Friday, November 14, 2008

Buckshot

This is probably going to be a fairly random, hodge-podgy post. Consider yourself warned.

I bought a new mouse today. My brother the graphic artist will probably think it's the coolest thing ever. I like it because, in addition to being a cool design, it's well thought out and easy to use.

It kinda looks like this:


Vampire night last night. You can tell it was a good game because people were still talking about it the next day.

We're off curling tonight. I like curling, and it'll be fun, but I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't have been okay with a bye tonight. It's been a long, hard week, and I could use a few nights in.

I finished Band of Brigands, a book about the history of the tank in Dubya Dubya One, and the poor bastards they got to crew them. There will likely be a somewhat more substantial review in your future.

We went and looked at the CHEO Dream Home today. Holy sweet mother of Jesus. It has a beer tap on the patio, and a walk-in linen closet, and an Ali themed workout room next to a sauna, and a home theater that just blows your mind.

If we win it, we're going to have a housewarming party the likes of which you can't imagine. If we don't, we have a new list of ideas for our next house.

My lovely wife is engaged in moving her CDs from shelves into binders. This is a bigger project than you might imagine.

Did I mention I got a funky cool mouse? I did? Oh. Okay.

5 comments:

Gregoire said...

pretty cool mouse, I've seen them and wondered if they were functional, cause they don't look it.

I think microsoft should definitely stick to making xbox's and mice/keyboards.

It's the only thing they do well.

You Look Like A Nail said...

It is extremely functional; you quickly forget you're not using a normal ergonomic mouse. But with the benefits of being able to fold it up into tiny-unusable-laptop-mouse dimensions.

Agreed re: hardware. MS makes some nice peripherals ... and that's about it.

Travelling Greek said...

1) Oh, it's SO trendy these days to hate Microsoft. That's original. NOT. ;)

I have an iPhone and it is the worst piece of crappy electronics I've ever owned. "Apple is better?". My ass it is. ;)

2) You won't win the dream home because I'm going to. Of course there'll be a "Nail" room. (Actually, it'll be a "Hostess" room, so it's kinda yours by default only.) :)

3) CDs?? Seriously? If only they could create a digital system that would allow you to archive tens of thousands of songs into a single source -- say, a computer -- which would enable one to search based on genre, artist, song title, year, album, etc.

Oh wait, they do.

That being said, I'm overly impressed with her selection of tapes. Seriously, I am. It's old school COOL!

You Look Like A Nail said...

Re: Apple. My iPod Touch is freaking awesome. This may be related to the fact that Rogers is not involved in the operation of my iPod.

Apple isn't perfect, of course. They really, really need to get over the one-button-mouse thing, just as one example, and I hate their chicklet keyboards. It's just that Microsoft sucks so much...

If I can't win the dream home, then I definitely want you to win it. Although I think we'd appreciate the Senators-themed basement a little bit more than you do. (When you're clearing it out, we'll take all the hockey memorabilia.)

Gregoire said...

one button mouse = 2 years ago. jeez. mighty mouse ftw.

honestly I use a logitech mouse.

apple isn't perfect, but windows is less perfect than they are.

and the iphone rocks, and it's definitely better than the zune phone, snap.