Absurd Singularity

a new blog. Ok well, not really. Finally got tired of MT-Blacklist not working on my home PC so got some help from Fe and finally consolidated this thing with the rest of my site. Hopefully now I can stop manually deleting those damn comment spams. Anyhoo, hope everyone's having a great December. Only 22 days till the big day! ;-)

Although I can't help but think that I'm sitting either on the StayPuff Marshmallow Man or the Michelin Man.

Regardless of political affiliation, everyone should read this. Ignore all the crap and comments around it, just read the sermon.

So we took my mom out to Flushing this past weekend cause her cellular contract was up and she wanted a new-fangled phone. And everyone knows that the best place to get deals on cell phones is in an Asian-infested area. ;-) So we wandered into the "Busy Mall" on Main Street closest to Northern Boulevard which has 4 cellular service stores located right within the entrance. Makes it a little unnerving cause people from the 2 stores lucky enough to be right next to the door greet you when you walk in so you feel sorta bad when you choose one and not the other. Also makes it a little tough to comparison shop since the next store is like 4 feet away. But anyway, I just went where my mom went and at least she picked the store with the cute girl. =)

again. Took those damn fools 19 days to find the new location of this blog and the comment spams are starting to trickle in again. Thankfully, MT-Blacklist is around this time to make my life much easier. Has already blocked 209 and accurately moderated 142. Rock on!

Merry Christmas one and all! Hope everyone got some good loot! ;-)

So I got a bunch of accessories for my Canon Digital Rebel this Christmas and was a bit astounded by the final "look" of it after I added all the new goodies to it. Especially compared to our relatively newer Canon Powershot SD300. So I took a few pics...

How Walmart Is Destroying America And The World

As most of you may not know, since hockey fans are few and far between here, the 2004-2005 National Hockey League season has been pretty much cancelled due to disagreements between the player's association and the league. But for some bizarre reason, The Canadian Press has been running a simulation of a full hockey season and REPORTING ON IT since what would have been the beginning of this season. Good lord, I know hockey's a big thing in Canada but c'mon, reporting on simulated games by Electronic Arts, using the 2002-2003 schedule no less? What happened to last year's schedule? Couldn't you have found something else for your hockey reporter to do? I can't help but picture the reporter sitting at work with a PS2 and a copy of NHL 2003 playing a full season. Actually that's not a bad way to spend time at work but I digress. Anyway, it's just weird man.

So my current camera fixation began when I discovered a big ol' camera bag stowed away in my parent's den. Rooting around, I found a barely used Canon F1 and an unopened Canon EOS 630 along with various lenses and a flash unit. So I asked my Dad, "what the hell is a brand-new, unopened SLR camera doing in the closet???" "Oh yeah, we got that as your college graduation present when you were going to Hawaii but you didn't want it." DOH!!!

From Metafilter, the backlash against those increasingly ubiquitous magnetic ribbons begins. My Mom actually put one on her car and one on my Dad's but her's apparently got washed off in the car wash. And she got it from the $1 store in Chinatown. I refused to put such a cheesy symbol on my car and I at least got her to get the smallest ones possible instead of some of those gigantic monster ones that some people have in droves out there. Anyhoo, just another passing fad who's time is about up.

Well that was an inauspicious start to our vacation/honeymoon. Continental cancelled our flight due to "mechanical failure" and rebooked us on a flight departing tomorrow cause there was nothing available whatsoever today. NOT a happy camper. Was really looking forward to seeing what the New Year's celebration would be like at Waikiki. Grrrr.... Oh well, at least it's only a delay of one day and nothing more than that. Although instead of a direct flight we need to transfer in San Fran to a Delta flight. Pain in the butt. And the only thing customer service was able to offer us was a $125 travel voucher per person. Not too bad I suppose considering the one-day cost for our hotel/car rental was $130. Guess we will be visiting Chicago sometime this new year then. ;-p

UPDATE: At slightly before 11pm this evening, it suddenly occurred to me, "Hey, wait a sec, don't they have the same non-stop flight to Honolulu tomorrow?" Went to check on the website and lo and behold, there it was, flight 15. "Shit! Why the hell didn't they just book us on this flight then?!?" A 20 minute call to them later, we were back on our original flight. Just one day later. I'm assuming they were operating on the assumption that cancelled flight people would want to leave on the next available flight. But even though the Newark to San Fran flight they booked us on left at noon (as opposed to 2:15 pm for the direct flight), we would actually arrive in Honolulu an hour later. They did offer us a 5 am flight leaving from LaGuardia and arriving in Honolulu at 2pm but I didn't think my mom would appreciate having to take us there. Especially since she has no idea how to get there. =p So let's hope it works out this time. They couldn't possibly cancel the exact same flight on consecutive days could they? :-/