Rubenerd

As the sun sets on another day, I have one more post to make in this impromptu Scrabble series. Coincidently, this is also Rubenerd post 3636, if that means anything!

Your Scrabble posts were pointless, Ruben

For someone with a terrible 42% Scrabble win/loss record, a measely top score of 231 and the vocabulary of… someone with a poor vocabularly (see what I did there?) I not only ended my losing streak but did it by winning two games in a row! Granted they were also with fairly average scores of 177 and 186, but still! I also topped my previous record of EARFLAPS with 72 points, with TICKLED/OUTLAND for 84.

While giving me an excuse to post about Scrabble again (I had no idea I'd be mentioning it three times in a row now with my desktop drive icon and stationary shop posts), the point was to simply end the day with a reflection. My mum and I used to play Scrabble, so when she moved on it was placed in the "brings back painful memories" box. Simply put, it's so wonderful to be able to play it again and with good friends. I'm happy ^_^.

Had to use a blank tile!

Thought I'd have a theme to my posts today :).

One of the pointless, nostalgic things I miss about Windows and DOS are drive letters, so this afternoon on a whim I decided to label mine with none other than Scrabble icons by Marc Heatley, and then for something completely different some purple and blue letter icons from Supratim Nayak's fine collection.

Of course, such an endeavour reminded me why drive letters were a dumb idea; in the days of DOS they made more sense given users didn't generally partition their drives, use virtual volumes and had limited physical drives themselves, but thesedays they're redundant and very limiting! I gave up with the network icons and just stuck with X, because they look XTREME.

I'll keep them for a day, if only because they took half an hour to configure that I can't get back. Tomorrow it'll be back to pastries. Don't laugh, these are all very important decisions for the maintainer of any modern computer system; well other than the ones that eschew (gesundheit) desktop icons.

I didn't licence my name under the GPL, Richard Stallman stole it! True story.

An Apple mousepad for my Apple computer!

Posters aside, I haven't bought decorative things in a long time, I've been trying to reduce the amount of stuff I own. Every now and then though, it's worth it :).

For those not in the know, Typo is a store in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore that advertises itself as a "one stop concept store", whatever that means. What I do know is its quite possibly the greatest stationary and design shop out there, even if admitting this will have certain people label you a hipster. They shouldn't bother, they can just buy labels at Typo.

This post originally appeared on the Annexe, in a post series pointlessly documenting every train I took.

R18 from Wynyard to Bardwell Park.

Cleanliness: Sticky

This post originally appeared on the Annexe.

notimetoshinemyrustyhalo:

This is what we need in our streets.

A bit too distracting, but sure looks nice! Why do LED traffic lights have to be round any more?

This post originally appeared on the Annexe.

ifantasizeperfection:

mermaidsouls:

gypsy-minx:

meowchan:

$3.25. $3.25. $3.25 TO SEE THE BEATLES

3 DOLLARS AND 25 CENTS TO SEE THE FREAKING BEATLES.

This post originally appeared on the Annexe.

YES!!! XD

This post originally appeared on the Annexe.

nevver:

Recollection, David Ellis

This post originally appeared on the Annexe, in a post series pointlessly documenting every train I took.

S-Something from Bardwell Park to Wynyard

Cleanliness: Unimaginative tagging everywhere :P

Anyone else notice Wikimedia Common's Picture of the day today?

No Ruben, do tell!

File:On the edge – free world version.jpg

English: Drawing of a fictional landscape with a figure in manga/anime style. The title of this image is: On the Edge. Programs used: GIMP, Inkscape, Blender. ~ Niabot

Okay then, so what?

Aside from being a really colourful and creative image in its own right (love the light coming in through the trees onto the Shinto gate), I applaud the editors at Wikimedia for not only allowing material like this, but gracing their homepage with it for a day and tagging it as "a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons" and "This image has been assessed using the Quality image guidelines and is considered a Quality image". Seriously!

I think it speaks volumes about our culture that images like this warrent a NSFW warning, but gory violence where people are graphically maimed or killed is perfectly acceptable, or at the very least is more leniently censored. I have my suspicions as to why that is, but at the risk of getting into further trouble, I won't discuss it here!

This was the first — and will be the last — NSFW image on Rubenerd.com. I hope I didn't offend, or at the very least scar you for life!

UPDATE: It seems the image isn’t the picture of the day anymore, in the time I wrote this it changed to something completely different. There’s a Monty Python reference in there somewhere. Anyway, dang timezones, I keep forgetting their servers are in the US! There’s probably an archive of previous pictures of the day somewhere on their site.