2008-07-13 I do run run run, I do run run

Have you seen Harold and Maude? I had a teacher once who said that, as far as he is concerned, the movie ends when Harold's car is falling off the cliff. Of course he knew what was going to happen after that, but compared to the fall, any other ending can only be half as good, he said.
I mention this because it is exactly how I feel about the mid-season final of Battlestar Galactica. Sure, we're still missing a cylon, but hey, we're also missing Jarod's mom and [I wish I had made a list of these things when I noticed them], so who cares.

Apparently, there's a new kind of iPhone in the stores. When I gave up using my cellphone six months ago, I kinda lost track of recent phone-related events. On the other hand, I pride myself in being a geek (or is it nerd? I always confuse those two), I couldn't help but mention it on my blog. Looks like Steve Jobs picked up an opportunity that Nokia found convenient to ignore.

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Word of the day: chewing fat. It means having nonsense smalltalk. No idea where it comes from.

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Do you see that? Do you know what that is? Do you have any idea how terribly far that is? Can you guess why I'm asking?
It's the way from my office to my apartment. It's ten kilometers. And on Tuesday I ran it. That's how tough I am! Wooooot! * manly roar *
(This is my blog, and it's supposed to make me look good. So there's no way I'm going to mention that my legs hurt like hell for 48 hours after it. I'm not going to mention the blister, either.)

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One more thing about my job. All this time I was under the impression that software companies in New Zealand had trouble recruiting qualified developers. What with being on a remote island two hours from the next bigger continent (which hasn't too much going for it, either :-P). They gave me the job because they couldn't find a really bright guy to do it, I thought. But this week I was told that they actually had like 30 applications for my role. Thirty. And they still gave it to me! Man, did that make my day...

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"No two snowflakes are alike", they say. But I have a question. How did they find out? I can get my head around the idea of no two humans being alike. But snowflakes? I don't know...
Oh, and another thing. I don't know if it's true (I don't even know if anyone knows), but I've heard that in medieval times, more people were dead than alive. But nowadays, more people are alive than dead. Strange thing, considering that once you're dead you stay dead. Miraculous exponential function!

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Leet!