The beaver is a proud and noble animal

I've finally found the name of the animated toon I was looking for all friggin' week :)

It's been bugging me since last weekend, and now I've remembered it.

This makes me happy.

I give you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersix

 

In a city that seems to have everything, it's amazing what we'll still be surprised to find. Take for example what CBS recently uncovered going on in the back of a pizzeria. Let's just say it's hotter than the pizza served up front. On the outside, Cordatos looks like your ordinary pizzeria, but inside customers are offered something way too hot and spicy to be found on the menu.

Lap dances. Yes, you read that correctly.

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Big deal. These people would go nuts if they saw the lunch crowd for the buffet at Super Sexe.

Sometimes, I miss Montreal and the fact that you have huge strip clubs and sex shops on the high street and nobody gives a damn.

It'll probably get me in trouble, but I miss strip clubs and the shenanigans I used to get into with the boys.

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Try as they might, scientists havent managed to better one of mankinds most enduring technologies paper. But the pain of carrying a library to the beach may soon be over, thanks to Sonys new electronic book. The Readers revolutionary feature is its 6in screen, which uses E Ink technology that is as easy on the eye as newsprint and requires power only to change what its displaying which extends battery life. The built-in memory will store 80 novels, which you can download from the internet. And when you grow weary of reading, you can use the reader to play MP3 music or audiobooks. The UK launch is expected later in the year.

This is a quote from Tom Dunmore, editor of Stuff magazine.

I will not say I told you so, but I told you so. I bought the Sony reader yesterday. Today, I see news reports that the Hanlin V3 is going in mass production at the end of july and that the sony is coming to the UK.

Aw screw it, I told you so!

I'm >< this close to getting my grubby mits on an ebook reader!

Sony, evil bastards that they are, are only marketing the PRS-500 in the US. This means that, to be able to get a reader, I had to:

- ask an american visitor to purchase it on his american credit card
- have it delivered to an address in the US belonging to a friend of an american coworker
- having said american coworker pick it up when he's in the US on vacation next month.

All because I can't order the damn thing myself.

The order has been made on the SonyStyle website and the guy has been send an email confirmation, but the funds have yet to be cleared by the credit card. I keep refreshing the order status page on the Sony website and it still says “Pending remote fulfillment”.

This is where I realize that England (and Europe in general) has a brilliant system for mail order and internet shopping. I've never had this much trouble ordering stuff online and have it automagically appear on my doorstep the following day.

I hope there's no delay or bureaucratic red-tapish crap. The american visitor is leaving tomorrow morning (and, since I wasn't expecting any problems, I've already transferred the money to his paypal account)

I'm sure everything will work itself out, but it's driving me nuts in the meantime :)

I can't wait, ohboy ohboy ohboy!

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Update: The status is now “Order received by OMS”, whatever the hell that means :) At least it doesn't sound negative :D

Ideal breakfast has ham, cheese

LONDON, June 24 (UPI) — A scientific study of British students' eating habits has found eating ham and cheese for breakfast can significantly improve cognitive functioning.

The study headed up by psychology professor David Benton of Wales' Swansea University found the traditional German breakfast can aid in cognitive functions like memory and attention levels, The Sunday Times of London said.

“It is all down to the glucose release of the breakfast into the bloodstream. The slower the release, the better the pupils performed,” Benton said of his study's findings.

Benton's group monitored the eating habits and cognitive performance of 6- and 7-year-olds to determine the effect of a well-balanced breakfast. Benton's group also found meals with slow-releasing glucose levels helped children stay physically fit and curbed obesity by limiting one's appetite.

“The high protein in the breakfast will release into the system slowly, and therefore it will suppress the appetite for longer, and prevent children from snacking,” he told the newspaper.

Last friday was petkatyyazzick's un-birthday.

You see, she's fed up of having a birthday so close to christmas so, like the Queen, she now has an official birthday (June 22nd) as well as a real birthday (December 22nd). That way, she can have prezzies twice a year like everybody else (rather than the “I'll get her something bigger” excuse she normally gets).

I got her a pair of hair straighteners she can use in North America as well as in the UK and arranged with the pub to have her favouritest foods to be put on the specials menu just for her. All in all, it was a nice evening.

Spent the rest of the weekend doing sod all. Even though we need to cut the grass, the weather couldn't make up its mind so the grass alternated between dry, damp and flat-out drenched. I'll try and cut it one night this week. Katy spent the weekend working on her coursework, which is almost done (and that means that her course is almost done – yay!) I took the bus into town on saturday to go pick up a few odds and ends at Boots, a sketching pad and some drawing supplies. I want to start working on the design of my next tat, which will be based on modern Haida art styles. Sunday was spent watching Babylon 5 reruns. Fun fun fun :)

First, I came across:
A bunch of geeks using solid state Tesla coils to play The 1812 overture and the Super Mario theme song .

Then, there was:
Greg Patillo, a beatboxing flute player (!), playing a unique rendition of the Super Mario theme song and the Sesame Street theme song

And then, when I went to go to the bathroom, I discovered a real-life garage band playing in the EBI underground parking lot. Apparently, they practice there during lunch time.

This makes me realize just how much I miss playing music.

http://www.flubu.com/various_pics/geneva_jun_2007/

   
   

Last weekend, I cleaned.

The whole friggin house.

It was sorely in need of it.

I stopped counting the loads of laundry I did, and we are now (for the moment) caught up in all the washing up. I probably vacuumed a cat's worth of fur out of the stairwell carpet and the sitting room drapes. We can now see the floor in the bedroom. That weird growth on the kitchen baseboard is no longer alive and well.

All of this makes me happy, but this morning, I ache.

I'm getting old.

We also trimmed back the herb garden. With all the rain and sun we've been having recently, it was threatening to go wild and invade everything in sight. I need to find the best way to dry some of them and keep them for later use.