Ritual

I just spent the last few minutes with a work mate trying to figure out how many calories he consumes when he "goes out on the piss" (get's drunk). Google, once again, provided the answers. According to www.calorie-count.com, my mate consumes upwards of 10,000 calories on vodka and red bull's alone on a single night. Somebody stop him. The cool thing about that site is that it rates each food you enter on a US grading system (A, B, C, etc). It took awhile, but I finally found a food with an A rating - Tuna. Everything else (including fruits) was B- or worse. Vodka, ironically, was rated higher than Pineapple. Of course, that's because their rating system is absurd, but hey, it occupied a few minutes and entertained. Bully for me.

Speaking of Google, I'm a little offended at Microsoft's new search engine. They're taking on Google now, providing a "unique" search service that's only been offered by Ask Jeeves since 2003. I'm referring to the "ask a question" service. In other words, you can type in, "What's the capital of Bolivian" (if you're Mike Tyson) and it will tell you. Alternatively, you could go to Google and type "Bolivian" and "capital" and save yourself the extra 5 seconds it takes to type the full question. I'd say that I'm offended because Google provides a nice service, it's no frills, and I don't want the giant stomping on them, but that would ultimately be wide of the target. No, ultimately, I'm offended because when I typed in "nobcentral", it couldn't find the site. Get with it microsoft.

Anyway, I'm a little conflicted about something in the house. I think I mentioned it before, but here's the real story. There is basically one guy who constantly downloads movies or other large files. He's in the computer room pretty much every time I go in there and it's becoming a problem. See, when you have 3 desktops and 5 laptop connections and one jackass is filling up the pipe with his multiple 100 meg downloads, well, it pretty much renders the whole internet in the house useless. Now, how do I know it's him? Well, one time when his computer was there and he was not, I checked it out, saw what he was doing, unplugged his ethernet cable, and got to work on the internet. Prior to that, I had not been able to even access my email. After unplugging, I had no trouble. So, the dilemna is simple. I've already mentioned this to the guy and nothing has changed. Last night, it wasn't just me, it was a whole string of people denied access. Given that circumstance, do I say something to the House Overlord? He is a bastard, but perhaps this is one situation where his bastardity would pay off to the benefit of all. Hmmm.

Anyway, I've been quite busy at work today (last 15 minutes excluded) and I have quite a bit to do before I leave at 1, so I best run. I'm going to have the tastiest sandwich on the planet after work, so I'm excited about that. For £3.20, you really can't beat the price or the quality. Yes, this is a ritual.