Fooling around

...in the dark. Literally. The joy of developing film in a darkroom. For some reason, in the first round, my vision didn't adjust. Though an accurate simulation vision-wise of me nearly blacking out, I didn't know the room I was in so it didn't take me long at all to walk into a table. Last week was even more fun, as my blood pressure apparently wasn't at all well - who needs to remember what they did anyway... Damn anmesia, still don't understand how that one works.

Anyway... Link time (limited)
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny - Flash at its worst.
Giant Microbes - Get your cuddly pathogens right here...

And that is exactly why...

...I keep my family on a need to know basis. Give them a little information, and they presume their own version of the rest*. The most recent illustration of how much trouble this saves me was this weekend. It's very interesting to know that I'm very smart (according to my grandmother) for not doing such a stupid thing has having a girlfriend, as not only am I a bit young for that, it would be too daft to even think of, seeing as I'm a student and it'll be impossible to balance studying with anything, let alone having a girlfriend. The fact that if I want to get married at a younger age than my parents I need to get a move on is ignored, and the fact that my grandmother doesn't have the foggiest clue about studying also isn't a barrier.

* Examples include: 'I'm going on a trip to Italy with someone from the College'. Assumptions made: 'someone' is male. We will have single rooms. The trip is very soundly planned and there is someone to look after us. Reality: He is a she, we've not planned the whole thing, and we'll just see if we can find a 6 person mixed dorm to share with total strangers in some hostel somewhere.

Sorry for not updating

but my stress levels went through the roof and are still rising.

I'm not going to bitch, hence the positive points are:

• Anna is returning. Soon.
• I've started a new sub-project at the lab, involving cell culture.
• I've found a trick to solve the problem that the access-point loses touch with the cable modem upon a (frequent) provider glitch. Old solution: 'simulating a power failure', as the AP is in a locked room I have to black-out half the house (but the not the half I live in, teehee). New solution: going to the AP management page (still reachable), not changing anything and then hitting the 'save changes' button on the correct page. AP reinitialises WAN connection. Brilliant.
• The old computer is succesfully using the TV as monitor. Now to turn it into a videorecorder on a €0 budget (do have an external TV capture card though).

I'll get back to you sometime with somewhat more interesting content (providing I find it).

And on to the future...

With one of the more expected developments of the rest of the decade being space tourism. Off course, with such nonsense going on as four year olds being dangerous terrorists and therefore on the no-fly list (or misunderstandings as outlined descirbed by the BBC in ''babies hit' by terror flight ban') there are already calls for security measures on this form of travel, naturally headed by the US: US draws up space tourism rules. Though in the case of violent passengers, it's quite difficult to just dump them on some forlorn Island, as outlined in the 'pilot dumps drunk man on island' story. Also, there are rules about losing your passengers, but even in commercial flight it's possible to gain them mid-flight, as the story 'woman gives birth in plane toilet' illustrates. And of course, with space travel, you need rules on what to do in case of alien hijackings as well. Okay, enough in-flight nonsense.
Also on the BBC, an overview of the best and worst adds in the UK. I might try and link a couple if I can find them. One that I can link to is the guinness 'rhythm of life' add (QT, 5.93 MB). In the meantime; be warned, as the crazy frog is back, yet again.

Once more, with feeling

For some reason, people (some estate agent) trying to sell the downstairs floor don't get the following facts:

• I'm doing an internship in a hospital lab; I don't do 'bereikbaarheid' and definitely not mobile
• I can't just take time off on a whim; let me know a week in advance, not 22 hours.
• I can't 'let you know' if you don't pronounce your name clearly and don't leave a number.
• I rarely have time between 09:00 and 17:00 to let anyone know anything.
• I don't appreciate replanning half a week to wait for someone who doesn't show up at all.

So things never change, despite mentioning them numerous times. Guess that's going to be another letter stuck to the door, there's no way I can meet and greet a prospective buyer at 13:00 tomorrow. Sorry for the buyer, not his/her fault, I know.
Non-ranting content should return to this page soon. I'm planning to be home on Sunday, if anyone feels like dropping by, let me know.

2006...

Okay, anybody reading this has presumably reached 2006. Congratulations, just keep on counting.

More hopefully soon.