January 2011
last post for 2010
I’m off to put all the clothes on, track down some Red Bull, and then head out to l&r’s. Well-caffeinated and fully-clothed seems like a suitable way to start the evening.
Have an excellent evening, tumblr. Be safe, don’t drink and drive, and use a condom every time.
Peace to you all, and best wishes for 2011! I’m sure I’ll see you all back on the dash sometime...
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just got l&r's address in my askbox
Pregaming with perogies and Coke Zero, because this time I plan to be the soberest classiest gentleman in the joint.
I need a nap
Had a post ready to go on how I’ve squandered all my opportunities in 2010, and how I want to do better in 2011, but I think this might just be me being down because I had less than four hours of sleep.
Going to have a half-hour nap (setting tons of alarms) and then see how I feel.
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Okay, I decided I need a resolution for 2011:
ohhellocolin:
Devote moar time to chasing otters.
I strongly approve of this resolution.
oh and is anyone going to be on tumblr for NYE?
Because I very likely will be. Had been planning to go to love-and-radiation’s party, but I don’t have a functional cellphone, so I can’t get in touch with him.
Anyway, I’m off to the gym, and then very definitely the liquor store. I’ll likely be back here after that, because I don’t really have one of those so-called “off-tumblr social lives” that...
sleeplessinsouthie replied to your post: so a few days ago I bought a couple five-packs of underwear
Wait, what feels wasteful? Wearing clean underpants every day?
Wearing new underpants right out of the package every day. Clean ones are pretty standard practice.
so a few days ago I bought a couple five-packs of...
They were on sale at less than 10% the per-pair price of any of the other underwear, so I couldn’t stop myself. Most of my existing underwear is between eight and ten years old.
Since then, I’ve been wearing a fresh-out-of-the box pair of underwear every day. (The already-worn pairs are going in the laundry, which I’ve been procrastinating on.) This feels incredibly wasteful but...
Predictions for 2011: BBC correspondents look... →
Does anything they teach you at Swiss finishing school prepare you for running a paranoid, poor, nuclear-armed dictatorship? We’re about to find out.
So these are really interesting, if sort of bleak.
Also, the guy who predicted “Economic meltdown in Greece, Ireland, Spain or Italy” for 2010 is predicting “Poorer European countries will revolt against the disciplines...
Predictions for 2011: BBC correspondents look... →
Does anything they teach you at Swiss finishing school prepare you for running a paranoid, poor, nuclear-armed dictatorship? We’re about to find out.
So these are really interesting, if sort of bleak.
Also, the guy who predicted “Economic meltdown in Greece, Ireland, Spain or Italy” for 2010 is predicting “Poorer European countries will revolt against the disciplines...
Greece in talks on extending debt repayment →
Greece is in talks with commercial banks on extending the repayment of its outstanding debt, in line with a similar plan to stretch out paying back its EU/IMF bailout, an Athens weekly reported on Friday.
Fears that the overborrowed country may restructure its debt after the 110 billion euro emergency funding ends in 2013 are keeping yield spreads at high levels, despite the government’s...
Greece in talks on extending debt repayment →
Greece is in talks with commercial banks on extending the repayment of its outstanding debt, in line with a similar plan to stretch out paying back its EU/IMF bailout, an Athens weekly reported on Friday.
Fears that the overborrowed country may restructure its debt after the 110 billion euro emergency funding ends in 2013 are keeping yield spreads at high levels, despite the government’s...
Bankers fail to censor thesis exposing loophole in... →
The thesis by computer security student Omar Choudary, entitled ”The smart card detective: a handheld EMV interceptor”, described a flaw in the chip-and-pin (personal identification number) security system that allows criminals to make fraudulent transactions with a stolen bank card using any pin they care to choose.
“It is the publication of this level of detail which we...
Bankers fail to censor thesis exposing loophole in... →
The thesis by computer security student Omar Choudary, entitled ”The smart card detective: a handheld EMV interceptor”, described a flaw in the chip-and-pin (personal identification number) security system that allows criminals to make fraudulent transactions with a stolen bank card using any pin they care to choose.
“It is the publication of this level of detail which we...
December 2010
who are these people claiming to work 160 hours a...
Seriously, GTFO of my data set.
one of my roommates just told me not to open or...
I’ve been opening and closing it pretty quietly, because I realize that he might be sleeping, but from now on I guess I’ll just urinate in the living room or something.
just got in from playing pool with friends
One of them was trying to convince me that I should take advantage of my newfound singledom and start dating girls instead, because there are way more straight girls than gay guys, and they’re generally nicer. I remain unconvinced on that second part.
all right, so that's done
Four years of on and off, and now we’ve sort of agreed that we’re never going to speak to each other again.
Towards the end I was pointing out to him that I wasn’t going to interfere with his New Years plans with mutual friends. Turns out said mutual friends hadn’t invited him. Then about two sentences later I left. I felt stupid that that’s the last thing...
he's outside my building
I hate dealing with people. Wish me luck!
fuck he's coming to my apartment to "talk"
In the past he’s done this and then refused to leave until things are resolved to his satisfaction. Sometimes this includes hours of crying and ignoring me, and sometimes it includes chugging a 2/6 of vodka he was reclaiming from my place and then spending all night throwing up and having seizures.
I hate myself for even considering this, but he’s so much stronger than me that...
ugh that was difficult but necessary
Sorry for the sudden shift in mood, but I just made some serious effort to get my life into a more reasonable trajectory. Don’t know if I’ll be around much more this evening.
msavignon replied to your post:How are you getting from city to city? And if you’re going to be in NYC, do let me know I’d love to try and meet up for a drink!!
OH MY GOD SO SOON. Is this a Tumblr gay-men only thing? Or can teef, socks, and I hang out too?
Oh, definitely not a tumblrgay-only thing. I would never do that! Meeting and drinking heavily is for all tumblrs of legal age. You most...
trainjuice asked: How are you getting from city to city? And if you're going to be in NYC, do let me know I'd love to try and meet up for a drink!!
trainjuice asked: How are you getting from city to city? And if you're going to be in NYC, do let me know I'd love to try and meet up for a drink!!
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so I still haven't slept
My entire digestive system has spent the night demonstrating that it hates me. But I think it’s done now.
This could be some sort of surprise new allergy to something I’ve never had a problem with before, I guess - but I’m going to assume it’s some kind of food poisoning. At any rate, not a great feeling.
Anyway, going to try to sleep now. Goodnight. (Or good morning. Or...
oh I totally forgot to talk about the dinner...
It was lots of fun - absolutely delicious turkey-centric feast. Everyone kept accidentally referring to it as Thanksgiving.
It was at my friend’s parents’ place, and most of the guests were his family members.
The host, who is one of my best friends, gets ubergruff when he’s in command of the kitchen. Scary, but efficient - jakke-approved.
He invited four friends, including...
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so I've discovered that a place on campus makes...
But on tumblr, apparently “lentils + rice = deliciousness” is a sentiment that connotes a whole lot of privilege. There was even a PDD on it. I’m apparently missing some sort of stereotype here that makes more sense to Americans. Could someone please explain? Sorry if that sounds super ignorant.
Anyway, yeah, I have been consuming a whole lot of lentil curry lately, and...
“Kentucky’s state-backed $150 million creationist theme park, The Ark Encounter,...”
– Kentucky Creationist Museum to Feature Dragons, Unicorns | The Atlantic Wire (via dendroica)
Well.
(via apsies
Dinosaurs *and* unicorns, people of tumblr. Suddenly this theme park looks pretty awesome, doesn’t it?
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S.Korea schools get robot English teachers →
The 29 robots, about one metre (3.3 feet) high with a TV display panel for a face, wheeled around the classroom while speaking to the students, reading books to them and dancing to music by moving their head and arms.
The robots, which display an avatar face of a Caucasian woman, are controlled remotely by teachers of English in the Philippines — who can see and hear the children via a...
S.Korea schools get robot English teachers →
The 29 robots, about one metre (3.3 feet) high with a TV display panel for a face, wheeled around the classroom while speaking to the students, reading books to them and dancing to music by moving their head and arms.
The robots, which display an avatar face of a Caucasian woman, are controlled remotely by teachers of English in the Philippines — who can see and hear the children via a...
Australians lap up overpriced real estate at... →
Australia’s real estate market was recently named the most overvalued on the planet – by 63.2 per cent – according to a survey by The Economist. Prices in Melbourne, for example, are up 18.8 per cent in a year, even as much of the developed world is still recovering from the global financial crisis. According to the OECD, the ratio of house prices to income in Australia is now about 36 per cent...
Australians lap up overpriced real estate at... →
Australia’s real estate market was recently named the most overvalued on the planet – by 63.2 per cent – according to a survey by The Economist. Prices in Melbourne, for example, are up 18.8 per cent in a year, even as much of the developed world is still recovering from the global financial crisis. According to the OECD, the ratio of house prices to income in Australia is now about 36 per cent...
at least one internship needs a headshot with the...
I’m not sure whether to trim my beard and fire up the webcam, or just pass that one up.
It's 325am in Vancouver.
walex:
Go to sleep Jakke!!!
I woke up at 5 pm. I know, I know - seriously need to stop doing this.
At some point I might as well stay up all night to reset my sleep cycle.
I was going to take a picture of the delicious...
But I messily devoured half of them on the way from the kitchen to my room. Sorry.
new rule!
If you tell me you’re lonely and very sad, I’m going to ignore it, unless you’re one of my four or five closest friends and somewhere that I can meet with you without paying. Otherwise, I’m not going to waste my time and money to come find you alone at a pub on your birthday, and then have you explain that you found a hookup while I was on en route, so could I please...
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my mother just described a recent earthquake as...
… which is “just a small one” in Bislama - “small, no more”.
According to the US Geological Survey, the main event was a 7.3, and several of the aftershocks were mostly in the 5.x range. I admire the sangfroid, but I worry my parents are getting a little too relaxed about relatively large seismic movements.
this fellowship program wants my grades from every...
This might be a problem.
I did my first year of post-secondary at the University College of the Cariboo, which is now Thompson Rivers University. This is a totally legitimate and fully accredited public university - but it’s definitely the kind that advertises on the buses and trains. (And I recognize everyone in the ads from high school.) It’s primarily the school for kids from the...
Food Safety
blissandzen:
Concerning this post, if we’re working with 330 million people, times 3 meals a day, and a food supply that’s “99.99% safe,” that’s 495,000 emergency room visits for food poisoning over 5 years, at an average cost (in Florida, 2009) of about $60,000.
So it will cost the American people over $29 BILLION over 5 years to not fund the bill. (330,000,000 X 3 X 5 X .0001 X 60,000)
But...
took the train downtown after sushi to study
In my car, there were the following people (other than yours truly):
a girl my age with amazing hair in a little black dress with absolutely perfect posture
two gay guys - one at either end of the car, both wearing tight jeans, drinking booze out of a water bottle, and eyeing each other interestedly
four guys in matching immaculate white track suits and black turbans, trying to outswagger each...
“We still have a food supply that’s 99.99 percent safe,” Kingston said in an...”
– Bliss & Zen: Well, it was a good idea
If my government said “99.99% of your food is safe. The other 0.01% will totes kill you, but hey, not cost-effective” I would be seriously unimpressed.
Let’s say everyone in the US eats three meals a day, of which 0.01% immediately kill...
so you're all far too sweet
And I’m grateful for it. But yeah, I try not to be all WORLD OF FEELINGS on tumblr.
As for the gym - I am in a world of pain. Followed some of mikerickson’s advice, and it’s not entirely clear I’ll be able to move in the morning. This is probably a sign I got an awesome workout, right?
Anyway, apparently some relatives are in town, so I’m going for dinner with...