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“People with blood type A have a deep-rooted strength that helps them stay calm in a crisis when everyone else is panicking. However, they tend to avoid confrontation, and feel very uncomfortable around people. A types are shy and sometimes withdrawn. They seek harmony and are very polite, but all the same feel that they never really fit in with others. A types are very responsible. If there is a job to be done, they prefer to take care of it themselves. These people crave success and are perfectionists. They are also very creative, and the most artistic of all the blood types, most likely because of their sensitivity.”

Who looks up their blood type personality as soon as they find out what blood type they are?

Weirdos!

(36% of Canadians have A+ blood. Does that make me average?)

Movies (as well as books and music) should be able to teach something while entertaining you.

The message behind ‘Gamer‘ isn’t hidden, but the close-minded will rail against the movie because they didn’t get it.

Every day you here stories of in-game violence potentially corrupting the people that play them. And the counter-argument is that most would never think to act on that inhibition in the real world.

But what if the people in the game were real people? The kind where “Boom. Head shot!” meant no ‘respawn’?

You could be anyone you wanted, but you could only be that person until they died. What kind of life would you live in this “virtually real world”?

According to the movie, we’d act exactly the same. We’d follow through on all the vulgarities that few like to talk about. In a few parts of the movie, you see operators continue to work their ‘avatars’ even in spite of potentially losing them (when you see the movie look for a part where Kable meets up with Angie in ‘Society’ for an example).

And yet I wonder if it would go down like that. Remember, we already have a virtual second chance in ‘Second Life’ and from what little I can tell, it remains a fairly clean environment… though that may be because of the admins limiting items of a violent nature. Not being a part of the SL world (or WOW for that matter) means I could be very wrong here.

Unfortunately, the truth is that society is rarely civil.

“Everybody’s looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused”
-Eurythmics (It sounds cooler when Marilyn Manson sings it… as I said at the start, even music should teach)

It’s constantly flowing isn’t it?

And every time we say, “I’ll get to it someday”, we’re really gambling on the idea that we’ll actually have the time—that our next breath won’t be our last.

“Who has time? Who has time? But then if we never take time, how can we have time?”

It’s interesting that the less time I have, the more I need to get done.

And yet, here I am again… wasting time.

If you don’t do web development or design, you might never have seen these.

They show up on the front page of my Feedburner account—a system of tracking subscriptions to xml feeds that was recently acquired by Google.

It’s funny… I would have missed them too had the first one not appeared. Then I started refreshing the page to see whether it was an error or not.

It’s the little things that entertain me.

If you aren’t using a feed reader (and there’s so many options available), you should be. They cut down on the amount of surfing you’ll have to do each day while visiting your favorite sites. It’s like getting a custom made newspaper delivered to your door each day.

Because I know you’re wondering, the first image reads “My Feeds enjoy life!”

Cait says I should update. So here it is.

She wants us to believe that she’s the greatest in the world, but I am.

So there.

Clear your part of the fucking lane! The second two feet of snow is going to make it hell for everyone… especially someone driving a tank of a van.

Bastards!

I often drive the shop van home.

It’s a Ford E350, which if you know anything about vans, is like driving a tank.

My driveway is at the end of a closed lane. When we get 2 feet of snow in a day and a half, that lane can become a little difficult to back down. I back down it because it’s easier to drive out in the morning.

I’ve gotten quite good at parking this beast.

Even in spite of the fact that my neighbor parks like an asshole. I can’t remember the last time I saw her park parallel to the road side.

It’s not angle parking, bitch!

I think Twittervision perfectly encapsulates what the global village is all about. People connecting from all over.

It isn’t always accurate (sometimes the placeholders are off), but it is damn interesting.

You sit there and watch the globe spin. Time falls away. The actual tweets don’t matter so much as where they’re being posted from.

Whether you twitter or not, definitely take a look.

(Found via Zen Habits.)

There was a missing document for all of our instructor paperwork.

So everyone of us made time to get it done. The paperwork was faxed off.

Then two of us missed signing a document.

They came in and singed. That paperwork was signed.

Those two are now fully qualified instructors and the two of us whose paperwork was right on the first fax are still waiting.

WTF?! Are you serious?

This isn’t how I want to start my teaching career. You obviously looked at them all to find out that the second two people were missing signatures.

If you have the documents, process the damn thing.

Update: Processed… finally.

What have I come too?!

I have a FB account for my shop, but as previously mentioned, I despise FB.

I have Twitter for micro-updates, this site for major ones and an assortment of online services for photos and such.

What do I need FB for?

And yet, I’m on there every day! Checking to see what’s new. Checking to see what my “friends” are up to.

How did this happen?

Did I mention I despise FB?

No more!