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Posted by Dominic Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:11:00 GMT
When you’re still up early in the morning, don’t think that sitting down in front of the TV will keep you up for an hour so you can take a shower and get ready for work.
Because it doesn’t work that way.
Really.
Posted by Dominic Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:16:00 GMT
A few weeks ago, Rebecca gave me a lesson on the proper use of the ellipsis.
The ellipsis is probably the most mis-used punctuation mark on the planet (at least judging by my old habits. :)
The proper English use of an ellipsis is for there to be three (read THREE) periods (or full stops) in a row - alternately you can use the UNICODE character at U+2026 (8230) (Cryptic reference, see here.) You can also (this is much easier) use the HTML entity ….
An ellipsis is treated differently than a period, so if you use an ellipsis at the end of a sentence, you still have to follow it with a period (full stop) for the end-of-sentence. This is generally called aposiopesis - a trailing off into silence.
This might look somewhat comical, since in regular writing there’s now 4 periods in a row, but oh well - that’s writing for you.
I did think I could write this entire entry without an actual example of proper ellipsis usage… must. not. give. in….
:)
Posted by Dominic Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:12:00 GMT
So the dentist diagnosed me with stress-induced TMJ. A side-effect of it is that my left jaw muscle has been cramping up, making it hard to eat pretty much anything. Woo hoo.
We tried some pain killers, hoping it would relieve the pain and let my muscles relax a bit - when that failed, I was prescribed Carisoprodol, a muscle relaxant.
Oh boy.
Really.
Oh boy.
I think it also relaxes my I-don’t-give-a-crap muscle. It’s awesome.
So if it wasn’t for the lightheadedness and dizzyness, I’d be great right about now.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m just going to float around here for a while.
Posted by Dominic Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:59:00 GMT
As I mentioned here, I’ve been wanting to revive my photographical muse from her sad demise a number of months ago.
Well, I have… sort of. I’ve taken pictures - now it’s a matter of post-processing them (or not), and putting them online.
Look forward to an update somewhere, sometime soon.
Posted by Dominic Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:41:00 GMT
Take the number of computers in your house/apartment/fridge-cardboard-box
Take the number of 100-square-foot chunks in your house/apartment/fridge-cardboard-box
Divide one above by two above.
Like this:
10
7 (700 sq ft)
10 / 7 = 1.42857
Now you have your CpSF score.
Update:
After cleaning house, the new score is:
5 / 7 = 0.7142857
Posted by Dominic Fri, 25 May 2007 01:31:00 GMT
Last weekend I spent 2 days of quality time in the wilderness (well, it was car camping) - away from cellphones, civilization, et cetera.
A fair number of us (over 10, under 15) went out to Colorado Bend State Park, a 5000-some acre park roughly an hour and a half north-west of Austin. Much fun was had friday, including cooking hotdogs, strawberry marshmallows with mint-flavored chocolate crackers and the requisite raucousness of a group of people staying up far later than their ordinary bedtimes. (Yes, we even had the park ranger come by to tell us to quiet down, the weekend was a success!)
Rebecca had been gracious enough to bring one of the Dobsonian telescopes from UT with her out ot the park, since it’s nice and dark in the evening. We ended up looking at some very nifty constellations, and I got to play with the coolest thing ever.. A green laser pointer.
OH MY GOD. SO AWESOME!
My life’s been pretty busy lately, with work being overly busy due to a missing teammate (he got promoted), so it took quite a time for me to fall asleep fridaysaturday morning. Despite this, I was among the three first people out of bed the next morning, and I even felt well-rested.
Saturday was spent lounging around, canoe-ing on the Colorado river, followed by a late lunch and even more lounging around.
Much fun was had around the campfire, and as it got darker (and approached midnight), I remembered what I’d intended to do the first night, but didn’t end up doing… The last few times I had been out to the park, I’d seen this really awesome waterfall, that would look totally super awesome if I were to stick a dive light inside it.
I asked around if anyone wanted to accompany me on the trip (it was a good 30 minute hike one way), and Jeremy joined me.
We had a good walk there, practicing our night vision, avoiding dangerous racoons, and the GREAT BIG EYES on the bridge… :)
As for the result? Well, judge for yourself:
Many thanks to Jeremy for the good conversation and keeping my company while we walked through the deep dark woods. :)
Sunday we all woke up, had some time with song and a small devotional (Psalm 8), pack up camp, and then a group of us went for a short-ish (3 hour) hike…
Posted by Dominic Wed, 16 May 2007 17:06:00 GMT
Last wednesday I picked up my old habit of mountain biking again - I’d started a couple months ago, with some bouldering, but tweaked my right shoulder and was taking it easy. I rode the St. Edwards Park trail from one end to the other - followed by a short loop around the lower end of the park.
Last monday Daniel went with me to ride the full-length trail twice, back to back - it was a nice workout, not too warm, not too muggy.
The plan is to do this three times a week, interspersed with bouldering/climbing on the weekends.
It seems that mountain biking and climbing are the only sports that I can consistently keep doing. I’m looking forward to getting into a bit better shape. :)
