Bits and Pieces

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Friday night was kung fu night. Although, to be honest, I should probably stop calling it kung fu, as it has pretty much given up the pretense of actually being a Chinese martial art and acknowledged that it is basically a hodge-podge of kung fu, jujitsu, escrima, and various other things. The school has been de-franchised and I have to say, I generally approve of the changes.

As a direct result of my return, I am a hurting unit. Holy god, ow.

Shopping

Went shopping today. I bought a grown-up coat, as everybody seems to be doing that these days, and also stopped in at Danier and took advantage of their sales to replace my ten year old leather winter coat. I also got Stargate (the movie) and Star Trek (likewise) on blue-ray and the Complete (And I Do Mean Complete) Blackadder on DVD. Now, I need to arrange for a Blackadder night for those poor, benighted souls who are as yet unexposed.

Upgrades

Prompted by my Partner in Crime, I have re-examined Chrome and found it to have progressed sufficiently to give it another shot at being my Main Browser. I have been looking for one for a while now, given how badly Firefox sucks. Seriously, leaving gmail open for a day should not result in 300k of memory-leaking bloat. God damned hippies don't know shit about writing software.

One Google World Order is coming, folks, might as well get aboard the train now.

In other technology news, I picked up a cheap IDE/SATA USB hard drive enclosure at TigerDirect. I am presently using it to recover files from my old Linux box, whose HDD controller perished unexpectedly, stranding ~70G worth of data in the process. Oh, my old files, I hardly knew ye. Anyway, I'm getting all that back now.

Also

While out shopping I stopped in at the GW store, not that I'd buy something from them when I can get it 30-60% off online. They had a nice display of Tyranid models up which showed me what I was going to do to paint my ones. Inspiration!

Television

We started watching season 1 of Castle, starring the ever-fantastic Nathan Fillion. I enjoyed the pilot largely because of him, although it was fairly pilot-ey, but the subsequent episodes are really winning us over. It's clever, well written, the cast oozes chemistry, and it's funny as hell. Give it a try, especially if you have a picture of Nathan Fillion in a brown coat somewhere among your possessions.

That about wraps it up for me. You are now up to date. You may now return to your business.