Kiddie Wishes for Xmas

My school has been getting the kids to write their xmas wishes on cards and hanging them up around the halls lately...

There's a lil bit of the typical, a lil bit of the innocent, a lil bit of the beautiful, a few of the amazing, a might too many Wii's and PSP's... (tho I have both... *cough* *cough*)

...all honest though. (^_^)

The Levels of Geekdonia

Gizmodo made a list after my own heart. (^_^)

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1. Install a hard drive in a laptop
2. Perform a clean OS install on a machine with two OSes
3. Swap out the battery on your iPod/iPhone
4. Jailbreak an iPhone
5. Wire your house for Ethernet and Coax cable
6. Use BitTorrent and RSS to automatically download new shows from trackers
7. Use an A/V receiver to its fullest capability (every port is taken)
8. Calibrate an HDTV without the manual
9. Use a DSLR in full manual mode
10. Hack the encryption and mooch your neighbor's Wi-Fi
11. Solder cleanly enough to get around a circuit board
12. Use your 3G phone as a Wi-Fi access point
13. Shove the guts of a modern game console into a retro game console
14. Design a webpage in HTML by hand that features a picture of your cat
15. Use Photoshop to imperceptibly doctor a photo
16. Abstain from buying extended warranties
17. Know where to buy cheap cables and accessories
18. Fix your parents' computer over the phone without looking at a computer
19. Enter the Konami code
20. Comment on Gizmodo from your phone
21. Type quickly using T9 texting
22. Program a universal remote
23. Contribute code to the Linux kernel
24. Hide porn from your significant other
25. Avoid DRM on everything
26. Know how to back up your data to networked storage—and actually do it
27. Watch TV shows on the internet for free
28. Edit together digital video ripped from YouTube
29. Play any SNES game on your computer through an emulator
30. Reset expired trial software by messing with the registry
31. Hackintosh your PC
32. Download pre-release movies from Usenet
33. Hack the Wii to play homebrew games
34. Get around web content filters on public computers
35. Get into a Windows computer if you forgot your password
36. Securely erase your data so it can't be recovered
37. Share a printer between a Mac and a PC on a network
38. Build a fighting robot
39. Write your own Firefox plugins
40. Navigate and reorganize the files on your computer in DOS
41. Get something on the front page of Digg
42. Get through to executive customer service
43. Rip a CD to V0 quality MP3s
44. Rip a DVD to DivX
45. Build your own computer from parts
46. Swap out the hard drive in your DVR for a bigger one
47. Get an NES cartridge working again by blowing in it
48. Calibrate a 7.1 surround-sound system
49. Play downloaded games on a Nintendo DS
50. Talk about things that aren't tech related

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I got 40.
Including the fact that I had to skip all the Apple-related ones. (O_o)

Milk & Honey

I think I might have just unwittingly found the most perfect 2 lines that most perfectly nutshells me in the world...

- Which type of bee produces milk?
- Boo-bees!

Seriously. (^_^)v

One Of The Best Things About Scootering Around Taipei...

...there's always, Always a gap for overtaking...

...pavements and intersections are fair game when you're on two wheels.
(^_^)

Like An Elephant In A Monkey Costume.

When I was briefly back in England, I found that I was driving like how I ride.

Now that I'm back in Taipei, for some reason I'm riding like how I drive.

(O_o)

Ahh, Choices.

A question I just got asked:

Peggy says:
hey, which class should i take?
homosexual literature or shakespeare?

its brian! ...¬_¬ says:
O_o

What happened to the days when it was either Art or Science? *sighs*

Hermit Mode: Activate!

I wrote a few months ago that since arriving in Taipei... practically every weekend has seen some kinda event happening... that actually never stopped - in the 6months I've been here, there's been a new album popping up on my facebook nearly every weekend...

Wooh...

Anybody who knows me long enough will know that I go through phases of intense outward socialness, and intense hermit-xenophobia... I guess I'm finally beginning to transition now... Seeya guys in a few months! =)

Gratitude

Whoa...

I thought last year was pretty incredible in the amount of love received for surviving another 19th year on the planet...

But this year however...

Not including the paintball-event-which-wasn't-really-a-birthday-thing-but-I-made-it-one-anyways which actually turned out pretty well... though that's mainly coz of all the great people that turned up and made the day what it was. All I did was get people to help me book the event and organise the flyers, and *ahem* guilt people into coming along...

Also discounting the txt messages, the msn's, and the impromptu birthday song from one of my kiddie classes... (damn you Amber...)

But this year might've just pipped it on sheer amount of facebook wall-posts alone...

My dad sent me and my sis a cake too...

I know fb sticks a lil notice of everyone's birthdays on the home screen so anyone logging in in the past few days woulda seen it... but the mass flood I received today was just astonishing!

How in the world did we here?! I was always the awkward quiet shy kid in the back of the class... (O_o)

Love you guys,
Thanks everyone. =)