Archive for April, 2008

S-U-C-C-E-S-S!

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

My buttoning was a success last night. Sadly, obnoxious green was not as obnoxious as I had hoped, but otherwise it went swimmingly. It's nice to have something to give cute boys in bands to have them contact you later :)

Marketing marketing marketing! It's always fun & refreshing to think up new marketing things. I know I only minored in the subject but it's always peaked my interest from time to time, especially on personal projects.

One Word Meme (from Craig)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

You.
Can.
Only.
Type.
One.
Word.
(its harder than it looks)
1. Your cell phone? razr
2. Your significant other? colin
3. Your hair? long
4. Your mother? okay
5. Your father? away
6. Your favourite thing? sex
7. Your dream last night? work
8. Your favourite drink? redbull
9. Your dream/goal? family
10. The room you're in? work
11. Your ex? meh
12. Your fear? failure
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? retired
14. Where were you last night? home
15. What you're not? short
16. Favourite Muffins? chocolate
17. One of your wish list items? flash
18. Where you grew up? Markham
19. The last thing you did? print
20. What are you wearing? clothes
21. Your TV? old
22. Your pet(s)? none
23. Your computer? stolen
24. Your life? boring
25. Your mood? meh
26. Missing someone? usually
27. Your car? dented
28. Something you're not wearing? glasses
29. Favourite Store? tigerdirect
30. Your summer? busy(?)
31. Love someone? likely
32. Your favourite color? blue
33. When is the last time you laughed? weekend
34. Last time you cried? dunno
35. Who will/would repost? no one

“I hate Chapters Customers” …. circa 2001(?)

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Being my first real job, other than working for my dad at the computer store, this is what taught me a lot of customer service skills that I still use today. That smiling and nodding gets you much further, and that no matter how you present it, dumbass people are dumbass people, and it’s best to ignore them best you can.

the study group
the collection of customers who bring in their notebooks and textbooks for a session of study while still being able to eat lunch/dinner and drink coffee and pop. for the most part this so far sounds alright. they’re quiet, studying and doing homework, they brought their own textbooks and workbooks and are only using the tables and chairs. the only big problem would be crumbs and spills of sticky substances all over tables and carpets and themselves and the piles of magazines other people have left. but THEN we get into research, they take out all the books they need to research their projects and make their pointform notes to do a research paper, risking spilling food and drink all over sometimes $80-200 books. and of course they must leave them right there on the tables and floors for us to pick up. but even more amazing are the people who bring in laptops! yes. they will bring in laptops and power them using CHAPTERS electricty, then WRITE THE ENTIRE paper here. people making pointform notes is almost excuseable when i see FRICKING LAPTOPS there! although i must admit, the people with laptops ARE more careful about their food and drink! (after all what’s a few hundred dollars worth of books if you have a few thousand dollar laptop!)

Moksha Yoga 30 day Challenge

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Okay so today I will be going to the 9pm Moksha Economy class.  My goal is to bring $7.00 in loonies (one dollar coins) because Phil no longer needs to horde loonies and quarters to do his laundry now that they installed debit card like devices on the machines.

Flow classes (I call all 60 minute classes that, I’m not sure if they should be) are always interesting since they skip some parts of the 90 minute series in order to make it fit.  Also they usually skip over many of the rest stops since in 60 minutes you can’t just take 2 of those minutes to lay there and reflect mid-class.

I haven’t been in a while, and Friday nights are always busy, so I suspect it will be hot hot hot.  And I mean just from the heat.

Opinions on LCD monitors?

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Here's the thing. I've had my 17″ CRT for……. the past……. since high school. I want to upgrade. I want an LCD because it's nice and pretty and I don't game enough to care about the refresh rate (Which I still believe CRT is better at)

So, my video card supports both DVI(?) and VGA(?). And it is my goal to get at least a 20″ Widescreen. The brands I am looking at are LG and Acer. And my budget is about $250 (plus 13% tax will bring me to just under $300 in total) and I will be most likely purchasing from www.tigerdirect.ca

But… what do you think?

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