So here I come across another thing in my life I've been negligent regarding, updating my blog that nobody reads ever...
A lot has happened since last I wrote on this blog... I've started and finished another school term, gave up on looking for a coop job for the summer in favour of more laziness, got a couple puppies (man are they cute :) ), I've also had a wonderful girlfriend for slightly longer than I haven't posted... maybe that has something to do with it ;).
I've been spending most of my days either with my girlfriend, my puppies (and family of course), or my computer, not doing a heck of a lot and just having a nice easy vacation of a summer. Life's pretty sweet, that way :)
Anyways, that's all I've got to say now, hopefully it won't take me quite so long to get around to posting again...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Monday, December 24, 2007
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night...
Well, this is Christmas, it's finally here... I finally finished my shopping at about 4:30 pm today, so I got some good insanely crowded mall time in, to properly worship the Corporate Gods of Capitalism.
All in all I think I did ok for my various presents... a lot of them seem to have come from the liquor store, but everyone likes booze, right? It leads me to believe that somebody over there at MasterCard is probably sitting there thinking that this Mark guy's fallen off the wagon again, after a fall free of those nasty $100 bar bills and general debauchery-related purchases, since in the last two weeks I've spent in the vicinity of $200 on booze at the LCBO.
Either that or my family and friends are all alcoholics... :p
I was reading Jonathan Schwartz's Blog today (CEO of Sun Microsystems, I know I'm a huge corporate whore/ubergeek) and it made me think about the load all us holiday shoppers put on our infrastructure... I mean, beyond the obvious malls being crowded, and shipping companies frantically trying to get everyones' packages to them for Xmas. For instance, what about those poor Dell (or Apple or whatever) tech support dudes over there in India, I bet their day tomorrow's gonna be hell, what with all the grannies/middle aged soccer moms/etc... who got new gadgetry trying to figure things out and the like... Or the poor telecom engineers who must have to stick around to make sure that all the activations of people's new cellphones they got for Christmas all work out as planned. Not everyone gets a nice holiday with their families tomorrow, one can only hope that those poor dejected souls are getting their time and a half, and will eventually be able to enjoy that income they're earning.
Anyways, I still have some gift wrapping to finish up and then it's sleepytime, so I'm off. Merry Christmas to you all, and a Happy New Year (if I don't make my way back here by then)!!
All in all I think I did ok for my various presents... a lot of them seem to have come from the liquor store, but everyone likes booze, right? It leads me to believe that somebody over there at MasterCard is probably sitting there thinking that this Mark guy's fallen off the wagon again, after a fall free of those nasty $100 bar bills and general debauchery-related purchases, since in the last two weeks I've spent in the vicinity of $200 on booze at the LCBO.
Either that or my family and friends are all alcoholics... :p
I was reading Jonathan Schwartz's Blog today (CEO of Sun Microsystems, I know I'm a huge corporate whore/ubergeek) and it made me think about the load all us holiday shoppers put on our infrastructure... I mean, beyond the obvious malls being crowded, and shipping companies frantically trying to get everyones' packages to them for Xmas. For instance, what about those poor Dell (or Apple or whatever) tech support dudes over there in India, I bet their day tomorrow's gonna be hell, what with all the grannies/middle aged soccer moms/etc... who got new gadgetry trying to figure things out and the like... Or the poor telecom engineers who must have to stick around to make sure that all the activations of people's new cellphones they got for Christmas all work out as planned. Not everyone gets a nice holiday with their families tomorrow, one can only hope that those poor dejected souls are getting their time and a half, and will eventually be able to enjoy that income they're earning.
Anyways, I still have some gift wrapping to finish up and then it's sleepytime, so I'm off. Merry Christmas to you all, and a Happy New Year (if I don't make my way back here by then)!!
Thursday, December 20, 2007
My first (personal) foray into the blogosphere...
This here, my inaugural blog post, may not be the most original or entertaining post ever, but is primarily designed to have something there when I look at this page (makes me happier that way). Since I'm no longer under the employ of a certain company whose name starts with Sun and ends with Microsystems, it appears that my blog with them that nobody ever read no longer exists... Don't worry, those of you who know me, I'm still gonna be a huge corporate whore, they're just not paying me for it anymore.
That said -- I'm starting off on a new leaf. This here blog shall be the turning point in my online life, you'll see. That or at least a semi-entertaining diversion from my studies/work term report/life in general, which is the next best thing, I suppose.
From time to time, I'll update this blog with interesting, amusing and nerdy things I find on the Interweb, starting with this: a list of things that took less time to develop/happen than Duke Nukem Whenever has been in production. I remember looking forward to this game back in 1997 or so... then forgot about it, and every once in a while am reminded that it's still in development. I swear the developers must not be working on it at all and they just keep mentioning it about once a year or so as a running joke.
Anyways, as I was up at 5:00 AM this morning, I'm naturally somewhat sleepy and will therefore bid you adieu.
That said -- I'm starting off on a new leaf. This here blog shall be the turning point in my online life, you'll see. That or at least a semi-entertaining diversion from my studies/work term report/life in general, which is the next best thing, I suppose.
From time to time, I'll update this blog with interesting, amusing and nerdy things I find on the Interweb, starting with this: a list of things that took less time to develop/happen than Duke Nukem Whenever has been in production. I remember looking forward to this game back in 1997 or so... then forgot about it, and every once in a while am reminded that it's still in development. I swear the developers must not be working on it at all and they just keep mentioning it about once a year or so as a running joke.
Anyways, as I was up at 5:00 AM this morning, I'm naturally somewhat sleepy and will therefore bid you adieu.
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