Monday, January 29, 2007
For all you *nix Geeks
Well you are probably already using this, just in case you are not: The fuse module & sshfs are very nice extensions available for any 2.6.15 kernel and after. This lets you mount remote file systems, without all that tedious mucking about with nfs. maybe I like it more than I should, then again I am geeky that way.
I am not even playing right now o.O
Well on your way! You are 73% Addicted! |
You play a lot, and you're starting to get hooked. Keep it up and soon you too will be part of the ever-growing group that is totally addicted. Or, see the warning signs now and get out while you still can! |
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The World of Warcraft Addiction Test written by survivedestiny on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
Gutterballs
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Back East for Christmas
As every year I visited my family back in Halifax this winter. I had a very enjoyable Christmas, so far we had one LAN party over at my friend Jon's place (Wes & Josh showed up as well). There shall be one more before I leave.
Yesterday I saw Dan, one of my High school friends again. He had been teaching English in Taipei (Taiwan) for the last two years, and will go back for another. After that he is planning to do his Masters in Fine Arts at UBC. When he was telling me this I pointed out that he should imediatly proceed to get an apartment for himself and his girlfriend at St Johns College, since that is the best place to live while going to school at UBC. He is also an awesome DM, so I hope all you D&Ders back at SJC will get to meet him.
On a totally different note I would like to point out AbeBooks to everyone who may need to purchase text books anytime soon. I acquired the text for my course next semester there, and for an excellent price too. I will report back later on what i think of the place when the book arrives.
Yesterday I saw Dan, one of my High school friends again. He had been teaching English in Taipei (Taiwan) for the last two years, and will go back for another. After that he is planning to do his Masters in Fine Arts at UBC. When he was telling me this I pointed out that he should imediatly proceed to get an apartment for himself and his girlfriend at St Johns College, since that is the best place to live while going to school at UBC. He is also an awesome DM, so I hope all you D&Ders back at SJC will get to meet him.
On a totally different note I would like to point out AbeBooks to everyone who may need to purchase text books anytime soon. I acquired the text for my course next semester there, and for an excellent price too. I will report back later on what i think of the place when the book arrives.
Back East for Christmas
As every year I visited my family back in Halifax this winter. I had a very enjoyable Christmas, so far we had one LAN party over at my friend Jon's place (Wes & Josh showed up as well). There shall be one more before I leave.
Yesterday I saw Dan, one of my High school friends again. He had been teaching English in Taipei (Taiwan) for the last two years, and will go back for another. After that he is planning to do his Masters in Fine Arts at UBC. When he was telling me this I pointed out that he should imediatly proceed to get an apartment for himself and his girlfriend at St Johns College, since that is the best place to live while going to school at UBC. He is also an awesome DM, so I hope all you D&Ders back at SJC will get to meet him.
On a totally different note I would like to point out AbeBooks to everyone who may need to purchase text books anytime soon. I acquired the text for my course next semester there, and for an excellent price too. I will report back later on what i think of the place when the book arrives.
Yesterday I saw Dan, one of my High school friends again. He had been teaching English in Taipei (Taiwan) for the last two years, and will go back for another. After that he is planning to do his Masters in Fine Arts at UBC. When he was telling me this I pointed out that he should imediatly proceed to get an apartment for himself and his girlfriend at St Johns College, since that is the best place to live while going to school at UBC. He is also an awesome DM, so I hope all you D&Ders back at SJC will get to meet him.
On a totally different note I would like to point out AbeBooks to everyone who may need to purchase text books anytime soon. I acquired the text for my course next semester there, and for an excellent price too. I will report back later on what i think of the place when the book arrives.
Monday, December 04, 2006
Let's just pick up from here
Since the west coast *usually* is much warmer than the east coast of Canada it's quite possible to sail here the entire winter though. With that attitude, ignoring the fact that the current climate seems to have tried to show us that all this rotational invariance business is bollox, I met up with my firend Ian and went out sailing today. We were on duty with the race committee, meaning we had to set the course and record the results of the races. This I thought would make a great excuse to have some beers and watch people sailing about, however we also double as the rescue boat crew. After some deliberation we came to the conclusion that some people would have issues with a couple of drunks operating the only rescue boat at our disposal.
Talking about beer: Like some breweries the Vancouver island brewery makes a seasonal beer. It's called the Herminator, and supposedly one of the best beers in the world. Well with that kind of claim I had to try out this ice bock. Prepared for disappointment (after all they say that the fake Budweiser they sell here is the king of beers) I was very pleasantly surprised. Especially since I felt quite drunk after having a few, at which point I realized that it had a friendly 9.5% alcohol volume. Tasty and good for getting drunk! I am so bringing a case to the lan party next weekend.
Talking about beer: Like some breweries the Vancouver island brewery makes a seasonal beer. It's called the Herminator, and supposedly one of the best beers in the world. Well with that kind of claim I had to try out this ice bock. Prepared for disappointment (after all they say that the fake Budweiser they sell here is the king of beers) I was very pleasantly surprised. Especially since I felt quite drunk after having a few, at which point I realized that it had a friendly 9.5% alcohol volume. Tasty and good for getting drunk! I am so bringing a case to the lan party next weekend.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Finding a New Vantage Point
Well, long time no post. Let me try to sum up what I did in the last couple of months.
First I went for holidays back home to Halifax, where I met up with Pat just before he headed back to Edmonton. I also met up with Jon, an old friend from school and some other friends from university back East. There was beer, LAN parties, and planes. Then there were snakes on said planes.
On the way back to Victoria I stopped in Ottawa to visit a conference at Carleton. I explored the Ottawa downtown, which on Monday and Tuesday nights is not so impressive. I did manage to visit the Zaphod Beeblebrox and have some Pangalactic Gargleblasters. All this while whatching a teenage punk band up on stage that had somehow managed to get all their friends in. There was a ton of drunk teens moshing in the pit there. Very entertaining. Aside from that I was quite impressed with the war museum in Ottawa. The civilization museum was OK, but not as good as the war museum.
I got back in Victoria just in time to leave for Vancouver where I attended Chris' bbq & good-bye party. I had an awsome steak. And beer, and more beer. And Calum offered some Scotch, which was also good.
After a weekend of that I went back to Victoria, got started with the fall semster, and promptly took off to Spain. There was a workshop in Sant Feliu de Guixols along Spain's Costa Brave (about 100 km Nroth of Barcelona) I got a day at the beach, a day (more importantly a night) in Barcelona, and loads of good wine and food out of that trip (well and I learned loads of stuff about ATLAS but I am not here to talk about work). Anyway, Barcelona is an awsome city. I got to see a good bit of the old town, Las Ramblas and Gaudi's unfinished cathedral. We had some Tapas and wine in the evening somewhere in the old city, then a fellow grad student from the Univeristy of Toronto and I went off to party. I finally returned to our hotel just on time to get my stuff and head to the airport ... finally back to Vicotoria for more then half a week :)
Here then I got started TAing and got back to doing work. I also participated in a couple of beach cleanup dives. I helped my landlords out with a discover SCUBA course for which I recruited some of the Grad students here. Good time were had, and yes more barbeque.
SO next is a workshop (Trigger and Phsyics) to CERN end of this month. I will also drop by in Hamburg, and hopefully Berlin after the workshop.
First I went for holidays back home to Halifax, where I met up with Pat just before he headed back to Edmonton. I also met up with Jon, an old friend from school and some other friends from university back East. There was beer, LAN parties, and planes. Then there were snakes on said planes.
On the way back to Victoria I stopped in Ottawa to visit a conference at Carleton. I explored the Ottawa downtown, which on Monday and Tuesday nights is not so impressive. I did manage to visit the Zaphod Beeblebrox and have some Pangalactic Gargleblasters. All this while whatching a teenage punk band up on stage that had somehow managed to get all their friends in. There was a ton of drunk teens moshing in the pit there. Very entertaining. Aside from that I was quite impressed with the war museum in Ottawa. The civilization museum was OK, but not as good as the war museum.
I got back in Victoria just in time to leave for Vancouver where I attended Chris' bbq & good-bye party. I had an awsome steak. And beer, and more beer. And Calum offered some Scotch, which was also good.
After a weekend of that I went back to Victoria, got started with the fall semster, and promptly took off to Spain. There was a workshop in Sant Feliu de Guixols along Spain's Costa Brave (about 100 km Nroth of Barcelona) I got a day at the beach, a day (more importantly a night) in Barcelona, and loads of good wine and food out of that trip (well and I learned loads of stuff about ATLAS but I am not here to talk about work). Anyway, Barcelona is an awsome city. I got to see a good bit of the old town, Las Ramblas and Gaudi's unfinished cathedral. We had some Tapas and wine in the evening somewhere in the old city, then a fellow grad student from the Univeristy of Toronto and I went off to party. I finally returned to our hotel just on time to get my stuff and head to the airport ... finally back to Vicotoria for more then half a week :)
Here then I got started TAing and got back to doing work. I also participated in a couple of beach cleanup dives. I helped my landlords out with a discover SCUBA course for which I recruited some of the Grad students here. Good time were had, and yes more barbeque.
SO next is a workshop (Trigger and Phsyics) to CERN end of this month. I will also drop by in Hamburg, and hopefully Berlin after the workshop.
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