What's worse than a dull afternoon in the office? It's being the only one here on a Friday... the rest of my cube-mates had the foresight to book the afternoon. Which normally ain't that bad. But there sounds like somebody else in the cube adjacent to mine who I don't know (not part of our division - might just be a temp or something). So I'm hesitant to play my music....
Well, it's 3pm. Another hour? I'm thinking I might just skip out for f*ck sake.
Wanna know how I dealt with the last hour? I'm completely unmotivated. I debugged some minor compiler error I had really slowly. That is, I'd check something and then turn away for absolutely no reason... sometimes just to stare out the window. Some times to shuffle a few sheet of paper around. At one point I even pulled out my PSP and watched part of that Ultraman Nexus show I mentioned this morning!! ...and I got away with all this slack...
Naturally I had a crazy-long lunch break alone for almost 2 hours...
Bah! I just had to get this all out of my system. I'm thinking perhaps I oughtta get back and do a bit of serious work before heading out. But still... do have that motivation problem. I'm in one of those dead-zones. I'm fairly certain that I put in a fair amount of effort at work. I'm entitled to some slack now and then, but today's just been ridiculous. I mean, if I were boss and I knew what I know about myself, I'd have myself fired.
Friday, July 08, 2005
low-key morning
Hmm... I should be eating more - I feel great after a big breakfast. I think my metabolism has sped up lately. I eat less at meals because I get full but I'm hungry pretty much all the time.
Maybe it's those crunches I've been doing every morning and evening. I gave up the dumbells for now. It reached a point where I wasn't seeing any results from my upper-body workout routine... But crunches can't be bad. Maybe I'll eventually develope a six pack (if I'm lucky in time for next summer?) ^o^;
MSN Messenger has been a curse and a blessing.
Got to chat with my penpal more frequently (even tho we have to keep in mind that we're on opposite sides of the world - when it's late night for me, she's in her office, etc).
But lately I've been hearing a whole lot more from my brother than I really care for... It's not him personally. I just feel obligated to carry a conversation on that I had no interest in starting. Luckily, so far he's the only one who's been doing that to me. Last night for instance. I got home around 7pm and only a few minutes after logging on, he messages me. There was a little light banter but then it sort of dragged on and my MSN window didn't close until around 10pm. At which point I pretty much ignored him for the rest of the night.
Went down to the cafeteria for breakfast. I sat with some former co-workers (we're all in the same complex, but we don't actually work together anymore). We did some random catching up and talking behind other peoples' backs. I feel kinda dirty about it. Gossip doesn't agree with me.
Looks like eBloggy is down again (and/or just acting really weird). Forums are not even up so I don't know what's going on... I think I lost some entries again.
Got up with that memory stick over the last two days. Loaded it with videos I downloaded of Ultraman. Whoa - I can't believe that franchise is still running strong in its native Japan. The current series airing on TV is all modernized with CG monsters and FX now. What the heck? But the good-old rubber-suited versions are still used for the hand-to-hand fight scenes tho. ^_^
Speaking of Japanese stuff... I picked up the first volume of the manga for Sakura Taisen yesterday at a book store. It's cute - whoever this artist is, they've brilliantly captured the look of Kosuke Fujishima's character-designs.
Need to do groceries tonight... but first, gotta get back to work. Deadlines looming for the end-of-week stuff...
Maybe it's those crunches I've been doing every morning and evening. I gave up the dumbells for now. It reached a point where I wasn't seeing any results from my upper-body workout routine... But crunches can't be bad. Maybe I'll eventually develope a six pack (if I'm lucky in time for next summer?) ^o^;
MSN Messenger has been a curse and a blessing.
Got to chat with my penpal more frequently (even tho we have to keep in mind that we're on opposite sides of the world - when it's late night for me, she's in her office, etc).
But lately I've been hearing a whole lot more from my brother than I really care for... It's not him personally. I just feel obligated to carry a conversation on that I had no interest in starting. Luckily, so far he's the only one who's been doing that to me. Last night for instance. I got home around 7pm and only a few minutes after logging on, he messages me. There was a little light banter but then it sort of dragged on and my MSN window didn't close until around 10pm. At which point I pretty much ignored him for the rest of the night.
Went down to the cafeteria for breakfast. I sat with some former co-workers (we're all in the same complex, but we don't actually work together anymore). We did some random catching up and talking behind other peoples' backs. I feel kinda dirty about it. Gossip doesn't agree with me.
Looks like eBloggy is down again (and/or just acting really weird). Forums are not even up so I don't know what's going on... I think I lost some entries again.
Got up with that memory stick over the last two days. Loaded it with videos I downloaded of Ultraman. Whoa - I can't believe that franchise is still running strong in its native Japan. The current series airing on TV is all modernized with CG monsters and FX now. What the heck? But the good-old rubber-suited versions are still used for the hand-to-hand fight scenes tho. ^_^
Speaking of Japanese stuff... I picked up the first volume of the manga for Sakura Taisen yesterday at a book store. It's cute - whoever this artist is, they've brilliantly captured the look of Kosuke Fujishima's character-designs.
Need to do groceries tonight... but first, gotta get back to work. Deadlines looming for the end-of-week stuff...
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
949 megabytes in my pocket
Well, got the delivery confirmation shortly before lunch so I ran out after having a quick meal and picked up that memory stick. Got back, popped the stick marked 1.0Gb into my PSP eager to check the actual capacity (I had heard various oddball numbers over time).
The total on mine: 949Mb... which isn't so bad I guess.
Industry standard is to round Gigabytes into billions of bytes - yes, even hard-drive manufacturers are guilty of this misleading practice. But measures of bytes are supposed to be base 2 and not base 10... that is where the confusion is.
Take 1 billion and divide by 1024 - that gives you the same value in kilobytes. Then again by 1024 to figure out the number of megabytes. According to the storage industry, 1 "gigabyte" is actually only 953 megabytes.
3 or 4 megabytes is acceptable for the overhead of defining a file structure, I guess. But still, the final tally is that I'm being shortaged about 50Mb on the Gb.
Wanna know something even funnier? The package for my new memory stick pro duo was marked "1.0GB" - as if indicating .0 would make it any more accurate. I'd said that it only indicates they are accurately screwing us over...
The total on mine: 949Mb... which isn't so bad I guess.
Industry standard is to round Gigabytes into billions of bytes - yes, even hard-drive manufacturers are guilty of this misleading practice. But measures of bytes are supposed to be base 2 and not base 10... that is where the confusion is.
Take 1 billion and divide by 1024 - that gives you the same value in kilobytes. Then again by 1024 to figure out the number of megabytes. According to the storage industry, 1 "gigabyte" is actually only 953 megabytes.
3 or 4 megabytes is acceptable for the overhead of defining a file structure, I guess. But still, the final tally is that I'm being shortaged about 50Mb on the Gb.
Wanna know something even funnier? The package for my new memory stick pro duo was marked "1.0GB" - as if indicating .0 would make it any more accurate. I'd said that it only indicates they are accurately screwing us over...
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Outgeeking YOU
I can't wait now. Over the weekend I finally found an incredible deal on Memory Stick Pro Duo - 1Gb at about $50 less than anywhere else. So good I even quit the eBay hunt. What for? my PSP of course...
The oddball development tho is that www.NCIX.com offered a deal on Express shipping - it was even cheaper than regular mail. (WTF?). I didn't realize however than "express" meant courier service. Which in itself is pretty cool since I pretty much get it overnight.
But here's the catch - as a 9-to-5er, I'm never home to receive stuff. Argh! So I sat here today periodically checking the tracking number on-line just waiting to see the "attempted delivery" notice...
Well, "receiver not available" finally happened a few minutes ago so I called the 1-800 number to have them redirect the package across town to the local shipping centre closer to me (the "local" one to my postal code is not very "local" at all).
On a side note: I also gave up my eBay hunt for a copy of Kill Bill Vol.1 on UMD. With the money I saved on the Memory Stick, I decided it was worth the cost of simply buying it at the local Wal-mart. Yes, I've heard it all before - they're a faceless ruthless entity with no scruples. But the fact is, sometimes they really do offer the best prices. And if I can save 5 bucks, so be it. Anyway, I got my copy for only $25CAD.
True it's still quite pricy considering I can get both Volumes 1 and 2 for the same price on DVD, but the whole point of this exercise was for the novelty of having it on my portable....
And that, my friend, outgeeks YOU too. ^_^;
The oddball development tho is that www.NCIX.com offered a deal on Express shipping - it was even cheaper than regular mail. (WTF?). I didn't realize however than "express" meant courier service. Which in itself is pretty cool since I pretty much get it overnight.
But here's the catch - as a 9-to-5er, I'm never home to receive stuff. Argh! So I sat here today periodically checking the tracking number on-line just waiting to see the "attempted delivery" notice...
Well, "receiver not available" finally happened a few minutes ago so I called the 1-800 number to have them redirect the package across town to the local shipping centre closer to me (the "local" one to my postal code is not very "local" at all).
On a side note: I also gave up my eBay hunt for a copy of Kill Bill Vol.1 on UMD. With the money I saved on the Memory Stick, I decided it was worth the cost of simply buying it at the local Wal-mart. Yes, I've heard it all before - they're a faceless ruthless entity with no scruples. But the fact is, sometimes they really do offer the best prices. And if I can save 5 bucks, so be it. Anyway, I got my copy for only $25CAD.
True it's still quite pricy considering I can get both Volumes 1 and 2 for the same price on DVD, but the whole point of this exercise was for the novelty of having it on my portable....
And that, my friend, outgeeks YOU too. ^_^;
Saturday, July 02, 2005
Logitech headset - this whole time?!
You might recall a little while ago, I blogged about a game called Lifeline for PS2. Well, the game works by you talking into a mic and issuing commands to the main character who responds and walks around doing things.
Well, that was months ago when I borrowed the game and the Playstation 2 headset from my brother. I just realized last night that the headset is actually just a standard Logitech headset for USB.
Anyway, it took a few tries but in short order I got my MSN Messenger configured to recognize the headset. And for the first time, I finally got around to actually speaking to and hearing the voice of my penpal buddy from Singapore! I can't believe that after so many years being in contact with each other she and I finally spoke to each other... neat!
The only down side was that I think around midnight my ISP was acting up (either that or this headset isn't too reliable). She said she heard me just fine but I had trouble making out her complete sentences as there were plenty of drop-outs. Which was too bad since she was excited to spend a bit of time with a fellow-multi-linguist. She wanted to hear more of me speaking to her in French (it's a long story - she's been taking lessons since high school). "Come to Singapore! The women here will think you're awefully sexy when they hear your French," she enthused!
*blush*
Anyway... so it was Canada Day yesterday. And I ended up spending the whole day inside. It was so damn hot and humid. I just couldn't bring myself to step outside. So I slept through most of the day and then only got out for a walk around 10pm. Headed over to the riverside to see the fireworks launched from Parliament Hill.
It cooled down dramatically. And last night I actually had to close my bedroom window and turn off the fan in the middle of the night. This morning I stepped out onto the balcony and nearly froze... I think today'll be great for that walk I wanted to take. Bring my huge backpack and shop like a shopoholic should... :)
Well, that was months ago when I borrowed the game and the Playstation 2 headset from my brother. I just realized last night that the headset is actually just a standard Logitech headset for USB.
Anyway, it took a few tries but in short order I got my MSN Messenger configured to recognize the headset. And for the first time, I finally got around to actually speaking to and hearing the voice of my penpal buddy from Singapore! I can't believe that after so many years being in contact with each other she and I finally spoke to each other... neat!
The only down side was that I think around midnight my ISP was acting up (either that or this headset isn't too reliable). She said she heard me just fine but I had trouble making out her complete sentences as there were plenty of drop-outs. Which was too bad since she was excited to spend a bit of time with a fellow-multi-linguist. She wanted to hear more of me speaking to her in French (it's a long story - she's been taking lessons since high school). "Come to Singapore! The women here will think you're awefully sexy when they hear your French," she enthused!
*blush*
Anyway... so it was Canada Day yesterday. And I ended up spending the whole day inside. It was so damn hot and humid. I just couldn't bring myself to step outside. So I slept through most of the day and then only got out for a walk around 10pm. Headed over to the riverside to see the fireworks launched from Parliament Hill.
It cooled down dramatically. And last night I actually had to close my bedroom window and turn off the fan in the middle of the night. This morning I stepped out onto the balcony and nearly froze... I think today'll be great for that walk I wanted to take. Bring my huge backpack and shop like a shopoholic should... :)
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