Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I have been staring at numbers and letters and doing mind-numbing computer assisted sorting of hundreds of thousands of records. I can actually feel my eyes vibrating (I assume they're muscle tremors or microseizures), and I have a weird sort of double vision. I don't think it's a drug side-effect, ha. Maybe I need to get some kind of large print old man monitor or something… So I think I'm going to bed without posting the experience update until tomorrow.

You can click that if you want to zoom in.

Or you can stare with bewilderment at the comments about Scarlett Johansson's septum piercing (which is old news anyway)… Sometimes I feel guilty when I use the term 'plainskin' in a derogatory manner, but maybe this would be an appropriate time (oh, and to be clear: the comments in that forum are the ones that the site deemed were not derogatory — the bad ones were deleted they claim). I don't know, maybe there's some kind of politeness or common decency bubble that surrounds (at least mostly) IAM and the friends I talk to here, but I'm just not used to seeing people behave like that.

I got a juicer. It's pretty awesome. I've been drinking huge amounts of fruit. In fact, I've completely replaced those stupid energy drinks with them because it's so much better tasting — and energizing! I've written about three thousand lines of string parsing code over the last few days… Most of it is pretty mind-numbing and tedius (and confusing because it handles soooo much data), and I can't begin to express what a pain in the ass it is to have to grep through mountains of US government data with constantly changing (with no apparent rhyme or reason) character sets.

Meh. Why am I working today? It's a holiday here (in Canada) today. My boss is an asshole for making me work today, seriously. Oh wait, I'm self employed. BME update tomorrow, but I'll probably do at least a small ModBlog post set later.