Hidden Agenda

I am a farmer who raise ducks and cows. The animals have a total of 9 heads and 26 feet. How many ducks and cows do I have?
Submitted by The BlueTie.

Considering each duck 2 feet and each cow 4, it would have to be 5 ducks and 4 cows.

Cows & Ducks

...Lots of things needling me right now, can't talk will try to come back ASAP

Sorry for not keeping up...

The Management

Who inspires you to be the person you are today?
Submitted by meuuy.

I guess it would have to be a cousin who passed away some years back. Although she was a couple of years older than me, she never minded hanging out with the future geek that I was when I was a kid as she shared some of my intellectual curiosity that fuels my being.

What is your legacy?
Submitted by Beautifully Broken.

I'm not self-absorbed enough to think I'll leave nothing but a carbon footprint at the end of the day, but if I am to be remembered, I hope it's as a reminder to never take ANYTHING for granted.

I'm not a number, I'm a cheap man

So, this is it Bonaventure, Victory Square, a new era in my travails at BigMediaCo begins. I have to admit it's not bad, although it's a lot more utilatarian with the ventilation systems hanging on the ceiling bare and all the wires running like a blue-hued highway above our heads.

As luck would have it, my chair was one of the lone casualties of the move as it was broken and I had to pick another one. Both my trash can and recycle bin are missing but there are minor problems, everything else is here. Work-wise, my PC is up and running, but my phone is off.

Having been used to have the company make these kind of operations on extended week-ends, instead of 2 days and a half like this time, I am pleasantly surprised on how few problems remains.

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In the news, I was overjoyed to read that, not only has Bombardier will finally release the oft-shelved CSeries, but that it will be produced in La Belle Province. Nationalistic chest-thumping aside, I think it's only fair for a local company to concentrate his endeavours in its place of origin.

Looking at how so many of the Crème-de-la-crème of our industries has fallen into the hands of foreign companies, it's nice that they chose to produce here instead of Mexico, Ireland, or Kansas...

Let's hope this plane will suffer less of the mechanical problems that plagued the Q400 series.

Fantasia

Fantasia-wise, went to Akanbo Shojo,which filled my quota of scholk movies for the rest of year (grin). Seriously, after reading some comparison to Chucky of Child's Play fame, I was a bit apprehensive as to the nature of the movie.

Imagine my surprise to find a taut, suspensful, gory mess of a movie (in a good way). I don't remember who said that these type of movies serve as a release mechanism for an overwrought psyche but I will have to agree in this instance.

3.5 Ramen out of 5

Gravedigger

And finally, to keep with the same theme, here's my MtG Tarot draw of the day, GRAVEDIGGER. Keeping in mind that the past week has been filled with a unhealthy dose of horror and other supernatural movies, It was to be expected that the overflow would affect even the Fates...

So today is my last day at the Viger office, soon (well eventually maybe one day) to become part of one of La Cité's Super Hospital.

Only working half a day as the movers are kicking us out. Gee, what am I gonna do on a sunny Friday afternoon? LOL

I'm kind of sad ghinking I won't be around here anymore. Yesterday, I went snooping around our new location and, while I wasn't able to enter into the office itself, I was able to get up to the door, which made me realize that it will probably be easier if I stopped one stop earlier than first planned.

Of course, it's gonna be involved some changes in my data gatherings. I'm be visiting the Jack of Hearts more often as the Northern Dungeon is too far to travel during my lunch hour. And it's probably gonna imply some changes on what I can pick from the office...

Even at the office, this will imply some changes, ranging from not being able to connect to the web without passing through the molassey firewall, limiting some of my choices, to having the test lab moved away, therefore preventing me from even using the TV on the days the Net went kaput on me.

Expect a lot more stuff from BigMediaCo in my idea bag in the near future, for better or worse...

Epitath

Fantasia wise, I went to see last night Jeong Sik's Gidam last night (side note, I don't know why but Fate is drawing me a lot to Korean movies this year, could be a statistical anomaly).

I understand the need for certain filmmakers to use their work as an exercice of style, and this is a good exemple, if taken to the extreme. Making sense of the 3 intertwined stories was a bit too much for my over-taxed brain.

But there were some hautingly beautiful camera shots and the actors themselves more than hold their own, but in the end, I just wasn't able to appreciate the movie as a story.

2.5 Ramens / 5

Landro Longsgot

No MtG, got instead a Warcraft Tarot draw for you. I've picked LANDRO LONGSHOT.

Not Kenny Rogers, but still a sign I should fold now and leave...

If you could leave notes for the future, what message would you have left in the past for today?
Submitted by Nameless.

Yo, this is your last day on the Field of Mars, you don't need to sweat the small stuff. Trouble will come at its own pace...

What question do you hate being asked?

I would have to say that the question that ticks me off the most is "Why?" Especially when you have spent 5+ minutes explaining your actions and the other person hasn't bothered listenning in to your reasoning.

It's been a weird week so far.

All work and no play makes Captain Random makes...  I need some time away... Maybe next week...

Peat Bog

Not much else to say so let's skip right away to the MtG critic. Hmm PEAT BOG, About as good an analogy to resume what I think of my current workload and all that entails...

Something has been stinking the joint for the past few weeks, and unfortunately there's nothing I can do about it. 

Rythmic music follows my step as I climbed into my sports car. The night is young and the summer heat still reverbates in the city.

Putting my clubs on the back seat and taking out my cigar case of my jacket to leave in the glove compartment, I was about to start the engine when a woman's arm reached out to pull the keys.

She leave an envelope with my name on it and witihin seconds, only a whiff of her perfume is proof of her presence.