June 2008
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I’m going to try an experiment.
The weather seems directly linked to the skylight in my house. When I open it, it gets cloudy. I closed it about 1 hour ago, and it’s bright blue sky.
I’ve been monitoring this for about a month. My skylight has been open pretty much for the last month, I’m going to leave it closed for the next while. I’d really like Spring to arrive sometime…
“When you get up in the morning and the light is hurt your head
The first thing you do when you get up out of bed
Is hit that streets a-runnin and try to beat the masses
And go get yourself some cheap sunglasses”
11 comments Friday 20 Jun 2008 | Slanty2D | SlantyNet - General
Is 2^127-1 a prime? Circa 1948
Contrast and compare! First, computer programming in 1948.
Next, game development today (probably fairly familiar to SlantyME).
My work falls somewhere in between the two..
0 comments Tuesday 17 Jun 2008 | SlantyOD | SlantyNet - General
Desperate times
I've run out of food at work. I had to eat the half eaten Clif Bar that has been sitting on my desk for an indeterminate period of time. I really don't remember eating the first half of it, and the expiry on it says November 11, 2008, so I'm assuming it's not too too old. I would say no older than 9 months old.
It's quite amazing that it's kept so long for something that's supposed to be organic. Maybe there are organic preservatives? Either way, no mold (that I could see), no negative physical effects so far.
I really need to stock up on food for my cube. This is a really sad situation. That I'm reduced to eating half eaten Clif bars of relatively unknown history. That I'm in my cube often enough to require a stock of food. Somebody rescue me!
0 comments Tuesday 17 Jun 2008 | gan wong's space | SlantyNet - General
Desperate times
I've run out of food at work. I had to eat the half eaten Clif Bar that has been sitting on my desk for an indeterminate period of time. I really don't remember eating the first half of it, and the expiry on it says November 11, 2008, so I'm assuming it's not too too old. I would say no older than 9 months old.
It's quite amazing that it's kept so long for something that's supposed to be organic. Maybe there are organic preservatives? Either way, no mold (that I could see), no negative physical effects so far.
I really need to stock up on food for my cube. This is a really sad situation. That I'm reduced to eating half eaten Clif bars of relatively unknown history. That I'm in my cube often enough to require a stock of food. Somebody rescue me!
0 comments Tuesday 17 Jun 2008 | Gan | GanWong - General, SlantyNet - General
Desperate times
I've run out of food at work. I had to eat the half eaten Clif Bar that has been sitting on my desk for an indeterminate period of time. I really don't remember eating the first half of it, and the expiry on it says November 11, 2008, so I'm assuming it's not too too old. I would say no older than 9 months old.
It's quite amazing that it's kept so long for something that's supposed to be organic. Maybe there are organic preservatives? Either way, no mold (that I could see), no negative physical effects so far.
I really need to stock up on food for my cube. This is a really sad situation. That I'm reduced to eating half eaten Clif bars of relatively unknown history. That I'm in my cube often enough to require a stock of food. Somebody rescue me!
0 comments Tuesday 17 Jun 2008 | Gan | SlantyNet - General
Live lobsters
Ride the lobster is on now, and live GPS updates are online. Anyone want to place bets 
1 comment Sunday 15 Jun 2008 | SlantyOJ | SlantyNet - General
He doesn’t even realize he’s not gonna taste it
Except maybe a bit in mom’s milk.
As a bit of history — since I proposed to Blondie in Australia, its got a special place in my heart. For our wedding, my uncle from Perth asked “what do you want as a gift”, and I said Australian wine. Cheap Yellow-tail loving me was a little surprised when we got one bottle of wine.
Until I Googled it, a bottle of 1985 Henschke Hill of Grace.
We joked that it was pretty much reserved for celebrating the birth of our first born. Well, that time has come, and its time Mom and Dad got a night out.
There’s a precious few restaurants in town that will permit you to bring a bottle of wine. (Big contrast to Australia, let me tell you.) Probably because its not entirely legal. But some places will let you, and won’t rip you off on the corkage. (PS: Lumiere seems to rip you off on the corkage, so we’re not going there. But never mind, its just not the same after Rob left…) And so, we’re off to have a nice dinner tomorrow.
Pray for us, that the bottle isn’t corked.
8 comments Thursday 12 Jun 2008 | 24601 | SlantyNet - General
Its just as I always suspected
Slideshow of phone sex operators shows that, uh, they’re not exactly as pictured at the back of your local newspaper.
Or at least, not at the back of MY local papers, can’t speak to what you’re seeing.
0 comments Thursday 12 Jun 2008 | 24601 | SlantyNet - General