Ginger, the 6th Sopko

Spotted this photo in my collection, dammit she's a cute dog!















Looking forward to seeing her when I get home too. :)

Later!

Dave

Baby Swan Attack!!!

Look at this cheeky little bugger!!! He tried to eat my shoe!!! Almost chomped off a toe with it!

Ha ha, nah, was funny, on campus there's this "Loch", I'm getting Scottish, can you tell??? This loch is inhabited by a mean family of swans. Well they're mean when they're out of the water.

In the water they're like a pack of hungry Labradors, cute and looking for free food. Anyways, this little guy investigated my shoes. I suppose leather isn't something the palate of a swam is used to.

Hmmm, fell down the stairs this week, threw my computer into the air in the process. :) It took it like a trooper! Ummm, fell up the stairs last night too. Ha ha, that's always funny, falling up the stairs. How? Why? I dunno, just did, spilled some coffee. Good thing the carpets are beige! Just kidding, I cleaned up. I'm a tidy boy.

Alright, looking for a reprieve from reading comics. BTW, Stuart, I love "Gone With the Blastwave", read all of it tonight. :)

Ok, sleep. Then wake, then work on stuff. Then sleep. It's the circle of life! Screw you Disney, that ain't copyrighted!!! Can't sue me! :P

Ok, wow, I'm tired... this is all BS now, not an ounce of reality in anything I write now... ha ha, maybe I should just keep typing! That'd be funny, tomorrow morning I could read this and cringe! Maybe... maybe I won't. That's best, let reality back into the picture, forget about typing anything else, just go to bed... ahhhhhh......

Hmmm..... still considering whether to sleep or to type random crap to see how my brain misfired while I did it. Quite an interesting experiment. Meh, who cares.

Oh, gonna REALLY HONESTLY make Skittlebrau. Started planning the recipe this week. Mmmmm.... thank you Homer Simpson. You are a brilliant cartoon man.

Gah, the words, they just keep on coming... why!!!!! Don't want them to. Listening to Daft Punk: Homework:Oh Yeah, not their best song, I prefer Robot Rock. Sweet.

Hmmmmmm....... ok, time to stop. Didn't even type that much. Meh, nite y'all!!!!!

Dave

So... Term 1 - Done

Well, I made it through my classes. One terms worth anyways. I still have a few outstanding assignments and my exams but SWEET!!!! One of three down!

So anyways, not much happening here, been living the life of a top; I just spin round and round through my daily little cycle. :) Not complaining, not even close, I'd have to say I've found a little cycle here that suits me really damn well. :) :)

But, that aside, I cannot wait to get back home for Christmas. Hopefully some of ya will still be around; looking forward to seeing as many people as I can when I'm in Oakville.

This is a boring blog entry, not much to say, it was warm today, I ran for an hour. I tried shipping whisky to the US, apparently that's a NO NO. Oh well, rectal smuggling is apparently the way to go. Volunteers?

Hmmmm, really trying to write something exciting for this entry, it's very sub-par in the categories of "exciting" and "interesting"! Hmmmm, not getting any bright ideas.

Ok, out of the blue, here's a pic of my favourite constellation, the Pleiades:

Thank you NASA, you made this wicked picture. It looks great on my desktop!

Alrighty everyone, enjoy your last five days of November, hate the first day of December and then get on with enjoying the rest of the month.

Scratch the "hate the first day" thing. Enjoy that one too!

Looking forward to seeing you all when I get back to TO/Oakville.

Peace out! Ha ha, I just typed that, it sounds so stupid coming from me. Alrighty, take care, I'll be back to waste your time REAL soon. :)

Dave

Gotta love this forecast.

Gah! What?!?!? Out of Kyoto now??? What's happening to Canada?

God dammit! God damn Conservatives! Who voted for them??? Why would you do such a thing?!?!?

Backing out of Kyoto? Not up to the challenge? Bah! Stupid stupid people! I say way to go to France for calling our government a bunch of wankers!

Even if Guelph did turn me into a little tree hugger you have to admit that this is a bloody rediculous thing to do!

Dammit! Dave Gordon, go on, this is your chance! Help the Liberals get rid of these silly buggers!

Yikes, only the second time I've ever ranted about politics. The first time about Canadian politics at that! (The other time was the first Bush election.)

Alright, gonna go take a cold shower in the poo shower. Ha ha, poo's got a leaf in it now, left the window open to help with the smell and the poor thing fell into it overnight.

Ok, that's all. I've vented.

Later everybody,

Dave

Poooooo, in the shower!!! Ha ha ha, that is disgusting!!!

Ok, strike 2 against me and my flat mates. We've had no heat for three days and now there's poo coming up our shower drain. Ooooo, not looking so hot here right now.

I'm laughing about in right now, pretty fucking funny, I can shower at the gym. Oh, btw, the other shower's busted right now too. :) Ha ha, this is karma for something or other, it has to be.

I feel bad for Andrea, our landlord and flat mate, she's been trying to get the heat fixed and now this crap (literally) happens.

I'd take a pic but I think that'd be a bit out of taste. Mmmmm.... poo taste. Just kidding.

Alright, this has been fun but I gotta proof read my paper on the Order of Nutrient Uptake by Brewers' Yeast. Yay!

Oooo, just thought of this, our shower is like a poopsicle now! 8 Crazy Nights, anyone remember that???

Ok, later,

Dave

Heating 1 - Dave 0

I like cold weather, yes it is nice, even if it will never snow here. But when that cold weather invades your home, it sucks.

Heating here's been KO'd for two days now. Sleeping is fun, you're allowed to be warm then. I think I'm going to a cafe later to work on an essay, not so much fun here at home.

My bedroom is growing icicles now, here's a pic of it:


On second thought the title of this post is inappropriate. Judging by this picture, I'm perfectly happy in the cold, even in a bathing suit.

I think the title should be more like Dave 999 - Stupid Heating -999.

With the max score being 999.

Ok, enough. I actually have work to do!

Ooo, I think I have to give cred to Joe Mastroianni, National Science Foundation, for the pic. You're supposed to do that here if you take a pic from another website. This one's been butchered by me though.

Ok, ok, I have to do work, later!

I love Photoshop!

Dave

What I do when I'm bored...

Hey y'all, how are ya?

Well, been busy with school, like you've all been busy with work, school, bank robbing, vampirism or whatever it is you've all been up to too. :)

Well the hilight of this week would have been Thursday night. There was a night lecture given by two speakers. The first guy was alright, he talked about food safety and examples of it going wrong. One example, heard this from two people now, was about cobalt in beer.

No more cobalt in beer these days; not many people are fans of heavy metal beers.

Umm, second lecturer was head of Brewing Operations at Coors. The guy and his wife were both Guelph grads! How cool is that!

So after the lectures my bus stopped halfway home. Hooray! Part Route, didn't know where the stop was, assumed I'd get home on the bus. Nope.

Walked home, nothing interesting happend, I hoped something cool would happen. Not sure what, just'd hoped for it and, well, it never happened. :(

Ummm, I like posting pics, let me post a random one. One min...


I like this one. It's a dragon! Really you ask? Why yes, it's a magical dragon, sort of like Puff. Only thing here is this dragon doesn't get high, not anymore anyways. This dragon pees on the unsuspecting tourists who walk under him. Way to go Pee Pee the Dragon, you rock!

Ok, so I'm bored. Been working on a micro lab and there are lots more more things more exciting than that. Wanna know why Entereobacteriacaea fail to grow on citrate? No, you don't. I need to find out why. See?

Hmmm, how about a look into my life? Alright? Yeah? You wanna see? Really? No, you don't, trust me. What? Yeah? You really do? Ok, fine, here you go. Like it or not here's an exciting pic of where I spend 99% of my time at home. My computer and desk.

One min, I don't have a pic of that. Ok, gotta take one. So here's my pic of my desk and compy while I post this blog. Yay.

Ok, I'm getting tired of writing this entry, it's just a lot of nothing I'll regret having written later. Too late, I already regret it. Too much trouble to delete it. Oh well, sorry you wasted the last 3 min reading about not much of anything. Blah!

Slow night here in Tartan Country. Alright, you all take care hombres!

Dave

He he, home... :)

No more beard, no more soul patch, just skin. How weird.

It's gone, totally utterly disappeared!

Cut it off, was thinking of it last week, got talked out of wholesale destruction on Friday by the whisky tasting group, but alas I cut it off tonight. I'm sure you all care.

I've had hair on my chin for the last hmmm.... 7-8 years. Got used to it being there, expecially when the hair on the top of my head started getting cut shorter and shorter.

But hey, the times they are a changing, and well, this did too. Kinda liking it now; glad I got the final push to do it tonight.

Ok, anyways, my assignment that never would end ended, I designed a brewhouse. I feel like my design was kind of like swiss cheese, full of holes and smelly. I'm sure it was alright though.

Hmmm, what else is new... uh... Oh, I lost my gloves on Friday. I hope the bus people have them.

Uh, ok, random, but now here are some drunk pics from friday.















Whisky tasting - complete with beer to wash it down. Was too good to do that though.















Me, holding whisky and beer.















Amanda and Will - fellow Canadians.















Brendan - from Utah.
















Angry homeless person.

Ok, later, need to start working again. This blog gets addictively fun sometimes, hard to pull away. Maybe this is what being hooked on crack is like?!? Nah, probably not.

Ok, shit,

Later!

Dave

What's this mean??? I'm confused...

*.*What does this mean?*.*

*.*What did I do wrong?*.*

*.*What is e^(-pi*i)?*.*

- I can only answer the third. The answer is go talk to calculus professor extrordinaire Dr. Jack Weiner. Only the Guelph people might understand that. Oh well.

Computer logic illudes me, and 99.9999999% of the world population. That means 6 people on the face of the planet can understand computers like a computer understands itself. I bet all of those six live in an undiscovered tribe in Papua New Guniea too.

Ok, I'm rambling, probably going insane.

Later,

Dave