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I hate the skytrain

As a person who values personal space and passive-aggressiveness, the skytrain is my hell. Especially since my usual train ride to downtown requires me to travel between two major stops. This usually means that during rush hour it requires that I develop a thick skin about my personal space issues suck it up and deal with it.

I usually travel with my fuck-off-I-don’t-want-to-interact-with-people headphones and my music blaring. This minimizes the interaction between passengers to the occasional “excuse me” and “I’m sorry for stepping on your foot”. Today was immensely different.

After 2 train stops, I finally get into the train somehow managing to squish my body into a free space that is equivalent to a [insertboxhere] between an overweight business man and a construction worker (who probably hasn’t known the feeling of soap today). I was settled into my space until this man who decided he wanted to play “let’s pretend its a sardine packing plant” and started shoving his body into the crowd.

*shove*

Inner Ritchie: umm no more space Mr.

*shove*

Inner Ritchie: Good lord, just give up already and wait for the next train.

*shove* <headphones fall off ohhellno!>

Ritchie: Excuse me, there really isn’t anymore  space
Man: Yes there is.

*shove*

Ritchie: <loud sigh> I really don’t think there is.
Man: Yes there is!

*Train doors start to close*

Ritchie: *shoves guy off the train while giving the finger* heh!

8:49 am 4 Comments

Weekly twitter updates (cause it’s a good excuse to get some content up)

• wonderfalls filling the pushing daisies void #
• I am still sleepy but I can’t bring myself to sleep. #
• ugh, not feeling so hot. #
• oh britney you clever linguist you! #
• at the dentist. regular checkup. must get ice cream hookup after. #
• freakin’ cough making my body hurted. #
• i like how i can just ask people to bypass protocol and get my admin access right away. yay! #
• bah, moving to a new google account and having to recreate things kinda suck. #
• Moving gmail accounts… hummm this is going to be a bit of a challenge me thinks. #
• my gay tenant just keeps murdering ‘all out of love’ in kareoke. please stop! #
• homeward bound!! #
• every morning I wake up soo very happy. heh! #
• Trying out BumpTop windows interface. It is cool, I think it’ll be much much much cooler on a tablet. Very impressed so far. #
• congrats @rouxbe http://tinyurl.com/a2ea5v #
• There is some filming going on at the Londsdale Quay. God, I hope it isn’t another dog movie! #
• The answer is YES, timesheets are done. #
• Zoooooooommmmmbie! #
• text message at 10:01am from Cheryl: UUUUGH! People are yelling “zombie” on karaoke! Downstairs! #
• ok time to pry myself away from emails and do some actual work. #
• good morning, hello world! #
• I am very tired now. Really tired. #
• relaxing but supposed to be stressing out. heh #

11:59 pm

Weekly twitter updates (cause it’s a good excuse to get some content up)

• Yumbo, dine out vancouver night 1 #
• Catching up on the Ted Talks… #
• I did not just spend an hour looking through LOLcats #
• Maybe I should buy that Watchmen magazine and read for a bit. #
• RT @tammertron: http://tinyurl.com/99nl73 too funny #
• Thinking that I need to figure out a non-transit solution to parking; I think I’ve spent $50 bucks on parking in the last two days. #
• it is time to join the morning commute. #
• Prepping slides for today’s class and tomorrow’s. #
• is still not home #
• Listening to ‘In defense of food”; want to just eat bacon and eggs for breakfast instead of cereal now. #
• I totally made up for the late wake up yesterday by waking up before my alarm clock today. #
• *crryyyy* #
• grrrr, blog post lost somehow. weird wordpress behavior #
• researching super hero powers for my next blog post #
• Wow, this is a depressing class. Me thinks I will try to get course credit somehow #
• interesting vote by tweet. #
• I don’t feel like taking notes. I forgot my good pen at home and I don’t like writing on my notebook without it #
• family filled weekend with some work. Long day today. mantra: slow and steady wins the race. #

11:59 pm 0 Comments

If I had a super power…

I’ve been trying to get into the habit of writing and since I’m procrastinating I decided to head over to Darren’s list and pick a random topic. This was the one that my finger landed on.

To be completely nerdy about it, I decided that this would be an exercise in research and analysis. I went to wikipedia to see a list of super powers that were available (assuming that it was some sort of menu that I could choose from). I suppose its also good that they also list the super hero that the power was associated with. I wouldn’t want to associate myself with super heroes called “Star boy” and “Harry Leland” (Mass manipulation).

I also decided that I wanted it to be a cool power that people can see. For example, I want my hands to glow before I punched through a wall as opposed to being able to click and find objects like a bat or praying to god that dice fall a certain way. Unfortunately this ruled out the Zack Morris: Time out which could’ve been cool to have but people can’t see or remember it. Oh well, my ego got in the way I suppose.

The source of my powers shouldn’t be something that someone can remove like rings because that’s lame. Take the ring off and you’re pretty much dead. I also don’t think that my power should deform me (like blue fur or changing hair color in the middle of the battle). I still want to function as a somewhat normal member of society when I’m not superhero’ing around. I’m also not a big fan of pain and I’m also scared of spiders, snakes etc. (especially the radioactive types) so acquiring these powers should be somewhat painless and doesn’t involve creepy crawlies.

So after much deliberation my pick for a super power would be the ability to eat anything I want! I’d eat all the spam and sushi in the world! nom om om!

5:08 pm 1 Comment

Weekly twitter updates (cause it’s a good excuse to get some content up)

• i think some companies miss the point of ‘multi touch’ interfaces. #
• balance is something we learn when we have to. nice, let’s not let it come to that. #
• make no mistake, a 6am wakeup time doesn’t mean that you don’t procrastinate. it just means you have MORE time to. #
• Didja kno’ that in 1431, judges’ investigations began in the trial of Joan of Arc. (Spoiler: They find her guilty.) #
• must. resist. looking. at. cool. netbooks. #
• Just got an ergonomic assessment; keyboard = piano. mouse needs mouse pad to keep it in its place. got it. go away wrist pains. #
• Should sleep, but can’t. Kinda grumpy stomach. grumpy! #
• Making slides for class tonight. Let’s not make it a long class ok? ok! #
• sigh; website is down. will be up shortly i suppose. #
• outsourcing… heh excited about outsourcing! #
• enjoying the 6am wake up times #
• Today is MS Office work day. Most work will be accomplished through MS Office products. Primarily Word and PowerPoint #
• still surprised at how a good Drupal install can make life easier and cursing Capistrano for a stupid error that i can’t figure out! #
• oh my, I’m hearing Oprah’s siren call from the other room. #
• I guess my VPN connection just died, telling me to stop working. #
• feeling powerful, just pushed my wife’s car out of a snowbank. rawr! me hulk! #
• snowed in… going to shovel and then do work. i say that like i’m some ninja assassin or something. #
• Christmas has been wiped out of the house. At least until I look out and see all of the snow. Yuck! #
• Shoveling is done, car can probably go out… eek. De-christmassing can begin! #

11:59 pm