Poor Charlie.
Lou just came back from 2 weeks in Melbourne doing prac work for her Vet course. We went over to her house so she could do some washing. Jody, the girl house-sitting for her parents, was out. I got to play with Charlie and Tessa for a bit, while Lou got organised. I picked up his poo.
A few hours after we left, Lou got a call from Jody at the UQ Vet Clinic saying that Charlie had fallen down the stairs and suffered serious injuries. We rushed to the clinic.
He has suffered internal trauma; his lungs were operating at a third of their normal capacity, and his heart was beating faster than normal. We got to see him in the ICU. They had him sedated and on oxygen; hooked up to heart & oxygen monitors. The Vet said that although he didn't think that it was cause for euthaniasia yet, as he was not in any pain, but he was not optimistic. Puppies don't have a lot of resilience.
We all stayed with him for a while. Jody kept saying how sorry she was. We kept saying it wasn't her fault. In a way, I believe now, we were all equally responsible. Those stairs.
We got the call that he had died, a few hours later. Lou cried a lot, and I wanted to cry too. She had wanted to be with him when he passed.
Very sad.
This means I'm sad :(
I medically need one of these
An LG 32" LCD television, with built-in HD tuner. Meow. Goes for about $2800.
It's not bad enough that Rob's moving out, and taking his (broken) 68cm CRT television, meaning I'm using my smaller (but clearer) 58cm unit... now the Xbox 360 has been released in the states. PLUS I'm now running Windows Media "Center" Edition, which would look ridiculously good on a HDTV, and I could just do away with a "desktop" PC altogether, and just do my surfing from the couch. *Sigh*.
Geek lust is a powerful force.
I'm sure HDTV prices will lower dramatically very soon. A little bit after Christmas, and then a lot come Easter (ain't it always the case!).
Oh, and soon in into the new year, I'll be up for a new phone. Weee! Not that I would need even half the features of a PDA... but a geek can dream!
Rob has left the building
Things are happening so fast around here, my head is spinning...
Rob's moving out before Xmas - and he will take with him almost every piece of furniture and all the whitegoods. Plus his now-broken 68cm TV, which I'm less worried about. Rob, Megan & I moved into this place about 4.5 years ago, so this will be the first major shake-up in the share-house-foundation (Sam Jones not withstanding!).
Lou was thinking about moving in, but she decided she couldn't afford it; since she won't be working as much next year. *Sigh*.
So, come Janurary '06, we'll be in the market for an easy-going, geek-tolerant flatmate. Oh, and up to around $3500 in homewares (by my initial calulations). Gah. While I'm spending, I hope to find a nice, cheap 32" LCD television... but then again I tend to dream a lot too... I do have grand plans for the revamping of the Lounge area though :)
I will probably take Rob's room, but I might have to pay more rent, since it'll be harder to fill my current room, which is more like an oversized cupboard
Oh, and I've pseudo-applied for another job. We'll so how that goes... but it would be great timing if I got it; Dealing with UQ Lecturers give me indigestion. I shouldn't talk about it too soon though, so I'll leave it at that.
Oh, and I've got about a third of a new Blog application written, so look out for a website redesign in the near future!
So - wow - it's awesome
Media Center 2005 rates, as I said in an email to my colleagues, "'Freaking-' rating on my 'awesome'-o-meter". It's not fully set up yet, but it's already knocked my socks off in an overstated-hyperbole kind-of way.
Here I am pausing live TV and chatting with my sister via MSN Messenger, all within the MCE environment!
Media Centric
I'm going over to the dark side just that little bit more. I've just bought Windows XP Media Center (sic) Edition 2005, a remote control, and a holy-huge hard drive. Let the geekery begin!
X-ray vision
This is my finger. Apparently it's been fractured all this time! Going in to see the doc (again) this afternoon. Lou has been scaring me with horror stories about growths and having to re-break it. Thanks, Lou!
Alight you primitive screwheads, listen up!
I'm going to the Vet science halloween-themed smoko tonight. My costume rocks. Why? becuase I will have this:
Keppel!
Just booked my Christmas holidays for 2005. Yes, I'm going back to Rockhampton for a few weeks, but I also get 3 nights at the Mercure Resort with Lou, Steve & Liz, Ian, Mike & his wife. Much beer will be drunk, and drunk we shall be.
The dynamic will be different, of course. We'll have to stop cussin' and spittin' so much around the women-folk.
Holidays! (so far away... *sniff*)
It's back
Back in black, like AC/DC: http://geordie.is-a-geek.net
Over 100 photo galleries and counting.
Flight of the Phoenix
I have a diabolical (...DIABOLICAL, I SAY!!!) plan to get back my photos, rantings and MoBlog back at geordie.is-a-geek.net. I'm going to run it off my home machine...
I knew I'd find a use for that bandwidth.
Jackson Fever
I just got credited by HBO for finding an article on news.com.au about the Halo movie being Produced by Peter Jackson. Last time I submitted news on that site, I turned out to be totally wrong. I'm now breaking even :)
(I used my now-defunct XBL alias DunnyPanMan)
link
Communities are cool.
Serenity
Saw Joss Whedon's Serenity the other night. It was better-than-Good. Not Awesome. But then again, I don't know how high my own ratings system goes, so...
Then again I didn't have unreasonably high expectations, either. I liked Firefly, and thought it deserved a longer run, given the richness of the characters and setting.
Let me just quote Myself, from a conversation about the movie with a friend:
I like they way they depicted the universe in the movie a lot better than the TV version. The High-tech cities actually looked high-tech. All the guns weren't commercially available today (although I did see a Microsoft Natural a.k.a "Banana" Keyboard in there). There was a plausible explanation as to why the outer planets were so backwards. The "Mule" is now a hovercraft and not a Kawasaki quad....No explanation for why, in the future, they use horses or six-shooters, though.
It was sad and funny and tense. Full of broken Sci-Fi conventions. However I doubt the movie will revive this show - it's pipping the $20 at the U.S. box office right now; which is a pity. I would gladly pre-order a new direct-to-DVD season tomorrow if one were on the cards.
Right: next show to obsess about, please!
Geordie is a geek
It's back! Kind of...
I lost my "real" website a few months ago, becuase the machine I was "hosting" it on moved into a private subnet. I've resurrected the original URL, but I still don't have my 10gig of photos/videos/ramblings. We'll see what we can do about that, one day. We just need more free(ish) services like Blogger and Flickr, then I can stop designing site management systems in my head!
Anyway, welcome back, you crappy DynDNS hostname: http://geordie.is-a-geek.net
Peter-Frickin'-Jackson is Exec-Producing Halo
I don't really have the words for this, since I've only just gotten the news. Just read, okay? Here's the meat, for the lazy...
Joseph Staten, Bungie Studios wrote:
This will not be a Doom, Alone in the Dark, or Mario Brothers. Do not doubt this. The only thing that can go wrong now is that the movie is 3.5 hours long and has 5 consecutive, drawn-out endings. Or that the Master Chief will have oversize hairy feet.A few weeks ago we were lucky enough to partner with two tremendous Producers from Universal, Mary Parent and Scott Stuber. In the short time they’ve been on board, Mary and Scott have joined with Peter Schlessel to accomplish unimaginably wonderful things. Example? They’ve secured an Executive Producer to help guarantee the creative integrity and technical excellence of the Halo film.
And that Executive Producer’s name is Peter Jackson.
Let me just say in closing: "Yay." You can quote me.
Baby steps
Okay I just made the jump over to semantic XHTML+CSS. Coz, you know, so many people come here, and it's important that those 2 people can read it if they were blind, deaf or dumb.
So we'll see what happens when I link to WE05 @ Technorati with rel="tag"... Jumped here from there? Don't see any WE05-realted content? Well I'm working on it, I just had to tidy my house in case of a flood of visitors.
I've put up what few photos I took at the event, and they should eventually filter into the main WE05 stack/group/set/whatever. My mind is still buzzing with the possibilities for the future of the web. It's kinda hard to get anything done without having an internal monologue about the best way to do something.
I'm all about the mental paralysis.
Photo-tastic
I now have a Flickr account!
The boys & girls at WE05 convinced me to dive in and trust this (relatively) new service with my photos. I may even become a paying member. I'll be blogging about that event, plus all the other crazy stuff on my recent trip to Sydney (a.k.a "Mordor") - as soon as I clean up the HTML for this site!
Can't go having dodgy code around web gurus, can you. My theory is that I'm like a plumber: the pipes in their own homes are always leaky. But my pants cover my bum cleavage. Anyway, what was I talking about? Who knows, really.
Just a fleshwound.
Well look at me, a 27-year-old pretending to be an indestructible 17-year-old: at the tail end of a party, a little too much consumption, flying off a balcony. What do I get, but seven-or-so stitches and a buzz-lightyear sticker (to cover my tetanus shot). From what I DO remember up until that point, I was having a pretty good time at Jane-the-Vet's place last Friday. I guess now I'll have the hospital bill and the scar on my left pinky at eternal reminders :) Kids, drink responsibly. Or at least make sure any balconies you jump off have safety nets. (See I'm learning from my mistakes already!).
Now I just have to match all those random photos of genitalia on my camera to people I know. Or perhaps I should just leave well enough alone.
...well I remember the first bit
Cameron's well and truly sent off now. I certainly hope so, becuase I don't know if my body can handle that many $7 cocktails any time soon.
We stayed in the "big room" at Garuva's until about 10:30pm before heading into the valley and the upstairs bar at Fat Ric's.
After that, there was dancing to loud noise. I swear I knew everyone's name there for a few minutes, but I'd be hard pressed to remember anyone now; I'd like to blame the alcohol. And I will.
Anyway, one more mate heads off for adventure and the prospect of eager european women. Geez, soon I'll actually have to be SOCIAL again and meet NEW PEOPLE! Good luck Cam, make sure you do all the things I wouldn't.
Jon Stewart is the Man
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.09/stewart.html
I wish one of the Australian FTA networks would pick up The Daily Show. I would be criminally happy.
Kicking Cameron out of the Country
Your friend and mine, the A.J. / climber / squash legend / sayer of odd things extraordinaire, Cameron Alexander, is off on a jaunt with no time limit over the seas! Yet another mate who's packing up and buggering off to those "other" countries out there!
Half ya luck! I'm going to have to start nailing my friends feet to the ground to stop them shipping out - sheesh.
Anyway: drinks, dinner, more drinks and dancing a funky jig are on the cards. We're descending on Fortitude Valley (Garuvas Hidden Resturant to be exact) this arvo, and I plan to be in crazy-go-nuts mode until I fall into a pseudo-coma state, several hours after that. I'm assuming The Family is on the cards, which means I have a (by now) 50% chance of having a long night; I've been refused entry as many times as I've been let in.
Perhaps it's becuase I'm never super-clammy or have my pupils dilated enough.
Rocky-rama
Well I just back yesterday from a week-long marathon family visit. My Aunt Mary McCabe's 50th and Cathie Everitt's wedding; killing two family members with one stone, as it were :)
Now I'm sore all over; what with all the travelling back and forth, and dancing the night away with all the young-uns at a wedding (someone's got to do it!).
Huge apologies in advance to all my friends in Rocky that I didn't get to see (read: all of you!) - entering lame excuse mode - but I had limited time, and now I have FOUR family groups to visit every time I get up there! Lou's brother Ben and his fiance Michelle run the Horseland store on Gladstone Rd, and just had their first bubby Jayden the other day.
However, I've just learned that some people from North Rocky High in my '95 graduating year have finally started preparations to get a 10-year reunion together in November, so I'm sure to see everyone I missed then (possibly excluding all you louts who live overseas!).
Anyway, I had fun everywhere I went, and it was great to reconnect with all sides of my family. I plan to be darting back and forth between Brisbane an Rockhampton a bit more often, from now on!
Well, it's gone.
Yep, my web site has vanished into the ether. No more shall anonymous people be able to swing by and see me in a heavily inebriated state. Ah... good times, good times.
Nevermind. One day I'll get around to finding another host for my pics (and rantings...). People NEED to see photos of foreign toilets, random nipples, and alcohol-fuelled speeches. If anyone wants copies of photos I may (or may not) have taken of them - probably during their Vet studies - just give me a holler at "geordie_mccabe AT hotmail.com." I'll reply to you eventually (I love to over-promise...).
Next time I won't get such a stupid domain name ("geordie.is-a-geek.net???" WTF...?)
The PC is not dead... yet.
Duck! Here comes a few more game consoles!
The gaming universe seems to revolve around consoles at the moment. The day is near when the PC's usefulness as a hardcore gaming rig will be over. But not yet. I find myself a little excited about these games (once I've upgraded my video card once again):
Of course, I'll probably need to shell out $3k on a new gaming rig before I can play any of them. Thats the conundrum: an Xbox 360 will probably cost around $650, and you can get a "quite nice" 32" LCD TV with the spare change.
Most important though, is being able to find the time to play all these bloody games *sigh*.
Blargh
Just getting over a cold that lasted about a week. Me being fantastically stupid, I went back to work too early, and conceded valuable territory to the invading virii. I lost my weekend. There's my one big sickie for the year gone, anyway.
On the plus side, though: I got to catch up on my DVD watching (I'll finally see all of Firefly soon).
Episode III - NOW we get decent Star Wars???
Well, I saw Revenge of the Sith last night, in comfort, and with most of a bottle of champagne in me. I believe the comments I most oft-quoted during and after the film were "Awesome!" and "He's acting his pants off!" (regarding Ian McDiarmid's chilling performances). In essence, my socks were rocked. I will have to see it again (and again...).
It was fun and exciting; emotional; scary. Even (and I hesitate to use the word, so often abused by movie posters quoting Hollywood-stooge reviewers) "Thrilling". Yes, I was thrilled. Lou cried on and off for the last half of the movie.
There were only a handful of cringe-worthy moments. Case in point… Vader: (raises fists) “Nooooooooooo!” Suppressed giggles rippled across the theatre. But only for a moment.
Now I’m thinking: it is such a paradox; how can this film exist when the previous instalments were just... turds? It's like a light was suddenly switched on in George Lucas' mind (two movies too late, mind you).
It’s like the Matrix trilogy, only reversed. The defining moments of the series appear in the final film, rather than the first (and then subsequently go on to be debased...). I guess finishing on a high is always better.
It has occurred to me (perhaps via subtle suggestions from the cacophony of reviews out there) that Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and Episode II: Attack of the Clones, could be trimmed to be a simple, 20-minute prologue for this film (a-la Fellowship of the Ring). Maybe even as a free-on-the-web StarWars.com pre-release...
Yes, it’s much easier to see now why Lucas did SOME of the things he did with the two earlier films. We get it: Darth Sidious instrumented his own rise to power, beginning with Anakin Skywalker’s (immaculate) conception, gradual corruption, and eventual fall. The “prequel trilogy” is about the Emperor’s rise as much as Anakin’s crossing to the Dark Side – perhaps more so. The Trade Federation, the Clone Armies… the Emperor created them both, then set them against each other, until nothing left in the galaxy to prevent him from taking control. In essence, he’s a “war president”… (Hmm where have I heard that quote before...).
It’s a fantastic story, if at times a little heavy-handed and lacking in subtlety.
None of that explains Jar-Jar’s existence, Jake Lloyd’s excruciatingly annoying antics, the hammy acting, the impossible characters, the long, tedious side plots. I’m hoping someone will cut together a highlight reel of Episode I-II plot points, so I never again have to watch them in their entirety.
In the end – it’s a bittersweet time. No more Star Wars on the big screen. The Story has been told.
Until George Lucas brings out all six films in 3D-o-Vision... Hey, don’t laugh.
Many Shiny (expensive) Things
The Xbox 360 and Playstaion 3 are now officially on their way, and they have faces:
Sony's PS3 apparently shits all over the Xbox 360 for power and range of games. And you know what? Good for them. But I still predict this Next Generation of game consoles will be a real 3 horse race (Nintendo still trailing, but ot too distant).
Halo 3 for Xbox 360 is a given. Maybe 6-12 months after the console comes out, but it will be there. And I'm sad to say there's a strong chance that I will fork out the $700-800 to play it. Unless someone physically restrains me.
At least I have a good 12-18 months to start saving my pennies : /
The end is Nigh (tm)
Well, soon I shifting all my work crap - From UQ (Ipswich) to UQ (St Lucia), resetting my employment situation from 2+ years ago. Those who know me will understand how happy I will be when I don't have to battle the Ipswich Motorway, and eat from a refectory that has psychotic opening hours. The down side of this is that I probably won't have a public IP address; therefore no website. I'm not too sad: mostly my site has just been a place I can point Vet students to so they can see the latest photos of themselves in various states of unconsciousness…
(Besides which, I'm pretty sure no-one reads this Blog, and I totally understand - even my verbal conversations tend toward random, indecipherable stream-of-consciousness ramblings).
But I’ll lose a hobby – at least for a while. I’ll investigate hosting options for finding a (legit) commercial web hosting service… but I doubt I’ll find one cheap enough to host my ~7 gigabytes of photos!
As kind of a side note: I’ll be losing one of my babies, come June 30. I will be car-less, and will become one of the great, unwashed, public-transport-using masses for a while.
This will give me time to appreciate owning a car, time to contemplate the nature of “being” – and of course time to pay off my many, accumulated debts: which I painstakingly collected over the course of three overseas holidays, too many night's pubbing and clubbing, two computers, and one surprisingly expensive Xbox infatuation.
After that (a period I’m thinking will last 3-6 months) I’ll just go ahead and lease a new “baby.” The frontrunners are: exactly the same car, an Astra, or a Corolla Sportivo. I love window (web) shopping for toys...
Ah.... The idea of a small car, and a 6-speed transmission mated to a 141kW engine speaks to me on a very intimate level.
Summing up:
- UQ is moving me back to St Lucia soon
- The website's going down the toilet (probably)
- the Camry is going to the great Government-auction in the sky (...and I will be bumming lifts off you all very shortly after that)
I'll see you all at the Red Room!
One less geeky thing
Well, I did it. I cancelled my Xbox Live account. Now I officially have no games I'm playing atm. Untill Halo 3 for Xbox 2 comes out, anyway.
The online gaming world is harsh; I was getting my ass handed too me far more than I was comfortable with. And the players were just nasty about it. So I'll stay in the realm of single-player games for the time being.
On the subject of geekiness though - I have Gold Class tickets to Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith on the night it comes out. Even if it's as crap as the last two, then the champagne I'll be skolling will ease the pain.
The sum of my (Halo 2) life
My free 2-month Trial of Xbox Live is almost up, and I have to make the decision whether to fork out the AUD$70 for it. Just in case I don't, I made sure to go and grab my stats with one of the only Halo 2 Stats Viewers out there. If "level"equals "skill," then my skill has taken many clumsy dips and rises since I started playing. There was also that horrible period where I was stuck on Level 11, when I wished I could drop down to the safer sub-10 levels - at least I used to be able to occasionally dominate back then. Now I just get embarrassed by annoying twats that know how to use the Needler way better than me.
Halo 2 has just gotten some new maps, with even more getting released up till June. Plus all our wonderful stats will be reset, and I would be back down at the depths of Level 1. Now is either a good time to bow out, or a time to go buy a good quality headset and get right into it in a big way... Hey, it keeps me off the streets at night, 'kay?
Shiny, Shiny
Should get a lovely little one of these in a few days (May 4th hopefully). I shall be surfing the 'net from the hammock out front if you need me.
MacrAdobeMedia
Adobe just bought Macromedia for 3.4 billion dollars.
I had to check the dates of the press releases to make sure this wasn't a huge April Fool being played on the web, print and multimedia industries. It's bona fide.
Imagine Google buying Yahoo!, or Microsoft buying Apple - oh wait, they already kinda did... - how about Microsoft buying Intel? Huge.
If your company works with: web, print materials, sign-making, CD-ROM resources or anything to do with fancy static or moving images - you'll probably have at least a few products from one or both of Adobe and Macromedia. And now they are one.
I'm guessing that pretty much their whole suite of Applications will be able to publish to PDF and Flash fairly soon; not such a bad thing! Having Photoshop and Illustrator being able to author detailed Flash movies and then plug all of that into a Copy-Protected PDF in just one easy step... there are a lot of possibilities for improved productivity.
But this deal effectively kills the last ounce of competition in the industry; these two powerhouses had equivilent products that had to fight for market share.... Like Fireworks and ImageReady; Freehand and Illustrator. Look for "FireReady MX CS 2006" and "Freehand Illustrator MX CS 2006" next year.
Will this kill innovation and drive up prices (higher than their already inflated level)? Well every new version costs more than the last, anyway - so maybe nothing will change.
I'll continue to use Jasc Paint Shop Pro thank you very much. But it's not like there's an alternative to Flash or Director or Acrobat.
What a MoBlogging good time.
I now have a MoBlog: I can upload an image with a witty comment from my Mobile phone any time, day or night - and it will appear on the front of my web page. Should be safe, unless I'm drunk...
Aye, me blarney!
It just occurred to me that this time last year (today being St Patricks Day), I was living it up - if a little fatigued - in Dublin. It also occurred to me it'll still be a long, long time before I leave Australia's shores again.
How depressing - I'd better go have a (definately inferior, exported) Guinness!
I Am Not a Violent Man.
Another wholly geeky moment. These come to me more rarely than is probably good for me.... 
So, anyway, I was playing Halo 2 on Xbox Live last night (Coagulation, multi-CTF), and I got my first Triple Kill medal. A dude on the other team was making off with our flag, and he had two buddies - one driving a Warthog, the other a Ghost - zooming up to give him a lift and cover him. I throw a speculator frag grenade from far away, which (with some luck) lands directly between the vehicles and totals them and their drivers! That was cool enough, but while the grenade was still in flight, I was already drawing a bead on the flag-carrier with my SMG. Three kills within four seconds = Triple Kill medal. I was so excited, I had to run downstairs to tell my girlfriend, who nodded with polite bewilderment.
It's true the game was already won by our team, and all this happened in the final minute, but it made me giggle nonetheless.
Netgear, I smite thee
My latest geeky obsession is Wi-Fi (aka "wireless networking"). Well, that and Xbox Live, but I'll leave that for another post. But in a world where you can't go on an overnight trip without taking 4 seperate types of power adapters with you, it's infuriating to see companies still out there making techno-life difficult for the simple things.
In this example, I wanted to create a seperate "LAN segment" upstairs (consisting of my Xbox and perhaps another PC), and then connect that, wirelessly, to our Netgear DG834GT wireless modem/router downstairs. "Right," I'd says to meself, "I need another Wireless Access Point, then I'll be able to bridge the two together!"
Wrong. As it turns out, it's not the case that "an Access Point is an Access Point is an Access Point." The DG834GT is supposed to have a 108Mbps "Access Point" in it, and it does - but only to a degree. It only supports wireless "client" devices, such as USB/PCMCIA/Ethernet adapters. It can't bridge or repeat; that is, it can't talk to other Access Points.
I had ordered a Netgear WG602 Access Point, which I thought would have been able to seamlessly Bridge my "upstairs" and "downstairs" LANs; countless angry posts on support forums now confirm that I would need TWO WGE602's to do this. And even then - they don't support WPA-PSK security while Bridging. None of that's listed on the box, of course.
Luckily I was able to cancel the order; instead I've got a WGE111 "Gaming Adapter" coming; it's been designed with Xboxes and PS2's in mind - connect an Ethernet device to a Wireless AP. Unfortunately it only WiFi-enables one device; not the perfect solution, but I can live with it.
I knew the WiFi world was a tangled web, but I thought things would have been getting better, not worse. So the moral of my story is: An Access Point is not an Access Point unless it is an Access Point. If it's a Netgear. Ahem.
So here's what our network topography will look like. Our house now has connectivity coming out the wazoo (wherever that is).
Normally scheduled Bloggings will now resume.
It's good to be excited
Just bought the Shihad "Alive" EP. That heavy, percussive rock just makes me all tingly. Highly recommended. It makes it seem like I'm driving faster than I am when I battle the Ipswich motorway every day.
Also, just got myself hooked up to Xbox Live for a free 2-month trial (Gamertag: DunnyPanMan!). I'm slowly working my way up the Halo 2 ladder. I can't hope to compete with the current crop of Asian 14-year-old professional gamers :(
It's good though; I've had a couple of laugh-out-loud moments sitting there on the lounge room floor, getting punted by a Warthog halfway across the map, or stealing someone's Banshee. Now I just need a headset so I can join in the trash-talk!
Blogosfear?
It just occurred to me... In a world where every person is a publisher, who would be there to read any of it? Hmm.
Goodie! Oh... Darn.
The Goodies was an awesome show. Unlike Monty Python, I was actually born in time to see it in first-run on Aussie TV. Now I hear that no only are the original trio STILL ALIVE, but they're in Australia for a sort of Reunion tour. Awesome! I did have thoughts of going along, but I obviously ruminated for too long, coz they're sold out. *Guh*
What's next? A Monkey reunion???
Vets are the *Worst*
Okay, I don't know if my liver will be up to this, but the UQ Vet student community that I've embedded myself in has returned to Uni, and their first "Smoko" of the year is on Friday. Theme: "Back to School". Yeah... real original, whoever thought of that. At least there's sure to be a lot of young women (and she/men, for that matter) flitting about in School Uniforms!
Look for photos depicting many acts of debauchery soon. Should be fun!
Stupid technology.
The Netgear DC834GT router thingy that was the target of so much of my (non-biblical) love, it now irritating me. It's stopped working suddenly-all-of-a-sudden, so I'm using the old hardware again. I'm thinking it's broke'ded. Grrr! (On my birthday'n'all!)
Bandwidth rocks.
We have now for 8Mbit internet (thankyou iiNet!) and 108MBit Wi-Fi in our house. I'm only now starting to dream about what to do with all the BANDWIDTH! Oooh, I think I just had a geekgasm.
Seeing Double
Thought I'd give the Blogger templates a go... now this place look like my other gawdy site!
Mmm mmm... marketing crossover
Monty Python's Hold (Gr)ail... For the record, it tasted awful. But at least it was "tempered over burning witches."
STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE Cancelled
Although I agree this lame duck should have been put down long ago, it's lamentable that it's being put to rest just as it was showing signs of life. Trek needs a break, followed by a heartfelt struggle back from the depths.
STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE Cancelled [Trekweb]
The crazy stuff that chicks think about...
It occured to me the other day that, despite many (teenage) years believing it would never happen, I'm starting to get a grasp on that way women perceive the world, and themselves in it. This little article is a quasi-review of the book He's Just Not That Into You thats teaching women all over the world to be more brutal in their dating choices; it largely reaffirms my beliefs of the inner workings of the female mind... Right, off to go read about something more manly now.
He loves me, he loves me not [salon.com - free day pass required]
Japanese Toilets
Some people thought I was crazy for calling my first European holiday the "toilet tour". What are they to say now? :) Toilets are culture too!
Japanese Toilets [via Gizmodo]
Revenge of the Right Brain
Wired Magazine has an interesting article about people having to use their right brain more, if they are to succeed in the world... Interesting.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/brain.html
I think I agree with most of it.
I hate "Bloggers!"
I need a place to post my happenings that isn't my web page. I've had several attempts at designing some custom-built web-based article/news item engine - but all those roads ended in a metaphorical flat tire of boredom.
Welcome to (the start of) my world!
