the sound a camel makes...

... while filling up on water :P

i slept the night away, waking up eleven hours later completely refreshed. i spent the morning uploading photos (mildly irritating, facebook's only allowing the simple uploader of late), reading a bit and being annoyed that empathy doesn't make me appear "away" after five minutes of inactivity.

i strapped on my blades around lunchtime and headed to meet karnaf and a girl(-?)friend of his on the beach. we were going to play frisbee, but there was too much wind. instead, we were treated to a great view of windsurfers, a cute woman in pink on the swing and a middle-aged man doing yoga. we had to work to protect our beers from the sand.

after i escorted them most of their way home, i continued to the sportec to meet with the girl who wants to roll instead of ride. apparently the city council is responsible for dj tone-deaf and his speaker of warbly doom, and it's his job to play each saturday until after the sun goes down. he played complete and utter shite (and i tried to convince him to switch) right until we left, at which point he showed us out with classic eighties.

i hate him.

anyway, it was an hour or two of a mixture of fun and frustration, but there was definite overall improvement and we ended on a good note. and the brat who started blading between us stopped after we gave him a stern talking-to, which was a plus.
after quite a long chat, we went our separate ways, and i stopped by the supermarket before running into my old neighbour and his wife at cafeneto. after quickly stopping at home to unpack and switch to sandals, i returned to join them for coffee.

we had a very pleasant evening, although it turned quite chilly after a while and that meant it was time to go. part of the temperature drop was social - a couple of cute english girls sat down at the table next to me and were talking loudly about something that one referred to as being extremely important to keep secret.
i didn't score any points by informing them that if that was the case, they possibly shouldn't be talking about it in public :P

a short while after i'd showered and had dinner, the dean's son rocked up. i thought we'd need an hour, but that estimate was short by half. he didn't do a bad job on his first assignment, and i needed to get across the basic elements of problem solving and modularization to him while simultaneously demonstrating how to teach oneself visual basic.

i hope he understood it all. i had to explain to him how memory doesn't work to get him to write stuff down :P

i bought a bottle of vodka and bussed to gasoline's new pad's housewarming - sweet pad! not only did i spent a fun hour with them, including getting electrocuted by a nasty game and almost breaking down a door, i discovered that both she and one other from my old team dig trance parties, and it looks like i have a couple of partners in crime for this week's big one! i'm very excited ^_^

i left early (or late, if one was looking at the clock) to meet with urchin for another photography project of hers. we got set up nearby, but then realized that i'd forgotten to bring a torch so we walked back to my place (i had to pick up frozen yoghurt on the way) to pick one up. fortunately, there was a good spot right nearby and once we were done (and duly impressed with the results) i came straight home to get ready for bed.

if only getting ready for bed didn't involved spending so much time online :P

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man and the environment:

philip zimbardo on the psychology of evil is about wresting responsibility from one's environment. the man has one helluva point.

so does this man: dan nocera talks about personalized energy, and offers us a little bit of hope for one of the pieces of the puzzle that is our uncertain future.
here are some ideas that can help, too. and they're easier to implement on a personal scale.

the cove, a movie about fish.

entertainment:

i've just heard ix lam at - plant attack for the second time, and it got better ^_^

here is the video for panic ensemble - spring in my heart; the release of which we "celebrated" earlier this week. it's a pretty video, at least :)

it's about christmas, it's random, it's fairly offensive, and it's an inconvenient truth concerning santa and his elves

guess who's coming to town? HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!