And Beyond Posting Inane Things…

My life is packed, yet I am unflustered.

Which doesn’t make sense. Submission of my dissertation draft, as according to my countdown widget, is a pasty 8 days 16 hours 14 minutes and 5 seconds away right now. Yet, I’m feeling a sense of peace.

School kicked off with a 3 week intensive workshop conducted by, if Wikipedia is to be believed,  a French political advisor and urban designer. But of course he doesn’t disclose his political affiliations, and thus this goes down into the annals of speculation. The class is made up of students from, at last count, 10 different countries, many working professionals, some government officials, all great people. But I digress.

I wouldn’t say that the workload from this workshop is light. It isn’t. But it isn’t particularly taxing either; yet when I gets home in the evening, sitting down in front of the computer to type out paragraphs of academic essays is not exactly something appealing to me. As always, I lose the motivation to work on it, in no small part due to the fact that I’ve already nailed the content in point form. As anyone who knows me, the cession of intellectual work and the beginning of industry bores me.

And at this moment, irony strikes. I should have taken the last 15 minutes to type my dissertation. 

I Smell Something Burning…

Mmm, shiny mirrors on a parabolic building… Interesting reflections…

  

Absolute Cardinal Truth — The Man Code

 

As seen on www.seductionlabs.org via digg

 

1. Thou shall not rent the movie Chocolate.

2. If you’ve known a guy for more than 24 hours, his sister is off limits forever! Unless you actually marry her.

3. When questioned by a buddy’s wife, girlfriend, mother, father, priest, shrink, dentist, accountant, or dog walker, you need not and should not provide any useful information as to his whereabouts. You are even permitted to deny his very existence.

New Toy

Bought this to pump in both inputs from my guitar (Dimazio P/Us and the Fishman Piezos) into the Randall amp. The old Proel A/B switch gave an annoying ‘pop’ each time you switched channels, so its not exactly something you want to use for gigging. Hence, this. The Boss Line Selector. Its the grand-daddy of all A/B switches.

When You Are Married to a Sex Maniac…

Reposted from original link.

In Other News…

You would too, if you had to go home and face Camilla everyday…

p1ɹoʍ uʍop ǝpısdn uɐ s,ʇı

.ɥɐǝʎ ɥo

In other news: Bush and Steve Jobs

 

How to Sleep More Efficiently

Again, thanks to Digg. Salvation for us architects! 

Tired after getting a full nine hours and still feeling exhausted? You sleep the sleep of the innocent – you nod off quickly, don’t have nightmares and have no trouble breathing – and still you can hardly get up in the morning and seldom feel totally awake, no matter how long you slept the previous night. You are suffering from a clear-cut case of ineffective sleep.

If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers

This has apparently been making its rounds of the interweb for a while now, but Mr Hermit here just saw it on Digg. Poor me.

Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.

Safari’s on Windows!

More importantly, the new Safari is blazing fast! And it conforms to web standards. So WordPress loads properly, and pages load heck a lot more quickly.

Sweet! Get it at the download page.

Oh yar. Did I say it runs on Windows?

  

*UPDATE: Reports from the wild indicates that, depending on which flavour of XP/Vista your PC is running Safari can be quite a resource hog, taking up to 250Meg of RAM. Anyone can verify that? On the plus side, its resource-friendly on a Mac. Friendlier than v2 in fact. Also, if you fire up Terminal and punch in

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

you enable a debugging menu that allows you to call up a HUD (heads-up display) to aid in debugging websites. Real handy. 

 

**LATEST UPDATE: You can do the same in windows by:

OpenC:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari\Preferences.plist 

Add the following:

<key>IncludeDebugMenu</key>
<true/>

Punch in the Terminal script and you’ll get this:

And if you right click

You’ll call up the nifty HUD