Month: June 2012

22 Jun

Why don’t you like the rain?

Seriously, why don’t you like the rain? Rain is awesome. Rain makes everything interesting, theres no experience like driving in pounding rain. And the sound of heavy rain on windows? AWESOME. I even like walking through it… getting soaked when its not freezing outside is actually kinda cool. So stop complaining and learn to see the greatness of one of God’s more awesome ways of keeping this planet working.

I’m tired, and in pain. BUT I HAD FUN. And who cares if I’m bleeding, its not like its dripping on anything important…

I should prob get that stitched.

Annnnyway,

This week has been interesting. For those of you who don’t know, I test things. Networking computery things. Last week, I was approached in work, apparently I’m the go to guy for testing a particular bit of hardware. Apparently my lack of understanding of it is slightly less than everyone elses. For the first time, I actually feel pressured, and like the random tests I’m doing actually get seen by someone, rather than just being a stepping stone to a bigger thing. Its slow menial work, that probably isn’t helping the fact I now need glasses for computer screens, but its definitely getting something done.

In other news, hectic week ahead… training for pci team, and commissioning service tomorrow. A couple of meetings about random things, Google I/O (look it up.), Summer Madness, and a team in donaghadee from Saturday.

 

I should sleep more.

 

I say I should do things a lot. I don’t do those things. I should fix that. (See what I shouldn’t have done there?)

15 Jun

CLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKITY-CLACK THUD

I got a new keyboard. Its loud. And was expensive (you really don’t wanna know). But its a joy to type on, if you’re not really listening to anything.

So, this is the second entry onto a blog some people actually read. How many read this one will clearly determine how good the first post was…

That virus thing is apparently gone now, I’m pretty tired from it, so I’ve been back at work for the last week and a half or so, since I no longer have an excuse to do nothing all day… I finally got around to completing Deus Ex Human Revolution though. I regretted that.

In the mean time I’ve also collected a myriad of useless random crap, but here’s one of the weirder ones:
http://soundcloud.com/rob-cantor/sets/music-for-the-stage/s-wJ1cQ

Anyway, tomorrow will be a long day. Maybe I’ll post about it. Maybe I won’t. Maybe I’ll build a small thermo-nuclear device in my basement… oh hello CIA, Mi5, and…. I don’t know that acronym I’m sorry… but thanks for popping by! I don’t actually have a basement. Or any aspirations towards building a thermonuclear device. I just thought it might get me a few hits. Sorry for wasting your time!

Assuming I didn’t just annoy the wrong government agency and they’re not about to come get me to put me in that secret prison in the Falklands where they’re keeping the real Saddam and Bin Laden (thats the real reason they wanna keep ’em), I’ll be doing a couple of teams this summer, but, again, still not leaving this island. Grr… though I’m sure my wallet is appreciative. On a related note my teams seem fairly standard people so far, though I can’t wait to see how weird they get at 2 in the morning when they’re getting hyper and confused as to why I’m poking them in the face. I’m kidding, I won’t do that. Probably.

Dear goodness I’m weird.

Why did you read this far?!? GO DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE.

1 Jun

Has had his first virus since 2008. And it wasn’t a computer one.

Hello!

This is different. This would be my first blog. Surprisingly I didn’t have one till now, mainly because I felt I should protect the world from my insanity, but seeing as we now have things like Carly Rae Jepson, the Karashians, and TOWIE, I figure the world needs to be brought over to the other side of craziness for a bit.

So here I am, typing nonsense on a keyboard that hasadodgyspacebar. The blog will cover things from Geeky things, Presby (and general Christian) things, sometimes political things, and sometimes things that don’t fit into clearly defined areas.

The Geeky:

So, I’ve spent the last 4 days stuck at home with a viral infection that basically makes me feel like I’m always falling over, occasionally bashed my head, and recently swallowed  a brick whole. I’ve been VERY bored, Hence why this is coming from a previously unused domain name… I now have a VPS! What does this mean, you ask? Nothing to most of you. But if you want a site or blog hosted let me know and I’ll see if I can spare the space. I’ve already got one friend looking to set up a couple of sites on it. I’m also able to develop Android apps, and hopefully soon iOS apps so if you want one of those made for something let me know. I also have my own dedicated server… but thats dedicated to Minecraft 😛

I’m mildly obsessed with complicated board games, if anyone wants to play a game and has 5-8 hours spare, let me know. I whole heartedly recommend www.shutupshow.com for fantastic sarcastic English board game reviews.

The Presby:

If you didn’t know, my dad’s a Presbyterian minister. If you did, there’s a fresh reminder. Every year since I can remember he’s disappeared for a week in June to go to the mystical General Assembly. In my head it was kinda like the Senate in Star Wars, just less colourful. Well, the virus thing this week means I had plenty of time to sit and watch the live feeds from the Assembly floor. It was actually remarkably interesting seeing how so many things are discussed and what matters to the Assembly. Unfortunately none of the camera angles showed how full the room was, and we had to rely on tweets from people who were there to tell us that only about half the representatives (or at least, the hall was only half full, so it could have been less than half) turned up to the Education, SPUD and YAC morning. Where was everybody? Are the under 25s so insignificant to churches around Ireland? When they actually have young adults participating in the General Assembly, it would be nice for them to be listened to. Grr…

As I was saying, the feed was pretty cool, and made me feel like I’m actually part of the Presbyterian Church as a whole, which is always good. And no, it’s not like the Senate in Star wars, unfortunately. The moderator does wear a fancy cloak/robe though. Kinda cool seeing so many folk I know giving their opinions on important matters. Also gave me some interesting ideas, but they’re still works in progress, and not ready to be revealed…

The Other Stuff-y:

Assuming the Doctor is right I’ll be back at work next Wednesday, which means I’ll see the Olympic Torch being run through Donegal street. This is likely to be about as far as I’m gonna care about the Olympics. They’re not exactly exciting to me, and I don’t really get why they’re bringing the torch to Northern Ireland. We have less to do with the Olympics than most countries… People yell ‘team GB!’ not ‘Team GB and NI’ or ‘team UK’. I’m also not really looking forward to impending football stupidity, though that’s likely to be far more ridiculously stupid.

In other news its the Jubilee weekend, which means the Queen has managed to stay alive to reach 60 years on the throne. It also means a free day off, and lots of random partying. We also know for certain the Queen is coming to Northern Ireland, and when. Frankly, I consider this the most significant development this year so far. The British Government finally feels Northern Ireland is safe enough for a pre-announced Queen’s visit. I know there’ll be ridiculous security, army snipers on every rooftop from here to Enniskillen, and probably some stupid statements from some politicians and paramilitary organizations, but its a good time to be in Northern Ireland.

And now I’m about to fall asleep… so thats my first blog.