pieces of my mind..

been writing this blog in points over the past 2-3 days.... now am filling it up :)

* Shikapores
Zewwish (a.k.a Yasmine, a.k.a. Zeww) started this story series, called "Tea Cup Wars" when she was feverish one time.. i can paste parts of it sometime. anyway so "Shikapores".... hmmm we were talking one time and her nose is all blocked and she says "i will continue tea cup wars" so i go like "what shikapores?!" :)
Shikapores also features a character that was "inspired" by me.. A squirrel! :) this squirrel was very friendly.. it was really really a nice interesting creature (and no, am not writing that just because i know *YOU* are reading it, but its one of the reasons ;)) So Squirrel was nice and all, but he/she/it kept knowing the wrong creatures all the time.. no wonder he (or she or it.. probably she) was getting beaten/bitten/pushed/shoved/or hurt :) Squirrel befriended a snake once, a camel (altho she thought it looked more like a fish), a gorilla, a horse, and a phoenix (yes yes, that legendary bird DOES actually exist! Squirrel saw it).. (Note to the reader: Zewwish probably does know as much details as I do about her own creation ;))
She kept looking for a creature that matched the Squirrelship Highness of her dream. Meanwhile, Sq. met White Rabbit (the protagonist of the story, being Zewwish herself ;))
Anyway, Z thinks Sq oughts to meet another squirrel sometime and stick to it... However, truth is that Sq -being the "nut-lover"that she is- never liked to stick to her own kind.. she liked to explore the world out there.... who knows, maybe next time its a frog she befriends!

* The Island
saw the movie.. liked it... will probably review it in the upcoming ITWorx newsletter (i was supposed to submit the articles 3 days ago!)

* Intuition
no.. i wont talk about that... i had a reason to talk about it when i put that point, but not now..

* Deus Ex Machina and Karembu
weirdly enough, Karembu talks about Deus Ex Machina in his last blog.. "weirdly enough" because i'd written about it recently to a cultural e-group keda (PTP).. check the definition in Karim's blog... wikipedia also mentioned the Stephen King uses it a lot (yes ya Kareem -not Karim-, King himself uses it!)

* My cellular phone
it's very very sick.. it had a nasty fall and now its signal is very very weak... if you know me, you'd know how accidents really do happen with this phone and me.. i had it covered with honey once, with orange juice another time.. it fell in a bath tub, on hard floor, i thew it instead of throwing a kleenex.. in short, its not really having the time of its life.. its not even having a life!

* What am reading these days
American Gods by Neil Gaiman... Mai & Sherif (sorry Duke, i mean you only, Sherif) brought it to me :) i LUV it... it is very very very interesting.. A fantasy that searches into the soul of America in a really really nice way, the most interesting and surprsing ways of all..

* Barcelona
i dont remember what i wanted to say here... i went to Barcelona when i was graduating to attend a smartcard workshop and i loved it (the workshop and Barcelona :)).. more on that later...

* The Unbloggable
i was at Diwan yesterday... got this "thing" hmmm i dont know what to call it.. its one of these notebooks with blank (not lined) pages and leather binding.. they have a special "Tribute to Salah Jaheen" Collection.. i dont personally like him at all... but i wanted to get one of them notebooks so i thought might as well get an interesting one... i got a nice one.. will write the verse on its cover here soon (but not now because i dont feel like arabic typing now).. i decided to write there as well all the "unbloggable" thoughts, feelings, ideas, and just put it down on paper.. it will be for personal use only...

* http://print.google.com
Check this one out!!! Just found it out by pure chance...
actually i came to it while searching for a joke i read a long ago that went like:

How many IBM tech writers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
100. Ten to do it, and 90 to write document number GC7500439-0001, Multitasking Incandescent Source System Facility, of which 10% of the pages state only "This page intentionally left blank", and 20% of the definitions are of the form "A ...... consists of sequences of non-blank characters separated by blanks".

(I worked at IBM for 2 years, so believe me i know what am talking about here ;))

* A bunch of nerdy lightbulb jokes

How many Unix Support staff does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Read the man page!

How many developers does it take to change a light bulb?
The light bulb works fine on the system in my office . . . (LOL)

How many MS tech supports does it take to change a light bulb?
"The light bulb doesn't work? You must be using a non-standard socket." (wicked!)