Bachelorhood done!

So on my last day of temporary bachelorhood, I made burgers. It was the first time I've ever made burger patties, but they turned out okay. I'm pretty proud! The wife is back now, and I'm happy. I can't leave my underwear all over the floor anymore, but I'll adjust.

This weekend was one funeral, and tomorrow is another one. Also, I've been spending some time cleaning up my brother-in-law's computer. He got that damn virus that pretends to be an antivirus program. After trying to clean it for a bit, I gave up and reformatted. Back in my computer-store-working-days I might have brought the computer in to work and really hacked at it, but I don't have time for that anymore.

As far as interesting things happening this week, Hinterland is being released. It's an indie game that only costs $20, but sounds pretty interesting. 

Bachelorhood, day 3

The wife recieved her flowers today, but they were pretty wilty, apparently. Ah well. They came in a mug with hearts on it, and it is the thought that counts, right?

The in-laws took pity on me tonight and fed me, which was very nice of them. My mother-in-law even made me banana bread. :) Now, I'm off to drink some cheap beer and watch a zombie movie.

Happy Anniversary, Jenn. I love you very much, and wish you were here.

Bachelorhood, day 2

Yesterday was cheap steak, fried potato wedges and some broccoli that I belatedly noticed was turning brown. Today was Sausage In a Bun day. That still sounds better than the undercooked chicken my wife had.

I worked late today, and I have more work to do between 8 and 9pm tonight. Oh, joy. At least I'm getting this stuff done while my wife is out of town. If I didn't work late, I would probably just be playing videogames.

In other news, I only recently discovered lolcats:

Awww, they're cute because they can't spell.

Bachelorhood

So, the wife has gone off to the prairies, and I've got to fend for myself. Normally, when she is home, I cook a lot of the easy and quick meals during the week, and she does more of the fancy new recipies on the weekend. I also do the grocery shopping. So, I have no idea why I'm having such a hard time doing a grocery list. So far, I have:

- bread

That's not a lot to subsist on. 

I CAN cook, it's just that I don't see much of a point to cooking if I can't share the meal with my wife. *sigh* Maybe I'll just go to the grocery store and roam.

Cutest baby EVER!

Awww.... little baby C has a blog. What a very cute baby! The wife and I have a busy morning, but we're going to head by to poke and prod him later. :)

I <3 pie, Rocking

Thankfully, the wife found a much easier way to make pie. She made two pies last night, there was no mess, and no more bleeding. It's amazing how much trouble you can save with pre-made dough.

She was done the pie early enough that we had time to Rock a little bit. Rock Band 2 is pretty much exactly the same as Rock Band 1, except that they improved the online play. The good news is that all the downloaded songs from RB1 work in RB2, and you can even import (most) of your songs off the RB1 disc to play in RB2. So basically, Rock Band 2 is 100 pretty good songs to add to your collection, and that's fine by me.

Congratulations!

I heard this morning that my good buddy W3asel and his wife L had their baby! Little C and mother are both doing well, and W3asel sounded very proud. Congratulations, W3asel and L!

Pain!

Before I came in to work this morning, I pulled something in my neck, badly. This is funny for a number of reasons:

1) My wife did the exact same thing to herself a week ago.

2) When my wife hurt herself, I mentioned how I was glad there was no genetic link between her and I, since it seems her entire family was afflicted with various health issues at the time.

3) Our HR department at work just announced that they were going to have an ergonomics specialist come in to talk to us about preventing these kinds of injuries.

Nice.

Spore

I bought Spore on Sunday, even though they've got some pretty crappy DRM on it. The funny part is that the game has already been cracked, so all the DRM is doing is irritating paying customers. Basically, I can only install the game 3 times before calling EA Tech Support. This really irritates me, so I'm a bit happy to see that there were 30,000 people actively downloading the game on Saturday.

The most impressive part of Spore so far was when I installed it for my wife, and then she spent 3 hours playing it, instead of the half hour that she planned. :) My little geek-in-training is progressing well. She designed a little microscopic herbivore, evolved it, and this is what it looked like when it crawled out of the primordial ooze:

That freaky-looking little bastard is MUCH better than my first try. The fun part was after she had evolved the creature a little bit (on her PC), I saw it running around on one of my planets when I was in the Space Phase (on my PC). Her creature was uploaded to the Sporepedia, and downloaded back onto my system. Pretty cool. :)

Chrome polish

Google has retracted the funny bits of their Chrome EULA. This post WOULD now belong to me, except I posted it to Blogger, so it still belongs to Google anyways. But now they don't own my company intranet anymore, so that's good.

I went out to my brother-in-law's bachelor party last night, and it was pretty fun. We hit up the Pro-Am night at a local comedy club, where they razzed him a bit for getting married soon. Some of the amateurs were good, and others were slow-motion train wrecks. In any case, they had the guts to get up there to try to make people laugh, so good for them. Thankfully, the audience was polite with the ones that weren't funny, and there was no boo-ing. I'd go back again, I had forgotten how much I enjoy live comedy.

Tonight will be a busy night. I need to make sure my suit is clean, and pick out a shirt and tie for the wedding on Saturday. I've got to pick up some computer parts for the wife, and see to some things around the house. Then, I have to write out some witty banter for the wedding reception, since I'm MCing. I did get some good advice from an old friend yesterday: "Keep it short". That's the plan! The only other thing I need to do is remain sober enough until the dancing starts. Then my job is over, and I get to be "Just another drunk guy".

Chrome worries and paranoia

There are a lot of people on the internet who read through the Chrome EULA, and found this one paragraph:

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

People are panicking, and threatening to not use the browser, based on the fact that anything we view in it (for example, a Corporate Intranet) is now the property of Google. I really doubt that these Terms of Service will last very long, since they make no sense at all.

However, this blog post belongs to Google anyways, since it's posted on Blogger. All my email belongs to them too, sine I have a Gmail account. If I used Google Docs, then all those Docs would belong to them. That's their standard EULA, no joke. What's the alternative, though? I could use another blog/email provider, but then they would have rights to my posts and emails. I could host everything on my own, but that gets to be a pain to manage.

So, I'll just continue using the services, and wait for the lawyers to make Google change the EULA. Life will go on.

Chrome

This is my first post with Google Chrome. In case you're not as geeky as I am, Google just made a web browser. Neat, eh? They made a comic explaining all the things that the browser does differently. It gets a bit technical, but here are the big bonuses, as I understand them:

- Open Source: Everyone can have a look at what goes on under the hood. This means that Google can't get away with anything sneaky, and that there are a LOT of other developers out there that can check it for bugs, and develop new things for it.

- Google made it: There is a HUGE development and test team behind this browser. So it's not like some open-source projects that just plain suck, and won't open pages properly. IceWeasel, I'm looking at you. Google can test their browser against the entire internet, since they have the hardware in place to search the entire internet already.

- One process per tab: If you visit a website that totally screws up your browser, it will only crash that page. Basically, if you have 5 tabs open, it's like having 5 separate browsers running on 5 separate computers. Also, the tabs are separated and "sandboxed", so that malicious websites can't grab information from other tabs. 

- OmniBar: You can browse your history, type a new URL, or run a search all from the same bar at the top. It used to be called an "Address bar", but Google is much to cool to call it that.

That's all I can think of after reading a comic and using the browser for 10 minutes. You try it and be the judge.