Touchy.

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I owned a guy at the 3H’s hotel last night.

I gently bumped in to some late 30s guy’s shoulder with the back of my leg when I slid between two chairs in the outdoor dining area.

He turned around and said in a surly tone, “you right, mate?”

I was a bit put off, since it was just one of those general brushes that no one really pays any attention to. I inquired, “sorry?”

“You hit me with your arse,” he responded, trying to sound tough in front of his girlfriend/wife, his mate and his mate’s girlfriend/wife.

Now, I was already put off by his tone, given the circumstance. Usually I’d get even more put off if someone started being a little menacing like this guy was. Somehow, though, I reflexively retorted by looking him in the eye and asking, “did you like it?”

The man’s face blushed nearly instantly until it was purple as he jerked his head back around to face his table. Mid-swing he only managed to blurt out an awkward “…NO!”

He didn’t trouble me for the rest of the night.

It still feels good.

Nice.

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Apart from that, I’m really tired and should go to bed. Early start tomorrow and a fucking late finish I can assure myself. Gotta write my 3 page scope document for my ISYS group report.

Not looking forward to it much at all.

Must also remember to do other uni work, cash my dividend cheque and buy another uni book. I should really fork out the $11 (fuckers) for my uni transcript and start writing a friggin’ resume… It’s just so hard to actually bother.

I also think I drank too much coffee today. Mmm. I’ll repeat the process tomorrow.

Links.

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Degree Confluence Project:

Global Positioning System mapping and photography merge to produce one of the most impressive projects on the web. The stated goal is to visit and get reports from “each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world”. Pictures and stories from each visit (or attempted visit, if it was discovered to be unreachable) are then posted to the site, offering an amazing snapshot of our beautiful planet.

A total of 160 countries have been visited, including 69 of the 82 confluence points in NSW, with four incomplete attempts. There are still 400 points in Australia up for grabs, so get a GPS unit, a camera and a car and get busy.

Oh dear.

Finally, some controversy:
Do the Schiavo!
Terri again.
Do the Lynndie!

Update:
Arnie is governor of California, Jesse Ventura was governor of ?Minnesota, Carl Weathers is apparently soon to be governor of Louisiana and now Sonny Landham (Billy from Predator [former 70s porn star]) is running for governor of Kentucky.

THE CAST OF PREDATOR IS RUNNING THE USA.

Not that that’s a bad thing. Man. It’s fucking hot, that’s what it is.

IAT.

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Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Young relative to Old

Your data suggest a slight association between science and Female relative to Male

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for White relative to Black

I should be asleep.

Timesink.

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Another great reason to buy in to MMORPGs:


Online gamer charged with killing competitor

Qiu Chengwei, 41, went on trial on Tuesday in a Shanghai court on charges that he stabbed to death Zhu Caoyuan, a fellow player of a popular game called Legend of Mir III, the China Daily newspaper said.

Qiu confronted Zhu after learning that he sold the virtual weapon lent to him by Qiu to another player, the newspaper said. It said Qiu reported the loss of the “Dragon Saber” to police but they said it wasn’t real property protected by the law.

And if that wasn’t enough:


Exabyte, the new megabyte

Here’s a scary thought: at the moment, most of the world’s telephone calls are ephemeral – as soon as the words are spoken, they are lost. But storage capacity is now so great, and cost so low, that it is becoming feasible to store all telephone conversations on computer disk.

With the increased requirements for audit trails for compliance, the real and artificial imperatives of the war on terrorism, and the increased sophistication of data mining software that can analyse digitised voice patterns, can this be far away?

And since when did have 41 friends? Man, none of mine even post in their journals so there’s only about 2-3 things to read on the friends page every now and then.

Perhaps I should get more e-social.

Perhaps.

Whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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It’s the chipset fan, I discovered. I didn’t even know I had one. What a great IT student I am!

I took my PC apart and decided to give it a dust. I almost died from lack of oxygen. Christ. I’m glad I took it outside before I took a paintbrush to it.

So, once I found out it was a dodgy fan I spent a while trying to work out what my mobo model was since I’d already put everything back together and couldn’t be fucked taking it apart again… I had to anyway in the end.

Armed with a model number, I researched different chipset heatsinks and fans, only to find that practically none of them support the metal spring clips that my board uses. Good times. I can’t really be fucked buying a heatsink and glue then sticking them on either, since it’ll cost about $60 or more, probably.

Then, I found out that apparently it doesn’t really need a fan anyway. That’s from random Internet quotes and discussions at least. The fans they use on ABIT boards are meant to be quite dodgy and unless you’re overclocking it probably wont overheat. I’ll check the temperature though when I gather up the energy to take the fan off.

I’d really love a CRT for this PC, just because the fucking LCD monitor doesn’t display DOS at all. I have a black screen regardless of the state of my PC until Windows loads up. >_<

Meanwhile: I’m getting Naruto episodes 127 & 128 combined at 126kb/s. :D

Dattebayo!

*Edit*

omg! Some prick has dubbed BOTH episodes as some bad pre-April Fools joke. It sounds pretty funny, and it’s a lot of work, but man… All that excitement! Ah well, guess the joke worked. Hope the real one comes out tomorrow. >_<

Whirr.

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I think the fan in my PC has crapped itself for the time being. It’s fucking noisy.

At the moment, I’m typing this with a toothbrush in my mouth and Colgate seeping out its corners. I’m about to go to work but I decided to procrastinate. That mentality is basically where I got the idea for the journal title. Then again, who bothers looking at other people’s journals from their actual page? Not I.

KOTOR2 has an unsolvable scripting error that ruins the game, requiring the player to restart if they hope to get past it. After 30+ hours play time I can’t see that happening.

I’ve been playing a bit of the latest Hoyle’s Casino, brushing up on my gambling skills. Maybe when I’ve got some actual money I can pretend I’m a high roller for about 5 blackjack hands, then stumble out in tears.

This toothpaste is fresh. Mmm.

I bought some Mamee noodles today from the supermarket. Exciting times. I haven’t really had them since I ate about 40 of them in one day about 10 years ago. That was at Vinny’s house, with Gary, raging up on NBA Live 95 on his SNES.

Speaking of Vinny, he told me Harris got engaged the other day. I’ll catch up with them some time soon, I said.

P.S. Hi Lloyd and Erica if you both read this. Stalkers.

Wet.

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I saw again today. Trippier.

Had uni for 2 hours, was ok. My team member, Dave, knows his shit. It’s good, because I don’t, really. Well I sort of do, but whatever. Too hard to explain. He watches Naruto, too. Whee.

Grinded out some more hours on KOTOR2. Yes, a game. Addictive little thing. It’s captured me the same way the first one did, so I believe I’ll finish it and break the standard 3 day timelimit (I already have).

Winesoc had an exec meeting at 5pm tonight at Manning. I braved the cold and wet rain to get there on foot from the flat. Taking notes and running meetings is fun, it’s a benevolent bullying outlet of sorts.

Speaking of rain, our roof started leaking over the stairs. I almost killed myself when I slipped on the wet wood without knowing it was holding up a puddle. A bucket and two towels seemed to have tamed it, but I had to call mum to let dad know so he can organise something to fix it. ^_^

Now to write up the minutes and email my other team from EBUS3003! Huzzah.


Your Seduction Style: The Natural


You don’t really try to seduce people… it just seems to happen.
Fun loving and free spirited, you bring out the inner child in people.
You are spontaneous, sincere, and unpretentious – a hard combo to find!
People drop their guard around you, and find themselves falling fast.