Life and stuff

Every so often I’ll get into a conversation with someone and a mention of Wushu comes up.  And its a great martial art, except its hard to describe to someone other than saying “its what they did in Crouching Tiger”.  That usually works, but its kind of a poor example, considering the Wushu pros in China couldn’t stand the bad fighting scenes.

Anyhow, here’s a pretty neat clip showing off the Beijing Wushu team in one of their more recent performances:

2006_beijing_wushu_tour.mov  (link expires after 30 days)

A combination of these despair.com posters exactly describes my current state of mind:

… when you and your S.O. can have matching nose-jobs for Valentines (bbc)?

And, for those of us who think of the day as SAD, look on the bright side. You didn’t blow a load of money on roses or chocolates. Or, in one of my coworkers’ cases, $500 diamond earrings …

… Despair style …

At around 6pm my project lead tells me that upper management wants me to give a presentation on my embedded system tomorrow. “Just a few slides” he says …

I feel dirty charging this to the government.