fixed gear rage
Didn’t find this funny til I got to #5. Guess I do live is a place “densely populated with “hipster” bike messengers and their loathsome elitist “underground” culture.”
‘rents
So my parents arrived from England yesterday, tired and happy and crazy as ever. They brought me so many goodies – hob nobs, chocolate digestives, branston pickle, roll on deodorant (seriously, land of the free, what is up with the lack of roll on choices?) – I could hardly bear to leave home this morning, especially knowing my swag is within my flatmates’ reach.
Also, my Dad decided within minutes (if not seconds) of meeting my lovely new (well, new since I last saw them a year ago, we’ve been together for six and a half months of gorgeousness now) boyfriend, that he looks like Martin Clunes.
For those of you unfamiliar with his body of work, here’s a pic.

attractive?
And here’s my lovely fella.

So yes, thanks Dad but no thanks.
back to school & birthdays
so I started my online Exploring Computer Science class at PCC yesterday and I’m so excited about it!!! I’m 10/10 so far on my coursework hurrah! And I learnt about binary and conversion between that and decimal. Cool stuff, right?
Mostly, I’m excited about learning again, and being on a path to a degree which I should have gotten like ten years ago. Wait! No more ’shoulds’ – I could have but chose to go work in programming instead. Which was fun and gave me money to spend and stuff. Yay!

weren't we gorgeous?!
It’s also my best friend back home Phoebe’s birthday today, and I miss her. If she were here, she’d be cheering me on all the way to graduation and telling me that now is better than never, and generally being wise and cool etc. I managed to get her card in the post today. Oops. Hopefully airmail will pull its finger out and speed it to her tomorrow! Or not.
So, happy birthday young lady, I hope the next year brings you health, happiness, fun, new friends (even more!), relaxation and um… cake.
class starts today!
“I want this to be a fun class. It should be a fun class. Computer Science can be a a fun subject and it is my goal to demonstrate that to you. But there is some work to be done on the way. You can expect a chapter or so of reading each week about the theory and fundamentals of Computer Science. However, to offset this, there will also be weekly hands-on projects when you will program virtual robots to accomplish various missions. I think you will find the missions to be challenging, educational, and fun. You can also expect regular quizzes, plus a midterm and final exam.”
yay! so excited!! i am a nerd!!!
for my friends in IT support
why isn’t there a random generator for these, for when that phone rings?
a simple checklist for trouble-shooting regular problems.
also see the IT crowd:-
http://www.freetvcenter.com/video/9X57×2EshAQ/The-IT-Crowd-Answering-Machine
the slut question, again
Hecklerspray is kind of the UK equivalent of Perez Hilton and I love their article today on Jordin’s outburst at the VMAs:
“if she wants to deprive herself of sex until she becomes so helplessly terrified and frustrated that she eventually compromises her ideals and marries a completely unsuitable man only to realise that they literally couldn’t be any more sexually incompatible and ends up grinding out the rest of her joyless life one day at a time trapped in union with a man she’s come to resent because he consistently fails to satisfy her physically, then that’s her choice entirely.
Because, honestly, if the alternative is Russell Brand…”
Jordin Sparks Kind Of Sorry For Calling Everyone A Slut | Hecklerspray.
Seriously, purity rings? I mean really, one of the things that does not make sense to me these days, is the age old idea that sex is dirty. Or wrong. Unless its with the ‘right’ person, who has promised to love you forever in the eyes of your chosen deity. Y’know until someone younger, richer or sexier comes along.
Now, while I completely agree that a relationship should be about more than just sex, the physical connection is definitely a large (if you’re lucky, hur hur) part of it. Plus, well, sex is fun and part of the fun is working out what you like and don’t like, and unless you get to do it with more than one person, you probably won’t be exposed to the myriad paths to doing-it-delight.
Note the probably. I’m not saying you have to sleep with a couple of football teams and/or cheerleading squads in order to figure out what works for you, but seriously, one person? Ever?! Don’t you ever want to travel overseas? Learn another language? Eat a different flavour of ice cream?
That’s what I thought! Different is good, be it two, or three hundred and seventy two. And sticking to one, just because you think that any more than that makes you a slut, whatever that means, well, that’s just plain ridiculousness.
three of my favourite things in one video
Tim and Eric (thank you Brian)
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Ben Folds (close personal friend of my close personal friend Matt)
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Regina Spektor ()
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whee!
Portland Mercury | Blogs | Blogtown, PDX | Tim & Eric + Ben Folds = Awkward Luv! 4-EVAH!.
cake or death?

Cake Wrecks: Is This a Wreck? You Decide..
I can’t believe there is an actual discussion as to whether this is patriotic or disrespectful. It’s a cake! Eff.

In Which This Blog is Rapidly Becoming a This Recording Fansite
September 11, 2008 at 11:25 am (sociology) (men, sex, social commentary)
In Which We Are So Through With Men « This Recording.
The nice guy IS full of shit, but we realise that and love them anyway. Right? Oh, I dunno.
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