Camillog The old Camillog
Friday, January 24, 2003
Last exam over!
Yay! I finished the last exam this Wednesday and now I have
today and all of next week to do absolutely nothing! Nice. I
do of course have a lot of things I should do like
paint the ceiling in the hall, but I also just want to enjoy
my freedom a little more. Today I woke up at 9 and stayed in
bed till 12 reading - I like this life.
I'm reading "Other women" by Lisa Alther and it's a little funny because it is sooo lesbian, but it is still a very good book. I always liked Lisa Althers way of writing. I found a site that has pictures of covers from lesbian books from the 50's and 60's. I guess I would not be thrilled to read those books, but the covers are wonderfully funny.
1:46 PM | Link | Blah blahs [2]
Thursday, January 23, 2003
Not a word about politics..
I am not going to talk about politics. I let art speak my mind as this very fine piece does. Picture from Davezilla.
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Friday, January 17, 2003
I can't believe my luck
When I go running I always try to run as much as possible on
the grass in the park instead of on the paths. I do that
because I have an old injury from when I played handball
that makes my shins sore as hell if I run on a hard surface.
People look a little puzzled when I make my way through the
mud, but hey! I don't have to worry about crashing into
other runners when I avoid the paths. Anyway, today as I a
fought my way over the lawn in the park I found a really
cool and expensive cell phone just lying in the grass and
not a soul in sight. I picked it up and brought it home. I
had to pour the water out of it, but after doing that I
could put my SIM-card in it and turn it on. Yay!
This could not have happened at a better time because my old phone is quickly dying (phones today must be designed to last 1 year max.). I am so lucky! Morale: travel by the path not often taken:-)
Oh, and if you lost your phone in the park today, please e-mail me at luckybastard@yourenotgonnagetit.com.
8:44 PM | Link | Blah blahs [2]
Pretzel flipz? - Yuck!
January is the prime time of the year for diets. All
magazines here in Denmark have some sort small booklet
attached to them full of healthy recipes. I think it's a
craze but on the other hand I demand my right to moan about
my own figure at least 6 times daily so I guess I'm part of
it how ever much I hate it.
Today I started out neatly with a strawberry-grapefruit-banana smoothie for breakfast, went on to a salmon sandwich for lunch and for supper I had steamed cod with lots of vegetables. That is good food for a diet right? The thing is I just quit smoking so I get these weird cravings (I once heard someone describe smoking as an oral fixation). So besides for my 3 meals today I had: 50g of raw marzipan, a bag of popcorn, some foul chocolate thingies, a bagel-like bread with sesame seeds, loads of sugary lemonade, and of course a lot of caf� latte with sugar and milk.
My point in sharing my food intake today with you is that the diets in the magazines don't work! I ate some really healthy food for all my meals today but I have a sneaking suspicion that I will not have lost weight today. Just because you "fry" your chicken without fat it probably won't make your cravings for odd snacks like pretzel flipz go away. The magazines will have to do better than that. -They could start out by choosing some models that didn't have anorexia. If they did that maybe the designer would start to make clothes in sizes that fit ordinary people. And if.. OK, now I'm rambling. I just get so tired of this whole diet show every year. And I get even more annoyed that I let myself be part of it.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Haha!
Maybe it's a little late for New Years-humor, but I found this wonderful
best of 2002
with some very tasteful articles
about September 11 and Saddam Hussein's moustache. Very
funny!
I also found this serious article about involving the American children in the war against Iraq.
I guess now that I'm almost done with my exams I have more time to enjoy surfing the net for fun stuff instead of just printing semester notes from the schools site. I made sort of a New Years resolution about having more links to good and funny stuff on the net in my weblog. I know I love when people recommend something that I would never have found myself.
Oh, and go see the movie Frida.
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Wow! I wish I could write like that!
Anne at Double X
Deviant just writes in such a beautiful way. Go read this post about the woman that made Anne more colorfull. You will know what I mean about beautiful writing.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2003
I survived the usability exam
Today was the last exam in my "3 in a week program". It was
about user friendliness in computer programs which sounds
interesting, but don't be fooled - it's sooo boring. Sadly
one of the gurus in usability, Jakob Nielsen, is Danish.
Davezilla has
made fun of him in many ways
using an interface that I understand.
By the way, I think the exam today went OK. I will get my results in a month or so, but this one I don't think I flunked. The exam I took this Saturday I definitely think I flunked..
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Thursday, January 09, 2003
OK! I sinned today!
I think I might have smoked a cigarette or 8 today... Not
what I had in mind for this "I quit smoking" theme i have right now but
hey! I had an exam today and then 10 hours of
hardware/OS-fighting so I'm almost excused?
I did have a nice long walk in the snow today though. I always complain it never snows in Denmark but these last days have been really beautiful. I don't think my girlfriend agrees on that, she has to drive the car to work every morning and when it snows here it's always chaos.
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Tuesday, January 07, 2003
Man am I going to be rich!
As those of you that have been reading my weblog for a while
will know, I have a really bad financial situation and a
tendency to get distracted. The distraction-rate climbs
dramatically in a period of exam-reading (like now), so
while not doing what I was supposed to do today I wrote a
little function that tells me how much money I have saved
since January 2nd when I quit smoking. Its right under the
book section to the right.
I find it a lot easier to quit smoking if I think of the money I save and if I force myself to think of cigarettes as the most stinking poison ever invented (which it is.. - see, its working.. hehe).
I have an exam tomorrow, but I haven't really studied for it. Actually I almost never study for exams, I guess my way of getting nervous about them is to not read instead of read like crazy like most people do. The comfortable choice for someone like me that distracts easily.
2:39 PM | Link | Blah blah [0]
Monday, January 06, 2003
Long time no post and happy New Year!
It's been ages since I wrote on my weblog.. Christmas, a
cold, New Years Eve, a dead computer, and a trip to Sweden
to go snowboarding kept me away from the keyboard.
I had a nice Christmas with my family enjoying the quiet and
reading a lot of fiction which was nice, because I normally
read stuff with sexy titles like "Object Oriented Problem
Solving - Java, Java, Java". My grandmother has moved in
with my parents in their house, so the guest room is no
longer free to use. That meant I had to sleep on the sofa in
front of the fireplace - I don't know why I didn't always do
that, it's wonderful to be reading all night in front of the
fire. I will put some books reviews in my books section
soon.
Birgitte got a CD-writer for Christmas so we spend some time
getting it to work, recording music, and printing labels.
It's so good to have a CD-Writer so the hard disks (only
5GB) can get cleaned up.
6:06 PM | Link | Blah blahs [2]
