I’m Chinese. I eat with chopsticks, even though I can’t hold them properly. My parents told me about that too late. So occasionally, I’ll eat with spoons, usually for fried rice, or as a companion to my chopsticks when eating noodles or pho.

Now then, being Chinese, I grew up using those huge Chinese soup spoons with the thing you’re supposed to put your finger in. As I grew older, I was introduced to the other type of spoon: the metal spoon. Metal spoons have long handles and incredibly small capacity. I mean, the thing was about half a centimetre deep. That caused a lot of problems.

See, apparently, people use these metal things that can’t hold a lot to drink soup. That was physically impossible, I thought. A slight shake and whatever I was holding in the spoon spilled. Even, if it did reach me to consume, there wasn’t that much in that dinky little spoon. Not at all satisfying.

Nope, Chinese spoons are much better for any type of eating. Unless you’re into not eating, of course.

So this week is the first bit of the XXth Olympic Winter Games in Torino. The first thing that I noticed when I heard about Torino was ‘where in bloody hell is Torino?’ It’s not one of those huge, well-known cities. It’s not even a small, well-known city. The second thing I noticed was that the media couldn’t decide whether to use Torino or Turin and so they decided to use both. (more…)

As all of us 12ers know, February 13 is the first set of mark submissions. Of course, the timing is horrible. Just a week ago, I would have been doing much better than I’m getting now. Isn’t that just a kick in the pants? One week and two tests have completely demolished my work from the past two months.

In chem, the ISU that was really easy and promised to bring our marks up brought me down. The calc test brought me back to where I started after two months of wonderful progress. All of that work in English was apparently worth nothing, since I only rose one percent. And anything I’ve been doing in computer engineering is worth nothing as well, since nothing I do over 99 gets counted anyway.

My only hope lies with physics. I will need a one percent increase to keep my average at a flat 90. That’s all I’m shooting for. Anything over 90 is a bonus.

So the exciting conclusion will be happening Monday.

Today I learned the importance of Firefox profiles.

I’ve always found it annoying when you run Firefox and you can open as many windows as you want until one or two random occasions when Firefox tells you to stuff it because you’re already using that profile. Today, I could not figure out why or how Firefox was already using my profile so I messed around with the profiles and nuked it.

Now it was not until I created another profile and used it before I realized what I’d done. I had effectively nuked all of my saved passwords, preferences, cookies, extensions, themes, and bookmarks. And it took me the past half hour to reset most of my settings.

So listen: never nuke your default Firefox profile.

I don’t know how it happened, but one day, I started listening to Charlie Hall. It’s not like I hadn’t heard of him before or heard any of his songs. A few well known are written by him, like “Give Us Clean Hands”. But he was never a worship leader with CDs that I would go and try and find like I would for, say, Chris Tomlin. (more…)