The beaver is a proud and noble animal

You are an SRDF–Sober Rational Destructive Follower. This makes you a font of knowledge. You are cool, analytical, intelligent and completely unfunny. Sometimes you slice through conversation with a cutting observation that causes silence and sidelong glances. You make a strong and lasting impression on everyone you meet, the quality of which depends more on their personality than yours.

You may feel persecuted, as you can become a target for fun. Still, you are focused enough on your work and secure enough in your abilities not to worry overly.

You are productive and invaluable to those you work for. You are loyal, steadfast, and conscientious. Your grooming is impeccable. You are in good shape.

You are kind of a tool, but you get things done. You are probably a week away from snapping.

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With all the LJ weirdness going on in the last few weeks, I realized that I hadn't backed up my blog for the longest time. I know I've only had it since november of 2003, but I've come to realize that I have a whole lot of myself in these pages and I'm not keen on the idea of losing them if the DB goes belly up.

So now it's all tucked away on a CD-ROM and I'm a happy camper.

I'm jonesing for LJ comments. Apparently, I can post some on other peoples' blogs, but I can't do so on mine *cries*

Roommate was in this morning. This might be a problem. He's a talker. As in, he talks a hell of a lot. Rambles even. Doesn't know when to shut up. People who know me know that I am most definitively not a morning person. I'll do my best not to kill him, but if I ever do, do you think “he kept talking to me before I had a chance to get my first cup of coffee” would be a valid defense?

LJ is being a serious pain in the ass *kicks stupid servers*. Apply a good dose of troubleshooting rule #1, I say.

Met with Sara after work for a quick pint before heading to see the boys for our weekly gaming night. We lingered over a pint (or two) and I ended up being there later than expected. Now be honest here. Do I have a reputation for being late??? A few people have told me this in the past few days. If so, I have to work on that :(

Anyway, we had a few laughs with Dusty. I really need to find out if she's single, cause she's cute as hell. I also need to find out which team she plays on – as neither of us have a clear idea after all this time. There was boob grabbing and much laughter. A choice quote from the evening:

Sara: You should know I have no shame.
Me: Yes, you'd think I'd know that
Dusty (from across the bar): Hell, even I know that!

Another good one:

Sara: So you're mostly friends with lesbians and straight guys… not good. At least if it was with gay men, you might get some.
Me: Yes, but the whole concept of a cock up my ass really doesn't do it for me

I had to leave in a bit of a rush, as I was (ahem) running late to see the boys. Got there and spent a fun evening playing Carcasonne and a new game Ben had gotten for his birthday. Board games are a fun way to spend an evening. What's even nicer is that we've had a weekly game night for basically 10 years now :)

Has anybody else been experiencing weird problems with LJ these past few days? I'm not talking about the slow-down. I'm talking about not getting comment notices and pages not loading at all.

So I'm at McGill right now, waiting for a bunch of patches to get installed on a windows box. Figured I might as well have some fun while I'm waiting. Saw the latest meme running around, and here are my results :)

The table below is the “best of” a few runs, but the hilarious thing is that most of them came out like this originally (only one or two have been improved :P)

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Edit: I'd added some more good ones, but friggin LJ ate that edit, it seems :( *kicks stupid LJ*

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Edit #2: OK, LJ is SERIOUSLY wonky. This post got edited so many times, it's not even funny. I had old versions re-appearing, new versions coming and going, oy! I'll be really happy when all the mess is cleared up on the server-side

I just cast my ballot (and no, I did not eat it). In what has been described as the “ugliest leader” campaign, I decided to go with my conscience and vote for someone instead of against another. Like most canadians tonight, I'll be watching the news as the polls close. It promises to be an interesting evening.

Have you voted yet?

Hey guys and gals.

I just finished updating my CV. It's here. Could you please go over it and tell me what you think? Also, I want to make sure that it renders properly in all platforms, so for those of you with macs or other non-windows boxes, please let me know if everything looks kosher. Most importantly, I had to do a bit of font hacking so that my name would embed properly in the PDF. To those of you who have no clue what I'm talking about, just tell me if my name comes out as Richard G. Côté in the page header instead of Skchpsd G. CótÉ. Long story :)

Thanks all :D

Have you mooed today?

http://www.mooooshop.com/en/index.htm

Saw this in the funnies this morning, and couldn't help but make an icon out of it. Feel free to mooch :)