FreeRice is this awesome site I forgot about. It’s an online game that helps you learn definitions, well actually synonyms. I used to play this every morning as a wake up.
The site pitches you a word, and you choose the best synonym out of four choices. It’s simple and neat.
For every answer you get right, the site says ten grains of rice will be donated. I just checked outline and there is roughly some 29,000 grains in a pound. Sounds a lot nicer when you’re doing it – but shit this is on the internet. I just racked up 600 grains in about ten minutes.
Just some brain food for you.
I had my wisdom teeth removed Friday morning, a little before noon. I just ran out of my pain medication last night, so I have not taken any this morning. I have the most insane headache and the whole right side of my jaw is hurting, from my ear, down to the incision site, and a bit forward on my jaw. It is mostly on my right, a little on my left.
Has anyone else who had their wisdom teeth pulled had pain this long? I was always under the impression it was a day or two thing.
Right now we are driving to some park in Franklin for Amanda’s cousin’s graduation party. I all ready sleep easy in cars, but this oxycodone induced lobotomous state is not helping.
The procedure went fine yesterday. I guess the doc had to ‘wake’ me up a few times because my breathing went down. Seems to happen a lot. I guess I knew because I asked him if I had woken up due to feeling him rootin’ around. I am glad to say that there was no reverse side affects from being knocked out. Not cranky or evil this time.
My mouth feels surprisingly better after just one day. Still hurts – but my cheek makes the funniest damn noise when it suctions over the holes in my mouth. I am not regretting volunteering for two double shifts Monday and Tuesday.
But man I want a damn cigarette.
Today at work I began to ponder again about the difference in customer relations between food service work and computer support work. People can be pretty stupid, I can too, we all have our off days. But you would think that when dealing in computer support there would be more frustration. Hell no.
I have come to realize that it is more difficult to help a person face-to-face in making their own food than it is over-the-phone in troubleshooting a computer problem. I am about eight percent sure that I had an easier time at ResNet trying to tell the most computer illiterate person how to access their network settings over the phone. I wish I could tape some conversations at Subway. How hard is it for people to read and use common sense? I understand it can be kind of confusing the first few weeks after Subway no longer has all sandwiches as $5 Footlongs. But hell, there has only been two times Subway did that. Is it that difficult to read and understand what sandwiches are $5 Footlongs?
I have ran into students who plugged a phone cord into their Ethernet port, plugged their Ethernet cord into the phone jack; misread signs about where to plug their Ethernet cord in. I dealt with foreign exchange students who lugged around bulky IBM Thinkpads. Granted, there were a lot of occasions when there were some customer flare ups. But now I am almost certain that I’d gladly replace those interactions with the mind numbing idiocy I ram heads with ever day at Subway.
Helena Bonham Carter is a goddess. Her hair is the 8th wonder of the world and many have tried to achieve the Bonham-Carter hair but have failed epically. She is the living Jesus Christ on Earth. “Helenaists” are devoted to converting others to Helenaism and spreading “the Lord’s” good word. Helenaists believe that Helena Bonham Carter is the most talented actress out there, and that it is impossible for her to make a bad movie. Members of Helenaism also admire her for her individual style and fashion sense, her elegance, her wit, her beauty, her courage, her clothes and her z-coil shoes.
via Helenaism – Religion-wiki.
I am just doing some homework, and randomly hitting my StumbleUpon button, when this came up over at Wikia’s Religion area. Some one had a lot of time to pull this gag together.
This is full of win. I do not know why Windows even bothers to try and estimate. When I copy a movie file it should just say “Get some damn coffee and watch television, maybe I’ll be done.”
Thursday afternoon we made it back from camping; and it was the best camping trip ever. We went a day longer than normal;no one got mad, no one killed anyone, and I did not even get pissed.
Last Friday we got back from California around 7. Boomer was going to pick us up, but his dad was down in Chicago anyways so he grabbed us. We ended up getting home and sleeping for a good long time. The rest of that weekend was running around getting prepared for camping.
It only rained once, and it was at night. Not even too bad of a storm. Pulled off about seven miles of hiking, roughly over one of those miles was steep rock steps. Go us.
Now it has just been trying to relax and get back to normal life. It has been over two weeks since life was plain. Next Friday I get my wisdom teeth taken out. Woohoo. So excited. Not.
So I just got ahold of the beta WordPress program. I have used BBMetaBlog on here a few times – but it was never made for WordPress, just any XML-RPC enabled system.
You can read the post on it here: http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/07/07/wordpress-for-blackberry-beta/
I love it. Cannot wait for more updates.
So while over here in California I decided to finally get Pandora radio for my BlackBerry. I had meant to before…but never did for some odd reason.
Slacker Mobile had been my choice previously. I must say Slacker just got its ass handed to itself. I don’t remember ever hearing ads during playback at Pandora.com, and so far I haven’t with my phone. On Slacker every five songs or so yielded one.
Pandora also seems to stream a lot faster than Slacker. Stations load about as fast as they would on a regular PC. Slacker stations left me waiting, watching the loading animation.
Pandora also integrates into the full menu allowing you to access it easily. The interface is simple. You log in, it displays you list of stations and has a player. No glam, just a nice sleek interface.
The Strip was fun on the Fourth. We missed the fireworks – in fact only one place had public ones. So we wandered for four hours. I’ve got all the pictures on my Facebook, Flickr is going to wait until I am home.
We started to leave around 3ish in the afternoon, we made it about thirty miles in two hours. Traffic was horrible and it was hot. Projections were saying about an eighteen hour drive to Orange from Vegas. We bunkered down at a hotel.
The three hotels by us were quickly filled, we got two of the last ones. People were setting camp on the slots and in the lobby; all frantically trying to get a room.
I did however have some of the best damn french onion soup of my life.
Around ten at night we headed to bed to nap. We left twelve hours after we started. We just got back.
Bob’s got to go to San Diego for work again, so Amanda and I will be joining him and her mom. We’re only going for the night, though.
Quite the vacation so far.
