the P.Pole v.2.1

I bring you the latest in conscious photo-spectra alteration! Hueman is the latest superbeing (heroic or otherwise) I’ve cooked up. As his name suggests, his power has to do with changing the colours of just about anything. I’m gonna go ahead and say he achieves this by changing the orientation of valence electrons on the shells of the materials. When they jump back and forth (my chemistry is already fuzzy but I remember this) they will give off radiation in the form of light, with the frequency corresponding to different colours on the visible spectrum (or something like that).

Apart from the most obvious application of embarrassing adversaries by changing their clothing or “pimp-mobiles” to some set of clashing pallettes, Hueman has some other tricks up his proverbial sleeves. For example, he could potentially wreak havoc on organized henchmen in uniform. By changing the shade of their red tights to say, yellow, there would be instant pandemonium as they begin quarrelling over who has the “tightest” tights. He would also be a great poster-boy for liberty among teenagers in grey and black school uniforms.

Another great advantage he has over super-personas (such as Batman or Superman) would be that his name is almost identical in spelling and pronounciation with “human”, thus making talks about him that much easier to conceal. This lends itself to a greater amount of sneakiness as he goes about doing his colour-changing thing and people start talking. The only downside is one would never be quite sure who is being talked about when discussing this masked (he’ll probably be masked) super.

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5 things I’m taking to residence:

• Water filter (Brita) pitcher and replacement filters
• Notebook and accessories (case, mouse, keyboard, rack, external drives, and USB hub)
• Stationary (paper notebooks, Pencil Case of Ultimate Power, and book-propping stand)
• Small (60 x 80 cm) desk with wheels and height-adjustable for my computer and maybe writing
• Clothes, many many clothes

This is my last week at home before I move out for the better part (at the very least) of the coming year. I plan on returning to Toronto every two or three weeks but that is not for certain yet. Surely, I must return but I don’t know just yet how the bus schedules will work out.

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• Good golly I enjoy my new keyboard. The MBP keyboard is alright, and so far in very great condition, but this keyboard feels great and i … +

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Note: I originally wrote this up on August 7 but I failed to realize it hadn’t posted properly.

Don’t be flustered if the name makes little sense to you. Apart from the obvious drawing upon similar initials (MBP), there is little else public about my brand spanking new Macbook Pro and her name.

Miss Bellamy (just “Belle” for short) arrived yesternoon, at the security desk and Khalid (one of the various security guards) signed for her delivery. I got bored of waiting for them to write up a pink slip and put it in my mailbox, so I checked the online tracking form manually at around 3:00 PM. When I found that Belle had been waiting for me since noon but had been held up by the guard, I immediately printed off a copy of the online proof of delivery and marched on down to the lobby.

After a few moments of waiting for Khalid to process the parcel and signing for her pick-up, I brought the large box home and carefully (but excitedly) started unpacking her. I have since installed a tonne of stuff, scrapped a tonne of crap (thanks to Herman for pointing out Xslimmer to me), and got a lot of stuff set up just right. In fact, I have only turned on my PC system once since meeting Belle, and that was only when I accidentally bumped into the oversized ON/OFF button. It didn’t mean anything Belle, I swear!

I’m writing you now, thoroughly pleased with my decision to buy a MBP (Macbooks are nice, but are they this sexy?). I’m almost certain no one is particularly interested in the photos I took while unboxing Belle so I won’t go to the trouble of downloading (from my camera) and then uploading (to my server) the pics. Anyway, totally badass. OS X Leopard (I’m on 10.5.4, most up-to-date version, I think) took a little time to get used to but after I did, I am loving it. I wouldn’t go as far as to totally disown Windows (say what you will, but Microsoft and its Windows was really one of the main reasons behind why we’ve got a PC in virtually every home, at least in the Global North, and that’s something to be applauded). I still use an XP iteration (stripped of the bloat and slipstreamed thanks to Adwin) as my Boot Camp to game on.

Anyway, I don’t regret for even a second paying out tonnes of money (which I’ve rationed out of my leftover scholarship funds) for my Pro + Touch + upgrades + accessories. There are a few things I don’t mind spending more than usual on (clothing and shoes are not part of them), and these will be new additions to that small, small list of elite purchases.

This morning I headed across the street with family in tow and we hit up the opening sale of the sports apparel store inside Woodside, across the street. Now, stalkers can trace me even more precisely! In any case, we got in and saw a variety of tasty deals (such as my two new pairs of Hurleys and my Adidas duffel).** After driving to Scarborough Town Center and being sorely disappointed at the lack of Old Navy jeans going for $12 (television ads, you lie to me). My parents and sister had to go downtown (father for a work-related exhibition, and my mom and sister for the CNE). I ended up hitting up the Best Buy for a keyboard skin (so stuff doesn’t get in the cracks). The iSkin key-condoms were almost $30, whereas a sexy little USB wired, Microsoft media keyboard was only $20, so I ended up opting for the keyboard (of my dreams) over an overpriced piece of rubber. I abandon the rubber as soon as Amy leaves town on a family roadtrip, it seems.

To get to the point of the post’s title, I got home after this slight spending sexcapade and saw an episodes of Superships (or something to that effect) on the Discovery Channel. This one happened to be talking about a small fleet of ships called Super Servants, originally designed to carry (within themselves/on board) destroyer sized ships after some war or something in Europe. That is more or less irrelevant since now they ferry yachts, mostly between Port Everglades, Florida, and European harbours.

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