I should be working

But via Boing Boing I found this Self-referential Aptitude Test, an aptitude test with questions about itself. Actually it's a logic puzzle. And now I want to solve it!! Which I'm not going to do. Just yet.

Any Mac-Wizzards out there?

Ever since I bought me an eMac, I've kept on using P.'s old Office software, because of all the people that keep on sending me .doc-formats and because I'm most comfortable using Word as a word processing tool. The important word here is old software. It's designed for Mac's OS 9 environment, so my faithful OS X Panther simulates being an OS 9 and I can still run the old Office. Until this morning. I still had work to do on some preparations for classes this afternoon and the classic environment died on me. It didn't crash, but simply gave up (and started using most of my system until I forced a stop). Bugger that. I don't want to buy new software, because I don't have the money for that. I don't even want to buy Apple's iWork, although I've heard very decent things about it. It's more of a layouting tool, than a word processor and it would still cost me € 79. I just want my old software to work again, but unfortunately I ain't no computer wizz...

Oh what a day it was... Or: Murphy's Law.

Not only did my software decide to stop working, when I came to the platform of the little station where I take the train to school, it was announced that due to a partial strike in protest against unsafety on the trains my train had been exceptionaly abolished. So I trudged home, to take the carkeys, only to end up in a traffic jam, because somewhere along the road some rather expensive cars were waiting to deliver their expensive looking passengers right in front of the door of the place they were heading to. When I came to school the bell had already rung, but classes hadn't started yet. Next I had made the mistake of actually trying to talk about homosexuality with five boys averaging between 16 and 18 – I think, there might be some even older. And to top it all off: Our Madame is a stupid cow.

That said I'm grateful I was PMS-ing last week or otherwise some innocent bystander would have died.

I want...

...a Lego Michel Foucault. Thank you very much.

(Via Torill)