Wednesday Zeitgeist

In an effort to stop spamming the blogosphere with every single thought that I've had for the past 7 days, I am going to start a weekly summary of my personal Zeitgeist. I'm releasing it on Wednesday because I need something to give me a mid-week pep. Plus Friday is occupied with Q & A and Monday I am still not bludging too badly excited about work.

In no particular order, things I have noted this week:

• The Breeders album Pod is awesome.
• The invoice calculation code in our ecommerce engine sucks. And don't even talk to me about tax*.
  
• I spend too much time blogging.
• My brain hurts. In a good way. Read it.
• I really suck at chess.
• If you want to play chess with me, got to ItsYourTurn. It's free. I have about 30 games going at any one time and I'm always looking for new opponents
  
• Dates are nerve-wracking and generally make me want to not go outside.
  
• Similarly, I am not a fan of the crush either.
• Saxon Shore's album The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore is fucking awesome and definitely their best work.
• MySpace makes me sad.
• I need to snap my left jab more. It seems to work better when I really focus on moving the jab from my hip.
  
• Scientologists have Super Powers. No, really.
• I really like Space Colony Artwork from the 70s. The future used to look much better than it does now.

• And Free Will Astrology.
• Adjunct to the astrology, I am going to be much more pronoid. It's the opposite of paranoid. Apparently.
• When I am over being an angsty idiot, the whole date-crush thing is all fine and I'm mostly embarassed about briefly being an angsty idiot.
• Sometimes I do like Catholics - because believing that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno [has] claimed.


• I wish my parents had called me 'Guy Consolmagno'.


• This is an android capable of human facial expressions. The expressions here is "Bemused confusion upon realisation that although capable of complex expressions one cannot sit on a chair without looking like an expensive sex toy":
  
• I like the way the andoid's hands are permanently locked ready to Karate-chop you to death. I wonder if she has an expression for that?
• My favourite genre of music is Math Rock. Not necessarily to listen to, just as an idea.
• I've run out of ideas.
• I totally lied about running out of ideas.
• Build your own Cruise Missile.
• Death Cab For Cutie are touring in July.

* Seriously. If you do mention it I am liable to tell you important facts about the Canadian Taxation system, and then you will forget something important, like your girlfriends birthday and you will be sorry then, won't you? I created the tax component for our ecommerce software - designed to handle any taxation system you can throw at it, and in a way, it is quite elegant code. The side effect of this was that all I talked about was tax and my friends were bored senseless, which is how I felt, but I couldn't tell because I was already dead inside.