Today I saw The Magician. Its an Australian mockumentary about a hitman. There was nine people in the cinema but I can assure you that it was a much better movie than that. Was apparently made on a budget of $3000, but in the movie the guy says the camera cost 5k... (but by looking at the quality its not likely...).
It was a really funny movie, with a lot of crossed over stories. To clarify, the stories (the hits if you will) don't interconnect or meet or cross paths, its just the movie is edited that the stories run parallel to each other. And best of all it didn't suck.
I'm not sure how much is copied off man bites dog. As I haven't seen it yet. But on first viewing its very original (except maybe the concept...)
I give it 7D out of 10.
I'm on my mid semester break now.
Whoo!
Tis awesome I know. Friday I didn't do much expect bum around the house. Which was enjoyable knowing I didn't have to do any homework. Today was similar only I went to go see Wallace and Gromet movie - The Curse of the Ware Rabbit.
It feels like I already have mental atrophy and the holidays are only 2 days old... Sniff.
The movie was really cool. I think they may have introduced some CGI but you cant tell. And most of the movie is still clay animation. I don't want to give too much away, but it seems to me that Wallace just gets stupider and stupider in each of the movies. Tomorrow I plan on seeing Willy Wonker. It seems like a lot of kids movies. But there isn't much else on... Even at the dendy. Quite sad.
Maybe I should just get a video out. But that always takes too long so its just easier to see movies at the cinema because you don't get as much choice.
To combat boredom I plan on breaking some kind of record. Buy creating 1000 new posts in one week. I'm not sure if that is humanly possible But I think its worth a try. 100 posts per day will get me 700. But 700 isn't as cool a number as 1000. So Just for reference the current number 1204 . Or I could do something constructive and non crap and boring. Like build a kite that flies. Or catch up on all the homework I've not been doing over the semester. Or try to continue with D-Radio... So many scary possibilities. Or I could just go with the flow. and do whatever it is at the time instead of trying toforce plan it.
Whoo!
Tis awesome I know. Friday I didn't do much expect bum around the house. Which was enjoyable knowing I didn't have to do any homework. Today was similar only I went to go see Wallace and Gromet movie - The Curse of the Ware Rabbit.
It feels like I already have mental atrophy and the holidays are only 2 days old... Sniff.
The movie was really cool. I think they may have introduced some CGI but you cant tell. And most of the movie is still clay animation. I don't want to give too much away, but it seems to me that Wallace just gets stupider and stupider in each of the movies. Tomorrow I plan on seeing Willy Wonker. It seems like a lot of kids movies. But there isn't much else on... Even at the dendy. Quite sad.
Maybe I should just get a video out. But that always takes too long so its just easier to see movies at the cinema because you don't get as much choice.
To combat boredom I plan on breaking some kind of record. Buy creating 1000 new posts in one week. I'm not sure if that is humanly possible But I think its worth a try. 100 posts per day will get me 700. But 700 isn't as cool a number as 1000. So Just for reference the current number 1204 . Or I could do something constructive and non crap and boring. Like build a kite that flies. Or catch up on all the homework I've not been doing over the semester. Or try to continue with D-Radio... So many scary possibilities. Or I could just go with the flow. and do whatever it is at the time instead of trying to
The Long Tail
The long tail is the colloquial name given to a long-known feature of statistical distributions (Zipf, Power laws, Pareto distributions and/or Levy distributions ). They are also known as "heavy tails", "power-law tails" or "Pareto tails". Such distributions can be visualized by the image of the graph on this page. In these distributions a vast population of events occur very rarely in the yellow (or more generally have low amplitude on some scale, e.g., popularity or sales) while a small population of events occur very often in the red (or have high amplitude). The huge population of rare (or low amplitude) events is referred to as the long tail. In many cases the rare events—the ones on the long tail—are so much greater in number than the common events that in aggregate they comprise the majority.
Such distributions are surprisingly common. For example, the word "the" is the most common word in English text[2], while the word "disintermediation" isn't. However, most words used in English texts are part of the long tail.
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Such distributions are surprisingly common. For example, the word "the" is the most common word in English text[2], while the word "disintermediation" isn't. However, most words used in English texts are part of the long tail.
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I've just gone six (6) days straight without internet. I'm amazed I'm still alive... I think if it had gone on anylonger I would have started to make a boat out of toothpicks and apple syrup and try to sail it around the world in search of the greatest spices known to man and woman. But instead I spent this time doing my homework. Which was a change to the usual doing it the morning its due arrangement. But when I got to uni (with all my homework done) I didn't have much to do. So I had a nap in the library for 2 hours. Which made me sleepy for the rest of the day, not very helpful when try to keep awake during a lecture on Scheme of arrangements for member and creditors. Even the lecturer found it boring. So we got a 50 minute early mark (on top of starting 15 minutes late....).
Last week was a bad week already without not having internet. Had an exam and a presentation on the same day. I had the presentation first which meant that if it went badly I would slightly depressed about the result which would/could effect the exam later that evening. The presentation went extremely badly. So much so I haven't spoken to my team members since then... Not that it was their fault. It was a collective failure. Its mainly just the fact that it went so badly. Just really depressing. Also I had an exam later so I couldn't exactly go and drink my sorrows away as they were planning on doing.... Very much an option at the time. The exam went ok. I got 16/20 which is good because I passed, one person actually got 20/20... The exam was pretty easily. As in you couldn't fail even if you wanted to...
Last week was a bad week already without not having internet. Had an exam and a presentation on the same day. I had the presentation first which meant that if it went badly I would slightly depressed about the result which would/could effect the exam later that evening. The presentation went extremely badly. So much so I haven't spoken to my team members since then... Not that it was their fault. It was a collective failure. Its mainly just the fact that it went so badly. Just really depressing. Also I had an exam later so I couldn't exactly go and drink my sorrows away as they were planning on doing.... Very much an option at the time. The exam went ok. I got 16/20 which is good because I passed, one person actually got 20/20... The exam was pretty easily. As in you couldn't fail even if you wanted to...
Mocha
Mochas is my favorite type of coffee. But its also probably one of the worst. Why? Because there are two major ingredients that contradict and conflict one another once ingested.
Coffee - Stimulates. Helps you keep awake.
This combination is not good. Because you feel sleepy but cant sleep... Its hard to stay focused. Because you have distractions and you have 'sleepyidontcare'
- Coffee
- Milk
Coffee - Stimulates. Helps you keep awake.
This combination is not good. Because you feel sleepy but cant sleep... Its hard to stay focused. Because you have distractions and you have 'sleepyidontcare'
Just had two mid semester exams.
Boy was that fun. Spent the last few days cramming. And then spent about 2 hours before the exam staring at a clock waiting for the exam because I just couldn't be bothered to study anymore.
For company law we had a case study which we had to examine (we were given this a week before hand) and no case study is ever complete. There are always bits that they miss out. And so you can make millions of different combinations of assumptions. Which was probably my mistake. As I may have gona a little over board on the assumptions (that I studied) and the exam was only an hour long. So kinda just wanted the main bits rather then all the possibilities. But even that assumed too much. And most of the questions were vague. Which isn't very helpful in a multiple choice exam.
So when I was in the exam I didn't know what to think because I couldn't decide on what assumption I would go with (that's kinda a continuous problem I have, but its an exam, I don't really have the time). So it was very bad in that sense. Also I decided to have a coffee to help me keep awake, which in hind sight was also a bad idea, because I was jitter all throughout the exam. Which isn't helpful when you want to concentrate on one thing. As you are more alert to other things. Like people dropping pens or the stupid flashing light on the wireless router thingy they mounted on the wall. Why cant they put them in a box. With the flashing light out of the way, not distracting me. So distracting its unbelievable. Its kinda like my mobile. It has a flashing light on it. Which is why I never leave it in my room at night as its like being at the freaking airport. Just wish it would crash already....
I also had an exam for Taxation of business entities which was also open book, which is good and bad. But you tend to waste time in looking crap up that you already know, but want to check just in case. Then you don't have enough time to write down your answers properly. Making it impossible to mark because they cant read your hand writing. Well maybe its just my hand writing. As I write faster, it basically just becomes a squiggle on the page. It looks kinda scary, like a mad man locked in a mental hospital writing a suicide note for his hope...
Its gona be a really busy week, have a rough draft which I have to hand in for an assignment, a rough draft for a presentation (its stupid I know) and I have a 5% mini tutorial assignment. and another 2% tutorial homework, Which might not be collected because she collected last week. and already has three pieces...
Boy was that fun. Spent the last few days cramming. And then spent about 2 hours before the exam staring at a clock waiting for the exam because I just couldn't be bothered to study anymore.
For company law we had a case study which we had to examine (we were given this a week before hand) and no case study is ever complete. There are always bits that they miss out. And so you can make millions of different combinations of assumptions. Which was probably my mistake. As I may have gona a little over board on the assumptions (that I studied) and the exam was only an hour long. So kinda just wanted the main bits rather then all the possibilities. But even that assumed too much. And most of the questions were vague. Which isn't very helpful in a multiple choice exam.
So when I was in the exam I didn't know what to think because I couldn't decide on what assumption I would go with (that's kinda a continuous problem I have, but its an exam, I don't really have the time). So it was very bad in that sense. Also I decided to have a coffee to help me keep awake, which in hind sight was also a bad idea, because I was jitter all throughout the exam. Which isn't helpful when you want to concentrate on one thing. As you are more alert to other things. Like people dropping pens or the stupid flashing light on the wireless router thingy they mounted on the wall. Why cant they put them in a box. With the flashing light out of the way, not distracting me. So distracting its unbelievable. Its kinda like my mobile. It has a flashing light on it. Which is why I never leave it in my room at night as its like being at the freaking airport. Just wish it would crash already....
I also had an exam for Taxation of business entities which was also open book, which is good and bad. But you tend to waste time in looking crap up that you already know, but want to check just in case. Then you don't have enough time to write down your answers properly. Making it impossible to mark because they cant read your hand writing. Well maybe its just my hand writing. As I write faster, it basically just becomes a squiggle on the page. It looks kinda scary, like a mad man locked in a mental hospital writing a suicide note for his hope...
Its gona be a really busy week, have a rough draft which I have to hand in for an assignment, a rough draft for a presentation (its stupid I know) and I have a 5% mini tutorial assignment. and another 2% tutorial homework, Which might not be collected because she collected last week. and already has three pieces...
I just finnished my homework early today, which means I have two hours
of a break before I begin three hours of mind numbing company law.
Sometimes its quite exciting and interesting, but times like today
when I'm tired its kinda boring. Its not really the subject thats
boring, its me. and my tiredness. Today is more odd then normal as I
feel really tired despite having a considerable amount of sleep. I had
a full 7 hours, and previous to that I had a 3 hour nap during the
hours of 4 and 7pm, so you can see it is rather odd that I am still
tired. I should feel refreshed and not sleepy. and that doesnt include
the naps on the bus or the nap I had during the lecture and the 10 min
nap I had while I was doing my homework.
8:55 is when the movie is showing. I shouldnt really go. Especialy
today, it goes for 100 minuites so thats about and hour and a half. So
its really gona start at 9 and finnish around 10:30. Thursday I have
to come in maybe then. Or maybe even tomorrow. I have to work, so I
could go after work, which would be fine. I also want to goto the gym
tomorrow. Best to go in the morning, other wise I wont go at all.
Procrastinating
Today I spent the day procrastinating. Which would normally be a good thing, but when you're are knowledgeable about procrastinating as me, its not something you want to do. Mainly because you've done it before and its boring, its predictable, and because its predictable its boring. Being able to predict something is boring. There's no point hanging around for the result, because its been predicted and the probability is high (see: prediction). Trivia is kinda like that, its been said, done, prove, hence its boring...
Taped
I really need to start carrying my tape recorder around. Since I want
to start a audio blogging, without audio I cant actually create
anything awsome. And yo never know when some good sounds might come
about. So you goto be ready. Kinda like a photographer without a
camera...
Isnt it weird that for a long time we have had to delete useless
emails that we will never read again. Which was fine. But now that we
have huge amounts of space available I now feel the need to use up as
much of it as I can. I'm probably never going to read most of these
emails again. But I still keep them. Because I can. Thats why the
archive button is extreamly handy, dont need to keep creating new
catagories for stuff which is sort of just one off stuff or you just
dont care to put it in a catagory. To bad you cant have sub folders, I
think that would be a usefull addition. I dont think any of the email
sites have subfolders... Weird that.
Went to the gym today, was extreamly quite today as it was ekka holiday, so people probably taking the day off togoto the overpriced 'county fair'. But since I dont care I will stop. Today I finally got upto 90kg on the leg press, my goal is 100kg so I'm getting closer. I was also able to use the squat machine thingy without too much pain, I think my limit for that machine is only two sets. And the bench press is also weird like that too. Everything else I do three sets, just these two machines have thawted me....
I've been listening to a lot of free music from the internet atm. Its cool becuase it free. And you have the artists persmission etc, because they are the ones who have posted it.
I've been listening to a lot of free music from the internet atm. Its cool becuase it free. And you have the artists persmission etc, because they are the ones who have posted it.
Computer room
They have revamped the computer lab in Z block, but forgot to but have
kept the old computers... I find this strange, especialy since the
keyboards and mice have pretty much bit the dist. as in the tiny legs
on the back of the kb are all borken / stolen. Which is annoying when
you have carpel tunnel... (or going to get it). They also forgot to
clean the danm things... Which means the only new things are the desks
and chairs. But they have managed to squeeze in some lapton terminal
ares which is usefull. Not that I actualy have a laptop, its just that
people with laptops tend to take up an entire comptuer just to steal
the network connection. Those cheap basterds. Why not buy a wireless
card..... So it feels like they are using two computers... and your
standing there wanting to print stuff out and they start playing some
crappy flash game...
Worse still are the people that long on, leave a book and possbily
their bag at the computer and dont come back for about 2 hours. Once I
was kinda annoyed, so I just logged them off, logged in as my self and
printed my stuff and left, and no one was the wiser, except for the
people looking at me funny... probably thinking "what if I had thought
of that first, I wouldnt have to stand here for 3 hours. And if I copy
him that would be wrong, and I wont be able to pass judgement... end
quote.
Speaking of which
After quite a while stuffing around I fiannly actually purchased a new set of speakers for the puter. They definatly sound better then the old el'chepos I had, of which the subwoofer only produced one note from an entire spectrum of sound, and sometimes just decided not to work. On top of that it crackled. And more recently the satalites also started crackling... Definatly time to get a new set. The opportunity game about when both my mum and my sister were at home on a monday. Evidently they had both taken 'sick' days on the same day. Coincidental. Definatly. It was also the Monday I thought I was gona have the house to my self and do a bit of peacefull studying. But that was not to be. For some reason my sister decided she wanted to goto Ikea and get a new bed (a double bed with space underneath). Which we didnt end up buying. Instead bought more glasses and a cupboard. As you normaly do when going to Ikea. But we didnt buy any candles which was strange... So Brisbanes favorite computer store is just on the other side of the road (read: highway). And there was a que a very long que for a computer store that lives on the side of a highway... maybe about 30 people. I sort of knew already what I wanted. So by the time it was my turn to by stuff I was ready. I had about 25 mins to rehearse how I was gona order it. Which included getting the sales person to find out the specs and then purchasing it (had to make him work for his $45)...
Now onto product gloryfication and post-purchases feel goodiness
The main reason for buying these, is that the satalites AND the subwoofer (read: both) are magneticly sheilded. Therefore I can leave the sub on the desk, and not loose 60% of the bass by having it under the desk. The box was bigger then I thought it would be. But I wasnt holding my breath for anything big actually being inside the box. For once I was wrong................................................... The satalites are bigger then the old ones, but pretty light. Most of the weight was in the exteramly solid sub made out of wood not plastic (which can crack....). Which seems almost oversized when compared with the satalites. So there is the issue of ballance. Which I will get to later. I'm also glad I didnt waste another $30 on a useless pair of speakers, as these actually produce sound rather then moving air. And the sub well its in a completly diffrent class. It can actually produce diffrent sounds... wow you might think. But think of what my old speakers sounded like if I'm even discussing this as a feature. However. The sub is a extreamly tight, but that might be becuase its new. So I'm trying to break them in slowly to get good use out of them. The sub also has an extreamly bright blue led on it which is actually getting annoying. So I think I'm gona put a sticker of some kind over it. Thank fully the bass control is on the front. Along with tone and volume. Which are kinda redundent because there is only ever one volume and thats, 11.... Apart from all of these awsome features, the on/off swtich is placed at the back, which is a physical pain in the back side.
I'm still fucking around with placement... But I think I have it almost sorted. But with less desk space now becuase of the massive sub... Which means I'm probably gona have to move one of the printers to the floor or a shelf of some kind.
Controled blogging
The problem could be part of two things which I have noticed to have changed. Firstly I've been blogging/D-newsing less which should of freed up more time... the second thing is the mess in the study room and my bedroom. I'm normaly very neat but for the past two months nothing but mess. And I guess I've come to learn to live with it a little, but theres always this little voice in the back of my head telling me to to burn stuff... just kidding he actually lives down the road... hahah I'm so funny... anyway I'm getting quite annoyed by all of this mess. I initially thought that by not spending two hours everyday re-organising my entire life would free up some time, but the mess has made it harder to find stuff, and the smoothness of my opertations has been lacking making me clumsy or something. Well, I think the experimenting must stop. As its probably going to effect my uni results if I keep going, and considering I practicly need straight fives to get my GPA about a certain level I think its wise I stick to what I know.
End of the "holidays"
The holidays are over and I havent achived anything on the list. Well the holidays arent over exactly still have one day left, but I have to goto work so it doesnt count.... What to do now, where to go from here???? Just cant get my self going to do anything it seems. Its actually quite pathetic... and this is after I gained an extra week of holidays by turning up to uni a week early on Tuesday.
I have now unplugged my alarm clock. Why? Because it annoys me when I want to sleep in. Even if it was on, I'm just gona snooze it or turn it off anyway. Its basicly up to me if and when I get up, regardless of an alarm clock. This is only an experiment and will most likey return to sanity next week. In the mean time... I'm gona make the most of my two week break.
The Great Big List of Everything
The Holiday List
- Make a Kite
- Make the Kite fly
- Buy a jumper
- Make a pie
- Make a cake
- mmm quiche
- Smash something
- Mow the Lawn
- Have a BBQ
- Go for a morning run
- Make Something
- Take up a new habit
- Loose a habit
- Finnish reading The Dice Man
- Start reading a new book
- Get a hair cut
- Make a tape
- And much more
- Renew my student card to 2015
- Goto the Gym
Dear Blogger
Now that its the holidays and I have nothing todo, not that its a problem I can get back to blogging. For the next two weeks atleast. So in celebration I have used the new photo upload thingy to upload a picture of the sky.
Since the holidays have started
I thought it would be wise to start doing something, like tidying up the accumulated junk in my room. So instead I spent the day starting projects I will never finnish. But will instead, keep these projects lying around so that one day, just maybe, I will finnish them. But the main victory for today was I found out what computer stuff works and doesnt work....
What I did find out is that my old PS/1 (486 DX). does not work. All it does is make noise. Which means two things are broken. The CPU and the HDD, which I had previously found to be broken. But the case is still in good shape, with no rust. Everything in that computer is extreamly well screwed down. So its gona be a while till I actually get the broken shit out.
The P100 still works, but it has a registry error (windows 95 ->A<-) so its still kickin, but the CD-rom doesnt work. The box is fine and weirdly clean.
The K6-2. Is still ugly. But it works. kinda. The HDD seems to be broken. But the CPU works. But since its just a crap computer anyway, I'm not sure if its even work saving. But I'm gona keep it anyway, never know when that kinda junk will come in handy.... The sound card doesnt work, so there goes the MP3 box idea... I did manage to salvage a 12cm fan, for what purpose I dont know yet. A network card which
The old PS/1 monitor still works, but the Goldstar doesnt. Which means its gona probably gona end its life in a spectacular way...
I also have 2 CD-rom drives which dont work, and compulsivly open without prompting and then dont close... I think they're possessed. I have also salvaged a bunch of floppy drives, which still work, but their utility is somewhat diminished with USB drives so cheap, common and so much faster.
Touching all of this technology got me thinking about the carputer. Things I already have:
Howevever I would like to stop this noise thats coming from my current computer. Whih is the fan. And seems to be effecting my CPU as it getting quite hot (maybe something to do with the contact of the heatsink). But I think a new cooling solution is needed. Which will hopefully stop my from getting industrial deafness. I also need to get a new set of speakers because the rubber/foam bit that surrounds the cone has become detatched from the cone it self. So its making this horrible sound sound, also the driver seems to be bent. From what I dont know. But its just collaped in on it self, which is just odd. But since I only paid $15 for it I cant really complain. So hopefully I can goto the computer shop and get me a new fan and a new set of air pushers. Time to go on a spending spree... Or not, which ever is cheaper.
What I did find out is that my old PS/1 (486 DX). does not work. All it does is make noise. Which means two things are broken. The CPU and the HDD, which I had previously found to be broken. But the case is still in good shape, with no rust. Everything in that computer is extreamly well screwed down. So its gona be a while till I actually get the broken shit out.
The P100 still works, but it has a registry error (windows 95 ->A<-) so its still kickin, but the CD-rom doesnt work. The box is fine and weirdly clean.
The K6-2. Is still ugly. But it works. kinda. The HDD seems to be broken. But the CPU works. But since its just a crap computer anyway, I'm not sure if its even work saving. But I'm gona keep it anyway, never know when that kinda junk will come in handy.... The sound card doesnt work, so there goes the MP3 box idea... I did manage to salvage a 12cm fan, for what purpose I dont know yet. A network card which
The old PS/1 monitor still works, but the Goldstar doesnt. Which means its gona probably gona end its life in a spectacular way...
I also have 2 CD-rom drives which dont work, and compulsivly open without prompting and then dont close... I think they're possessed. I have also salvaged a bunch of floppy drives, which still work, but their utility is somewhat diminished with USB drives so cheap, common and so much faster.
Touching all of this technology got me thinking about the carputer. Things I already have:
- MB
- CPU
- RAM
- Power supply
- Network card
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- Nothing better to do for the next two weeks
- CD/DVD drive ($80)
- Sound card ($10)
- Inverter (300w $90)
- Screen ($300)
- Hdd ($100)
Howevever I would like to stop this noise thats coming from my current computer. Whih is the fan. And seems to be effecting my CPU as it getting quite hot (maybe something to do with the contact of the heatsink). But I think a new cooling solution is needed. Which will hopefully stop my from getting industrial deafness. I also need to get a new set of speakers because the rubber/foam bit that surrounds the cone has become detatched from the cone it self. So its making this horrible sound sound, also the driver seems to be bent. From what I dont know. But its just collaped in on it self, which is just odd. But since I only paid $15 for it I cant really complain. So hopefully I can goto the computer shop and get me a new fan and a new set of air pushers. Time to go on a spending spree... Or not, which ever is cheaper.
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