A photoblog and other things

Yeah, you can already tell this post is going to be full of all things nerdy. Well, I gotta say it, but hats off to the folks at NASA/ESA/Uni Arizona for getting a space probe to land on Titan. That’s just freaking amazing when you consider what must be done to accomplish something like that. I had to laugh though when they only got half the pictures they wanted because someone missed a command. Hehe.

I actually think about that and then I can totally relate to my own programming screw-ups. Hell, I just spent 6 hours fixing up/improving some software I wrote ages ago. If I didn’t do that though, I probably would have just sat in my bed watching “My cousin Vinny” followed by “Death to Smoochy”. Instead, I feel like I’ve achieved something today… something I probably should have achieved last week but hey. I was spending too much time rediscovering the Monkees and so forth and when I get nostalgic everything else can go get stuffed.

I went to a really cool party on Saturday night. No rum barrels involved, thank God, but I had a smashingly fun time. It was a girl’s 30th birthday and some gay ex-neighbours threw a party for her. Of course, the place was in immaculate condition. It was very, very clean and I have to say very tastefully furnished. My favourite thing though was an old rotary telephone that they actually use. I reckon I might try retrofitting one in my future home. A re-dial function would be pretty cool 🙂

Everyone at the party was either married or engaged. Normally I don’t mind being the third wheel – I mean a few of my mates back in Australia have girlfriends and so forth so I get pretty used to it. But shit, lately it’s just been beyond a joke!

I did meet a nice couple who lived about an hour out of New York city. They were really cool and offered me a place to stay when I go up around that area. Excellent! I’m waiting on some availability for tickets to see the Daily Show. That will pretty much determine when I’ll go up that way.

I have a stack more pics to put up yet, but I just can’t be arsed using my current computer to do that. I’ve ordered a new beast which should be arriving this coming week and it’ll be ideal for the music stuff I want to do. It’s taking a bloody long time to get my music stuff sorted out with all this travelling that keeps getting in the way!

Hmmm, well I’m starting to dribble more than I do in person. I better go to sleep before I send you to sleep.

Last night I cruised along to a 33rd birthday party at a Thai themed place called “Mai Kai”. It used to be one of the biggest and best places to go to in Ft Lauderdale back in the 50s and 60s and today it still rocks. Apparently there was a deal going on that if you bought one rum barrel you’d get another one free. Awesome. So I bought two, giving me 2 free drinks later on. A couple of points must be made:

1) A rum barrel is $14 *each*. Ouch!

2) I don’t know what the hell was in them, but they were effen strong! Someone said that each rum barrel was like 6 standard drinks. Kapow!

3) I had 4 of these buggers. Boom!

4) I also had a few sake bombs *and* a Heineken. Thud!

I quickly pointed out to everyone there why my nickname is PK. Let’s just say that I was incredibly drunk but still maintained my composure and my stomach contents. I swear people were looking at me waiting for me to keel over and die. I did get the comment that I had enough alcohol in me to kill a baby elephant.

“Here’s to PK he’s true blue.

He’s a piss-pot through and through.

He’s a bastard so they say,

Tried to go to heaven but he went the other way”

Wasn’t I supposed to stop binge drinking once I left Uni?

My friend said this to me whilst I was talking to him on the telephone. I didn’t actually realise this myself…

It’s not easy making lots of money

Damn. Damn. Damn. Oh well, I better save up some money for those lottery tickets.

Found this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4157121.stm whilst trawling the net, where North Korea has launched an ad campaign against long hair. My favourite part of the article, because it’s just so stupid:

It stressed the “negative effects” of long hair on “human intelligence development”, noting that long hair “consumes a great deal of nutrition” and could thus rob the brain of energy.

How the hell does long hair consume any more nutrition when hair comes out of the scalp dead? I’m looking for some “gotcha” phrase. I can’t find one. The mind boggles.