Zaza

•October 3, 2008 • 1 Comment

Many many moons ago, I was unemployed, half-heartedly part-timing at Uni, and living on the beach. I surfed every day, ate free, wholesome Hari Krsna food for lunch, and that was about it really.

Needless to say, I was very pretty :) And like most pretty young things there wasn’t a lot going on upstairs, other than, boobies.

Somtimes food, but mostly boobies.

One day, I was paddling in from a session at my local break, possibly saying ‘dude’, when I noticed long, honey coloured hair flopping about next to a mini-malibu. ‘Hello, I thought, boobies!’. I paddled over, saw a young girl about my age trying to get into shore and not quite making it, and did what any hot blooded man would do in that situation, and offered her a tow in holding my legrope.

“Tank, you, you ‘ave saved moi liff’, said the lovely young lass, with a French accent that drove pretty much all thought, what little there was in there, out.

‘I am Zaza, and you vill neffer see my pussy, but here ees my number, you mus’ scratch eet in your wax’, she continued.

And so began some of the more confusing months of my life. Zaza, true to her word, never let me play with her ladyparts- just as well in retrospect as I had actually very little experience with them at that point. It would have been disappointing.

But she did insist on teaching me to kiss, and sleeping draped over me whenever she stayed over, and once loosening a tooth when I accidentally touched something naughty when I snuggled back. She was extremely vocal about my lack of conversation about other things than surf, and demanded I be more interesting, which I dutifully complied, reading obscure philosophies (Sartre, not that obscure really) so I knew what the hell she was going on about half the time, as she rambled on about her degree in another city she was doing part time.

I was smitten, and a little frightened of this emotionally violent and confusing, yet oddly satisfying relationship, and I wanted it to continue forever.

And then, one day, I called her house, and she had gone. The shared house I was in dissolved that week, and this was before mobile phones, and even the Internet (the Internet was there, but emails were not widely available. I used a Telnet session to access Pine on the University servers! If you know what I just talked about, feel old) was not as useful as it is now for stalking tracking those you love and have lost.

I pined for a good year. And, slowly, by degrees, I got over it. I concentrated on my Uni, met other less entertaining women, some of which even let me see thier pussies, and eventually filed it as one of those experiences that have no explanation, but will always be there as a cherished memory.

(wavy lines) 15 years later, she turns up on Facebook.

And now I can’t think.

Sorry

•September 16, 2008 • 2 Comments

I really, really have no excuse.

I could list reasons, such as still being in the same crap job working for the same egomaniacal psychopath (I use these terms in a clinical sense), spending more time with Sally in the afternoons (Woo!), gittin’ a gun, and discovering that harvesting feral rabbits for cheap puppy chow is so much fun, it should be illegal (but it’s not, I checked), stopping smoking, then subsequently discovering that I can ride a pushbike 30km without dying, starting the process of becoming a full-time parent (Edan’s mum is re-enlisting in the Army)…

And so on…

So, it’s back to you kids. What should I entertain the two, nay three of those that still check this page with? I can do kids stories, crap nerd jokes (there are only 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary, and those that don’t) and meaningless rants about dumb bosses and curiously dumb, and equally curiously continually employed co-workers, so give me a subject.

Or attention.

I like attention :)

Bored…

•April 28, 2008 • 5 Comments

so very, very bored… so the obvious question is,

should I become fertile again?

Last time I did that I wasn’t bored for years

budda bing budda boom

•April 11, 2008 • 3 Comments

I noticed Mistress M’s gettin’ herself a gun. By a sheer coincidence I also am in the process of acquiring a firearm! But, I’m guessing the process is a bit different here in Oz: after spending 3 months convincing the police that I’m stable enough to be able to use one of the things, so I could get ammo for an ancient, and perversely, emasculatingly underpowered slug gun, in order to actually own a gun one needs to apply yet again for permission.

This will take another 2 months at least… 28 days cooling off period (just try maintaining the rage for that long… it’s pretty hard!) and about 14 days processing time, just to get a .22 rifle.

This does not count the cost and hassle of acquiring and installing 2 safes, on in the garage for the actual rifle itself, and on in the house for the ammunition and the bolt (the bit that actually makes the gun go bang).

My readers, all 3 of them in the US might think that this is a bit extreme, really. After all, isn’t having a fully automatic M16 with explosive armour piecing rounds a constitutional right? And having access to it at any time in case you wake up itching to blast something is necessary?

Actually I’m keeping out of this one. I was about to launch into a tirade berating those crazy gun totin’ yanks and perhaps a monologue as to how Australia has it sorted but I realised that as a gun owner myself, albeit an owner of a gun that barely classifies as such (but being shot with it would still sting), I have no moral high ground to start an argument here.

My brother said it best in an email he sent after I’d told him about my soon-to-be acquired deadliness…

“Well, its great that you have been perusing a hobby. Civil defense is
grossly underrated in this time of great peril and terrorism. Can’t
forget to say terror. Did I say terror? Good. Otherwise the population
might stop spending like the worlds going to end. Terrible thought :)

And guns are great way to let off a bit of reality based frustration
whilst learning valuable skills, like hand eye coordination, muscular
patience, weather resistance and covert environmentalism :)

There also a great way to extend your perceived girth. As a matter of
fact its like simulated masturbation, so dont forget the blanks.

Hmm, on that thought i should get one… I reckon my chances would be
better if i could whisper suggestively in her ear…. “I have a gun”. A
definite leg opener.

Your boss might be impressed with the same tactic… If he doesn’t know
what your up to you should definitely let him know that you can shoot an
asshole off a cunt at a distance not too dissimilar to the one between
your desks.. Not that you would, of course…point blank is always more
efficient (he’ll then know your very efficient, which is always an
admired skill). Possibly even a good time to renegotiate contracts,
provided that there is no one around to breach confidentiality. Just ask
him politely to switch off his mobile during negotiations otherwise he
might be so suitably impressed he’ll want to sms his mates “cowrkr has gun”

Im sure microsoft and the ATO might also be impressed by your new
tactical abilities. In the interest of anti piracy/terrorism (is there a
difference?) Not that you’ll have to go into great detail. There always
so busy. Like bank tellers, its probably easier just to write that you
have a gun on a post it and hand it to them. They may even be so
impressed that theyll give you some money without even asking. Possibly
tax free once you have impressed the ATO with previous post its on your
tax returns.

Lock & Load

Hoo Haaarrr!!!”

Resignation…

•April 11, 2008 • 2 Comments

No, Tabbie, like Cabbie, but with a T, I didn’t get the job. Getting that call was one of the closest times I’ve actually come to crying, ever.

But, the process has given me a new perspective on where I’m at. It really is, all about the money. And, if I have to do strange, illogical things to get it then so be it. It’s all pretty colours and flashing lights anyway… and, having an employer that has absolutely no clue as to what it is you actually do can be pretty handy.

So, the next time the boss tells me to restructure an application because he thinks his (completely uninformed) way is better, the answer will be ‘Yes, sure!’. Then, I’ll update this blog, check some emails, comment on CinnKitty or Mistress M’s sites, then after an appropriate amount of time has passed, I’ll point to some completely random page of code and say ‘Look, Boss, that’s where I’ve implemented your ideas! You’re very smart; and deserve a gold star’ and everyone’s happy!

You might think this is pretty cynical but I actually tried this approach out the other day and it worked a treat! The boss believed I was listening to his advice, I got to relax for a few hours, and at the end of the day everything worked out fine.

Now, all I have to do is prevent this attitude from spilling over into my love life…

Another one for CinnKitty

•April 3, 2008 • 2 Comments

I’ve been beaten to the post! You asked, a while ago, whether it was possible for a vibrator to be included in a tampon…

I looked, and researched, but it all came to an abrupt halt when I found …

 this…

One for CinnKitty: Man up!

•April 3, 2008 • Leave a Comment

http://au.news.yahoo.com/080402/2/16ci1.html?f=mv

Thats is all…

(goes into hiding…)

Word of the day

•March 27, 2008 • 2 Comments

The word of the day is…

effluxion.

Meaning, according to wiktionary,

  1. The process of flowing out.
    • We all age through the effluxion of time.
    • The effluxion of matter from a boil can be painful.
  2. That which has flowed out.
    • The effluxion of a boil is yuk

It’s great! I’m so going to have to use it in a sentence today!

And for those of you that think I’ve been licking the cane toads again, or making snide and slightly unsanitary reference to CinnKitty’s latest offering, I’m slogging through a legal templating application . Effluxion is a legal term usually relating to an expiry on an agreement by the passage of time.

But, it could also be applied to many other scenarios. Perhaps you’d like to suggest some in your comments.

And look, I’ve wasted a full 20 minutes doing this! Yay!

Burned…

•March 16, 2008 • 2 Comments

As part of my defection strategy from this strange, irritating little workplace I’m in, I lied.

Sort of.

One of the questions asked of me during the interview process was ‘can you weld?’. Yes, yes I can, I reply, referring, of course to the several weeks in junior high school when I was given a State-mandated basic crash course in how not to kill or maim myself (or others) with an oxy-acetylene welder. If I was capable of sticking some bits of metal together so much the better.

The girls got cooking lessons. It was a different world…

Anyways it occurred to me that burning holes in things with an old oxy torch is probably not what they had in mind. So, my brother in law Bernie was called in. Bernie runs workshops with troubled youth where they do metal work, and get their frustrations out by smashing things in a forge, using oversize grinders, and basically doing the sort of blokey things that eventually, to their surprise get them apprenticeships and jobs.

And after a day of playing with MIG and stick  welders (the most likely types of welders I’m likely to encounter in the field) I remembered an important thing….

Electric arcs produce UV rays. UV rays burn skin. So, I’ve got a nice sunburn (not strictly sunburn, but sounds better than EM radiation burn, which is  exactly what it is…) all over the front of my left arm. I’ve been a bit of a sunscreen nazi all my life, so it’s an unfamiliar burn..

So, it’s back to waiting by the ‘phone. They’ll call today, I hope… and then I’ll be free…

Defection…

•March 12, 2008 • 1 Comment

The last time my boss pissed me off (told me to change the whole architecture of the application I’ve been developing because he wants to include a ‘jukebox’ component with his son’s band in it… and doesn’t get that it’ll require another week of work to do (adding audio support, making and adding another module, trying to find a sensible place to put it), pushing the release back by that week, costing several thousand in wages alone simply because he’s trying to suck up to his kid… look daddy’s put your music in daddy’s product! Love me!) I cracked the shits and applied for another job, this time as an environmental scientist.

Strange, I hear you say, aren’t you a 1337 h8×0r? Well, this coding gig is actually a hobby that got waaaay out of hand… I have a postgraduate degree in Chemistry/Math that I normally just use to impress girls at parties. (My name’s Adam Landow, B.Sc/Math(hons)(Newc)! It’s almost a Dr, honestly babe) but I decided to use my bit of paper to try and land a job somewhere else. To be honest I never thought I had a chance, only once having worked in a lab and it not really working out after 3 months…

Turns out that the company is looking for someone that is handy in the field, and can write programs to automate a lot of their monitoring stations… I used to be into robotics a bit, and have actually set up some things to operate remotely before, and got excited… then they got excited… then I told them I’m an amateur mechanic (true- I do most of the work on my car, except the things like wheel alignments you need a special tool for, but replacing a gearbox or head gasket is definitely within my range of ability) and they got even more excited…

So, I may be defecting from this lovely little cubicle farm. I have a second interview in a few days…