Saturdays Suck

This morning I woke up uncharacteristically early (10am), and decided it would be a good idea to continue tidying my room, and found the power dvd 4 cd that came with a £25 DVD drive, so I thought I'd upgrade from the old version. And of course I had to test it out. But with so much to do, I thought it would be a good idea if I didn't watch a whole film, just enough to see it work. So I chose Air Force One, but I forgot it started with a gun fight. Oops.

Mehh, Saturdays are always unproductive. I only have a few hours before I have to get ready for pubbage. So now I'm watching Voyager. I just noticed some aliasing in sickbay. AAAARGGH OH MY GOD, WHAT HAS MY COMPSCI COURSE DONE TO ME?!

But like I said, I have been tidying my room. This holiday I have thrown away all the stuff in my room that I didnt want, put everything else into folders and drawers etc. I also built a new computer, shifted hard drives round and installed debian on mir and chili (which used to be my main desktop), and gentoo onto the new machine. On Thursday, I think I took things too far... I put elastic bands round as many cables as I could find.

You know how cables manage to tangle themselves while they're just sitting there in the drawer? And how you never know how they manage it? Well, I know why. It's the cable gnomes (close relatives of the underpants gnomes, sp 217); phase 1: tie cables into knots, phase 3: profit. No? Well, you come up with a better explanation, I dare ya.

I have tried quite a few things to stop them; I tried just coiling the cables up, but that was easy for the gnomes to do their satanic work. Wrapping the cables round cardboard was ok for a while, but the ends just flapped around, and they were evidently all too easy for the gnomes to get the ends off and tie them all together. I've tried coiling the cables and tying the ends of individual cables together, but they're too easy to untie. However, the elastic bands seem to be too tight for the gnomes to undo, and my cables just sit there. Result! So I now have nearly three boxes of elastic bands keeping my cables tidy, and another drawer to band up.

Woo for Saturdays...

Comments

weebl

Don't you see? The Gnomes were created by the companies that manufacture cable tidy's/elastic bands..... :D :p

radiac

Argh, it's all starting to make sense!

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