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They are recalling Slim Fast because of a bacterial contamination that can cause diarrhea. Hey I would get that anyway with my lactose intolerance, so I guess it's good I don't mess with that stuff.

It's kind of snowing. Very random and light snow. It's Houston that's getting all the snow fun. We don't have enough to even make a snowball.

Lunch turned out better than expected. The food still sucked but maybe it's because we are all anticipating the holiday season starting soon.

But it is freaking cold... not as cold as tameiki's 19 degrees, but still... brrrrrrr!

Supposedly by lunchtime we'll have snow. We'll see.

In the meantime I have to go to a "birthday lunch" that I really don't want to go to because... these things used to be fun "back in the day" (say 10-15 years ago) and now they are a chore. You always have the lone person who doesn't like anything no matter where you choose to go. And today because it's so blasted cold we are heading to a place nearby that used to have good food a few years ago but now their stuff is total crap. I would love to get out of this but I'm one of the "birthday people" being honored... I still pay for my meal but... *sigh*

I'll just man up and go.

I think I might start using this journal to picspam and be silly. Well, the latter wouldn't really be a change, would it?

I was hoping that it would be Friday... but not yet. *shakes fist at world and its many clocks* Tomorrow we are suppose to get snow. Snow. They've been predicting it all week now they are trying to decide when it will fall ... in the morning, in the afternoon? I would love to see some snow I don't think this town has any any snowfall since 2003 maybe? I hope it does happen. It would be nice.

Google had a press conference a few weeks ago touting their new Chromium Operating System. Basically this system is tailor made for netbooks. You basically keep all your information in the cloud (Google docs, Gmail, etc.). It's not in beta yet but they wanted to show what this operating system would look like.

Then days later there was a copy you could download and run using vmare, or virtual box. I didn't want to bother with that. Then there was an image you could run on netbooks. I downloaded that since I have an eeePC that I bought for grins off woot.com a while ago. It sits in the living room for those moments you are too lazy to get your laptop to go check on stuff. I blew the xandros OS off of it the first day it arrived in my house and up Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it. While I managed to get the ChromeOS on a flash drive I couldn't get it to boot to it. Finally my brainstem figured out last night to go into the Bios and change the order of boot up so now it boots into Chromium.

If you've every used the Google brower, then it is not difficult. Everything has a tab pretty much. The wireless didn't work immediately. I had to connect it to my router via ethernet cable and point to my wireless and put in the password to the wireless. Then I rebooted and the wireless worked after that.

Google's contention is most folks only use their computer to get on the internet so why not just do all your business there via Docs, etc.

Is this something that anyone would want for a real operating system? Not unless you are happy with your private information being in cloud management. Google's argument is if you lost your netbook there would be nothing for them to get unless they know your Gmail address and password. Also in theory if someone else had ChromeOS on their system you could log in and have your stuff handy without permanently saving it on your friend's computer. Although Google folks had to admit if you are a lawyer with sensitive papers you probably DON'T want this operating system.

Since this isn't even in beta yet, there are interesting hiccups in it. Like you can't shut it down, to do that you have to push the power button on your machine. If you do somehow manage to close all the tabs in the browser, getting the browser to reappear too me randomly pushing keys until it reappeared again. (I don't know which keys did the trick though). You have to have an internet connection to do ANYTHING on it. You can't log in. You can't look at anything because it is all on the web.

Would this ever replace Ubuntu NR on my eeePc in the future if they get the bugs fixed? I seriously doubt it. But it's fun playing with it.

and now, deeeep thoughts....

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• 14:43 need to learn French...and Spanish...and Japanese...listening to Elastica...damn this coffee is barely tolerable :p #
• 14:49 @CaitlynBenoit they're so cool :) I've kinda been on a 90s nostalgia kick lately - Prodigy, Chem. Bros., Low Fidelity all stars, US3 ^_^ #

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It's rainy.

I'm sleepy. Really sleepy.

I'm on my 3rd cup of coffee. My coffee mug holds 2 cups of coffee so really I'm on my 6th cup. And I'm still sleepy.

It's also slow today which really makes one "perky".

I guess I shouldn't grumble about having to go to work tomorrow... We are coming towards the tail end... my work-study student workers only have two more weeks (hopefully they WON'T finish what I have put out for them because if they complete it I will have to scramble to find them work. They are dedicated folks so I suspect I will have to scramble.

Christmas is fast approaching although I am more about when our holiday starts (Dec. 22-Jan 1) than the actual holiday. My sister and I will travel to Dallas via Amtrak. I don't trust my car to drive us (because it has an engine problem which isn't a problem now but it will die at some point... I'm nursing it like a newborn and only driving when necessary), I thought about flying but I hate air travel these days ... although Southwest had nice enough prices, but via train isn't dirt cheap. It's only $62 round trip. Mind you it will take longer to get there (5 hours as opposed to 3 hours driving or 45 minutes flying), but that's okay I have my sony reader and I hope I'll be able to read. I've discovered that reading on buses gives me a headache, reading by plane doesn't bother me, so what will travel via train do?

All the holiday food is gone. YAY.

Uh oh. Rain. Feeling...sleepy...now...

*thunk*

zzzzzzz

and now, deeeep thoughts....

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• 10:50 @darknessdescend 30K? hey, you're still kickin' butt! You can do it - go go go! :D #

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Hope everyone is having a fine holiday. I know I am... even if dinner will be a touch late because I wasn't feeling in the mood to start it earlier. :)

I'm thankful to good friends (virtual and otherwise). I'm thankful that no one in my family is laid off. I'm thankful to cool weather that actually pretends to be Fall after all. And I'm thankful that I don't have to be back to work until Monday. :)

So my gift to all of you is the gift of a rather cool ova. It has many names... It's being called, Dogs: Bullets & Carnage. (This link is a description of the show). When you look at the videos (there are 4) it looks like it says Dogs: Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark which is the name of the manga it's based on. I really enjoyed it, slipped tameiki a copy during Y-con. We watched the first episode and she seemed to like it.

I present to you (direct downloads) of:
Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Episode Four

Enjoy the videos.

and now, deeeep thoughts....

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• 10:53 @hjeanc LOL, ah, the kids are off school already I take it? :) #
• 11:04 @hjeanc yeah, we didn't did we? :/ #

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86 icons of Georgia Moffett as 'Jenny' from Doctor Who.

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