to keep you interested in showing up here

this is a track called "place to belong" by a group called little dragon

i am currently OBSESSED with this track.


enjoy.





and download it here




ps - if you like them, buy their album

a life less oblivious

apparently i can't keep up with the news.



(click on the image to enlarge)


the above image was sitting in my email inbox this morning, compliments of the RSS feed from wired magazine's "gadgets" news.


anyway - thought it was funny, so decided to post it.

life, (and apparently in some cases, a lack of), seems to just keep going on around me......



ttys



ps - to anyone who has left comments recently - i apologise for not responding more quickly. any time i went to respond, i couldn't log in, and my browser seemed to have forgotten how to log me in automatically. anyway - i responded here.....

what was i thinking?

the other day, i decided to do some LONG-overdue purging.


this meant getting rid of my vintage computer collection.


i almost barfed.


the picture above was a casualty, that wasn't meant to be a casualty. i almost wept when it happened.


here is the rest of what i threw out.

yes there are duplicate computers, but they are NOT duplicate images. and by the way, this is not all of what i threw out, nor is it everything that i have.........



i am still going through post-partum depression.





:(

logorrhea

as i have said in the last few posts, i have been all over the country with work, and haven't had much time to myself, or much time to dedicate to this blog, which is rather unfortunate, in my opinion. (although yours my be quite the opposite).

one of the things that i love about my job, is that i get paid to learn. i also get paid to see some of the best presenters and performers from around the planet.

i have been compiling a list of things that have caught my eye/ear over the last few months. some of them are inspirational quotes, and other are quite the reverse, ie. silly things that people have said. other bits are just interesting words or phrases. in any case - here they are for your enjoyment. (or lack of)......


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GOOD QUOTES

"when the fire dies down, the predators come in"

"i want to be the person my dog thinks i am"

"be kind to the idiot, because in someone else's eyes, YOU are the idiot"

"don't measure your life by the number of breaths you TAKE, but by the moments that take your breath AWAY."


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BAD QUOTES

"what's that little box sitting on the mouse pad?" - (asked in reference to a mouse)

"do any of you read the internet?"

"growing like and absolute train"

"my mouse hand is stupid today"

"if you get a chance, see if you can spend some time with dick"

"some of the kids were REALLY poor. many of them had never even seen a TV screen larger than 19 inches"

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WORDS and PHRASES

"emotional firewall"

Kaizen

biometrics


this next word came to mind when i was thinking about the ambiguity of a word that a presenter used one day, and all of the different definitions of that word.

the word set has more definitions than any other word in the english language, and because of this is really fascinating to me.


here are the runners-up :

RUN - 396
GO - 368
TAKE - 343
STAND - 334
GET - 289
TURN - 288
PUT - 268
FALL - 264
STRIKE - 250

and this link is what you get when you type the word "set" directly into the address bar in firefox.


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that's about it for stuff that stuck with me over the last couple of months.


any of you guys have any good quotes or words you want to share with the other 2 or 3 readers on this blog?????










and simply because i need to spread the infection........



yes. i know.

need is all you love

this article is fantastic!

well......

the above picture is from the first snowfall of the year here.......

i wasn't going to leave it so long in between posts, but i actually had a couple of people tell me that they wanted to contribute answers to the quiz from the last post, so i put off posting for a few days to give those lazy bastard a chance to submit - and they REALLY dropped the ball.....

then i installed the new OS on my computer, and was really slow migrating information back over to the main machine, so the remainder of my time has been dedicated to making sure that i do the job properly. a lot more time consuming than i had anticipated. LOTS of data.

plus i have been enjoying a bit of time off. in the last month of work, i have only been home to my bed for THREE nights. brutal.


anyway - here are the answers to the quiz :


1. Boxing.

2. Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)

3. Asparagus and rhubarb.

4. Strawberry

5. It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.)

6. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

8. Lettuce

9. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.


not sure if any of you guys paid attention, but lazy kangaroo was the only one who made an effort..... and did VERY well. perhaps i should give some sort of award to LK for it!!!

anyway.

i will try and post more frequently - i have some really cool stuff in the vaults, and some awesome ideas for future posts, which SHOULD keep you hanging around for a while longer......



later