Fuck you! And your eyebrows!

So I've been at home sick all day. That's been just great.

In other news, today (it's nearly 2am as I write this) is my birthday. I'm 23, whatever that means. Birthdays are an interesting thing once all those important early "mile stones" have passed and you have enough money to buy all the things you would normally await birthdays so eagerly for. Sure I will get gifts, but nothing I couldn't have paid for myself. A lot of people seem to get depressed over this fact, but honestly I find it kinda cool. Gifts are such a material thing. What birthdays should truly be about is appreciating that you've been on this world another year and celebrating that fact with the friends and family that care about you. Its also a great time to consider where you are in life and where it is heading. Getting older is certainly a good way to appreciate that everyones time is limited and none of it should be wasted. 

As mentioned in an earlier post, we adopted kittens! Polly and Alice are great, but Sybil (our older cat) isn't very fond of them yet. There have been a lot of standoffs where she runs into them and stands her ground, hissing and growling. The little buggers don't get put of though, as the moment she turns and walks away they immediately follow her. I'm sure they will be a happy family eventually or there will be a violent battle for cat supremacy. Lets hope for the former.

At work we launched a couple neat features that I worked on. The first is a simply awesome dedicated page to our new Christmas Bitters, featuring corny JavaScript snow, looping Christmas music and a "live" webcam feed. In combination with that page you should also read this hilarious blog post, in which Mike truly outdid himself. The second feature I contributed to is a page where folk can create their own whisky. I encourage you to click the "make me a case" button to see my favourite addition to the page.

I also got my own PC! It's an Intel i5 machine with a honking 12GB of RAM and a AM Radeon HD 6700 graphics card with dual 22 inch Samsung monitors. Unfortunately some genius thought it would be a good idea to RAID 0 two 60GB SSD's to give me 120GB of space and absolutely no redundancy. I already lost one SSD, so thats been great. Except for fearing the machine isn't going to work every time it boots though, its been wonderful. Its certainly the fastest Windows PC I've ever used. And look at how professional my monitor stands are! No expense was spared.

It also occurred to me that I forgot to plug the episode of Downloadable Content I was on that was posted over a month ago where we talked about the Supreme Court ruling, which is a nice follow up to this post. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes or download the episode directly over this way.

Comments

[R. Kasahara]

Those monitor stands look an awful lot like my old one ;)

Eww on the SSD situation, BTW, and I hope Sybil learns to love (or at least tolerate) the little newcomers.