Have job, got haircut, will travel

I, after not having cut my hair since October last year, succumb to the annoyance of getting hair in my face all the time and drastically decide to take a hair trimmer and mow, bend, fold and mutilate my coiff down to 12 mm all over.

It looks somewhat like this (older picture):

Combat report

I update.

• The 3000-word report has been sent in.
  
• My highscore in Bubbles is now 297470.
  

Believe me, those two statements are very disjunct.

Looking forward to the BodyCombat class tomorrow, it will be a special class titled "Master Kick Training". Afterwards the sensei will present me with the sacred green suspenders.

Wil Wheaton dot net and Bubbles

I wrote some more on the report.

When I wasn't doing that, letting ye olde brain ferment (or fester?) for a while, I
played some poker (Texas Hold'Em) online with play money. For an excellent story on playing, se Wil Wheaton's short story quadrilogy "Lying in Odessa", available
here. Four parts, watch out for the links.

I also played a lot of Bubbles. My highscore so far: 127590. Curse you, Jamie, for pointing this out!

Type type type

I am writing a report, as examination of the course in Systems Theory I'm taking. L_AT^EX rocks. But I'm almost getting carpal tunnel syndrome from typing (have to do 3000 words).

Sometimes I can't find the words because they have all piled up in my mind, all vying for attention.

Strange online shopping

I am strange. What I have ordered over the Internet and phone or bought today:

• CD: No Doubt - The Singles
  
• DVD: Aliens - Special Edition
  
• Book: Neal Stephenson - Quicksilver
  
• Books: Tom Clancy - Red Rabbit and Teeth of the Tiger
  
• A saw
  
• Three boxer shorts
  
• About a pound of M&Ms
  
• Enough Omega-3 pills to last six months
  
• A belt
  
• Shaving gel
  
• Kind of a telescopic pen with a magnet at the end
  

I sincerely, truly, deeply hope that I won't be using all of it at the same time. Or rather, that you would think that.

A most eligible bachelor

I send in the application for the course "Bachelor thesis in Computer Science" which will run fall and winter 2004. So, I won't be a B. Sc. soon, but it will happen. I think I'll drop the course in eCommerce I'm taking now, I bit of more than I could chew with (more important and for me, relevant) other coursework. I'm only taking it to get the necessary course credits in Economics (for the Bachelor minor).

I *AM* the law!

I break out in song!

I fought the law and I won, I fought the law and I won.

Yes, yeronner, I hereby testify that on the date of February second in the year of 2004 Common Era, I did intentionally and deliberately, compos mentis per se, and de jure, pass the course Introductory Law.

And now over to the other courses I'm taking this semester...

• eCommerce
  
• Information Security
  
• Systems Theory
  

and in March

• Web Technologies
  

If I keep this up, come autumn and I'll be Martin Hylerstedt B.Sc. (Computer Science). Like it ain't no thang. Word.

The revolution is nigh

I send in my union membership application.

Stand up all victims of oppression...

Snails

I finally finish up reactivating my aquarium, by purchasing some fish and miscellanea.

Three Black Molly (one male), ten neon tetra and one ampullaria (a snail).

I think that's fairly balanced for my aquarium size (50 liters). They're all south american and... the Black Mollies eat primarily from the surface, the tetra down in the water (if you look at how their respective mouths are placed).

And lemme tell ya 'bout the ampullaria! Dat's one busy li'l critter! Nothing sluggish or "at a snail's pace" about that one. It zooms across the glass and the gravel, grazing and nibbling on algae. It's the only lifeform in my aquarium that works for a living. And one fantastic thing: I had saved some plants in a large glass jar to use when I restocked the aquarium and they had a coating of algae. The ampullaria crawled over those and it nibbled away the algae and left the plants themselves untouched. Earlier I've had to remove the plants and scrub them with an old toothbrush to get rid of it. Amazing, well worth its money.

All in all, hopefully a viable biotope. Maybe the mollies will breed. And the ampullaria is a snail, and they're hermaphrodites, so who knows?

Aquarium Internals 101

I go by the aquarium store and purchase a mangrove root, water treatment and two cryptoperyne plants for my recently refilled aquarium. I let it run for a while without anything in it to allow it to "balance".