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This is just amazing.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/481

I’ve never really watched any TED Talks but…wow!
Fair enough, walking around with such a device would make you look like a complete looser… But I already am. YAY!

Happy new year to…most people.

I hope the year to come brings you all happiness and joy…or something like that. Now go get drunk!

New subject: Cooking!
That’s right, I cook…well, I’m learning to cook. Kinda a necessity for life…

So tonight I found a recipe for Dill Pancakes which suggested fillings.

Ingredients:
1 cup (200g) oat flour (or normal flour)
1 whole egg
1/2 (100ml) cup water
1 tablespoon olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
~1-2 tablespoons dill to taste

Prep:

Put flour, egg and water in bowl and whisk into pancake batter consitency.
Add Dill and drop of oil and whisk further.
Pour thinly onto preheated, greased frying pan (I used a 6″ base frying pan)
Flip pancake (no tricks now)
Repeat for rest of batter.

I got 3 pancakes out of this… I could have pushed it to 4 cause my first two were quite thick.

On the side, prepare what you want for filling.
I decided on:
Fresh prawns (big handful),
Sliced spring onions (2)
Diced pepper (1/2 bell pepper)

Next time I might try something with tuna mayo or other fishy product.

As all the guys in the office love Kimbo Slice (See this FIGHT)

-and its Xmas time and we’re putting up Xmas decorations in the office including our Xmas tree. However, our sad little tree does not have an angel.

So someone suggested we put Kimbo Slice on top, which led to someone else suggesting make it xmassy, which led my TL to suggest I use my photoshop skills to make it so…

And I did!

Also made a whiter variation which, as there is alot more editing, looks worse.

After seeing this comic at work (On a lunch break obviously) We all started discussing other good names. We only got 2. But still…

• Dead and loving it.
• Bored stiff?

Please comment with more

I like this!

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Apparently on 30/10/2009, there were only 3 people using the flumes at the pool I do occasional hours at.
So, needless to say, the lifeguards up at the top of the flumes were very bored. More so than usual!
And we were too on 1/11/2009 – So we continued the genius work.

This is the result:

These were all created with cut flume tickets and stuck to the wall with water. Good times!

Its always so difficult to find that one piece of Lego you need: http://bit.ly/97dgf

On a serious note, this is pretty sick! Stop throwing out plastic.

I left Aberdeen 2 years ago after a change in my life which, in all honesty, made me want to run away.
Within those two years I moved a total of 6 times from one flat to another.

Those two years were quite eventful. I made some great new friends and some enemies too. Relationships were built and broken, some more disastrous than others! But some which are stronger than the ancient pyramids which stand today.
I also managed to start development of my career in IT, alas the money was abysmal, but the experience has been invaluable. (Such as never ever work for capgemini.)

An exciting journey it has been, but my time to move on came and I hauled ass back to Aberdeen. For one, I love the place. For two, the IT market is better and I have the ability to learn more, earn more and become alot better at what I do. And for three, I can be happy in my life again.

Not that Inverness made me depressed… well actually it did! I made some mistakes (BIG fucking mistakes too…bitch) but nothing I’d ever change because I wouldn’t be here without them and I wouldn’t have learned from them and become a better person. [Even though in more debt than I should - c'est la vie] but I have the chance to bounce back from these and move on in a better direction.
Because now I have a plan. I’ve got alot to learn and many challenges ahead but I’m fully prepared to get my hands dirty because I know the outcome will be fantastic! Even in just 3-4 months.