Archive for October, 2010

The hairy change

OK. This had to happen sooner or later.

Before: After:

Before: After:

For some reason, the camera can auto-focus on me better now.

Fire!

A few days ago, I noticed the characteristic smell of popped capacitors. I took the side off my case and noticed a couple of the caps were bulging. Because I am leaving in a couple months anyway, I thought “meh” as it should survive till I leave. I took the side off to keep an eye on the caps to see if more will pop.

Yesterday I came into the office and noticed the computer was off. Confused, I turned it on and walked away to hang up me fleece turned around to find blooms of smoke spewing from the machine. I ran over to find flames inside the machine. Panicking, I unplugged it and started blowing out the flames. Luckily that worked and I didn’t have to email the emergency services.

It all seems to be concentrated around an inductor, although I suspect one of the caps popped its bottom cover and started spewing hydrogen.

So the first task of the day was to do through the purchase order process to get a replacement motherboard, although the case is also somewhat smoke damaged too. The office also smells really bad of caustic fumes.

Vampire cats

Ingredients: black crepe paper, red crepe paper, sticky tape and a cat.

Cut red to be slightly larger than the black.

Stick two layers together.

Scrunch at together and place one piece of tape to keep it folded at one point.

Result: Vampire cats!

Next, need bait. (look at those fangs!)

Someone convinced me that posting photos implicating me of cat crimes may be a bad thing (especially with 4chan around).

Meanwhile in the office

What has been happening in the office for the last few weeks:

I decided to do a massive clean out of my home store (first time since 2001)

The biscuit tin has not been cleaned for a while and when we run out these crumbs were looking mightily tempting.

Andrew confiscated my bounty of floppy cables I have been collecting over the years.

Will found someone else with a HTC Desire. So he can now flash someone else’s phone. I have never seen will this happy (and I was there at his wedding).

While ceiling cat watches over us all.

of Montreal

Went to see of Montreal last night. They were pretty good.

http://brej.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/montreal_rejector

One thing that stood out was two people on stage who would dress up in shiny skin tight clothes, pig/gas masks, giant heads etc.  for each song and do weird Mexican wrestler moves on each-other. Great atmosphere too with people wearing some of the most ghay clothes I have ever seen.

Then this was the song they chose for the encore, which was a bit of a surprise. I won’t show too much of it because I am afraid of MJ rising up from the dead to kill me for infringing his copyright.

http://brej.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/montreal

Rainbow cake

I made a rainbow cake today!

It was supposed to be coloured in layers, but while cooking it swirls and gives in a tie-dye effect.

(Yes it is vegan)