Archive for April 30th, 2007

2007.04.30

My Daemon

I’d read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series almost two years ago and really loved it. Smart, adventurous and provocative. Not long after I hear it was going to be made into a series of movies, starting with the first book, The Golden Compass. While I’m always dubious of Hollywood creations from existing stories, I am still looking forward to this one, which premiers in December.

Just a bit ago I was perusing various blogs and ran across Panxa’s Daemon Entry. Naturally I had to take the test! You can see the results here. It’s kinda slow with the Flash, though, so you can see a breviated version after the jump!

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2007.04.30

A Moving Story

So as I mentioned yesterday it’s been quite a week of moving. Mostly it was just work, sometimes it was irritating, but there is one good story.

At my place of employment we had rented a big garbage container because everytime there’s a move there’s a lot to dispose of. For some reason this time there was more than usual (probably because of the new furniture) and the bin was getting full. At some point during the day a neighbor from several blocks away decided he would use our bin to throw away all of his crap.

We came outside to see our bin overflowing. It did not make us happy. Fortunately this neighbor didn’t bother to remove his name and address from his garbage, so two of the guys I work with loaded it up into a truck and at the end of the day delivered it back “home”.

Based on the contents of the garbage it seemed that this fellow had just moved into a new place and when the boxes and bags were delivered back to the origination point three guys were coming out of the apartment; probably the guy moving in and two friends who helped him move. To their credit they didn’t say anything and just kept walking like they didn’t know or care what was going on.

But I can imagine that they were not happy getting all their crap back on their doorstep!