The Saturday before last Easter, Megan and I were driving to my parents’ house for a pre-Easter dinner.
Right before College Boulevard, we were stopped at a red light. We had been there about ten seconds or so, talking casually to dispel the boredom that red lights often bring.
Then, we were plowed into from behind. And not in the good way.
Here are some photographs from the event.
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Oh God, I am laughing so hard right now.
And here is a YouTube video of the intros for all the cartoons I used to watch.
This is like my life flashing before my eyes, in cartoon form.
If you check out my MySpace profile, you’ll see that I’ve left that STD-ridden site for greener pastures.
Many of my friends have asked me, “But why leave MySpace? It’s so teh awesome!”
Pictures often speak louder than words, because some words are long with many syllables, and difficult to understand. I think this picture makes my argument for me pretty well.
I use Safari as my daily browser, because I like its speed and beautiful typography. However, when I’m doing web development work, there are a ton of useful extensions that you just can’t find for Safari. (Firebug, I’m looking at you.)
Enabling the Safari Debug menu reveals a handy sub-menu called “Open Page With,” populated with all of the browsers installed on your machine. Thus, it’s just a quick visit to this menu, selecting Firefox, and I’m in web developer extensions nerdvana.
However, as Larry Wall once said, “The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.”
No hubris here, but plenty of laziness and impatience. That Debug menu is awfully lengthy, and frankly, I don’t have the time for the extra two seconds it takes to navigate it.
Fortunately, the Keyboard & Mouse Preference Pane comes to the rescue. One can define custom keyboard shortcuts for any application, starting with 10.3. In my case, I assigned ⌘⇧F to “Firefox” (note that you will need to use “Firefox.app” if Show all file extensions is checked in Finder preferences).
Now Firefox bliss is just one quick shortcut away.
So, hopefully today is the day, after actually owning the decal for a year plus, that my Mini Cooper will finally get its Union Jack.
Last night I got 2 hours of sleep due to writing an 8 page term paper. I am about ready to pass out, but unfortunately I cannot enjoy it too much as I have a midterm at 7 that I also need to study for. Sleep deprivation — not just for kittens anymore.
Hopefully Pzizz will at least restore some of my sanity.
So the last few months have been a hectic, non-stop adventure. Working 30+ hours a week, plus full time school, means that the last day I had off was Thanksgiving (and of course I worked early the next day).
Finals week is here, and the good news is that I have only one “real” final to contend with. The bad news is that it’s Thursday morning at 8am. The good news is that the class isn’t terribly difficult, so I should do alright.
After that, all that’s left is a six page paper that serves as the final.
I am still addicted to Oasis and Yorkshire Gold tea.
Alive In Joburg — a six minute short from the director of Halo, Neill Blomkamp. Its realism is impressive for being low budget. Could Halo be the next Starship Troopers (which I watched more times than I’d care to admit)? Here’s hoping.
How is it possible to have this overpowering sensation of nostalgia for a place that, realistically, I’ve spent so little time in?
I’m of course speaking of my desire to travel to England. All morning I’ve been drinking tea and listening to the Beatles and Oasis and in general acting very wistful. I don’t know why I think that going back there will make me happy–I thought the same thing about leaving Fallbrook to go to college–but every time I look out the window I just feel utterly sick of Orange County and its rows and rows of houses, all perfectly manicured and shown off for their sameness.
I suppose I just want to be somewhere where the architecture is older than I am, where there is a sense of epic history. It’s stupid things that remind me, too… the other day I got inordinately excited when I had to take a roundabout.
Here are some stupid things I do to tide myself over until I can either visit the UK or move there entirely:
I’m sure you can find more if you know me well enough…
Death Cab for Cutie is playing December 5 (a Tuesday) at UCI. This is probably one of the first times in recent memory where a band I actually like it playing here. Sorry, MxPx, you just don’t cut it.
Interested? You can get the tickets at the box office for $30 ($28 if you’re a UCI student, limit 2) or see the Ticketmaster link below. I definitely recommend the box office though, Ticketmaster is the biggest monopoly on the planet.
Hit me up.
