Category: Tech

Facetiming With The Bear

  • November 8, 2011

Several months ago, my BFF Florence graduated with her PhD (yes, she beat me…) and very soon after went and got herself a bit of a dream job. The only catch: it’s in New Mexico.

At the time she forbade me from doing a ‘Bon voyage’ Florence blog post since she was quite sad about leaving, and I humbly resisted.

But today is her BIRTHDAY and I shall be silent no longer!

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She got herself an iPad and we FaceTime frequently. She’s a funny face timer too, since I’m not sure she realizes there’s a camera on the thing judging by some of the faces she pulls 🙂

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And yes, even as I type this I fear the next face after she has seen what I’ve posted. But hey, it’s her BIRTHDAY and after all the teasing she does to me I figure she can get some back this once.

So Happy Birthday Florence. Kick back, relax, bask in the attention and fabulous gifts and please forgive your BFF for doing exactly as he has always said he would and post these funny pictures to his blog 🙂

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Oh, and the world is waiting for a update to your blog as well! You got us all excited during England and left us hanging 🙂

Epic Loot

  • October 22, 2011

We went to the con with just a carry on bag, but returned with 3 extra large bags full of loot. Amongst the freebies we gladly grabbed were:

– 4 t-shirts (including a Star Wars one)
– 17 30 card MTG intro decks (yes, 17!)
– 6 complete novels (the exact version you’d get in a store). One of these is even autographed!
– 4 comics
– several good-sized tote bags
– Dozens of badges and stickers

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In addition, we spent large amounts of hard-earned cash on such things as:

– 40 comics (most of which cost $0.50 each…)
– 2 Dalek figures (orange and blue, my collection is now complete!)
– the above shown box of Kong trading cards, which cost me only $6
– many sets of trading cards (including Doctor Who companions and Doctor Who movies), at a price of 6 sets for only $10!
– a light switch plate cover 🙂
– several toys (deliberately being non-specific here)
– 2 calendars…
– a Cthulhu t-shirt (pictured in the previous blog entry)
– various books and manga

In addition, there is a large selection of gifts for most of you reading this, which I obviously won’t go into detail about here.

And then there was one last item, which cost me $15, which is so special it is going to get a blog entry all of its own… 🙂