Supermarket Shenanigans

So, awhile back I went to the supermarket with my ma and they had some fruit and vegetables outside of the store. Ever since I learned to juggle I've been an absolute pain to have in this section and today wasn't an exception. I grabbed the first produce that I could get my hands on - cantelopes. I started to juggle them but was thrown of balance an once came down rather hard into the pile. No damage was done but it wasn't very impressive. Then I hear an elderly chuckle behind me, "Well, nice try." I thank her for the encouragement and look at my mom who's half smiling half scolding me. I walk towards her to help her out but three peaches catch my eye and I plan to redeem myself. I pull off some quick little tricks then I hear another elderly voice beside me but this time not as pleasant. "I hope you plan on buying those." I lie, "Yes ma'am." And shoot my mom a trickster's grin and put them down. There's a lesson to be learned from this story: juggle watermelons.

Pirating Music

I remember being in highschool and going over to my friend's house who had high-speed internet - he bragged about being able to download songs in under a minute. We all went over to confirm his boast and we all tripped out when we saw the downloading speed.

Now when you here a song you like, you can stream it off the internet and have it in your own personal library with appropriate tagging and cover art before the stream ends. Oh, we've come a long way.

Oh Vista, I hardly knew you.

So, I recently got into the amazing global treasure hunt that is geocaching and I purchased my first GPSr - that's a Global Positioning System Receiver for you muggles out there. I got it for a steal at a liquidation sale and was quick to get used to it and load with all the caches in Winnipeg. I grabbed five caches with it before I ended it lossing it to my lousy, jacket pocket. Goodbye Silver.

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I am the habitual loser of things...

On a sidenote, I promise to start blogging more consistently for a few reasons. Mainly being done school and not being a job. Unless being a vagrant counts. No. Okay, no job.

Fuckin' Ishihara

I have trouble explaining red-green colourblindness to people so I usually results to showing them the Ishihara colourblindness tests with the bubbly numbers in the circles.  I've found that real world examples are the best way to get the point across. Here's a list of things that pop up when you're red-green colourblind.

  • The Canadian $5 and $10 bills look like they're the same colour, apparently they're blue and violet respectively
  • Clothes that I think match, certain shades of red especially, don't...
  • The particular shade of green and yellow used for some electronics (notable the Nintendo Wii) are indiscernible to me
  • Laser pointers just don't show up on projector screens, especially green