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Mom surprise (pm)

managed to surprise my mom for her bday. ber asked several weeks ago if i had any ideas for mom’s bday, and i said i didn’t. so she came up with a place to go and i came up with a scheme to get her there. anyway, it worked out and here are the pix.



Emigrated (pm)

someday i should come up with a list of why i emigrated from america. here’s one though…





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Deep thoughts (pm)

this just crossed my mind, can advertising conferences become too commercial?






Deborah and Allen visit (pm)

deborah and allen visited. some pix from the trip: sexy underwear allen in the car columbus statue columbus statue alcoholic art scary folks in the pub outside a construction site allen saying goodbye deborah saying goodbye

French rap (pm)

ok, my housemate has managed to surpass the depths of rap. french rap. rap in french. by french people. their site is under construction (or is that SITE EN CONSTRUCTION?), but apparently it will go live really soon. oh the joy. i pray for french chefs, i get french rap. must pray harder.

Objective C (pm)

playing with objective c lately. search for it on google. very fun stuff. it’s like c and smalltalk combined. anyway i’m finding that my perl code for work which is done with perl’s oo support ports quite nicely to objective c. i’d never really looked at it, which considering some of the langs i have looked at is surprising, but i’m quite impressed. there’s apparently a speed hit as compared to c++, but i think the flexibility and more readable syntax is nicer. Read more


Ben/Lisa wedding trip (pm)

trip to the states for ben and lisa’s wedding. also got to see folks in boston, my mom, and for a few brief minutes my sister fawn. pretty good for a week w/ no car! :) i also met a great guy who emigrated from ethiopia on the train to new york. the lesson i learned from him is that marxist soldiers are very similar to clueless managers. who knew? Read more