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[Nov. 12th, 2009|08:35 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oFP_TH8jYY | ] |
Shoulder Angel says: I broke Excel today
Shoulder Angel says: That was fun
Shoulder Angel says: I broke it more impressively yesterday though
Wormbo87 says: so you are the Master and it is the Slave?
Wormbo87 says: you two have a safe word right, so your antics dont get out of hand.
Wormbo87 says: and Excel is consenting to this right?
Shoulder Angel says: You've been drinking, haven't you?
Wormbo87 says: hardly
Shoulder Angel says: Uhuh
Shoulder Angel says: So you're being seedy while sober. I'm not sure that's an improvement.
Wormbo87 says: I'm not the one playing BDSM with Microsoft products. You can't judge me
.......
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[Nov. 11th, 2009|04:00 pm] |
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| |  working | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Half Truism, The Offspring | ] |
I broke the progress bar!
Well, fancy that. Apparently Excel doesn't like it when you paste 400-odd cells, and then it has to recalculate the entire 30MB spreadsheet. Oops.
-Mmaster |
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[Nov. 9th, 2009|10:46 am] |
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| | *gape* | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Monsters, Hurricane Bells | ] |
Holy hell.
I was flicking through a camera catalogue while I waited for a report to run, and came across this one.
Fourteen thousand dollars?!?!? Is it, like, gold plated? That was nearly half my salary last year!
*gapes*
-Mmaster
EDIT: Oh, and that almost certainly doesn't cover the lens(es), so you're probably up for another couple of grand for a lens that does the machine justice... *shakes head* |
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| "I want a unicorn, okay? I used to want a pony, but I've matured." |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|11:25 pm] |
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| |  confused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Lament of the Chiming Wedgebill, The Lucksmiths | ] |
This week has sucked.
So, instead, I shall tell you about horses.
Apparently Google Reader has decided that I am fascinated by horses.
I have had to remove "Tacky tack", "Shame in the Horse Show Ring", "I Hate Your Horse", and about ten others from its list of recommendations.
I'm guessing "Being female" is sufficient reason to have obviously always wanted a pony.
In fact, Google Reader, at no point in my history do I ever recall being fascinated by horses. You can stop now. Really. I honestly won't hold it against you.
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[Nov. 6th, 2009|09:26 am] |
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| [ | music |
| | Ian, Eisley | ] |
Just in case you were wondering?
Yesterday's date was the 16th of April, 2009.
"That's the strength of the UTS Union! They're so powerful, they can change time!" -Adam (a guy Thomas knows)
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[Nov. 4th, 2009|08:23 pm] |
Ooh! Bonus to my "My enrolment is screwed" saga! ...Well, less of an issue than the ITPS one, but still amusing.
I'm still on the old version of the course. This is giving me fewer and fewer options as I go along. Whatever.
Guess what I have in the way of options to complete my submajor?
Well, hmm. *looks at MyStudentAdmin* There's... Data Mining Algorithms (Notice how they cleverly used the same subject number to bypass sanity checks!). Or there's... Data Mining Algorithms. (Unless I want to take a Project, anyway... Yeah, no.) I was tossing up whether I wanted to do that subject or not. I guess that makes the decision for me, whether I like it or not.
Additionally, I found where eRequests are supposed to be filed. ...Too bad that visiting the page gives me a "Service Unavailable" message. WTF is with these time-limited websites, anyway? I thought a core tenet of the web was "Do stuff any time you like, because nobody has to be physically watching the transaction".
*grumbles*
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[Nov. 3rd, 2009|11:00 pm] |
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| | Meet Me On The Equinox, Death Cab For Cutie | ] |
Evidence of the total disconnect between the arts faculty and the rest of the universe.
Mm: I got told that my photos for assignment 4 were "Not Safe For Work".
Photography teacher: What's that mean?
Mm: .....
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[Oct. 28th, 2009|05:30 pm] |
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| | confused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | I Love The Internet, XKCD | ] |
...WTF.
EGG has forum medals, which are basically pieces of avatar flair identifying things you've done for the club. I have a bunch of them for being in the club's World Community Grid team, along with a couple of others.
This morning I was assigned a new one. "President Madagascar Bodyguard".
...I have no idea what this means. The description simply reads: "[CLASSIFIED], +30 points." The text as it was assigned to me is "Fulfilled requirements for this medal." No-one else has the badge.
I have a feeling that Phil assigned it to me by mistake. Otherwise, I'm taking part in a meme without knowing it? ...I is confused.
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[Oct. 27th, 2009|11:32 pm] |
Mum: Ah, the joys of share housing. Good practice for marriage!
Chris: I like that. I'll have to use it someday.
Mm: On who, exactly? It'd better not be me.
Chris: I'm sure I'll find someone.
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| This is why our document QA process is working at an incredibly glacial pace. |
[Oct. 26th, 2009|08:32 pm] |
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| | The SITP Skype meeting. | ] |
Patto: Mmm, sausages.
Brett: What?
Patto: I just got told that sausages are ready.
Semps: My sausage is always ready for you, Patto.
Patto: ...Thanks, Semps...
...This is typical of most SITP meetings...
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| I got nothin'. |
[Oct. 22nd, 2009|02:19 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | bemused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | I Will Follow You Into The Dark, Death Cab For Cutie | ] |
SMS's from Chris teach me things.
For example, I never knew that "desauve" was an alternate spelling for "déjà vu".
...WTF?
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| RAGE. RAAAAAAGE. |
[Oct. 21st, 2009|10:56 pm] |
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| |  Fury. | ] |
Whoever invented data mining should be shot.
...Whoever invented buggy Java-based data mining software that just hangs instead of telling you what the Hell's gone wrong, and then never tells you how to fix it?
Yeah, you can be eaten slowly by lepers using only forks. They'll start with your eyeballs.
Goodnight.
-Mmaster |
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[Oct. 8th, 2009|11:30 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | A Million Light Years From Love, Tom Smith | ] |
Thomas: I should get a washing machine... And as she goes to the bathroom, quietly slip a chain around her ankle so she can't escape.
Mm: ...I really should have seen that punchline coming well before I did.
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[Oct. 5th, 2009|11:19 am] |
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| [ | music |
| | And They Say I've Got Talent, Tom Smith | ] |
*Breakfast time. Liz is making French toast, Chris is washing up, and Mm is setting the table
Mm: I was reading the Wikipedia page about French toast, actually. It's been around since the 1800s.
Chris: What, Wikipedia?
Mm: ...It's like there's a major disconnect between the mouth and the brain!
Liz: How long has the Internet been around, Chris?
Chris: Since the 1990s?
Liz: And how long has Wikipedia been a major site?
Chris: The last couple of years?
Liz: And when were the 1800s?
Chris: A long time before that?
-Mmaster
EDIT:
Chris: Why can't you ripen bananas using the microwave? |
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| Given I was still awake at 1am, I probably shouldn't be awake at 6:30am. *shrug* Oh well. |
[Oct. 3rd, 2009|06:24 am] |
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*Hailey, Oanh and Mm are playing Man Bites Dog
*Mm sweeps aside the cards from the previous round, and starts to deal out some new ones
Hailey: Aww. Now we won't get "Naked" again!
Mm: ...Too bad Dedney didn't hear you say that.
Hailey: And it was with two girls, too! This is what happens when they play video games!
Later, we played Kill The Hippies. When Dedney was dealt the "Accusation of Sexual Deviance" card, he was obliged to pass it to Thomas.
...Thomas now wants a copy of the game for himself.
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[Sep. 30th, 2009|10:31 pm] |
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I wonder how much the average person's music taste evolves over time.
Will retirement villages of the 2050's be blasting ACDC?
...And now to bed. I have an 8am Uni meeting. Graraagargh.
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[Sep. 29th, 2009|03:23 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
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| | The Queen Is Dead, The Smiths | ] |
*snorts*
I just received an email offering to do over the ACS webpage or something.
The final line is
"P.S - This is the email sent by the individual and not by a robot. If do not wish to receive further emails, kindly reply back with the subject as Unsubscribe."
...That doesn't sound at *all* like a bot, does it?
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[Sep. 23rd, 2009|11:12 pm] |
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| |  hungry | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Avenue Q Main Theme | ] |
WTF, body?
I woke up this morning absolutely starving. Like, physical stomach pain level of hunger. I had breakfast about 7:30.
By 9:30, I was hungry again. Again, to the point of pain. I wound up having to raid my stash of muesli bars.
Basically, it's continued today that every two to three hours I get stomach pain and have to eat a substantial amount of food to remove it. I know I normally overeat, but this is ridiculous.
The only thing I have available to blame are the herbal sleeping tablets I tried for the first time last night, but it seems rather a bizarre side-effect if it's true.
Oh well. I guess the only thing to do is see whether tomorrow is any better.
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| "What is it?" "Dust storm!" |
[Sep. 23rd, 2009|06:57 am] |
| [ | music |
| | Pacific Coast Party, Smash Mouth | ] |
Dad told me yesterday that there was going to be "a violent wind that reduces visibility".
This morning he woke me up to show me the window.
The world looks like it has been steeped in Sunkist.
-Mmaster
EDIT: Pictures |
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[Sep. 20th, 2009|08:59 am] |
| [ | music |
| | We Didn't Start The Flamewar, College Humor | ] |
Chris and I went to a party last night. The music was louder than I'd've liked, so I spent a fair proportion of the evening outside.
Chris: Wow. You can almost see the stars.
Mm: Oh, they're there. *points* That one's a planet. *points* Those two are stars.
Chris: But aren't all stars really just planets? It just depends on how far away they are?
Mm: ........ You fail astronomy forever.
-Mmaster
EDIT:
When I recounted this conversation to his father, Chris piped up with "Well, they aren't asteroids, are they?" |
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