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Barenaked Ladies – Break Your Heart

So I said yesterday that my friend’s shoutcast server was cool and I should start one. Well I thought about it (after installing the silly server) and it’s really dumb to waste bandwidth on something that no one will listen to.. I can’t guarentee constant connection anyway since I get lazy with such things, and the silly comcast cable connection sucks %)

Speaking of things I start and never finish.. I discovered cafepress.com today. It’s a site where you can setup a store with stuff you design, and sell it to ppl n stuff. Cool idea… I set up part of a #13thHour store this morning with an existing logo (http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=13thhourchat — the store)… heh, couldnt get the store ID 13thhour ’cause a guy already owns it, doh! … funny thing is, I *know* this person, his company is called 13thHour and he dropped into our chat room a while back asking why we named the room that, heh. Oh well, I am prolly gonna make up summore logos, I am not sure yet if I want to make one with the 13thhour.tk name yet, since it’s a free domain and I don’t know it’ll last forever… and then make a few logos for princessleia.com and put them up there, not that ppl would want to buy them… but I might want to pick up a few for myself… YES I want to be a walking spam advertisement for my domain!! %)

Heh, so a friend of mine sent me the mp3s of the “French Taunts” from Monty Python and the search for the Holy Grail… that’s like my fave part of that movie.. and on my dvd is gets all messed up during the second taunting %( all “cannot read disk” So at least I have the mp3s now %) hehe…

Hrm what else? Oh watching those mst3k tapes this weekend really made me want to see more… so a few people I know showed me to mst3ktapes.com … apparently some of them have bought from there and they are reliable… Myk wants to get episode 910 (The Final Sacrifice) ’cause it was bashing canada through the whole thing, which is funny of course!! Hehe… It’s pretty inexpensive to get tapes from this site, so we might get a few %) I’ll talk to Myk when he gets home tonight tho, we’ll see what we can buy.

Hmmm so today I was thinking of playing with NET::IRC … a perl module for irc chat. I’ve got r2d2 up and running as an irssi bot, but it’s just so much cooler to have him as a “from scratch” bot… and I checked earlier and the Cobalt has a recent enough version of perl to run net::irc … *shrugs* it’s worth a shot, and this way my perl knowledge wont seep away %) It’s great practice, even if I end up not using him for the room moderator bot.

But before I go do that, I have this new book review to put up, since I finished Regeneration this weekend


Regeneration, by Pat Barker, 252 pages

This story takes place in 1917 England, in Craiglockhart, a mental hospital outside of London. Based loosely on the lifes of a few of the characters, it tells of Dr. William Rivers, who uses new methods to “cure” breakdown patiences that arrive from the front lines of world war one, all while privately fighting past demons of his own. Each character has their own view on the war (what it means to them, why they should/shouldn’t return to action), and this book actively explores these reasons, as well as the fine line between pure cowardice and insanity. It explains what these men had to endure to reach their breaking point, in sometimes graphic detail. When I picked up this book i was very skeptical, as I don’t much care for war-related stories, but this book was truly profound, I found myself very intrigued by all the characters, I highly recommend this book.


Yep, I liked it %) I think I have found I am not fond of books with real people … I much prefer fantasy and science fiction, and some that deal with spirituality, but I was pleasantly surprised by Regeneration. Heh, now I am trying to get into this “international best seller” Degree of Guilt which is turning out to be another disappointment, it’s one of those run of the mill law stories, ZzzZZzz… I am not sure where I why I picked it up in the first placee *shrugs* I will prolly read it until I get to the bookstore, or break down and go to bn.com to buy new books through there, heh.

Oh! Our air conditioner was fixed this morning %) luckily I got dressed right after Myk left for work ’cause the a/c fixing people were here at like 9:15. Apparently a part blew during that awful thunderstorm friday night, but they had spare parts so they just put the new one in %) yay! It’s already down to 76 in here, I’ll probably keep it at this, ’cause it’s nice %) So I’m gonna go wander off and bask in the coolness…

One Comment

  • Leslie2003

    Why do people in this country bash on Canada all the time?  It pisses me off because Canada, in so many ways, is so much better than the US.  It especially bugs me when people who have never been there rip on it.  Even unpatriotic people in this country are bloody elitists.  It irks me to no end.

    Now I’m ranting in OTHER people’s blogs, not just my own.  This is bad.

    Um, off-topic, why IS that room called 13thHour?