‘My codes are perfect’

Hello my lovelies and blubies.

I was going to wait until my new camera arrived before I did another blog post so I could post up a video of the campus and where I live etc. But it won’t be here for another couple of days and it will probably take me a week to work out how to use the editing software properly. I sneaked a naughty copy of CyberLink PowerDirector from DC before I left.

So here’s some news. I’m getting a new camera!

What, you know already? Lies!

It’s a little HD number I ordered so I can film myself having sex with women I pay.

Why you ask? Simple reason. In England prostitution is legal (something I only found out after I left, pffft) but in America it is illegal (land of the free indeed). However if you film it and turn it into a porn film. Then not only is it not illegal, but you can make back the money you pay the escort as well. Everybody is a winner. Especially society.

The picture on the right might be a slight exaggeration. But I think you’ll agree it is just a telling of future events.

So I finally got around to making my first trip to see the sights of America outside of the already glamourous enough South Bend. And it is to…

…New York! The Big Apple. The Shining Metrotopia. The Money Maker. The Hobo’s paradise. The Granny Killer. The Skyscraper’s Tea Room.

It actually started of as trip to join Matt in a gaming convention in Connecticut land. But he said he wasn’t interesting in starring in any of my porn films. So I’m going to New York instead. Skevoulla’s been kind enough to put me up for the weekend and show me the sights. Call me crazy but I won’t be taking my new camera with me . I do have a little crappy one though I’ll take with me so I’ll see what I can get out of that.

Plodrick won’t be coming either . But honestly he says he’s alright with that. He’s not a big fan of big cities being a turtle and all. He’s going to attend to my crops while I’m away. The Goat arrived as well by the way. Here he is .

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Shit, there’s a mix up. Better make some phone calls later.

My work was also kind enough to give me a bike. Yay!

I was also stupid enough to lose the key a few days afterwards. I get to walk past it everyday now as I walk into work. I should ask them if they have a spare but you know when you have that feeling that you’re only one day away from finding the keys again.

It also turns out that a British accent and a Blazer if enough to pass for ID in some places. They’re more than happy to serve you alcohol in a restaurant especially.

Now you’re all interesting, open-minded, adventure seeking people I’m sure. So a lot of you have probably looked into travelling abroad and doing volunteer work and the like. A friend recommended me this website the other day that I think is worth point out

International Volunteer HQ

You’ve probably seen a lot of places like Bunac, Student Volunteers, other Volunteer schemes etc. The problem with most of them is you pay out your arse for just a month or two. IVHQ I quite like the look of because for most of the placements you can choose anywhere between one week and six months. And they have a bloody load of places you can go. The standard price for a six month volunteer being ~$2750 (US dollars), covering everything (including accommodation and food) except flights and insurance.

My dream would be to do four different placements, each three months long. Where I’d cover South America, Africa and East Asia. But of course it all boils down to money and an Irish Stew. So I’ll be saving up when I can and I’ll see what I can afford at the end. High on the list though is Panda Conservation in China (yay pandas) and Turtle Conservation in Costa Rica. This makes Plodrick very happy . See he’s smiling.

There are also some of you out there who seem to find stuff like Physics interesting. Well I like to cater for all crowds. So he’s a little info on the work I’m doing at Notre Dame. I’ll cut a long story interesting though and spice it up a bit.

Basically there’s this big olde contraption in the basement under the physics building which likes to fire nuclei and ions together to form into a super-ion (super-ion being the same ion as before but with four extra nuclei). The super-ion then when it’s finished from saving redheads from burning buildings goes through a shit load of magnets so only the worthy super-ions can survive. During these dangerous trials there are often loads of leaky beams. Beams that leak evil everywhere. The worthy super-ions then crash into a detector and machines go beep and science happens!

And there we replicate the reactions that happen in stars! We are Gods in our basement!

My actual work is to make those leaky beams go away using the power of Jesus and some fancy C++ coding. I also do some crazy simulations so they know what equipment would best suit the detector but that’s not for a while yet.

I’ve bored myself now so here’s a picture of me at work.

Interestingly enough if you want to see the detector at any given point in the day or night. There’s a camera set up in the corner of one of the rooms it occupies that takes a photo every five minutes and uploads it here.

If you’re lucky you might even see me walking around pretending that I’m being of use.

 

 

Current Ben and Jerry’s count:

- nine eaten, forty-six to go