It has been determined that I've gone completely insane. Thank you.

Okay, what the HELL do we need this for?

On the other hand, this is funny, if a little disturbing.

So apparently there was an earthquake measuring about a 6 on the Richter scale.

To be honest, I didn't notice it. Which just means I'll have a quick, unnoticed by me death when the Big One hits.

Kaitlyn just hit 200 posts. Congratulations to her. According to Blogger, this is #202 for me. So congratulations to me, too.

Quiz results from the one on her page - I'm mildly creeped out, maybe because living in the US I'm more likely to be shot at than if I was back in Canada...

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Ordered a pizza today, was amused by this.

So I went to Santa Cruz with Dennis and Ryan, fellow Waterloo co-ops at Google. Roommate Gus didn't come along, citing work he was doing for his father. Santa Cruz is about thirty miles (give or take) south of Mountain View. The trip down was a scenic route during the mountains, which were heavily forested. Santa Cruz is on the Pacific Ocean, so it was a beach trip. But the experience was quite similar to going to an average beach on, say, Lake Erie about now - the water was COLD. Which is what causes my reactions in the one video you can find here.

After leaving and picking up Gus, we went out for dinner in Mountain View and then saw Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which was everything I wanted it to be and MORE. Second movie I've seen here, the first was Hero, which was also very good, but in a different way. Sky Captain is the kinda thing that just hits all the right buttons with me; the mixture of classic thirties genre films like King Kong and Lost Horizon with Fleischer Superman cartoons, and liberal dashes of Blackhawk and Steranko's Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD. And I want more...

Crap; DC has a Blackhawk Archive Edition, my wallet may be taking a hit if they've got it at the comics store. And I just ordered Lost Horizon from Amazon. Sigh. Be good, everybody.

Went to the beach at Santa Cruz today. Here are pictures (and a couple videos). More on this to come.

Also, Al Gore was here giving a talk. I'd vote for him. He is quite an entertaining man. Also, he was talking loud again, but as it was in front of the company this time, it was much appreciated.

March. May. September.

Last March, I ordered G.I.Joe vs the Transformers (a comic) from Dynamic Forces. Mostly because, as a promotion, it came with the hardcover for free. Their byzantine website made it impossible to tell what was going on with it, and eventually I forgot about it.

Today, I wander on down to the loading dock in building 42 with Peter; he was trying to get to the building 41 loading dock to pick up a heavy package he recieved. Either he didn't realize there were multiple loading docks, or I wasn't paying enough attention. I see this mailbox full of stuff. It's got my name on it.

On May 13 they shipped it. To Google building 42, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkyway, Mountain View CA 94043. Exactly where I told them to, but about two months after I expected it. I don't recommend Dynamic Forces, but at least I got what I wanted. Eventually.

Best. Headline. Ever.

Been feeling kinda down lately. This has been exacerbated by the regular headaches I've been getting, the first of which seemed to have coincided with the point I started to work with Perl. Which is either a) a coincidence; or b) a side effect of the look of Perl code.

I like Perl. You can do some very fun things in one line with it. I don't because I'm not that clever and besides, no one will be able to tell what that one line does.

Left work "early" yesterday because of the headache - "early" meaning I did regular person hours instead of staying forever. Also meaning I didn't get Google dinner. Picked up some Molson Canadian on my way home; a great many US beers are pretty bad and at least Canadian is familiar. I really miss a lot of things right now, at least beer isn't one of them.

Lynn notes it's National Singles Week. Send me presents.

Broke down on Saturday, now own a GameCube and four games, the GameCube-to-Game-Boy-Advance hookup cable, two controllers, and a memory card. Consider it my birthday present to myself. Cost me $200, thanks to me being smart - in contrast, me being stupid could have got me an XBox and one game for the same amount. Sadly, my Soul Calibur II is weak.

Picked up the Star Wars Trilogy on DVD this morning. Looking forward to watching those; I recently realized I've never actually seen the Special Editions before.

Two years ago I talked about football a lot on these pages. This time, I'm only gonna say that while the Buffalo Bills have a great defence, their shitty offence isn't gonna get them anywhere. Which saddens me. Is it the O-line or Drew Bledsoe? I dunno. Probably both.

Covered just about everything there. Time to get back to work.

For those of you who are complaining about how much nicer the weather is here as compared to Waterloo/Ottawa/misc, here's some food for thought - I'm only about 150 miles south of you. That's less that the drive from Waterloo to Windsor.

Of course, I'm further west than 150 miles. By a LOT. And apparently there's some sort of ocean effect. And nearby mountains do something too. And the north Pacific, while cold, is warmer than the north Atlantic. All of which is beside the point. FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Preliminary plans are to go to Las Vegas over Thanksgiving Weekend (the American one), November 25-28. Nothing is booked, but I'm floating the idea now. If any of y'all back home are interested, you should come; although you'll have to take a couple of days off. I know Tim and Beryl will be there then; of course, they work in Seattle and probably are taking advantage of the four day weekend as well.

Now, the REAL conundrum is finding the best way to train for the poker tables...

Jimmy Carter spoke at here at Google today, primarily about his human rights work through the Carter Center. It was an interesting talk, that I may discuss later on, but not why I'm posting right now: Economics and Gilligan's Island is more in keeping with what normally goes up here.

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I feel old. Add one to Mark's age today...

I aten't dead.

One week at work. Good stuff. Enjoying work, taking much advantage of free lunch. Free dinner... will be explained.

So my package containing my info and rent deposit was sent two day Expresspost via Canada Post, and they sent it along it's merry way - until it entered the great unknown called the United States of America. Where it mysteriously disappeared, only to reappear at my landlord's last Saturday, mere hours before I did. Thank god it DID reappear, although that could have been handled. So, while I can move in tomorrow - an e-mail will be sent out containing contact info next week, when I live there and have a phone and possibly even internet - I have been living at my Aunt's in San Francisco. This necessitates a two hour commute to work on three different public transportation providers, SF Municipal Rail (only their bus system), Caltrain, and Santa Clara VTA. I like the train ride, although I'm not a fan of how long it takes - and yet it's time for me to relax, so I am. Weird. Of course, this two hour commute means I leave here before 7 to make it home before 9. Thus I tend to miss dinner here.

But tomorrow I move in to my new place. And next week my walk to work should take twenty minutes, tops. If only there were multiple Tim Hortons on the way. And there's still a long weekend, although I don't have too much money right now. But that'll be rectified next week. Money solves everything. Everything that is solved by money, anyways.

And if you want an XL Google men's t-shirt, lemme know and I can hook you up.