Insanity in a box

Since I'm a bastard to please, I've again switched away from ion3. I'm now back to using Openbox 3 as my work environment, though I believe it to be suboptimal for my workflow. Call me fickle. Details under the cut.

( The Geekery Follows... )

Just watched the latest episode of House, and wow. The killer scene, I have to admit is between House and Cuddy. House has just ordered the candidates to steal Cuddy's thong, and someone has purportedly done it. House wants to check:

(House intentionally drops his bottle of Vicodin, Cuddy bends over to pick it up)
House: (wide-eyed) OH. MY. GOD! You're not wearing underwear!
Cuddy: Of course I am, I—
House: Skirt that tight, you got no secrets. Skirt that tight, I can tell if you've got an IUD. Seen Dr. Cole?
Cuddy: No...
House: You're blushing.
Cuddy: I am not.
House: Look at me.
(Cuddy turns to House)
House:OH. MY. GOD.

Of course, it's way funnier when you watch it.

That and the ending, which I'm not spoiling.

Yes, I haven't updated in months, and what do I do when I first update?

I post a freakin' meme. Good grief. :)

In any case, here are twenty random facts about myself. (In a past life, I once answered a similar meme (warning: Friends-only Post)). No, you will not be tagged.

1. I'm currently busy with real life— and that includes finishing school. Blech.
2. If you already didn't know, I absolutely love sinigang.
3. I am a little shy over 5'7", and am underweight, tipping the scales at 120 lbs. However, I have a tendency to eat like there's no tomorrow.
4. I prefer walking to taking a PhP 7.50 jeepney ride.
5. My alcoholic drink of choice is a Long Island Tea.
6. My cold, non-alcoholic drink of choice is Dr. Pepper, if available.
7. Yes, I like coffee. Coffee is good. Coffee is teh sex.
8. I have fond memories of the Pearl Drive Cinnzeo branch— I once sat down with a friend and consumed 6 or 8 cups of coffee— because they were offering free refills. Yes, my memory of just how many cups is hazy. Sue me.
9. In high school, a computer science teacher gave me a nickname patterned after a particularly famous computer businessman. Don't ask.
10. I dislike ube jam, quail eggs, and sinigang sa bayabas.
11. I have never been anywhere in the Philippines outside of Luzon, but have been to Hong Kong and the US.
12. I saw a copy of Satre's Being and Nothingness in the UA&P library and was in fact tempted to borrow the copy and actually read it out of sheer masochism.
13. I can never picture myself as being married, for some reason
14. I have an affinity for quotes
15. I am a geek and, hell, I'm proud of it. Hell, yeah!
16. This list was done while helping fellow users in an Internet shop I frequent.
17. I occasionally sleep in my underwear.
18. Booksale and Books for Less are two shops I frequent. I have to occasionally dig through the romance novels though...
19. Only my relatives call me by my second name, Michael. Everyone else calls me by my nickname, JM. However, if I catch you calling me Michael or Mike, I will cringe, wince, and probably glare.
20. I have a tough time keeping to schedules.

This is a really lame update. Okay, maybe it's not that lame...

In any case, this update is brought to you by the letters H and B, and the number 1.

( In pictures (WARNING: HIGH BANDWIDTH, PICTURES; 800x600 linked to 1280x960) )

... with a dog leash. Good grief.

From Slashdot: On Google and Microsoft and Being Evil: a Slashdot user's comment on it all.

Someone set us up the applications!.

After lunch...

Me: You know, I've been trying my hand at poetry lately...
Roanna: That's 'cause you're so Cyrano right now.
Me: Of course not. I don't have the nose for it.

Because of an abysmal turn of events, I have caught the cold. My throat feels like someone has been rubbing it with sandpaper— or rather, it feels like someone rammed a sanding machine down my throat and put it on high while humming the opening bars to Bohemian Rhapsody. My nose is a frickin' faucet, with the strange thing being that it seems only one nostril is blocked. Makes me wonder whether this rhinovirus has a cruel sense of humor— yeah, block one of his nasal passages and keep him alive by keeping the other free. Go figure.

Damned weather. (Shakes fist). You will not cow me! I am the great Jan Michael Ibañez! (Thunder and lightning). Hey, where— what— no, no, no, don't put me in that jacket again... I promise, I'll be a good boy and —

We now return you to your regularly scheduled LJ drama. We apologize for the interruption. In the meantime, enjoy the plushies.

... Or, how to slaughter a list of 101 cliche ideas from some (I'm guessing) teeny-bopper. Here and here. Was trying to suppress my laughter while reading the two.

(If you don't have a cynical sense of humor, be forewarned.)

Seen: Along Tramo, a giant billboard: Cebu Pacific now serves Jollibee on Manila-Cebu-Manila and Manila-Davao-Manila flights.

How come I find this terribly... apt?