proudly s'effrican

i was woken up this morning by a phone call from the embassy: my passport arrived! so we're definitely all cool. i jumped out of bed, pilled, read comics*, pilled again, ate breakfast, pilled again and then strapped on my blades to make the pick-up :)

* and listened to 2 live crew songs, remembering a disc someone slipped me back in the 7th grade. hido informs me that he had a cassette tape - i find that highly amusing.
then this link switched me to linkin park: haven't listened to them in a long time!

it's a hot day - on the way back i stopped by coffeeholic for iced-coffee, and both the chef and the professor were there. after a half an hour or so with them, i came back home, took my trousers to the laundromat (wedding soon, and i've been forgetting about them since the last one) and came back for a bit of browsing before napping for a couple of hours.

i didn't sleep well, and i had some very strange dreams.

airbourne - running wild backgrounded this post :)

now on to the company picnic.

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here's a time-machine piece: the internet, circa 1981

dancing soldiers made me laugh out loud - nice!

i never thought i'd be linking to italian furniture (although now that i think about it, i did once link to a really cool backlit mirror from there), but this is really cool stuff!

dan piraro always finds great stuff: here's a cigarette gun, and a great defense for his post :P

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a guy i used to be friends with made a very interesting point - i didn't even know this could be an issue:
people ask me why I avoid cell phone contracts, and I can give a long list of business reasons why in africa its a bad idea, but people tend to glaze over so here is a simple example:

vodacom business call
htc touch hd2 @ R393.50 on business call
mandatory CLI at R8.50pm

thats R 9600.00 and you get no airtime or free minutes......

buying the same phone cash is around R 5800.00

in short in what is rated the worst telecoms country in the world, most contracts these days are a long term loan with the an interest rate that would make satan double check the contract and go jeez these guys are evil.

4 GRAND interest over 24 months is a bit hectic.

on the flip side: a top up contract is so worth it.
for R315 per month I get R315 airtime and a free phone.

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tahoma's response to my facetiousness while responding to a chromium (mentioned yesterday) naysayer: i think you're right, folders are an outdated concept. now it's all tags...
don't sort, search!

damn right :)

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and now for something completely different: i'm thinking of purchasing a kindle for my travels. i don't actually want to carry around a norton anthology wherever i go. (what a pity there's no e-book of it, now i need to research :P)