"David and Goliath" is the new evil...

And that's pretty sad news considering I have a David and Goliath PJ that I LOVE (mainly because it's got a penguin on in.)

Then Penny Arcade brought the subject into attention that a lot of his artwork is way too similar to other work to be a coincident... more proof here.

I was going to say that the "Goodbye Kitty" T-shirt with the Frogger (about 3/4 down the second link) is probably just done in the name of parody, but then again, the whole goodbye kitty thing just seem a bit too much like Bunny Suicide...

Well, I've already bought the penguin PJ, I'll stick with it. But no more David and Goliath for me from now on. >:|

(Go support Threadless people :) I might try my hand to design something there later. But until I have time to actually do stuff other than my PhD... I'll just shop. :))

War Against Procrastination... that fails rather tragically

This morning when I finally dragged myself out of bed (I was coding/making sure the code's working until 12... more on that later.), I've decided that enough is enough: if I could do that much work in St Louis, I should be able to do more back here. So I've decided to set my alarm on my phone to 12:30, and before then there will be no slashdot, no fark, no bash.org, and no Cyanide and Happiness either. In fact: I'll be doing nothing but work until the phone tells me to stop, and then I'll have my lunch (without watching Dr Phil...), hang the washing out, hopefully bring the washing in, maybe slashdot a little, until 1:30, when work shall start again, and will be work until 3:30 for another break... and then work until Petey's home.

Sounded like a brilliant idea, and my laptop was quiet this morning so that must mean it's processed the data I put through last night, right?

Well was I horribly wrong: the data that I suspect would take a good 10 hour to process stopped after the first friggin file (out of about 20 files) because the very last line on my code that actually saves the results into a file has a bug in it. I DID actually fix it, but at 12 at night I accidentally deleted it because that seems to be the things to do.

Never, NEVER, code while tired...

I shall spend today weeping and writing labs for young'ns instead...

Wii party, Carcassonne, and poppy seed scones..

The Wii party I had with the girls went very well, and even those who claimed to be completely un-co managed to played tennis. :) That just goes to prove how intuitive the wiimote is. Although it took a while for one to figure out she has to point at the screen, everyone still had fun. :)

Bought Carcassonne because we needed a board game. It's actually very cool, and I seem to be kicking Pete's ass. Heh. :) But it's nice to have a game that doesn't take forever to set up, and is actually brain taxing...

In other news: the poppy seed buns didn't turn out well. :( Will be blogging about something else in my cooking blog instead. Oops...

PS: PhD is going so painfully slowly... and I read the most recent PhD (the comic) and weeped...

Michael Dell using Ubuntu :D

Read in /. that Michael Dell actually uses Ubuntu on his laptop at home. And why the hell not? To be honest from what I've heard about Vista I'd be sooner upgraded to the new Ubuntu release than coughing up that much money to get Vista. It's hell of a lot more secured, and a lot less annoying.

I'm a bit slow on what stuff I can get on my Ubuntu, mostly because the Linux Matlab has a bug in it which makes it hard for me to run my custom GUI, which means when I'm coding I'm forced to use Windows... But then again I think I should probably at least switch to OpenOffice.org in my Windows too. Anyway, my point is that I just found out about Beryl. The screen shots just look SO pretty. Will be posted screenshot of my own once I installed Feisty Fawn. :)

Oh, and Petey was impressed that I saved up pretty much our wedding budget already, so maybe I CAN get my desktop upgraded earlier than I thought. :) I think it'll be dual booting XP and Ubuntu, and steering clear of Vista for now.

In other news, my cooking log is taking a break not because I haven't been cooking, but because I've been way too lazy. Tomorrow I'll try to take on the task of making poppy seed buns. Hopefully will update that soon. :)

Viva la Wii-volution!

Seriously, looking at the sales data of the Wii in NZ sickens me somewhat. Sure us geeks in the land of the long white clouds have long joked about how backward we are... but when I heard that PS3 is out selling the Wii here in NZ, you got to ask "What the hell is wrong with us?"

I went to a party this saturday where this girl told me she wants a pink PS2. I just casually said that the real thing actually looks really tacky (it does), and she'd be better off with a Wii. I got greeted by a blank stare in return. Sadly, it's not the first time this happened, and I was fully prepared to do my Wii sales pitch.

The problem with Wii in NZ is the fact that we as a nation isn't usually quick to pick on global trends at all, and Nintendo has never really had a good grip on the gaming market here in NZ, thanks to Sony.

Not only because I'm a Nintendo fan girl (which I am), but as a consumer, if people in NZ actually start playing with Wii and DS, we might actually have a chance to get more games here. It's not like we don't have the problem already.

Here's what I propose (and what I'm trying to do): promote the Wii if you have one. Go invite your parents to play on it. Go have a gathering of friends. Nintendowii.net.nz is organising WiiNesDay where they hire our a bar and two big projection screen to play the Wii on. Try get people to go! I'm going to check it out once Elebits (or as they're known here: Eledees... why? I don't know) is out, so I can play the game before hand. :) We need to take the Wii-volution in our own hands. (why oh WHY didn't they just stick with the name Revolution?)

I just need to convince the girls to come play on the Wii at some stage now...

New layout

A new layout, and added a music player.

Been busy with work, Wii, house work, and the DS version of AoK. :)

Will update when I can be bothered...