baio! Baio will by then have wrested control of the International Civil Aviation Organization and filled it with his most loyal and battle-hardened cronies. He will only be defeated by the pure love of an Albanian. The last war will begin in the tenth year of the reign of Jennifer Eschat Caesar!
...formica was developed as a cheaper and more reliable substitute for mica, the most widely used electrical insulator of the time!
Believe it or not...
...the modern flush toilet was popularized by a man named Crapper! Thomas Crapper was head of a London plumbing concern that bought the patent rights from Albert Giblin and proceeded to market the device to great success!
...Michael Jackson owns the publishing rights to all of the Beatles’ songs! In 1984 the ATV Corporation, then owner of the rights, sold its 4000 song catalog for $47.5 million! Although Jackson owns the publishing rights the estates of Paul McCartney and John Lennon still receive their songwriter’s share of royalties!
...Life Savers candy are so named because its inventor’s daughter choked to death on a solid mint! Clarence Crane created the holed candy to allow choking victims to breathe even when the candy is lodged in their throat!
...while it’s untrue that Richard Gere was once admitted to a hospital with a gerbil stuffed up his rectum, it’s true that he prepared for his role in Pretty Woman by repeatedly soliciting prostitutes! He was eventually arrested for this behaviour but the studio arranged to have his record and the arresting officer “disappear”!
...Marie Antoinette was the first to discover cold nuclear fusion! In 1788 she described the process in her journal, calling it "an astounding discovery" with "far-reaching implications". Unfortunately, all her papers detailing the process was lost in the chaos of the Revolution!
...Nostradamus' mistaken prediction of a Saxon reinvasion of France in 1888 was actually supposed to read 2008 and was due to a mathematical error! An enigmatic figure known only as "Charles the Commander" shall rescue France in her darkest hour. Modern translations indicate that "Charles the Commander" actually means "Charles in Charge"; the French government has already secured Scott Baio in a secret bunker in Provence to await the fated day!
...Albanians are born without a heart! The exact process is a secret, but it's known that they must grow one from the seed of a camphor tree and water it with tears from a heartbroken crocodile. Only by tending the tree can they learn to love, though the heart itself must be installed by a qualified cardiologist!
...most people are aware of prima nocta or "first night" from the Mel Gibson movie Lethal Weapon 2, but in real life medieval lords actually performed the act of ultima nocta or "last night"! This was the right of the nobility to enact sexual congress upon persons right before or right after they die. It grew out of fashion in the mid-1700s, primarily because the practice was scientifically proven to be immoral!
...Abraham Lincoln was a secret practitioner of Zhaquan wushu, while his rival, Gen. Robert E. Lee, appropriately enough studied Hung Fut Pai, a southern style of kung fu! During the Battle of Gettysburg the two dueled in an abandoned barn a scant 30 miles from where the great conflict raged. Upon defeating Lee the Great Emancipator ritualistically emasculated his enemy with his bare hands. For the rest of his life Lincoln would always keep the trophy in a jar close at hand, though he would only show it to his closest associates!
...the secret society of Alamut (more commonly known as the Assassins), generally believed to have been destroyed in the 13th century, actually survives to the present day through a process known as Photosynthesis!
...the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on Kelo v. New London extended the definition of eminent domain to "physical property on one's person being underused or not generating enough tax revenue where such seizure is for the public purpose"! This means the U.S. government is now authorized to take into possession any citizen's heart, lungs, spleens, etc. if it can demonstrate that such organs are underutilized and its seizure can serve the public good!
...the newest science of eschatology describes the study of the LiveJournal postings of Jennifer Eschat of St. Paul, MN, greatest of all modern thinkers! Stanford University has already begun offering a bachelor's degree in eschatology and has plans to expand the program into graduate-level studies!
...the Jesuits are the literal Army of Christ! Ignatius Loyola, their founder and the first General Superior, started the society after dreaming of Christ and him on a beach with a varying number of footprints. His Spiritual Exercises actually contain cleverly concealed lessons drawn from history's most famous and infamous battles, and more are added every ten years. The ubiquitous schools are essentially indoctrination centres where the most promising are trained in the military arts. When the final trumpet is sounded the Societa Jesu will take up their swords and cruise missiles and charge the army of the Beast written of in Revelations, who, in a surprising turn of events, will turn out to be Scott Baio! Baio will by then have wrested control of the International Civil Aviation Organization and filled it with his most loyal and battle-hardened cronies. He will only be defeated by the pure love of an Albanian. The last war will begin in the tenth year of the reign of Jennifer Eschat Caesar!
...formica was developed as a cheaper and more reliable substitute for mica, the most widely used electrical insulator of the time!
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Friday, September 02, 2005
I remembered
I sent him a birthday text, see? It had this picture of me on it. That's the street I live on. I'll post a video of my place as soon as I can figure it out.
By the way, I'm sweaty because it's been humid like a bastard in Halifax ever since I got here. I've been washing my face 4 times a day just to get the accumulated sweat off.
By the way, I'm sweaty because it's been humid like a bastard in Halifax ever since I got here. I've been washing my face 4 times a day just to get the accumulated sweat off.
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11:40 AM
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Thursday, September 01, 2005
Lunch
Honey-roasted ribs for lunch. It was too sweet, so I under-tipped. This is the second picture I took with my phone -- the first was a picture of my breakfast at another cafe (apparently it was recommended by Lonely Planet, or so the British tourists at the other table said). That one got deleted when I was screwing around with the camera, so the picture of my omelette with grilled chesse focaccia is lost to future generations. Will post more pics when I figure out my camera, hopefully of better quality.
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His brother Brent used to work at a Taco Bell.
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