A waste of bits and bandwidth

Well the blog went blank again. It’s not as if I don’t have anything to say (actually, I have nothing meaningful to say) but I just couldn’t be bothered.

Not much to report. I registered for a class at BCIT that’ll start in January. I’m kinda looking forward to going back and doing something just because I’m interested and I enjoy it. I wish it didn’t cost me $500 to do it though.

I also added a robots file to the site. If nothing else it seems to have quelled the crap in the ‘links from an external page’ in my stats page. Bet your’re happy for me now.

Lastly, I spent two hours watching poker on TV last Sunday. Who’d have thought it was so interesting to watch. These guys were throwing tens of thousands worth of chips around like it was nothing… “All in.” Amazing to watch.

There was this Eskimo guy who reminded me of Calvin. He ended up getting second place. At one point he had more that $2 million in chips in front of him and at the end he had nothing. I think he got $300k for second place and he basically shrugged and walked off. Pretty cool…

RLD

Well, it would seem that my ‘Mash Up’ entry alarmed more than a few. I guess any reaction is better than none.

I decided to surf random blogs and grab a line or two from each one. Hopefully crafting together a large, copyright-infringing blog entry for my amusement. Andrea was the only one who seems to have taken any pleasure from it. You go girl. Send me some pictures…

So, we had the third Infoslave gathering last night and it was alright. Still amazing that so many will show up for these events. Despite a bad day at work, a splitting headache and being tired, I can say it was worth dropping in for.

The evenings entertainment was provided be a hapless derilick who managed to crash his bicycle on Smithe street for no apparent reason. Biff, Nagy and I are standing there (just like the good old days) having a cigarette with about a thousand people that are standing in line to see a concert on the other side of the street. We heard this huge crash and Buddy is now laying on Smithe writhing and swearing.

This idiot had just crashed, really hard, in front of 1003 people and his first reaction was to start verbally abusing all those who might provide assistence. After a period of time, some people finally dragged him and his bike onto the sidewalk while we debated calling 911. “Do you have a phone? Um, yeah. Do you? Yeah” “You think we should call? Dunno, probably…” “Hmmm… f**k ‘em…”

Buddy continues to writhe and swear and then he spits at someone who had stuck their head out of a shop to see what was going on. At that point we figured he was on his own.

The city can be a cold place. Wear gloves.

RLD thanks to Karan…