Can you hear this? I'm tempted to wait a couple of years until I can't, then play it out of my speakers at full volume while working. 🙂
Happy "Summer" solstice
In just under 7 and a half hours' time, the northern hemisphere will be at its maximum tilt towards the sun. So rejoice and be merry. (Even if it is, for you, actually a “Winter” solstice 🙂
RIP TOTP
30th July will be the last episode, reports the BBC. Well I can't pretend that I've seen it recently or even that when I last saw it, the top 20 was really anything special, but a little part of me is sad.
earphones
Got myself a pair of Shure E2c earphones, after wondering for a while about noise-cancelling headphones. I'd heard good things on the grapevine and from a coworker about the Shure ones. They seem to be working out well. They were a little strange at first, but they come with small,…
Brain Age
The Brain Age tests are fun. I do well at the sudoku. However, the Stroop test (say the colour of the word, not the word) has problems with voice recognition on “blue”. It’s a bit frustrating! But every day my brain is getting better. Today I unlocked the Head Count…
a maths day
Since is always posting about his antics bending Maya to his will, I felt like sharing my working day. Without going into detail about what I’m working on (which is still hush-hush until it’s announced), I can say that today I did more maths than I’ve done in a long…
Bread news
The latest bread experience in the Elbeno household is Pane Mediterraneo from Ralph’s International Classics line. I’m always partial to a crusty crust and a soft crumb. A peek at the inside: appropriately holey.
New stuff
There is quite a lot of new stuff in the Elbeno household this week. On Saturday we braved the outside world for lunch once more, and perused the shelves at Borders for a while afterwards. I picked up a couple of books that I thought looked interesting. On Sunday, our…
Windows broke my setup
Well, I reverted my Windows XP x64 to Windows XP Home. Unfortunately, in the process, something in the Windows installer decided to wipe out my existing FAT32 partition (the one where I keep all my data files, mp3s, etc). I’m not sure what happened; I didn’t see any reformatting going…
Quick update
Apologies for the lack of blogitude lately. Let's see… this has been a fairly normal week in the life of an Elbeno. Actually, much better financially than most weeks. Went to a book sale. It was very sunny so I caught the sun on the back of my neck, even…