I've got a case of the Gots

Today I got grated Parmesan cheese all over my kitchen floor, which is my way of saying, "That's why my kitchen smells like grated Parmesan cheese."

A few days ago I got a MacBook.

And then I got a cold ... which I still have! Huzzah!

Fig. 1: Me with a cold (photo taken by MacBook at 4am)
(It's a two-fer!)

In order to help you non-BSc types with the concepts involved in getting a cold, here's a short educational video:

Got it?

But blah blah ... the big news is

Rebecca and Mike got a new baby!

Fig. 2: Beatrix

I think they're going to keep her for awhile, despite the fact that her black market value is declining daily. Ah well. Perhaps she is one of those mythical things that is more valuable than money (though I'd have to meet her to be sure).

Congratulations, Rebecca and Mike!

What's 20% off "over-priced"?

My American Apparel t-shirt fixation earlier in the year has paid dividends ... "20% off" dividends! So yeah, I have five coupons for 20% off anything in the American Apparel online store. If anyone wants one, blah blah blah ...

May I recommend something lamé?

Also, please feel free to disregard the creepy sleaze-o models on the AA website. I justify it by remembering that American Apparel t-shirts fit amazingly well, and it's well known that "properly fitting t-shirts" beats "creepy sleaze-o models" most days of the week. The exception is, obviously, lamé-related.

Everything is everywhere

I'd have updated sooner, but I was being held hostage ... by schoolwork!!!!!

So here's one thing: Saskatoon's alternative weekly is a total waste of paper. Planet S is all anti-gloabalization bullshit and zero escort ads in the back. There's one restaurant review, which is always positive and must mention the reviewer's husband at least once. Oh, there's also one movie review per issue, sometimes two (but usually just one). Sad sad sad and bad. But they do have the Spot the Typo contest: spot a typo and email the editor, and if you're the first person to spot a typo for that issue, you win a gift certificate to a restaurant. I needn't tell you who won this week.

Fig. 1: me

Yeah, I don't have a whole lot of respect for that publication. That t-shirt is all me, baby. All me.

Also all me? Halloween 2006.

"Halloween 2006?!" you may incredulously exclaim. "Halloween 2006 was two weeks ago!" you may shout. "How dare you post about Halloween two weeks late?" you may inquire. "What nerve!" you may observe.

OK, back to me now. For Halloween I went as "Future Dave Bushnell". The afternoon of Halloween I put on my costume and took 18 pictures of myself, then went to the pharmacy and printed them out, one print for each photo -- no duplicates! On the back of each photo, I wrote a news item from the future, eg "2015 AD: Scientologists are proven right"; "2017 AD: Remember that $50 I lent you? With interest, you now owe me $117,850.63"; and "2018 AD: Zombies!" I then deleted the digital versions, making the prints Limited Edition Collectors' Items. At that evening's Halloween party, I gave out the pictures to help explain my costume.

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Figure 4 is already spoken for, so if you'd like one of the other ones, just holler. (Obviously, you could just click on the links for the digitized versions, but try selling one of those Ebay -- you can't!

Speaking of sales, my group in Human-Computer Interaction had to make a video of our project two weeks before the completed program was due. Makes sense to me. I mean, the video could have been due after the completed program's due date, but where's the fun in that? Making a video using a mostly non-working computer program: now there's a challenge! Check it out. (right-click and "Save as ..." if you're so inclined; it's 19MB)