Month: August 2008

Thanks to Crystal, I recently learned about Paperback Swap. If you can part with your precious books (I struggle with this), you should go sign up. Tell ’em I sent you (shawn@brainofshawn.com), and I think they send me a free pony or something. Oh, and here I talk about it:

I got loot from Nathan! Yay!

I have no photos, because I’m at work. Again. Still. So in lieu of actual loot photos, here’s a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head. You’re welcome.

Yes, I know who you are — and you make me laugh every time. 😀

Quick update, while driving to work. 🙂

I hate rap, but this is amazing. Super cool. Watch it. Teach it to your kids. Particle physics in a rap? Awesome. 😀

Hat tip to Maria over at .51

Thanks to Nathan, I’ll soon be reading some books in the Discworld series. Michelle posted the results of her character quiz, and so I figured it would be good to take the test before I read the book. I have no idea, my character might be a total dweeb. Time will tell. 🙂

Which Discworld Character are you like (with pics) created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Carrot Ironfounderson You are Captain Carrot Ironfounderson of the City Watch in the greatest city on the Disc – Ankh-Morprok! A truly good natured, honest guy, who knows everyone, and is liked by all. Technically a dwarf, but only by adoption. You’d rather not be reminded that you are the true heir to the throne, but that does explain why people naturally follow your orders… Carrot Ironfounderson 69% Death 56% Commander Samuel Vimes 50% Gytha (Nanny) Ogg 50% Rincewind 50% The Librarian 44% Lord Havelock Vetinari 44% Cohen The Barbarian 38% Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax 19% Greebo 13%

Ahhh, August. How I loathe thee.

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Thankfully I'm still showering. 🙂

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I’m really busy, but still wanna play. Go HERE for details. Yay! (I’ll be playing on other blogs too, but it might be a bit after the fact…)

If you don’t know, August stinks for me. Busy, busy, busy, busy. I used to just give up sleep to accomplish August, but my body is reminding me I’m no longer in my twenties. My alarm went off this morning at 3AM, and I didn’t actually wake up until 10. Which kinda sucks.

Anyway, here’s the shotgut approach at catching up on things:

• Monday, my site got Dugg. It was funny that it was about a digg rant. My site crumbled, and was offline for about 80% of the traffic that was coming in. Sitemeter recorded 8,000+ visitors, and that was just folks that were able to load the page. I normally get about 100. GoDaddy will not be my hosting provider when my pre-paid time expires…
• I have pink eye. I think it’s because I stayed up all weekend updating servers in time for secretaries on Monday morning. My eyes like to rest, and I think my immune system is teh funk right now, so they got all pinky on me. I’m wearing glasses for a while, and I HATE IT. They make me feel like the 4 eyed middle school kid that got picked on when he was younger. Ugh. (and no, ironically I don’t even remember the middle school torture — apparently it affected more than just personal memories…)
• I’m behind on work. I hate that. Dearest co-workers: My apologies.
• Eh, there’s probably more, but I need to get back to work. TTFN!