31 October, 2006
30 October, 2006
Dove - Evolution
Hi all, Nick here.
This is my first post.
I'm doing a feminism essay and found this cool video.
This is my first post.
I'm doing a feminism essay and found this cool video.
22 October, 2006
20 October, 2006
At last! Manual controls for the Macbook Pro fans!
Yippie!!! Someone's written a manual GUI for controlling the Macbook Pro's fans, which are notoriously lazy when it comes to actually working. So rather than a 65 degree "notebook", now I have a laptop that I can actually put on my lap! Yay!
18 October, 2006
Sexy Back
Just found a funky parody of Justin Timberlake's Sexy back song :) Sooo good.
"razorblades... i got 2 wrists that i could slit today... unless that little pill gets in the way.. no other drug can make me feel this way..."
"razorblades... i got 2 wrists that i could slit today... unless that little pill gets in the way.. no other drug can make me feel this way..."
17 October, 2006
12 October, 2006
11 October, 2006
Incredible Machines Part 1
Recently I've taken an interest into some of the machines we use in industry to make some of our are daily essentials; food, electricity, light etc. So I'm going to start listing some funky videos of the machines that made sustaining urbanisation possible.
First in the series is the EZ catch chicken harvester! Yes that's right, it harvests chickens. What you think they catch them by hand?
And on a related note - an automatic shrimp peeler and deveiner!
First in the series is the EZ catch chicken harvester! Yes that's right, it harvests chickens. What you think they catch them by hand?
And on a related note - an automatic shrimp peeler and deveiner!
10 October, 2006
Throwable Rats
Yes you heard me, throwable magnetic rats. This wonderful instruction page tells you how to make your own! They even come with glowing LED eyes!
P.S. Elvis, just though you'd like it ;-) Cyb seem to have a wonderful reaction to it.
P.S. Elvis, just though you'd like it ;-) Cyb seem to have a wonderful reaction to it.
Credit cards hit a new low...
Izzy showed me this today - customisable credits! Imagine it, seeing the face of your beloved (and perhaps starving) family as you buy those new shoes. Or the face of your dear hubby as you take revenge at the mall...isn't that just great? Spending has never been so personal ;-)
Riced up Shaving Cream!
Here's something I found at the supermarket last week...shaving cream now comes in Nitro and Turbo. I'm just waiting for the day shaving cream comes in unleaded and diesel.
New age fashion
Hussein Chalayan showed up some funky animatronic clothes at London Fashion Week. Take a look :) Its the second half of the video. I want something like them! ...Well not dresses but yeah clothes that change! Or my girlfriend's clothes that change like the model at the end ;-)
Thesis A submitted!
It has been a hectic week. But now I'm almost free :)
Woke up at 9 after sleeping at 2am...proofread my thesis A two more times before I drove out to uni...only to discover that the student office was closed due to budget cuts. As a result I went to work. There I found Jasper, discovered some crappy printing problem with acrobat reader and my thesis and promptly played is Nintendo DS for half an hour before I went back to the student office. There I was told I just had to email it to my supervisor...
So I got home...email it and now thesis A is done!!! and I feel slightly dumber for not clarifying the submission guidelines.
What's left? A quiz for tomorrow, cryptography lab for this week, crypto seminar, thesis A presentation. It all sounds good :)
Woke up at 9 after sleeping at 2am...proofread my thesis A two more times before I drove out to uni...only to discover that the student office was closed due to budget cuts. As a result I went to work. There I found Jasper, discovered some crappy printing problem with acrobat reader and my thesis and promptly played is Nintendo DS for half an hour before I went back to the student office. There I was told I just had to email it to my supervisor...
So I got home...email it and now thesis A is done!!! and I feel slightly dumber for not clarifying the submission guidelines.
What's left? A quiz for tomorrow, cryptography lab for this week, crypto seminar, thesis A presentation. It all sounds good :)
06 October, 2006
Family Planning Advice
Just something I saw on the net today...I'll post some more soon after I finish my thesis A.
02 October, 2006
Life Evaluation Part I
Ummm, yeah it's Elvis here. Calvin, sorry to invade your blog, but I wrote this whole rant on my own blog and when I was just about to publish it, I realised that I didn't want to put it up on my blog. It's a bloody long post so I didn't want to just delete it. So here goes:
"As I have had more than enough time these past few days to reflect on everything - my life: past, present and future - I realised that it leaves more questions that answers. It's funny how one moment, all the pieces of the puzzle seem to fit so perfectly, fitting and slotting where they are meant to be, to create a picture of completeness. Then at the blink of an eye, those pieces don't fit so well anymore, and the edges just seem sharp and jagged. Well, my life is a bit like that at the moment, but it feels like I'm losing more and more of the puzzle parts day by day. Yes, coming here is supposed to open me to unlimited opportunity; yes, I should be meeting tonnes of people and getting very involved in the whole uni life; yes, it's the perfect time for me to experience new things and I have a whole city out there to explore.
But what do I do instead? None of those things . . . it's not that I don't want to. I'm just victim of a horrible attribute of personality - I just can't be BOTHERED. I'm sure those of you who know me well also know that I'm not a very outdoorsy type of person - I'm really not into seeing the tourist attractions (I haven't even been to Buckingham Palace yet - saw it at the beginning of the year and once was enough). And the whole getting involved with uni - travelling an hour and bit each way to uni does nothing to improve my mood so as soon as my classes are finished, I just wanna leave.
I'm trying hard not to sound like a snob, but I'm not even gonna bother introducing myself to people with whom I know I wouldn't be friends - why impart so many words on someone who I wouldn't even glance at if I was back in Sydney? I had a few of those meaningless conversations already in my classes and I really don't wanna repeat my life story one more time. It seems silly to try and be friends with someone just because circumstance just so happens to put you in the same place as the other person, especially if you have nothing in common and every word that comes out of your mouth as part of your conversation has to be carefully articulated to hid the huge undertones of boredom and indifference. And so far, I haven't met anyone who I can see as a genuine friend. I don't know if it's the English accent or whatever, but a lot of the people in my classes seem like they have a pole shoved up their backside - that just gets me so annoyed and when I get annoyed . . . hahaha best beware. I think it comes down to the all-important "click" factor. There needs to be that initial "click" for me to bond with someone - hahaha I remember having this conversation with someone when we were discussing guys but I guess it works with friends too. If I have to actually consciously think of what I am going to say next when I'm speaking with someone I just met, then I know it won't work. If there isn't that initial flow, then it ain't happening. I'm not being fussy but that I think I'm just too old to keep up appearances. I'm not here to impress anyone . . . Some of you might say that I am taking a very cynical approach to all of this but I'm a very paranoid person so I'm sick of being made to feel that I'm being judged, especially by people I meet for the very first time. It might sound weird, but it's very hard for me to be "me" around people. I feel like I have to put on this act and I know that it makes me a very boring person as I am very guarded with what I say and how I behave.
Actually I think I can pinpoint exactly why I feel so crabby - nearly a month here now and I have only really bought two things. Being in London and not being able to spend . . . I feel as useless as someone who has had all their limbs cut off and tossed into the ocean. I don't think I can handle studying and working while I'm over here, so that seriously hinders my ability to carry out an activity which defines my life and is the whole point of my existence.
I can't wait for this year to be over and done with, so my life can once again be returned to normality."
When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
- Eric Hoffer
"As I have had more than enough time these past few days to reflect on everything - my life: past, present and future - I realised that it leaves more questions that answers. It's funny how one moment, all the pieces of the puzzle seem to fit so perfectly, fitting and slotting where they are meant to be, to create a picture of completeness. Then at the blink of an eye, those pieces don't fit so well anymore, and the edges just seem sharp and jagged. Well, my life is a bit like that at the moment, but it feels like I'm losing more and more of the puzzle parts day by day. Yes, coming here is supposed to open me to unlimited opportunity; yes, I should be meeting tonnes of people and getting very involved in the whole uni life; yes, it's the perfect time for me to experience new things and I have a whole city out there to explore.
But what do I do instead? None of those things . . . it's not that I don't want to. I'm just victim of a horrible attribute of personality - I just can't be BOTHERED. I'm sure those of you who know me well also know that I'm not a very outdoorsy type of person - I'm really not into seeing the tourist attractions (I haven't even been to Buckingham Palace yet - saw it at the beginning of the year and once was enough). And the whole getting involved with uni - travelling an hour and bit each way to uni does nothing to improve my mood so as soon as my classes are finished, I just wanna leave.
I'm trying hard not to sound like a snob, but I'm not even gonna bother introducing myself to people with whom I know I wouldn't be friends - why impart so many words on someone who I wouldn't even glance at if I was back in Sydney? I had a few of those meaningless conversations already in my classes and I really don't wanna repeat my life story one more time. It seems silly to try and be friends with someone just because circumstance just so happens to put you in the same place as the other person, especially if you have nothing in common and every word that comes out of your mouth as part of your conversation has to be carefully articulated to hid the huge undertones of boredom and indifference. And so far, I haven't met anyone who I can see as a genuine friend. I don't know if it's the English accent or whatever, but a lot of the people in my classes seem like they have a pole shoved up their backside - that just gets me so annoyed and when I get annoyed . . . hahaha best beware. I think it comes down to the all-important "click" factor. There needs to be that initial "click" for me to bond with someone - hahaha I remember having this conversation with someone when we were discussing guys but I guess it works with friends too. If I have to actually consciously think of what I am going to say next when I'm speaking with someone I just met, then I know it won't work. If there isn't that initial flow, then it ain't happening. I'm not being fussy but that I think I'm just too old to keep up appearances. I'm not here to impress anyone . . . Some of you might say that I am taking a very cynical approach to all of this but I'm a very paranoid person so I'm sick of being made to feel that I'm being judged, especially by people I meet for the very first time. It might sound weird, but it's very hard for me to be "me" around people. I feel like I have to put on this act and I know that it makes me a very boring person as I am very guarded with what I say and how I behave.
Actually I think I can pinpoint exactly why I feel so crabby - nearly a month here now and I have only really bought two things. Being in London and not being able to spend . . . I feel as useless as someone who has had all their limbs cut off and tossed into the ocean. I don't think I can handle studying and working while I'm over here, so that seriously hinders my ability to carry out an activity which defines my life and is the whole point of my existence.
I can't wait for this year to be over and done with, so my life can once again be returned to normality."
When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
- Eric Hoffer
01 October, 2006
Thesis A,, Educational Procrastination, Kung fu blues and Yum Cha
Lets start with the foremost thing on my mind - the impending deadline for my thesis A. I've done bits of the instroduction but not enough. This is mainly because...
...I kept procrastinating by playing violin. I must have been averaging about 3 hours a day? Way more than I did even when I had my exams. i am still addicted to the Melody of Oblivion soundtrack. I've memorised about 5 tracks now...this sense of accomplishment is bad though, since it encourages me to play more...*sigh*
And like that, Sunday kung fu arrived again. We had the same sparring that had become the staple in the recent weeks, and its sooo fun! Why kung fu blues? No I'm not sad, perhaps this comic will explain it.
After Kung fu, Pat and I went to Yum Cha with the Wong Clan (except Alex, but the honor of the oldest of the young Wongs - Charmaine). Here's some pictures of it for fun (of course Pat refuses to be in ANY photos not taken by a professional SLR :P).
Julian, the vegetarian, HAD to have noodles *shakes head*...and here's Cybele demonstrating her spork skills.
Mango pancakes...yum to think about...but not so yum to taste.
Teamwork is the key to getting a shot of Cybele getting hit.
Mango pudding...seems to be more pleasing than the Mango Pancakes.
A death stare of some sort. Someone must have eaten her dim sim.
Julian's T-shirt! I hate you! :)
...I kept procrastinating by playing violin. I must have been averaging about 3 hours a day? Way more than I did even when I had my exams. i am still addicted to the Melody of Oblivion soundtrack. I've memorised about 5 tracks now...this sense of accomplishment is bad though, since it encourages me to play more...*sigh*
And like that, Sunday kung fu arrived again. We had the same sparring that had become the staple in the recent weeks, and its sooo fun! Why kung fu blues? No I'm not sad, perhaps this comic will explain it.
After Kung fu, Pat and I went to Yum Cha with the Wong Clan (except Alex, but the honor of the oldest of the young Wongs - Charmaine). Here's some pictures of it for fun (of course Pat refuses to be in ANY photos not taken by a professional SLR :P).
Julian, the vegetarian, HAD to have noodles *shakes head*...and here's Cybele demonstrating her spork skills.
Mango pancakes...yum to think about...but not so yum to taste.
Teamwork is the key to getting a shot of Cybele getting hit.
Mango pudding...seems to be more pleasing than the Mango Pancakes.
A death stare of some sort. Someone must have eaten her dim sim.
Julian's T-shirt! I hate you! :)
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