hypeRory: all my pretty boys...

I started naming my gadgets in 2005 when I got my first�eXternal HardDrive, (XHD)�.�His name was "Colossus" because he was huge. (100GB at that time was pretty respectable, and he had his �own power supply and he was hot, like the X-Men character.)

Then when I went to the States in 2007 I got "Orpheus", my Sony sports walkman. If you're not a mythology geek, Orpheus was a musician who went into the underworld to rescue his beloved.. but he ended up losing her anyway. See the music link? I loved this player, but nowadays his battery life is shot and like the doomed protagonyst, my Orpheus is on his way to the land of the dead.

"Spartacus" was my next XHD, and this time a portable one.�

120GB for geekery, music, stock art files, etc. Basically everything I couldn't store in my work-issue laptop.�

"Nautilus" was my 8GB Voyager flash drive... because the logo was of a Corsair and Nautilus was the big ship

"Galactus" is my latest XHD. 250GB.�so-named because he is the devourer of worlds, or at least a world of�geekery (music, movies, some anime)

"Nuntius" is the latin word for messenger, which is a perfect name for my Smart �Bro Wifi modem. However, the service isn't the best and it being pre-paid is even worse, so recently I got a new dongle for my Sun Wifi plan (great service so far) and I named him "Phoebus" which is another name for Helios or Apollo, or the Sun-god.�

"Cerberus" is a 2GB thumb drive, so-named because it was a mule for geekery between me and Inukai (Inu = dog in Japanese), and more recently I got "Nunimus" (4GB) for the same purpose. He was inspired to name his thumb drives�"Phyxius" (God of flight) and "Optimus" (the Transformer). These 4 babies are sort of shared-custody and they transfer parentage on Tuesdays.

And then there's "Octopus",�my laptop, so-named because when all these other things are plugged in, my laptop does look a bit like an octopus.

��--�This is Octopus keeping me company in the Chiang Rai airport after the CoFM conference in Thailand last summer.

Most recently, and this deviating slightly from my naming convention, is "Hercules" my new iPod nano, from my not-so-imaginary-boyfriend (who happens to remind me of the aforementioned Disney hero.) �So the slight deviation from the "-us" suffix can be explained away by the "us-relationship"implied by the gift. Or maybe I'm overintellectualizing things again.�

Anyway, so now I'm being wooed by apple products. Can't complain, but I sense this is the foreshadowing of my dreaded conversion to Apple-ation.�

hypeRory: my mother on fb chat.. funny stuff..

3:47pmLillian

hello baby

are you in the office

3:48pmAurora

im at home

Uriah just got online

he just got back from IL, back home in WA

3:48pmLillian

ay may kaagaw ako sa buhay ng anak ko

3:48pmAurora

haha

3:48pmLillian

hu hu

3:48pmAurora

ok lang yan

so back to what we were talking about

can you email it to me

because i can't save the chats on facebook

3:49pmLillian

okay

how is he?

what did he think about his conversation with pa

dugay kaayo mosulat uy

duggggggggggggggggaya uy

dugggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggga

yaaaaaaaaaaa

what time are you going to work

3:52pmAurora

maa

i went to get my noodles

3:52pmLillian

yes

3:52pmAurora

you're so funny

3:52pmLillian

ok sige

hypeRory: six weeks! (rory's brain burps)

After a few failed attempts to meet up in Makati over the last few weeks, Dawn and I finally met up unexpectedly at our friend Liz Claudio's bowling and pizza party last week. Our best laid plans never materialize, but stuff still happens.. which is really cool!

hypeRory: truth thursday #29: thicket of undigested experiences

Taken from my journal... around the time I was right in the middle of Hope Alive...


Nuff said.
or twist your neck trying to read what i wrote on the right...

hypeRory: Most Obnoxious Geek in the World

I finally found it!!! I've been racking my brains to think of where this image of the most obnoxious and geekiest geek and it's this guy. JP, the "bad guy" from the b-movie Grandma's Boy (Boy, did i watch a lot of crappy movies in college..) �He's �a game developer who dresses up like Neo (yes children, from the Matrix) and speaks in a robot voice for kicks. �Annoying little bugger...�

"The villain in this story is the Matrix-suited creator of the video game that Alex is working on. This robot voiced Neo worshipper is too uneven to be interesting and much too annoying to be funny."[source]

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Donya Quixote: Yahoo.

Wala lang. I just want to say na hindi na identical ang mga posts ko dito at ang posts ko sa totoong blog ko. Ever since I moved to wordpress.

Yun lang.

Here's the link: HERE!

Donya Quixote: Yahoo.

Wala lang. I just want to say na hindi na identical ang mga posts ko dito sa posts ko sa totoong blog ko. Ever since I moved to wordpress.

Yun lang.

Here's the link: HERE!

hypeRory: Hello hello hello

Just put in the tagboard.... Wala lang.

hypeRory: facelift

the headless chickens site has a new face!!!

News... well, this summer is the last summer the whole family is gonna be together for a looong time. Next sem, Chev's going to enter UP, I'm going back to Ateneo and Father Dearest is gonna be jetting off all over SE Asia for his study. So Josh and Ma are gonna be left in Baguio, all alone. Well, at least unless Pito ( preteen boy cousin. 'Nuff said. ) moves in for the year. All I will say on that matter is "Good luck keeping your sanity, mum. And don't count on me coming up to Baguo as often!"

And I just thought this pic was cute. So here...

hypeRory: from SugarJunkie

Heller mortals! SugarJunkie is back in school. the 2nd semester looks promising. One and a half more years to go till Graduation, and then it's off to France... And then to a real Job. Then gonna find Prince Charming and live happily ever after... (Yeah right) --SugarJunkie