| What if I were Romeo in black jeans? |
[Apr. 16th, 2009|10:11 pm] |
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| | No Myth, Michael Penn | ] |
Michael Penn's No Myth, and more specifically, its appearance in the film Loser, was the reason I started wearing black jeans. When I tried to download it, I could only find an acoustic version. If I tried today, I may have better luck.
Jet's Are You Gonna Be My Girl? was the reason I wanted black boots, but I have never found any that I liked (particularly since I can't wear heels).
-Mmaster
PS: UTS dumps Sun email for Exchange. "There had been some resistance within the IT ranks as the staff shift away from open-source mail applications, according to Cahill". What a surprise! |
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[Apr. 3rd, 2009|08:44 pm] |
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| |  dorky | ] |
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| | Playing Favourites, The Starting Line | ] |
I saw a website named "http://www.gadgetsquick.co.uk/".
...I think I'm parsing it incorrectly.
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[Feb. 13th, 2009|05:25 pm] |
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| |  amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | I'm A Terrible Person, Rooney | ] |
It takes courage to name your accountancy firm The Tax Haven.
...Mind you, their website practically screams dodgy, saying nothing of the company name, so I guess it balances.
-Mmaster |
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[Dec. 18th, 2008|09:31 am] |
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| |  geeky | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Hear You Me, Jimmy Eat World | ] |
Aman sent me a link to DropBox, which looks like it could be handy - it's essentially SVN for Dummies (or Non-Technical Users). It's even compatible with the big three: Windows, Mac, and Linux.
It can't handle merging, and at the moment its solution for conflicted copies is to save the second version as a separate file, but it's a lot better than no version control at all.
They give you 2GB of free space, or you can spend cash to get 50GB (though it's still in beta, so you might want to wait till it hits a full version number). But depending on the project, 2GB may be all you need; work's SVN repository's only 1GB, and that includes a bunch of extraneous stuff aside from the core codebase.
The use I can really see this shining for is group work. It's a lot easier to set up than a proper SVN repository, and a lot easier for users to implement. I'm not sure whether the uploads can get through the Uni firewall or not, yet, though. (I plan to play around with it and test it tonight at ProgSoc.)
It's mostly pretty quick, though it seems to slow down a lot when trying to upload conflicted files (from the five-minute test Aman and I tried; your mileage may vary).
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| My father whines if we leave him behind; but if we take him, he complains as well. We can't win. |
[Jan. 12th, 2008|09:10 pm] |
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| | cheerful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Keep The Customer Satisfied, Simon And Garfunkel | ] |
After something like four hours of shopping, I have clothes. I still need shoes, though - sneakers and sandals.
Finding the sandals will no doubt be highly painful, because what I want is very exact. First preference would be a precise duplicate of my current pair; they're nice and low on the heel, have a back (so they don't slip off at the slightest provocation), are plain black (so they'll go with pretty much anything) and are smart but not dressy. I can't wear thongs, they hurt my toes too much.
The decision about sneakers is less of a problem, aside from the whole "Finding a design that I actually like" issue. The most comfortable shoes I've ever owned are Rockports, so they might be worth a try; not sure whether they do sneakers, though. I tend to abuse my shoes, so I'm not sure whether it's worth the cash to get a particularly expensive brand. It's probably one of those circluar things: I buy cheap sneakers, so they don't last long, so I don't spend much cash on the next pair either.
The other thing I need to look for / buy is a new ceiling lamp. I have two relatively simple criteria, and one very very difficult one. Three to five lights: easy. Transparent shades: medium. Something I like? OH GODS THE PAIN. Especially since I have to keep the house in mind in the process; it's a Federation home, so the ultra-modern probably wouldn't work with the decor (even though my room's a little more current than the rest of the house, largely due to the posters on the walls). But the imitation chandeliers that the 'period' lighting places sell? Don't really appeal.
However, the ultra-modern lighting shop I visited with Dad yesterday morning had some awesome paintings. There was one of a concert (or something) that I absolutely loved.
Mm: That picture is cool.
Lady: We're selling them, actually; $150.
Mm: Don't... Tempt me. I do have that kind of money at the moment. But I don't have that amount of wall space. It's taller than I am.
Lady: But we're trying to get rid of it!
Mm: Yeah, it's a bit younger than I'd expect you to like.
Lady: Pretty much.
-Mmaster
PS: I want one. |
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| The flames climbed high into the night to light the sacrificial rite... |
[Nov. 5th, 2007|09:47 pm] |
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| |  accomplished | ] |
| [ | music |
| | American Pie, Don McLean | ] |
Vision is useful.
For other LJ addicts (or, for that matter, DJ addicts), you may be interested in this GreaseMonkey script:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3191
Essentially, it appends ?style=mine to the URL of any LJ-based page you choose to look at.
Yay! I can see again!
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| I'm in this place where I don't know where I am! |
[Nov. 4th, 2007|08:19 pm] |
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| | accomplished | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Tomorrow, James | ] |
Google Embeddable Calendar Helper!
I've been wishing for something like this for a while, now.
So, check out http://progsoc.org/~mmaster/FindMe.htm (or the link at the top of the page) to figure out more or less where I am - or when I'm free.
:D.
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| There is no doubt: she's such a mouse with such an abstract grace... |
[Oct. 26th, 2007|10:38 pm] |
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| | geeky | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Chills, Ben Lee | ] |
HAHAHAHHAHH
There is now a compiler for LOLCODE. Based in .NET. HAHAHAHAHHWTH.
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[Oct. 21st, 2007|06:22 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | Your Spirits Alive, Dropkick Murphys | ] |
ARGH.
I hate what Outlook does to emails.
I've been creating a semi-clean email file, in order to test some stuff with the IAJ program.
The things that take the most scroll-scroll-scroll-scroll to delete are Feedblitz emails (Why the Hell are they binary? RSS feeds are pure HTML!); followed by all the auto-generated "Making it pretty!" formatting created by Outlook users. Why do we need, like, three different copies of the same email? Your text is not interesting enough to justify having the plain text version plus the HTML version plus the HTML formatting plus (what I'm assuming is) a binary version. Dude, what?
Now I need to figure out how to get the information directly from email, so I don't have to sit here and labouriously add each email individually myself. Probably something like | iaj/filter.pl in the .forward, accompanied by code like this, correct?
Dammit, I should be heading home. Oops.
-Mmaster
EDIT: No, I think it is probably actually | perl /home/mmaster/iaj/filter.pl. Now to wait for an email to come in, so I can test my hypothesis. I literally missed the last one by a matter of seconds. *pouts* |
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| In other news, "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coulton is beyond addictive. |
[Oct. 14th, 2007|04:15 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  calm | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Still Alive, Jonathan Coulton | ] |
The Vote-O-Matic is interesting.
Mind you, it didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know:
First choice: Greens
Second: Democrats (Or it would be, if they hadn't largely fallen into the void)
It doesn't tell you the rank of the other parties, but the other potential choices were Liberal, Labor, and Family First. ...Hmm, I wonder why none of them rated a mention... :P.
-Mmaster
PS: It doesn't actually make much of a difference which way I vote, though; which the electoral reshuffle, we've been moved into Grayndler: a severely safe Labor seat (21%). *shrugs* |
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| Shiny! |
[Aug. 21st, 2007|08:30 am] |
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| | cheerful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | If You Lived Here You'd Be Home Now, The Lucksmiths | ] |
http://metaatem.net/words is a cool little gadget.
( See? )
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| I keep reaching for my mouse, and it isn't there... |
[Aug. 11th, 2007|08:30 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  chaotic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | You're Too Good To Be, New Found Glory | ] |
Several things:
* This post is hilarious. Particularly the comments. As are the comments in this one. ...I get a niggly feeling there's a few too many in-jokes in there, though, for general consumption.
* This week's Doctor Who scared the Hell out of me. I mean, yes, they all ended up happy in the end, etc, but I'm still jittery from adrenaline.
* In cleaning my room today, I seem to have managed to get dust into the scroll wheel of Connor's mouse. Anyone got any bright notions for repair? Or is it replacement time? Blowing at it seems to help for about a turn, then it returns to jamming.
* I've been on a CD binge today. Yeah, I know; actual physical media. Somewhat eclectic, to boot. Thus far, I've played:
- The Whitlams: Eternal Nightcap, Love This City, Torch The Moon
- The Lucksmiths: What Bird Is That?
- End Of Fashion: End Of Fashion
- Smashing Pumpkins: Rotten Apples
- Flogging Molly: Within A Mile Of Home
- New Found Glory: Coming Home (currently playing)
* Does anyone know where I can get a high-res picture of the Southern Cross? Preferably bigger than this one, since I want to use it as a background for Connor's 1280x1024 desktop. Most of the "large" ones on Google Image search seem to be largely pure black - and yet it's still impossible to see the constellation...
* Chris apparently got more than a little bored this afternoon, and made up some new ProgSoc posters. Then he asked me to add the logo, because he only has Microsoft Word as an image editor. (The ones in that folder are the ones with the logo.) He says his favourite's the one of Rob. Mine's probably Nora with the balloon, but the "Prod" instruction tempts me. He also apparently didn't know who the people with Ros were.
Ramble ramble *thud*
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| I'm sitting here, going, "I wish to strangle you..." |
[Jun. 18th, 2007|09:19 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Angels & Airwaves in my head | ] |
This has to be the most off-topic LJ post I've ever seen. And I've seen lots of off topic posts. In a community called 'Sydneysiders'...
Since, if the mods have any sense, it will be deleted shortly, here is the text:I have a question and I didn't know where to ask it and I can't seem to find the information myself,well ok I really don't have the time to find it to be honest!
I recently purchased an i-pod the 30GB one I don't know if it has a special name or not.Anyways I am currently loading all my cd's on the computer to transfer them to the i-pod but they are saving at a low complexity rate and I wanna know how do I change that to say I guess a high complexity rate? Is that even possible?
Is there a specific site that I can look at that will show me how to do this?
None of my friends have i-pods they all brought different brands not one of them the same so I can't pass the buck onto them and make them do it all for me :(
Any help would be much appreciated and if this is found to be not appropiate for this community please let me know and it will be removed. If it helps I do live in Sydney LOL. If you get right down to it, I think it's the incorrect terminology (and, to a lesser extent, the spelling/grammar) that's annoying me more than the off-topic-ness; "low complexity rate"?!? *shakes head* I could never work in tech support.
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| Yay for the Internet. |
[Jun. 1st, 2007|01:16 pm] |
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These are awesome. Or something. Whatever, I've been meaning to direct you to them for a while.
Automatic cat macro generator. (Direct link here.) It takes any RSS feed and creates a bunch of cat macros from the post subjects, with the images taken from flickr. I'm not quite sure what algorithm it uses to choose the image for each macro, but it seems remarkably appropriate a lot of the time. I think this one is my favourite:
( Cut, for all the good it does. )
Fancy business cards. This guy built working lock picks into his business card; it says "Melvin wanted something he could give to peers and prospective clients that spoke of this nature" - though I can hardly imagine that it would be saying complimentary things...
LiveJournal imploded.
LOLCODE, along with a LOLCODE to python translator.
There's probably more, but I have to run off. Oh, well.
-Mmaster
EDIT: Also, The Park Bench is one of my new favourite sites. Particularly for the articles I Read Cosmo... So You Don't Have To, It's an Aphliction, and The Tell-Tale Signs. |
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[May. 5th, 2007|07:41 pm] |
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| | Wine Women And Song, Harvey Danger | ] |
HAHAHAH
Summary:"Hi. Can you tell me [this]?"
"Uh... Why don't you look it up in the manual? ...Or Google it?"
"No, I like to explore the game myself!"
"So why the Hell are you asking us?"
"That was needlessly rude! You're all trolls!"
In other news, today was Free Comic Book Day. I have comics, and other stuff. Oh, and it was Rob's birthday, but I've already commented on that.
And now, I have to try and gather together enough energy to do the RE stuff so that my group doesn't fail and things. ...Yay... Maybe I'll do it while watching The Sound Of Music or something.
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[Mar. 29th, 2007|07:29 am] |
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| | geeky, sleepy | ] |
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| | Dog-Eared Page, The Matches | ] |
Rob, Thomas, you may enjoy this. Possibly others.
Thoughts From A Man On A Long Journey
This is something I really need to keep in mind when I'm muttering about how much I dislike RE. Though, if you get right down to it, I probably already know it.
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| Random geekery. |
[Jan. 6th, 2007|11:18 am] |
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| | dorky | ] |
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| | Little Round Mirrors, Harvey Danger | ] |
Harvey Danger have released one of their albums for free on the 'net. This is old news, but I only just found out. Either way, it is awesome. I think it's the happiest album, soundwise, that I've ever heard. Lyrics wise, probably less so.
AQ has released a new class. Yay, something else I can use to farm for levels and gold.
Anyone remember Laura's nearly novel-length fan fiction where the members of Good Charlotte (and possibly other bands; I don't think I ever read it) were all sleeping with her, her friends, and each other? It would do well on a new LJ released called bandsues.
I'm thinking of downloading Planet Penguin Racer. I can't decide whether to download it for Windows or Linux, though. I'm also currently too lazy to find out how large the file actually is; my connection's capped at the moment, so this is an important factor. Similarly, I'm tempted to get Open Office for Linux, but, again, don't know how large the files are. I'll find out, if I get around to it.
When I switch between operating systems, it seems to lose the time on the clock. I'm not sure why.
*shrugs*
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| "Come see the sunspots!" Not sure where I'm going with this, but anyway. |
[Nov. 19th, 2006|11:08 pm] |
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| | Blow Your Tears, Racoon | ] |
I walked in to the living room this evening. Dad had fallen asleep in front of Compass' showing of A Sidewalk Astronomer.
I came in, probably not too far through. It caught my interest enough that I dug out The Guide to find out what the program was; according to the listingJohn Stanton is an eccentric philosopher and a man of the people who popularised the amateur telescope. Quite apart frrom the fact that they appear to have got the man's name wrong (it's listed as "John Dobson" in both the WikiPedia page for the film and the credited page for the group), the description treads a fine line between telling you anything useful and not doing so.
The guy was fascinating; he's clearly very intelligent, and attempts to use humour to convey ideas he fervently believes - comparing RedShift to the "slurring" of the sound of a fire engine.
However, as his ideas moved further into the realm of what felt like the purely theoretical, even his metaphors started to escape me. His debunking of the Big Bang theory was fair enough in itself, but I can't pretend to understand his alternative model.
I must confess, as it moved further into the realms of stuff I couldn't translate, my attention started to wander and I started getting flashbacks to Gene Ray and his 'interesting' theories about the Time Cube (visit TimeCube.com if you want to hurt both your eyes and brain). Perhaps if I had actually attended some of the lectures that the film showed him giving, I would have a better notion of what he was on about.
...The above probably says large things about my ignorance of Physics. I don't know how I passed the subject in Year 12.
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| Are you aching for the blade? That's okay, we're insured. Are you aching for the grave? That's okay. |
[Jul. 30th, 2006|03:30 pm] |
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| | Babies of the 80's, Something Corporate | ] |
SO! MUCH! FANDOM! IN SUCH A CONFINED SPACE!
Combining elements of Eddings novels and West Side Story, and then Eddings novels and Rent, I bring you... Guardians of the West Side Story!
Quoted, in case the entry gets removed or hidden or something at a later date:
( Know at least two of the three well? No? Move along, then; nothing to see here... )
Unfortunately, probably the only ones to get all of this would be me, Liz, and Steson. Sigh.
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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