ready for work

the clean went smoothly, and i played some tekken while the kid cooked - it seems to be a pretty good exercise for my hand. i've been told it can take quite a while for the nerves to regenerate, and i'm playing with my smiley stress-ball as much as possible... but it's not as much fun as survival mode.

speaking of survival, israeli survivor has caught my interest. i don't think i'd watch it alone, but i was with mmf, fiancee and their cute neighbour which made it all the more entertaining. mmf showed me the beginnings of kane's revenge, and it gets under my skin that as much as i want to play, i know how badly that would mess me up. i have enough trouble with my internet addiction.

the kid and i watched young einstein while eating... good gods, i find it difficult to deal with such tripe even if it is quite funny. it's all done well, and it's well-intentioned, but most of the film i found myself wondering if it's not this sort of thing that average-joe thinks constitutes the stuff of science.

'cause when we suffer all the abuse of concepts such as "quantum" and alternative healing, it's directed at people whose views aren't too dissimilar from the comedy.

serj tankian - elect the dead: i bought it a while back, put it on my ipod, and didn't really listen to it too much in spite of my initial impression. the last few days it's been on my playlist a lot, and it is freakin' BRILLIANT.

i thought i was having issues with gtkpod yesterday, but this evening i discovered that the issues were with missing id3 tags. as soon as that was corrected i had a way of finding the damn songs.

i have to say, it's quite the impressive app. some of the handling could be smoother, but all in all it covers all the bases. except for not magically giving me more space on my ipod... 8GB is not even close to enough.

i think i need another ipod - 30GB or something, so that i can store all my music on it and use the nano for whatever tickles my fancy on the day.

sony finally scores - not so much with the beta, but they've made up for that with blue-ray. good for them!

the scientific process at work:
"not good!"
"good!"
"you're wrong!"
"no, you're wrong!"
and that's the way it's supposed to be :)

dropping your cellphone in the loo is no longer a bad thing!

i've always wondered, and now it appears possible to make use of the waste heat. good for them!

target practice with the american's answer to the chinese success. now for the next step in our evolving east-meets-west "who will control the world in the next twenty years" competition.

admittedly, as far as pros and cons are concerned i'm not too sure which side i'll support when push comes to shove. the americans have turned democracy on its head and the chinese totalitarianism leaves much to be desired... i suppose i'll just have to sit on the fence.

the spiderwick chronicles - this looks sweet as ^_^

beautiful, beautiful atomic photography... it's representative, but so's everything. a real-time view like that would allow all sorts of interesting manipulations.

-- added later --

i completely forgot to mention that i just watched a video on youtube of a few friends of mine skydiving... i really, really need to do that. the only problem is that i don't like the idea of tandem. i want a complete free-fall.

one day.

i mean, i've been saying it for years, but every time i come across it the need arises anew.