Pender’s Fabulous Journal of Random Stuff and Things!!!!

Last weekend we went to ryry (a friend from work) and Diane’s (his gf) place for drinks to celebrate her birthday! We had a kitchen party kinda, getting drunk, and met her parents and sister and friends. Then we went to the cosmo, where Diane knows the owner who gave us all a free drink to start us, then a free plate of shots! Woowee, did we ever get drunk then!

Most of saturday sucked..

Sunday we were feeling better and went to see Episode III (of Starses War). It was ‘not bad’.

The weather is looking nicer for the next week, which means we get to go for more rides on el motorcycleo (that’s mock spanish for motorcycle). w00t!

Toe Jammer

HINT HINT

Here’s a disturbing article from Digital Online news about how Intel plans to introduce hardware level copyright crap into your computer.

Yeah… I won’t be buying Intel anytime soon (and not just cause I got no money!). AMD all the way for me (until I hear about something similar to this or equally as scary, and I stop upgrading until hacks and modchips to disable all this bullshit are created).

The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea

Tapping the unlimited resource of really cold water at sub 3000 feet in the ocean, using it for power generation, desalination, irrigation and refrigeration. Basically, everything we need is ALL around us! 1000x more energy than the world needs right now.

The most interesting thing I’ve read in a long, long time.

Time’s Up Einstein
Lynds’ paper, “Time and Classical and Quantum Mechanics: Indeterminacy vs. Continuity,” is the latest chapter in a story that begins with Zeno and runs through Newton and Einstein to today. The question they struggled to answer: How does matter move through time and space?

I thought about something similar to this yesterday. My idea was “there is no present”. What I was thinking was that in every moment of time there are an infinitly small amount of time. Like, 0.0000000000000000000000000001 seconds have passed, for example. Well those 0’s go on for infinity at every single instance of time. So how do you get from each moment of infinity of time to the next point of infinity of time? It’s almost one of those childish infinty+1 things. It’s almost as if time really didn’t go on for infinity, at some point it DOES roll over. It’s like 0.00000000000000000000001 somehow rounds UP to 0.00000000000000000000002.

Freaks me out, mannnn.

Here’s my wish list…. it’s much better than light bulbs and protein powder.

Ok, maybe not this exact one… it’s kinda ugly… but it’s the only picture I could find without a woman in it. I know how jody feels about porn.

“Das Keyboard” was designed by programmer Daniel Guermeur, also the founder of Metadot, an open-source software company. The device, which sells for $79.95, is designed both for proficient typists and those who want to get better, according to a Web site devoted to it.

I want one, but only because it’s for Übergeeks. Freakin’ rich Übergeek bastards..

Most of you already know the story of how we met but I want to tell it again anyways.

There once was and still is a website called lavalife…the place where singles meet. My friend Erin had signed me up for it, I’m not sure why Pender was on it cause he shouldn’t have had any problem meeting women. It was so long ago I’m not sure who smiled at who first but we got to chatting thru emails first, then thru msn messenger while he was in NFLD with his family and I was in NYC at the time.

It was an unlikely match since I was against dating men with motorcycles and he cancelled our first meeting/date to date some psycho, he was very lucky to get a second chance… but I knew there was something special about him.

So Pender came to SJ some Sunday late in July. I was too nervous to meet a stranger by myself so I had some friends there to make sure he wasn’t a jerk… or to give me moral support if he was the man of my dreams. Pender and I started the date by going to Subway for lunch to get some alone time. Then we picked up Erin and Vicki to go swimming in a river near Erin’s place so I could check out Pender’s… um swimming skills. Not bad at all :)

My friends approved, this guy was not going to kill me, so we took them home.

One of my favorite things each summer is Buskers On The Boardwalk. I just had to take Pender to see them. We ate supper there and then walked around Uptown and thru King’s Square where we first held hands and some crazy guy said something like “Aww, I use to hold my wife’s hand just like that” and then he mumbled a little so we just kept walking. We walked to the next park, Loyalist Burial Grounds and sat under the big trees on a bench, quite romantic. And that’s where he had our first kiss. Not bad at all… it did lead to a second.

By now it’s getting a little late so we head back to my place…not what you’re thinking!!! We went back to get some wood…not what you’re thinking!!! We went to the beach a few blocks away from my house for a bonfire. It’s not a great beach, kinda rocky and the water is kinda dirty there but we brought blankets to sit on. It was a nice evening, we shared a bottle of wine while getting bit by moskitoes. Luckily Pender had some bug spray in the car he used for softball, which made him taste really bad when we kissed.

…And then he left… THE END!!… or was it??? Dun Dun Dun

To be continued….

This is our flash version.

This is our non-flash version.

BTW, I’ve lost 45lbs since those photos were taken.

Friday we went to Montanna’s for supper, was super yum fajitas. Then on Saturday we went to Pizza Delight, was decent pizza. Overall it was about the same price for about two week’s worth of food that we used in two meals. We’s poor(er).

Today we drove around looking at the junk people had put out for the big garbage spring cleaning thing. We drove around our neighbourhood (somehow doing 45kms) trying to find a decent headboard for the bed and for maybe a new bike chain for my bicycle. Then we spotted a water cooler thingy someone put out and it looked like it was in perfect condition, so we parked, grabbed it, put it in the back seat and sped away giggling like we’re chasing squirrels with sticks (you know the giggle I’m talking about). We brought it home and both the hot and cold water parts of it work perfectly! We’re now going to clean it out and hopefully be able to drink from it after it’s been cleaned out. Bleach is good for you, right?

Watercooler - flash
Watercooler - noflash

Oh, and in case you’re wondering, we’re not common-law yet. We were thinking it was 6 months living together that was common-law, but it’s a year. Whew! My stuff is still mine and not half not mine!

We had a great time at the Oxygen night-club on Saturday night. A little bit crammed full of people (you need to elbow people to move on the dance floor) but otherwise a good time. The gals from Saint John showed up and didn’t complain about all the dirty dirtyness of the house, so I guess we did a decent job! After the night club we walked down the street, despite SOMEONE’S incessant complaining about hurty feets, to the colonial inn only to find out it’s not a 24 hour restaurant. So we flagged down a cab and went to the Sports Rock. I ate the fish, it was good.

The next day we all went to Cora’s for breakfast, I ate the miscelaneous, it was good. Hollywood then drove me home then she met the girls at the Champlain Mall for some good good afternoon mawlin’.

Later that evening we watched Kung Fu Hustle, which had a couple of parts in it where I laughed until I cried. Kung fu + comedy = good movie, DESPITE WHAT YOU MAY THINK!