Cows in slippers! Genius!
Hang on, all cows are free range, right? The fence keeps the predators out.
TV is very silly.
I got my work nickname today - Bundy - from the odd laugh I get when something odd happens. Show me a picture of a Hadron supercollider and you'll see why.
Oooh, the weather. Seems there's a storm on the way. There goes the weekend! Plenty of weather on the way.
Dreadful joke: What do you get when you cross the titanic with the atlantic ocean? Half way.
I really ought to start podcasting. It's probably easier than I think too.
Seems the company I work my job for doesn't pay overtime. Work the timeclock? What would you do?
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
#18 Is freedom a stat or skill?
http://www.owenfitzpatrick.com/meetowen/philosophy/philosophy.php#SlideFrame_1
This guy says "Personal Freedom is your own ability to take control over the way you think and feel and decide to become happier and more successful."
Surely it can't be that easy?
Mind over matter? What about all those external stimuli?
That financial crisis for instance. A whole bunch of people are pretty frazzled after the house of representitives shot down the savey deal. It's not quite the same as congress, but I'm a little fuzzy on that.
Still, the suggestion is that happiness and freedom are linked - not a bad idea. They might even be the same thing.
So maybe personal freedom as an ability relies on mental spam filters. If all the outside stuff bums you out, the only way you can get happy again is thinking your way there. Almost a bit like other skills and stats e.g. long distance running, stamina, patience, origami or dancing.
This guy says "Personal Freedom is your own ability to take control over the way you think and feel and decide to become happier and more successful."
Surely it can't be that easy?
Mind over matter? What about all those external stimuli?
That financial crisis for instance. A whole bunch of people are pretty frazzled after the house of representitives shot down the savey deal. It's not quite the same as congress, but I'm a little fuzzy on that.
Still, the suggestion is that happiness and freedom are linked - not a bad idea. They might even be the same thing.
So maybe personal freedom as an ability relies on mental spam filters. If all the outside stuff bums you out, the only way you can get happy again is thinking your way there. Almost a bit like other skills and stats e.g. long distance running, stamina, patience, origami or dancing.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
#17 Names that would be unsuitable for a horse
Never name your horse minge.
Or do. It would be fun.
In other news, I'm starting to lose enthusiam for work. And I'll buy spore when they remove the DRM.
Or do. It would be fun.
In other news, I'm starting to lose enthusiam for work. And I'll buy spore when they remove the DRM.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
#16 Storm front approaching
Big stuff coming in next week.
Yep.
I'd better get ready.
Remember, emulation is the greatest form of flattery.
Why are wheelchair ramps so slow? Saftey?
Comm skills went up a little today, along with working memory. Practise helps in all things.
I'd like to learn how to raise my right eyebrow. I can raise the left one just fine, not sure how to work the other one.
Yep.
I'd better get ready.
Remember, emulation is the greatest form of flattery.
Why are wheelchair ramps so slow? Saftey?
Comm skills went up a little today, along with working memory. Practise helps in all things.
I'd like to learn how to raise my right eyebrow. I can raise the left one just fine, not sure how to work the other one.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
#15 Shopping around
Looks can be deceiving.
I mentioned before that time buys money.
I thought about this. Money has value. There are many different types of money. The type of money I earn has a much higher value in places like Eastern Europe. In fact, as I go east, the value of my money goes up. There are plenty of factors at play here, far too many to quantify within the system of my blog.
In a similar way, time has value. Just like money, where you are determines what it's worth. What's my time worth right now? Not a lot really. I'm spending it watching TV. Successful people don't watch TV (apparently). Tomorrow morning at work my time will be worth a wage, because I'll be spending it pushing paper.
SO, I suppose economics determines what my money is worth. Does free will determine what my time is worth?
The other thing is that you need both time and money to survive. When you run out of time, you don the wings and head up to the pearly gates (hopefully) . But when you run out of money, bad things happen.
Money buys time, time buys money. Money can buy happiness, or at least the means to attain it. Whoever said otherwise obviously never heard of buying tickets to a comedy gig, or a nice holiday, or even a rigamarole PA to find a date. Courtship can be expensive. The grand objective appears to require significant amounts of time and money, but the return on investment is well worth it.
I'm trading time for money. It's working out. Now I need to find a way of spending my time towards the current objective: Stat increases.
I mentioned before that time buys money.
I thought about this. Money has value. There are many different types of money. The type of money I earn has a much higher value in places like Eastern Europe. In fact, as I go east, the value of my money goes up. There are plenty of factors at play here, far too many to quantify within the system of my blog.
In a similar way, time has value. Just like money, where you are determines what it's worth. What's my time worth right now? Not a lot really. I'm spending it watching TV. Successful people don't watch TV (apparently). Tomorrow morning at work my time will be worth a wage, because I'll be spending it pushing paper.
SO, I suppose economics determines what my money is worth. Does free will determine what my time is worth?
The other thing is that you need both time and money to survive. When you run out of time, you don the wings and head up to the pearly gates (hopefully) . But when you run out of money, bad things happen.
Money buys time, time buys money. Money can buy happiness, or at least the means to attain it. Whoever said otherwise obviously never heard of buying tickets to a comedy gig, or a nice holiday, or even a rigamarole PA to find a date. Courtship can be expensive. The grand objective appears to require significant amounts of time and money, but the return on investment is well worth it.
I'm trading time for money. It's working out. Now I need to find a way of spending my time towards the current objective: Stat increases.
#14 What an awful prang
And so, a standard reinstall ended up with a virused machine. Not a great week.
I'll get'er done eventually. Stats though, they've changed.
Confidence took a hit because I screwed up majorly
Memory, a perceived stat, took a hit too. I'd already downloaded the software in work where it wreaked havoc. For some reason, I thought the same software wouldn't cause the same problem.
Lemme paint the bigger picture here: Sibelius 2 needed a reinstall. I uninstalled it. Silly man, don't click custom!! Oh Noes!! Now the folder with all Dads work in it has been uninstalled too!!
Oie...
Ok, so try and reinstall? Okie, where's the serial number?
Oh Noes!!!! No serial number! Uninstall again? Yes. Oh dear, where are all the work scores? Oh noes... They've been wiped! Quick, get the Helix disc! FTK or FileRecovery! Save me!!
Oh NOES! They didn't help at all! Hmmm, what to do... Other recovery software? Worth a try... Even though FTK says the folder is all zeros now.
Ok, what's the best one? Recover my files? K, let's try this... later.
Oh, the guys at work wiped a flash card. I have recover my files. Let's try it.
Eeep. That installer was virused. Now the work computer needs to be fixed.
Hm, shame about what happened at work. Let's try the same file at home.
Oh noes. Oh NOES!! Now my home PC has a virus! Damn you smit.fraud!
Oie, this isn't pretty.
But at least now I have all the tools I need to fix both infections :(
smit.fraud isn't malicious (if kaspersky is to be believed) but it's a right pain to remove.
So as you can see from the above story, I did a series of very stupid things. Worse still, I kept rushing into doing stupider things.
Both infected systems have dual boot (two operating systems - 1 good, 1 bad), so fixing them won't be completely impossible. I just need to work out a pathology to success. Everyone has problems, but very few have solutions. I should count myself lucky.
My wish for a superpower is to know the exact solution to any problem I encounter. I mean I could say scientific problem or engineering, but why limit what I might need to know? The internet already has this power. It wouldn't be beyond my powers of learning either. In the story above, I've had to learn from necessity.
Another harsh lesson.
I'll get'er done eventually. Stats though, they've changed.
Confidence took a hit because I screwed up majorly
Memory, a perceived stat, took a hit too. I'd already downloaded the software in work where it wreaked havoc. For some reason, I thought the same software wouldn't cause the same problem.
Lemme paint the bigger picture here: Sibelius 2 needed a reinstall. I uninstalled it. Silly man, don't click custom!! Oh Noes!! Now the folder with all Dads work in it has been uninstalled too!!
Oie...
Ok, so try and reinstall? Okie, where's the serial number?
Oh Noes!!!! No serial number! Uninstall again? Yes. Oh dear, where are all the work scores? Oh noes... They've been wiped! Quick, get the Helix disc! FTK or FileRecovery! Save me!!
Oh NOES! They didn't help at all! Hmmm, what to do... Other recovery software? Worth a try... Even though FTK says the folder is all zeros now.
Ok, what's the best one? Recover my files? K, let's try this... later.
Oh, the guys at work wiped a flash card. I have recover my files. Let's try it.
Eeep. That installer was virused. Now the work computer needs to be fixed.
Hm, shame about what happened at work. Let's try the same file at home.
Oh noes. Oh NOES!! Now my home PC has a virus! Damn you smit.fraud!
Oie, this isn't pretty.
But at least now I have all the tools I need to fix both infections :(
smit.fraud isn't malicious (if kaspersky is to be believed) but it's a right pain to remove.
So as you can see from the above story, I did a series of very stupid things. Worse still, I kept rushing into doing stupider things.
Both infected systems have dual boot (two operating systems - 1 good, 1 bad), so fixing them won't be completely impossible. I just need to work out a pathology to success. Everyone has problems, but very few have solutions. I should count myself lucky.
My wish for a superpower is to know the exact solution to any problem I encounter. I mean I could say scientific problem or engineering, but why limit what I might need to know? The internet already has this power. It wouldn't be beyond my powers of learning either. In the story above, I've had to learn from necessity.
Another harsh lesson.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
#13 Artsy
I drew this yesterday.
K, so the guy in the middle is a smiley pink dude with 4 legs, 1 of which is from a table, and the other 3 clad in tights. His right ear is either a hole punch or a paper clasp (you know, like those big black metal paper clips?). I was actually trying to draw an A4 punch, go for the whole pierced ear visual pun gag there. The legs are the metal bits from the paper clasps too. Above him we have a blue cloud long bed pick-up truck with a scorpion tail that also has a flame thrower for those roadside BBQ doos. Not sure why it's blue. Then in the bottom corner, we have my initials and the year of creation. Beside that, stickman wearing the badly drawn fez is asking 'eh?' because he's in the picture, but not quite getting it, and there's purple rain along the right side as a tribute to Milli Vanilli and Prince, who wrote blame on the rain and purple rain respectively.
Funny thing, art.
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