You hear that, Mr Andersen?

Busy weekend, P&N, other random stuff.

Had a fairly busy Friday evening - at a friend's birthday until 10:30pm, and then off to meet up with some other friends at Sandwiches. It's been a long time since I've been out on the town until 4am in the morning...

...actually, no, wait, I was out until 3am at Motel the previous Friday. But previous to that, it had been a long time since I had a night so late it was an early morning. :) In both cases, I'm glad I did it, but I'm not sure that I want to do it too often - my weekends tend to be too full of stuff to have time to properly recover.

I also discovered that I am currently about $600 over my overdraft, thanks to my mortgage interest payments. Argh. It's another case of just having to shuffle money around, more than anything else, but it's frustrating to think that this is an artificial problem, induced by the fact that the fixed-term mortgages can't draw on the revolving credit account - it means that I have to continually tweak things by hand, and occasionally get things wrong, like this. I did a bit of overtime last week, which will help, but since I don't get paid until Thursday, I guess I better do something before then.

Of course, given I'm complaining about money, it's somewhat ironic that I just bought a whole lot of anime... but that's an "investment". Yup, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. ;) Besides, it's only a week or so until I get a new flatmate, which means a new revenue stream, bwhah-hah-hah! ;)

I got a bunch of stuff done on Saturday, including some gardening with my Dad, and dinner with Jenni, Lee and others. And Sunday there was the Saga of the Bed, which involved driving the van with an enormous trailer among the windy trails of Roseneath - all praise to Ema, and I hope she does well in her exam. And later that day I had a good yarn with Zephfi, and we watched the excellent The Twins Effect. All in all, a good weekend.

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Having a quick browse of The Register, I noticed this story about Barcelona upgrading a system to create the
4th-ranked supercomputer. So far, a fairly typical tech story... but notice that it's installed in a chapel. Hmm. What are they doing with that much computing power that requires that it be situated on hallowed ground?

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In other weird tech "news that confuses", someone at work sent this out, and I thought to myself What the heck? And then I thought - actually, it's kind of cunning of Hitachi, making something that's so insidiously lame that people who'd never read a article about hard-drive technology will see it.

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Another person at work showed some masterful turns of phrase - here are two that I managed to save:

"More fun that going barefoot in a bucket of mice."
"As easy as shooting kittens in a barrel."

All class.

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Many have asked - can't ninjas and pirates just get along? Now, through the magic of The Sims, we see that the answer is yes - but it will end in tragedy.

Speaking of magic - I'm not sure I've ever thought, "You know, there are some Live-Action Roleplaying Spells I Could Use, Right Now." But I'm glad that someone else has. In fact, I think there's a real market for the Holy Arrow of Extended Due Date around here...

Okay, that's enough random stuff - time to go do some real work.

Posted by svend at April 13, 2005 5:07 PM