Or perhaps a QOTD. Cribbed from a Guardian interview with Neil Gaiman.

What piece of technology would you most like to own?
Something that updates my Twitter feed onto the front of a T-shirt, I think. Do they make that yet?

The whole article can be found here.

So cpip posted another interesting meme, and I took the bait.

1) Comment here, and I'll list five things I associate with you.
2) Post this header in your own journal, and elaborate on the five things I mention.

Rest behind the cut.
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Wendy and I headed down to the Glenbow Museum this morning to check out a bunch of Tibetan Monks that were creating a healing Mandala made of sand. It was very cool, these guys are from a temple originally from Tibet, but was destroyed in the 1940s and reconstituted in 1979 in India.

We took some pics, check them out here.

I wish I had a better zoom lens for the camera so I could have gotten some nicer close up shots of the Mandala itself.

I just discovered Amazon's Kindle 2.0. I want one. They come out on Feb 24th, but are not available in Canada. Boo. In fact I can't find any indication that they will ever be for sale in Canada. Bastards.

So it occurred to me on the way home from work this morning that perhaps I should post updates to that beginning of the year entry I made. Since I made it about a month ago, it seems appropriate to do that update now.

Procrastination... well.. I can't say as it's gone, but I can say I've been more conscious of it lately. I'm still not getting everything done, but more than was getting done before.

Unfortunately very little has happened with my literary projects. I've tried on a couple of occasions to work on it, but I'm drawing blanks. I'm not the most creative of people when it comes to pulling things from a vacuum, and unfortunately the thoughts I have aren't enough to fill out enough of an outline. Perhaps I should resort to just writing out all of the thoughts and scenes or such, getting it down might jog the rest of the process.

CCNA has gone absolutely nowhere. No excuses. Still on the list.

Exercise... well.. I weighed myself the other day. I've gained weight since the last time(The scale records this info). Needless to say there's been no progress there either, though it has occurred to me that Feb should be my month to start working out in some form. We'll have to see how this goes.

On the whole, very little progress, but this doesn't bother me overmuch since it's only been a month. At least I haven't forgotten most, and 3/4 has at least had some CPU(Cranial Processing Unit) cycles given to them.

(EDIT: Reminder to self, don't do this in the morning after having worked all night. You'll need to go back and edit it several times to fix the errors your going to make.)

A few people have posted plans/goals for the new year, and I thought that perhaps this year I should do something similar myself.

I ment to do this post a week ago, but just never got around to it. Kinda due to lack of time, but I'm sure I could have found the time if I was so motivated. Which brings us to point number one, and probably the bottle neck to nearly everything else. I'm a consummate procrastinator. There's always something else more interesting that I'd rather be doing instead of doing what needs to be done. Not to say that nothing gets done, usually the bare minimum gets done and the rest just sort of gets left behind.

This needs to stop.

I'm going to do my damnedest to adjust this little bit of behavior in myself, and while I know it's not an overnight thing it's something I need to be more conscious of.

Point the second. I've got a couple of literary-ish projects I'd like to put more work put in to this year. Some of this ties into the previous comments about procrastination and motivation. I'd like to work on it more but I get too easily distracted by other things that don't particularly advance or improve me in any way.

Thirdly.. CCNA cert. I've been working on this for something like 3 years, I think it's about time I get off my ass and get it finished. In theory it really shouldn't take much more than knuckling down and doing it, much the same as the second point where it's lack of advancement is caused by the first point.

Fourth, exercise. I'm horribly out of shape, and I really should do something about it. I think this is the year for me to get off the couch and away from the computer.

Those are the main points the come to mind, though I'm sure there will be a number of improvements in general from the first point alone.

I have this strange urge to watch The Crow....

.... Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", featuring Tupac Shakur as the Ghost of Christmas Present.

Trust your technolust.

So I had been pondering if it was worth it to pick up Fallout 3. It's gotten good reviews, and it seems to have all the things that make FPS/RPG games for me(My favorite ones of all time were Deus Ex(Original not the second one) and System Shock 2).

So to those of you who bought it already I put this question: Is it worth hunting around store after store to get a retail box, or should I just pick it up from Steam for $10 cheaper?

For those of you interested in somewhat older games, Steam has Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines on sale this weekend for $9.99. Very cheap for a very good game. Graphics are the greatest by today's standards, but the story blows away nearly anything out today(I'd presume it'd give Fallout3 a run for it's money).

Link to it on Steam's website:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/2600/

I'm so tired right now, I'm going to share some horrible jokes told at work today.


What does a Vegan Zombie crave?
Graaaaains.

What vehicle does a Zombie drive?
Traaaaains.

And worst of all...
What does a musical Zombie play?
Refraaaaains.


I'm going to go hide from the mob baying for my blood now. 8)

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a
COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.

It can be anything you want - good or bad -
BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with.

I voted, have you?

Given that I think this election is a matter of choosing the lesser of several evils, it wasn't until I got to the little booth with the ballot in hand that I decided to vote rather than intentionally spoiling the ballot as I had originally planned.

Any bets on how low the voter turn out will be? One of these days the parties will figure out that if they want people to vote, they should stop pulling policy out of their, ass and actually consult real Canadians in addition to the scientists and other supposedly intelligent people that are normally consulted.

Off to bed for me, gotta work tonight.

... no I'm not being locked up.. yet. Though I did manage to get tickets to Disturbed when they play the Corral in December. I'm a little hesitant about seats in the Corral, since the last time we were there for Blue Man the seat looked like it was about to fall apart and was rather uncomfortable. We'll see I guess, the price I pay to see this band. 8)

One last thing before I dash off to work.

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

CERN LHC Webcam.

Tetragrammaton Cleric t-shirt design @ © SplitReason.com

There's a bunch of other good stuff on that site. I might have to put in an order.

So after a couple of days in Banff, we're home again. Got a few photos to post, which I might do later. Also, it seems our vacationing luck holds out. On the way back from the last vacation we managed to score wiifit. This time, we scored a PS3 80Gig. Last one they had. Go us. Next time I want something, I'll have to go on vacation and look for it on the way back. 8)

http://www.geekchichq.com/The_Sultan_.html

A huge gaming table, complete with drink holders, dice rolling spaces and a backlit white board. Their pics are huge, so I didn't link one here, but go check the link above. Sweet.

Even though I've got nowhere to put it, I still want one. 8)