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bam!

This is my first attempt at taking a photograph through my new telescope, which Susan got me for my birthday some weeks ago. The photo is not of very good quality because I just held my Canon SD200 camera up to the eyepiece and took a few snaps.


This is our moon at around a low 35x through a window taken by a bloke with a shaky hand (me). You can make out the Sea's of Serenity and Tranquility pretty clearly (the two large blots).

Jeremy tells me that it was actually he who discovered the head in Google Earth, and I'm (probably) the one who allegedly made the possible Strong Sad connection.

I concede all rights to the stake to one Jeremy Walsh, who will probably be selling shares to the claim sometime tomorrow.

A while back, Earl posted about finding a land formation looking like a head using Google Earth. Later that week, I do believe, we were at a poker game, where I do believe I outdone him. I was goofing around a lake that has a remarkable resemblance to the character Strong Sad from the Homestar Runner series of internet cartoons.

Here it is. I hope the world is ready.

For those of you who have been following the story of my broken video card, in part's I and II of the series, I am now triumphantly writing this post from my normal komputar, using the patched up video card.

The net result was I sent $11.40 to MSI Canada, and they sent me a brand spankin' new gpu fan which I easily attached myself.

Success!

I noticed that on the main page of Futureshop's website, there is a little search tool called a Gift Finder. Curious about this, I entered that I am interested in gifts for my girlfriend in the $250 price range.

I had to laugh at the results.

One of the top recommended video games is Star Trek: Battlestations, followed by an entire suite of various blenders (1)(2)(3)(4), coffee makers, vacuum cleaners, toaster ovens, etc.

*Sigh* So.. Does like, anybody working at Futureshop have a girlfriend or what?

P.S. Star Trek and a Vacuum it is!

P.P.S. Kidding, Susan!

P.P.P.S Or am I?

P.P.P.P.S I am.

Almost half way through november and I'm noticing two things, which I probably notice every year, but I would usually never consider them blogworthy. I'll blog them now, just because.

The first: When it gets dark I noticed a bunch of fly-like creatures (probably.. flies) appear on the outside of the windows, trying to get inside; probably attracted to the light. This is mentionable because it's practically winter, and these animals should probably be putting their efforts into more fruitful goals, like spreading sleeping sickness.

The second. Wasps come in with the wood. If you have a woodstove, you'll know what I'm talking about. Else, you might as well take my word on the subject. I dont know why wasps go inside wood for the winter, rather than stay in their nesty hive type thing. I guess these are run-away wasps.


I was right. Questionable blog-worthyness.

Mankind, on the wake of creating artifical intelligence, is in for quite a surprise. When the first robot walks into home depot to get purchase a canister of oil, I'm pretty sure it will go completely and utterly postal when it realizes it has to pay for goods and services using the metal disks we call money. This is the equivalent of waking up tommorow and being forced to pay for a tank of gas using a sack full of severed heads and knee-caps.

Adding a fourth traffic light to the standard green/yellow/red probably wouldn't hurt the situation. I recommend that it be installed, without public notice, mid-night of some random Sunday. I also recommend that Purple would probably yield the best results.

November 5th, 2006, 2:00PM: first snow of the year. It only happened for about 2 minutes before the sun came back out. But it happened.