An amazing discovery

This morning, by fluke chance, it hit me. The perfect way to apply moisturiser and hair product after showering. Check this out.

1) Apply the hair product, and create a back slick.
2) Wash hands, and apply moisturiser to your face. The hair is magically held in place.
3) Wash hands, comb down hair.
4) Wash hands, done.

The drawback, of course, being that your hands are now almost insanely clean.


As for me kicking my WoW habit, well I had created an open beta account for Malin, just so she could test it out a little, play for an hour or two, and then drop it. Well, she loved it. We ended up playing till 04.30 both Saturday and Sunday, and we now both have new level 16 characters. Damn.

Oh, yeah, it's pretty funny that with my new character being a priest, people expect my to heal all the time, and get pretty damn careless, charging into combat, and pulling 3-4 higher level mobs. One thing I probably should point out is that I'm playing a priest to shadow spec, so I can deal out damage, not heal. I guess I'm just not much of a philanthropist.

Automate me

It's the pesky little two minute chores that piss me off sometimes, and that I think that, in 2005, damn well should be automated.

Brushing teeth
Was it Demolition Man that had a leach you stuck in your mouth, and it swam around for ten seconds, leaving you with clean, pearly whites? I want something like that. I hate the floss, brush, flour crap that you have to do morning and night. On a related note, I don't think dentists have gotten better at their jobs, they've just found more expensive ways to mend our holes.

Shaving
I do this perhaps once a week, when the stubble starts to itch, and I know that my skin doesn't like it. I don't think leaches are the solution here, though. I'll get back to you on this.

Putting your plate in the dish washer
I have to admit that a small dish washer is probably up there in my top 10 things I've ever bought list, but it's still a burden to actually rinse the plate a little, and stuff it in the machine.

Moving bills from the hallway floor to my "pay me soon, perhaps just a week late" thing on my desk
When I get a bill, I mostly open it, and leave it on a piece of furniture in the hallway. If it's from those bastards at CSN, it often just stays on the floor. Now, somehow I'd like the bills to automatically be transported to my desk where I actually have a place for stuff that needs to be payed. That you can't get everything on autogiro these days is just appalling, with the CSN pricks being the worst offenders.

Recycling my newspapers and beer bottles
They just lie around everywhere, until I have like 3-4 bags worth. Bah.


Now, question, do celebrities have people that do this kind of stuff for them? That would be pretty damn cool.

It's good to be back!

You know one of the first scenes in Rounders, when Worm gets out of jail? Well, that's what happened to Expekt today. Damn, it felt good to play some cards (should be pronounced like Teddy KGB) again. My heart was beating like crazy when I was slow played a flopped boat, winning a $60 pot, and I was in love again.

Poker for teh win, baby!


Oh yeah, found this on a WoW-forum, and thought it was pretty funny:

Godwin's Law
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

Breaking the habit?

I think I might actually have done it! The addiction that World of Warcraft has over me might actually be starting to break!

It is, of course, too early to tell, because I might start playing instances and all that jazz soon, and then I'll be stuck again, but right now I don't feel the urge to sit down and play for another 8 hours or so.

I did it in the way I usually break my gaming habits, by beating the game.

My goal was to have an ever increasing source of income, so I would be able to buy all the spells and recipes I needed, along with all the hottest armour and weapons from the auction house.

I've marked hotspots on my map, and I think I can make a pretty safe round (max lvl 24 mobs, I'm 26 at the moment) in under an hour, that should be able to generate 4-5g. To put this in some kind of perspective, the coolest thing people want to buy is a mount at level 40, which costs somewhere around 90g (inluding training etc), and I don't see this being a problem at all.

I felt the grip starting to slip even more when I hit 24, and I got improved fire balls and pyroblasts. This equates to me being able to take out a single mob in around 10 seconds, which is about the time it takes for them to realize someone is blasting them, start charging me, and perhaps make it as far as being able to hit me with a single blow. I can take out three of these guys before having to sit and refill my mana, so I was able to do some pretty brutal power leveling in Duskwood last night. 25 to 26 in around two hours. Pretty sweet.

On a closing note, I'm surprised at some of the bugs still present in the beta. Especially since it's already hit retail in the states. I ran into a pretty groovy one yesterday, when I was bidding on an item at the auction house (the recipe I was thinking about farming a week ago or so). The opening bid was 20s, I bet 40s, someone else bid 42, I raised to 60s, and went to bed. I woke up around 6 am, and logged in to check the status (I really wanted that recipe). The item was gone, with no information on who had won the bidding or anything. I went back to sleep, and logged in a couple of hours later. Still nothing. So I messed a GM, and I'm still waiting for a reply.

Addendum
Yeah, it's a bit pretentious saying that I've beat the game at level 26, and I also realize that I'm really just playing this as a single player game. So sue me.

Bow down before the master of suck!

Like just about every other nerd out there, I can say that I loved the Leisure Suit Larry games when I was younger. From the early "dad, what's a profylactic" stage, to the "hihi, my hormones are really racing, and I understand the sexual analagy here" phase, it was great fun.

So, not surprisingly, I decided to try out the latest, LSL, Magna cum laude, and all I can say is, bow down before the new master of all things that suck! If there is a holy mountain of suck, where things that suck come to worship and pay homage to the grand master, that grand master is the latest LSL! It defies physics, by both sucking and blowing at the same time!

I just don't get it. The game is just sooo explicit, that there's no point left. Gone is all the fun "thick trunk between my legs" humour, the tounge-in-cheek, the brilliance, the gameplay, and we're left with "fuck me harder Twiggy!", monkeys masturbating, pictures of naked chicks, and gameplay consisting of side scrolling sperms, and "press the X button now" series of games, suitible for the retarded.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm in no way easily offended, and I'm not swinging any kind of PC-bat here, and I enjoy nudity as much (probably more) than the next guy, but this is just utter crap. That the game got 8.1 in user reviews over on gamespot just totally baffles me.

And who the hell is the intended audience? Ok, perhaps, 15-year old, just into puberty, giggle, giggle, look what I just downloaded kids, but seriously? I recommend downloading porn instead, and perhaps a Colin Farell interview, if you're into profanity.

When at the Roskilde Festival, I always think it's funny to throw out the comment "it looks like they're out of poo in Roskilde" when the trucks come to take away the camp's crap, but I now realize that it's not Roskilde town, but instead High Voltage Software that have been collecting out shit for the last five years, and this is what they've managed to produce.

Warcraft forum quotes

I've just run across so many funny, rude, and just plain stupid comments while reading the Warcraft forums, that I thought I might as well start collecting the little buggers. Here goes.

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Hello everyone,
However, after having played several MMORPGs the last 5 years, there's one issue that's running rampant here in WOW that's very uncommon in other games. Killstealing.

Um what you been playing? Sims?

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just one example of wot happens when idiot meets keyboard

That would have come across better if you had perhaps used the odd capital letter, bit of punctuation and spelt "what" correctly. Glass houses and all that. And to the topic at hand.

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Also, its just silly to come whining about how another class owned you, especially when your a warrior. Holy crap, my cousin has a My Little Pony that could kick your butt.

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On a related side note, my plans for crushing the Warcraft economy look a little bleak. It all revolved around me getting a certain recipe, but the drop rate is so low, that I have to kill around 1000 monsters to be 50% sure of getting it. Man, that sounds reeeeally boooring. Ok, by farming the deadmines, I can get this down to around 340, and 780 kills for 80% certainty. I'll give it a try, and hope my math isn't off :)

Chivalry isn't dead

So, I was playing WoW with my new character, a female gnome mage, last night, and I have to admit, playing a chix0r isn't without its perks. I litterally had paladins chasing after me, wanting to heal me. It's probably due to my latest outfit, where I'm actually sporting a bare midriff. And I do believe my boobs have gotten a little bit firmer.

On some kind of related note, I just really love the contrast of a cute girl with two pink pigtails being the hardest hitting class in the game, and able to dish out huge amounts of damage in just a few seconds.

I'll be saving my rogue plans for later this week, as I've really gotten into the mage/alchemist class now, and am enjoying it immensely.

The Week in Warcraft

So, I've been playing an insane amount of World of Warcraft this week. How much is an insane amount, you ask? Well, my character is 3 days old. This means I've actually played the damn game for three whole days out of the past seven, so about 43% av my life has been devoted to my alter ego Danfoss and his pet bear Fozzy.

The more I think about it, the crazier it sounds. My situation at work is so screwed up though, so I don't think anyones really noticed. I wonder how many people truely get hooked on stuff like this, and then just fuck up their lives.

I think the worst is over, though, as I did reach some kind of turning point yesterday, when I started on a new character. I basically want to try out all the possible class/profession combinations that I find interesting, and when I'm done with that, my interest will simmer down to a much healthier level.

It has been, and still is, great fun, and I'm so impressed with the design team over at Blizzard, that I don't know where to begin. The "just one more level" factor is amazing, and it just keeps you stuck at the keyboard.

Oh yeah, I started on a very devious plan yesterday, that I'll tell you guys more about as it evolves. In the mean time, you shouldn't always trust innocent little gnomish girls with pink hair.

This is probably a little too nerdish for most, but this video is just so damn cool. It shows an undead rogue assassinating the three bankers in the dwarven capital Ironforge, in the middle of probably a few hundred alliance players. I'm rolling a rogue tonight, that's all there is to it. By the way, was that just a euphemism?

The countdown

I've downloaded my economics exam, and now have 24 hours to complete the six questions. Scanning through it, I think the first four questions are pretty much no-brainers, and the last two will need some actual analysis on my part. Anyway, I thought I'd to some kind of live update here, for those following at home!

10.26 T-24
Downloaded the exam

11.25 T-23
Started on question one

12.48 T-21.5
Question one done. Question two seems a bit too funky at the moment, so I'm going straight on to question three. I also realize that I probably underestimated the difficulty of the exam, and that being stupid enough to blog about it doesn't take any pressure away at all.

14.25 T-20
Done with question three. My main computer started randomly hanging, which was an extra bonus. Moved over to the laptop. On a related side note, the last question took 20 minutes to solve, and about an hour to get into Word. And I'm using both Maple and Photoshop. I wonder how computer illiterate people manage.

15.29 T-19
Question four is done. And, yes, I realize that people are running around pantless, thank you very much.

16.23 T-18
Done the wacky question two. It was probably the fact that it had to do with medborgarlön, ie weazing off my taxes, that froze my brain. 18 hours left and two questions to go. Healthcare and the EU fishing off the coast of Africa, here I come!

16.55 T-17.5
Yay, just a single question left. Okay, sure, I basically have no idea as what to answer, but I just realized that if I just chill another five minutes, I can safely grab a beer, and I'm sure that will help.

17.57 T-16.5
I just finished the final question, and have uploaded all my answers. I think I'll pass the exam, although the bullshit factor on the last question was probably through the roof.


What to do now? I hear there's a new online roll-playing type of game out. Maybe I should give it a go?

Yay us!

Well I'll be damned. Our game did a Lord of the Rings, and picked up four awards at the annual Sim-Racing Awards.

Seeing as two of the three guys who really worked their asses off and made the game what it became have quit, and the third one, well, let's just say he's probably not going to write that many more lines of code for Warthog, I believe this will propell us even further into one-hit-wonderness. Way cool!

Trying to avoid studying

So, I've still got my exam on Saturday, and I have three more quizes that have to be done by then. I've done one today already, and will be ready for the second one in about an hour.

I'm then faced with a great dilemma. Do I rush, and try to finish the last two quizes today, so I'll be free to do whatever I want the rest of today and tomorrow, or do I award myself right away, play WoW the rest of the day, and do the last two quizes tomorrow?

Check this out, I'm going to use economic theory to solve the problem!

I assume that playing WoW actually has a diminishing marginal return, ie negative marginal utility. Hey, it's not that hard to actually sound like an economist :)

What I'm saying is that the enjoyment I get out of playing for another hour actually decreases over time, and that if I finish all my quizes today, and go on a marathon WoW-session, I might actually hit a zero return on investment, and stop playing. This, of course, would be a disaster.

If I instead start playing today, and do the final two quizes tomorrow, and then start playing at the same high marginal utility, my total utility is going to be higher.

Does this actually prove that slacking off, and pushing things ahead of you until they are inevitable, is indeed the right way to go? I think the answer is a resounding yes. See you in Darkshore!

Another day, another dollar

I feel a bit distracted today, with a lot of strange thoughts flying around in there.


So, what's new in sex? I just love that phrase, and have to start using it when talking to younger people. Preferably with a straight face. Quite possibly the only good thing to come out of Friends. Okay, now I'm just being mean.


I must pimp the band Finch. Their album "What it is to burn" has been playing constantly on my iPod for the last couple of days. I was heavily into the whole hardcore/skate-punk music cirka 93-95, but then began moving into the more noise rockish waters, which is where I'm quite firmly rooted today. But then Finch came along, and I was 17 again. Yay!


Totally hooked on Wow, bla bla bla. New post coming up?


My time perspective is pretty screwed up at the moment. I haven't played poker for four or five days, but it already feels like an eternity, and I'm afraid that I'll start typing stuff like "WTS: 72o, WTB: AA" in the poker chat.

The problem is basically that poker and WoW are competing for the same time slot, and they both fill the same needs with me. When I reached the point where I was more or less constantly winning at my level in poker, it did feel like a RPG were I was collecting XP instead of dollars. Some might argue that dollars are, in fact, more useful than XP in Warcraft, and I might have to admit that they do indeed have a point.

Both games also have (and need) an open-ended time frame to be able to play well. I can't just sit down and say, ok, I'm gonna play poker for an hour, and see how much I win. I start getting impatient, playing bad hands and bad draws, stuff like that. You really need to be able to sit down and say, I'm playing till I drop. Or go to bed. Or whatever.

This actually leads me to my next subject; We should start demanding more from the medical industry.


I think sleep is vastly overrated, and would love it if I needed a 1 hour rest period or something every day, and that was it.

To do this, I would probably need some killer drugs, which I don't think are available at the moment. These drugs might in turn mess up some of my organs, but I wouldn't really have a problem with replacing the guys when the need arose. I mean, it's not like I know what my liver looks like anyway, so I certainly wouldn't object to it being replaced.

Why isn't there a (bigger?) designer drugs industry, where people can buy the stuff they want? Hey, there's nothing medically wrong with me, but I know that I can feel better. How about that wicked hormone/endorfine balance you get when you've just recovered from a mild hangover? You know, where you feel like anything is possible. I want to feel like that all the time. And I only want to sleep 30 minutes a day. And don't point me to some stupid study about mice with buttons and electrodes inserted into their pleasure centers :)

Wow, if I carried on like that for another ten pages, it might just sound a little like Dennis Leary.


Oh, yeah, how about this astonishing report. This can only be true if masturbation counts as both exercise and playing an instrument, and the pagan rituals that all rpg-players engage in are classified as religious activity. I'm convinced.

Popping the cherry

Did you know that in the fifth century B.C., the Greek philosopher Thales gained control of most of the olive presses during a year of exceptionally productive harvests?

No? Well, World of Warcraft just fucking rocks!

Yesterday I popped my proverbial MMO-cherry, and started playing the European final beta of WoW. Along with about a gazillion other dudes, I might add.

The "what should I call my character" problem solved it self quite nicely, with the answer litterally hitting me in the face. The first thing I saw when I woke up on Sunday was my radiator, of the make Danfoss. Perfect, I had a name.

At first the servers were going up and down like a yo-yo (I was going to say "like my friend Eerocenter's pants", but chose to refrain), but around 15:ish, it was time to create Danfoss, the mightly night elf hunter.

As just about everyone who uses teh intArnet plays MMOs (why have we all of a sudden dropped the RPG-bit? It's not like we're getting laid anyway..), I'll spare most of the mundane details. Hell, I was like "shit guys! fire our shit!" when the game started for the first time, and I saw a bunch of blue guys jumping around. I was giddy with excitement as I walked around from person to person, asking "will u b my friend?!"

I had a great time roaming the countryside, picking on monsters, getting killed a couple of times, learning the noble art of making yummy food with spider's legs. Just after I (notice how I've, after a mere two paragraphs, already erased the boundary between Magnus and Danfoss) learned how to cook, I ran into the forest and started a cosy little camp fire. Suddenly this blue chixor appeared and lay down next to me. Damn! Why didn't I have "whip out penix" on a hotkey?!

The night did end on a sour note though, as I ran into a showstopper hunter bug. Somehow I lost my "feed pet", "revive pet" and some other pet related skills. I think the game got confused when I dismissed my cool night sabre pet, and started trying to tame squirrels. Oh well, reported this to a GM, and hopefully it'll get fixed pretty soon. I might just run around a bit, improving some skills, making some money (10 copper for a spider leg kebab? you've got to be kidding me!), but I'm not gonna be doing any elite quests without my pet tanking.


Sooo, I've got my economics exam this weekend. Pretty funky stuff. I chose microeconomics because I thought I might learn something useful, and it turns out I might have been right.

Ok, it's not like I'm eeeevar going to have anything to do with money, but I've just been reading about consumer surplus, and I really dig the concept. Consumer surplus is basically a dollar value assigned to, well anything really, that denotes how much more above market price you would've paid for the item. This, combined with opportunity cost (basically loss of income from doing A instead of B), can actually become interesting.

Instead of playing WoW, I could be playing poker, where I have a hourly profit of around $12. So according to economists, I would actually be okay paying 12 bucks an hour for WoW. Hrm. Ok. It was pretty stupid. I'll be quiet now.


Rounding off, I was pretty disappointed at the outcome of New Years Revolution. I never really understood why Randy Orton lost his title after only a couple of weeks. He was a great champion, and his switch from heel to good guy worked, plain and simple. Perhaps it was too soon for him, seeing as the other contenders like Benoit, Tripple H and Shawn Michaels are probably 10-15 years older. Also, the whole Batista build-up? WTF? D00ds?! The audience was actually chanting his name when he, Randy and The Game were the only guys left.

It's probably all just politics, what with The Game married into the McMahon family. But it sucks. Nepotism in wrestling. Now there's a topic for you. Can anyone say Jeff Jarrett?

Well I'll be damned

I got pretty tired of studying for my economics exam (and worrying about the house being blown away), and found this instead

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If I were a NetHack monster, I would be a dwarf. I enjoy using expensive, high-quality equipment, and I'm not afraid to work hard to get it.

Which NetHack Monster Are You?

By the way, what is it about me that 27-year old females from y3v3w find so irresistable on ICQ?

I need a hat

.. I don't care what you say, mr Benz, we're putting you on the pill. I just don't want you sleeping around with all..

oh, sorry, wrong window. My bad.

Anyway, I need to buy a hat. As the privileged few who know me might recall, I have quite the crusty mop sitting on top of my melon (gratuitous nod to Encino Man). A mop that tends to get into a pretty severe state of disarry when facing the gale storms that I'm subjected to on my way to the store.

As I see it, there are only two reasonable solutions to avoiding a bad hair day. 1) Trying to hire a friend as a butler, and 2) buying a hat.

I have been trying to hire my friend Carl for several years now, but to no avail. When he recently quit his job, and was refused A-kassa, I was pretty confident that I would be able to buy his services for an amount that would probably offend a polish blueberry picker. But nooo. The boy has his foolish pride to think about. Bah, humbug.

Enter plan B. The hat.

I've always been fascinated by hats. Especially the tall Abe Lincoln type ones (question: how do you keep one of those bad boys stuck on your head when it's windy outside? I wore my witches hat/cone on New Year, and it blew off at the slighest gust).

A few years ago, I borrowed a hat that I quite liked from my friend Shades. But as happens when you are foolish enough to borrow something from a friend, and then actually remind the person of it, they often want it back. Bummer. It was one of those "holiday on a hot greek island" type hats, that became trendy for a while, but now I hope have gone out of style again. I should look into getting one of those, I think.


I picked up my copy of the World Of Warcraft final beta, by the way. Yay. A time sink of epic proportions! Just what I need :)

I think it's gonna be cool though. It's hard not to get excited browsing the forums, reading up on the races and classes. Finding out who's a good tank, who does the most dps, why rouges pwn3d teh mages, f00l! Stuff like that.

But I'm afraid that my standard name "Woodrow Dicksmythe" isn't going to cut it. It just isn't medieval enough. Maybe I can run it through an anagram creator. Hrm.. Haha, "Chesty Kid Woodworm", or perhaps "Kitschy Wooded Worm", or even "Sodomy Wicked Worth". Damn, those are some fiiine names.


On a totally unrelated note, I love that my favourite toilet paper brand, Lambi, has a holiday edition, with little pink julbocks on it! Brilliant! And for the record, I like the way it feels on my ass, not the fact that if you collect and send in six bar codes, you'll get a free, cute, cudly Lambi pet.

The analysis

So, I've had a look through yesterday's play, and come to the conslusion that I basically didn't do anything really stupid at all (apart from the AA and KK plays).

A few of the hands I lost a lot of money on:

I had TT, called a $2 preflop bet, my tens were an overpair to the board on the flop. He bets $1.5, I raise to $3, he calls. He checks the turn, I bet $5, he calls, river is check check. He's holding JJ.

I call a $1.5 preflop bet with AKo. Flop is A38 rainbow. PFR bets $1.5, I raise, he calls. Turn is a J, he bets, I call. River a brick, he bets, I call. He's holding AJ. In retrospect, I think I played this wrong. I probably should've either raised more on the flop, or put him on AJ or JJ on the turn. Oh well.

Big Blind with Q4, two callers, flop is QK4 two hearts. I bet $3 here, he raises, I put him all-in for about $15. He has QK.

I'm in LP with AKs, bet 4xBB, one caller. Flop is J8K, two hearts. I have TPTK, with the nut flush draw. He bets $2 on all streets, and I call all the way. I really don't know why I didn't raise on the flop. Strange. Anyway, he has KJ.

Maybe some of my flop play is too timid? Time to check the forums, I guess.


Yay! The fourth season of Alias started this week! Joy to the world, and watch out for the Rimbaldi device!!

Six hours later, ten bucks poorer

I have just finished a six hour session, six tabling Expekt and Ladbrokes, and have played an obscene amount of hands. Net result, well minus 10 dollars.

It was one hell of a roller coaster ride, and some really strange things happened. I busted out twice, refusing to let go of AA and KK, when I was obviously beat. I managed to double up, going all-in preflop with AA (against pocket Hellmuths, perhaps?), had some nice calling stations calling me when I had TPTK letting me win $20-30 pots, the same calling stations calling my TPTK with top two pair, too afraid to bet and stealing some money back. I managed to get out of a scary hand. I had Hellmuths, bet 8xBB, two callers, flop is J88, I bet the pot, caller one raises, caller two calls, I fold. Caller one has J8, and manages to double up. Great call, d00d!

Ok, my gut feeling is that I should be able to destroy these tables, but something just isn't working. I really need to work on minimizing my losses, somehow. It's mainly the TPTK hands that bleed me.

I think I'll spend tomorrow in quite introspection, checking out the sessions in PT, scanning the 2+2 forums, stuff like that. I need to start adding VP$IP notes on players too..

Hey, wait a minute! I made a Royal Flush too, so I'll probably get $25 for that. Yay, I earned $3 an hour :)

A butt-model can make $10k a day. Where do I sign up?

Well spank my ass, and call me a bitch! I just had a quick peruse in PT, and saw that the position I was losing the most money in was the big blind. Somehow this all makes sense. When I get my ass whiped with top pair, it's when I'm out of position, and I know that a lot of cards can break me, so I end up betting the flop, getting called, and having to fold the turn. The plot does indeed thicken..

Stupid things in 2005, Genesis

Sometimes things are just plain stupid, and you really want to smack the creator upside the head with a large trout. This isn't usually possible, so we're left with the next best thing: bitching about it in our blogs!

Without further ado, and mostly because I couldn't come up with anything witty to write, I present the first candidate for "Most stupid thing of 2005".

Hand histories at Expekt and Ladbrokes
After I've played a poker session, I like to export my hand histories for later perusing. I know that there's a delay between actually playing a hand, and it showing up in the history, and I'm perfectly fine with this. And here comes the stupid part! The session summary, showing how much you left the table with, shows up before all the hands are there, so you have no way of knowing if you'll actually get all the hands you played if you export the session.

Yes, I know, there are a lot more stupid things out there, but I just had to get the ball rolling, and thought that this was a good a candidate as any.


MSN Messenger and Outlook
I'm actually a rabid Bill G luvah, and the new handwriting function in Messenger 7 is ace (well.. for inserting obscene drawings in conversations at least), but it has some really ass features. Sometimes it just won't shut down, saying that someone is using one of it's components, when it clearly is the only program running, and yesterday, I noticed the most stupid behavior; it automatically starts when you start Outlook! I usually don't shut my computer down at work, but instead close all the programs, check my mail one last time, and leave. And of course, there goes that little bugger, MSN.

Addendum
Ado and adieu are pronounced the same. Well I'll be damned..

Is it possible to compose a tune, using only the pronounciation feature at Merriam-Webster Online? "Addendum" does kinda sound like a drum beat. Hahaha! Try playing "addendum" followed by "cheese" and tell me that it doesn't sound like a bass drum followed by a high hat!

How long does it take before I have a hole in my crotch?

Sooner or later, I always end up with a hole in the crotch of my trousers. I have several theories, ranging from an abnormal testicular temperature, to the fact that I probably just scratch my balls a lot.

On the 27:th of December 2004, I bought a new pair of trousers, that quickly became one of my favourite pairs. The aim of this post is to mark the starting date in the race to make my underwear visible.

We thank you for your attention.

Weekend recap: Didn't shower. Watched 20 episodes of Gilmore Girls. Drank glögg. Played poker. Didn't leave the sofa for more than five minutes at a time. Didn't wear aforementioned (or any) trousers. Excellent.

Happy New Year!

Like all happy couples, my girlfriend and I played NL heads up after drinking copious amounts of beer, wine and champagne, and trying to fire rockets into the stratosphere.

Playing against someone who knows your strategy inside and out is pretty fun. Trying to play some sort of opposite strategy is very amusing, and probably useful for future games.

We played 13 games, and I managed to win 7-6. Malin got off to a scary 6-2 lead, before I began to understand that she knew my every move.

The best hand of the series is summerized by the following:
> malin shows One Pair, Sevens
> malin wins 720 with One Pair, Sevens
where she bluffed me out of the pot, and then showed THE HAMMER! Damn! Sometimes I hate sharing cool things with my significant other. She had a hard time not cracking up, while betting her 72o on a AKJ7 board. Massive respect!