Orbis non sufficit
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Crap website list
For future reference I am creating a list here of businesses that have really shit websites and need the expert help of LSD.
http://kingbrown.netfirms.com/
For future reference I am creating a list here of businesses that have really shit websites and need the expert help of LSD.
http://kingbrown.netfirms.com/
Monday, August 30, 2004
Back
Well, I managed to get out of that tutorial extremely quickly. We were just using MATLAB to graph some 3D functions. They look pretty fancy actually. One of them looked like a nacho hat, eheheh.
Ok, so where was I?
Oh yes,
THE ADVENTURES OF JED: MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE
There was a knock at the door, tearing Jed's attention away from a german female in the middle of a double somersault with 3 1/2 twists. A voice was heard, muffled as if someone had their face right up against the door.
"DUDE! WASSUP? YOU COMMIN TO THE CLUBS?" followed by some hysterical laughter. Jed slowly pulled himself to his feet and wandered over to the door, letting in his slightly mad friend Bobsy Thorncrab.
Bobsy was a chinese/american with an extreme fashion sense who delivered pizzas. He had moved to Beijing a few years back after he had taken a pizza to the wrong address and walked in on a drug deal going down. There had been some shooting but Bobsy was pretty quick on his feet so he escaped unscathed, however he developed an extreme case of paranoia, thinking that they would surely hunt him down, so he skipped the country. Even now he never walked down alleys alone and was constantly looking behind him when he was walking anywhere. Bobsy usually delivered the pizzas to the lab, which was how Jed had come to know him.
Today Bobsy was wearing bright orange jeans that were way too big for him, a bright green shirt over a black t-shirt with a human skull on it and his black hair with 15 cm spikes.
"Clubs?" Jed was unaware of any plan to go anywhere.
"Yeah dude! We're hitting the most kickass clubs tonight! KICKASS!"
Jed looked about his apartment for a second. It was a pretty crap place to be really. "Okay then"
"YEAH!!!" Bobsy slapped Jed's hand vigourously. Jed shook the pain off. Bobsy grabbed Jed's shirt and pulled him out the door "Lets go man!"
***
Well, I managed to get out of that tutorial extremely quickly. We were just using MATLAB to graph some 3D functions. They look pretty fancy actually. One of them looked like a nacho hat, eheheh.
Ok, so where was I?
Oh yes,
THE ADVENTURES OF JED: MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE
There was a knock at the door, tearing Jed's attention away from a german female in the middle of a double somersault with 3 1/2 twists. A voice was heard, muffled as if someone had their face right up against the door.
"DUDE! WASSUP? YOU COMMIN TO THE CLUBS?" followed by some hysterical laughter. Jed slowly pulled himself to his feet and wandered over to the door, letting in his slightly mad friend Bobsy Thorncrab.
Bobsy was a chinese/american with an extreme fashion sense who delivered pizzas. He had moved to Beijing a few years back after he had taken a pizza to the wrong address and walked in on a drug deal going down. There had been some shooting but Bobsy was pretty quick on his feet so he escaped unscathed, however he developed an extreme case of paranoia, thinking that they would surely hunt him down, so he skipped the country. Even now he never walked down alleys alone and was constantly looking behind him when he was walking anywhere. Bobsy usually delivered the pizzas to the lab, which was how Jed had come to know him.
Today Bobsy was wearing bright orange jeans that were way too big for him, a bright green shirt over a black t-shirt with a human skull on it and his black hair with 15 cm spikes.
"Clubs?" Jed was unaware of any plan to go anywhere.
"Yeah dude! We're hitting the most kickass clubs tonight! KICKASS!"
Jed looked about his apartment for a second. It was a pretty crap place to be really. "Okay then"
"YEAH!!!" Bobsy slapped Jed's hand vigourously. Jed shook the pain off. Bobsy grabbed Jed's shirt and pulled him out the door "Lets go man!"
***
The Story
Lightning
?? Which Natural Wonder Or Disaster Are You ??
Well, that quiz was really pretty crap, but that was a cool picture so it gets to be posted.
Anyway, I have been considering many things of late. One in particular is about my course, whether I want to be doing this crap for the rest of my life, or even just for the next 10 or 20 years. It's kind of really shitting me at the moment, I just sit around figuring out all sorts of bullshit stuff. It's not that its hard, or that I can't handle it or anything, its just getting extremely boring. Even my theory of flight subject is getting old. My only question is: Will it be like this after I finish my course? Will I just be sitting around someplace figuring out bullshit stuff? Ok, maybe its not bullshit stuff, i know all these theories are what make the modern world go around, but to tell the truth, I don't really care much for the modern world. I mean sure, i'll learn enough in a few years to build my own gyrocopter and stuff like that, which would be pretty damn awesome, but it would only actually be awesome once I was done and got to show it off and fly it around. And for most of the jobs I do once I finish my course I won't get to do that with. I'll just be sending em off for someone else to fly around.
So anyway, my point is that I'm not entirely sure I want to keep doing this crap. I know it'll make me lots of moolah eventually, but that's not really the point is it? I don't know if I'll be having fun WHILE I make the moolah, which is what is actually important.
Its all speculation at the moment, but I've been thinking about what else I would actually want to do. I though about arts, but that probably wouldn't really get me anywhere in particular. So at the moment I'm considering what I was considering in the first place, before I thought about doing aerospace engineering. Which would be software engineering, or some kind of games development course, or something along those lines. Coz games are COOL. Anyway, I'm not really sure about anything at the moment.
Also, the other thing is this: I have sort of realised that I live for stories. Stories rock! Since the modern world is so boring, I like to frolick in other ones. I think with the aerospace engineering I am sort of trying to make my life a story worth telling, but I don't really think it works like that. I mean maybe one day I might work for NASA and build the first manned interplanetary craft of the human race, but then that only took a sentance to say. And I probably wouldn't get to actually travel in the damned thing, I'd just watch some other crazy basterds fly off in it.
At least if I made video games I would get a chance to tell many an epic story, might even be able to put some of my own music in here and there. Real life stories are never as epic as pretend ones, and if they are they actually really suck to experience, coz of all that hardship and crap. Plus the world doesn't really teeter on the edge of destruction much, and theres not much chance of there being an epic quest to save it. Some might say the world is on the edge of destruction all the time, but that doesn't really count because thats the kind of thing that requires mass psycholigical changes and stuff.
Ok, this is going a little off the main idea now so I'll stop.
Damn, not enough time before my next class to write more Jed. Oh well, next time.
Lightning
?? Which Natural Wonder Or Disaster Are You ??
Well, that quiz was really pretty crap, but that was a cool picture so it gets to be posted.
Anyway, I have been considering many things of late. One in particular is about my course, whether I want to be doing this crap for the rest of my life, or even just for the next 10 or 20 years. It's kind of really shitting me at the moment, I just sit around figuring out all sorts of bullshit stuff. It's not that its hard, or that I can't handle it or anything, its just getting extremely boring. Even my theory of flight subject is getting old. My only question is: Will it be like this after I finish my course? Will I just be sitting around someplace figuring out bullshit stuff? Ok, maybe its not bullshit stuff, i know all these theories are what make the modern world go around, but to tell the truth, I don't really care much for the modern world. I mean sure, i'll learn enough in a few years to build my own gyrocopter and stuff like that, which would be pretty damn awesome, but it would only actually be awesome once I was done and got to show it off and fly it around. And for most of the jobs I do once I finish my course I won't get to do that with. I'll just be sending em off for someone else to fly around.
So anyway, my point is that I'm not entirely sure I want to keep doing this crap. I know it'll make me lots of moolah eventually, but that's not really the point is it? I don't know if I'll be having fun WHILE I make the moolah, which is what is actually important.
Its all speculation at the moment, but I've been thinking about what else I would actually want to do. I though about arts, but that probably wouldn't really get me anywhere in particular. So at the moment I'm considering what I was considering in the first place, before I thought about doing aerospace engineering. Which would be software engineering, or some kind of games development course, or something along those lines. Coz games are COOL. Anyway, I'm not really sure about anything at the moment.
Also, the other thing is this: I have sort of realised that I live for stories. Stories rock! Since the modern world is so boring, I like to frolick in other ones. I think with the aerospace engineering I am sort of trying to make my life a story worth telling, but I don't really think it works like that. I mean maybe one day I might work for NASA and build the first manned interplanetary craft of the human race, but then that only took a sentance to say. And I probably wouldn't get to actually travel in the damned thing, I'd just watch some other crazy basterds fly off in it.
At least if I made video games I would get a chance to tell many an epic story, might even be able to put some of my own music in here and there. Real life stories are never as epic as pretend ones, and if they are they actually really suck to experience, coz of all that hardship and crap. Plus the world doesn't really teeter on the edge of destruction much, and theres not much chance of there being an epic quest to save it. Some might say the world is on the edge of destruction all the time, but that doesn't really count because thats the kind of thing that requires mass psycholigical changes and stuff.
Ok, this is going a little off the main idea now so I'll stop.
Damn, not enough time before my next class to write more Jed. Oh well, next time.
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Fable!
Yey! Fable comes out soon! On september the 14th in the US in fact! Probably a little later here since the european release will be in october. But it's still pretty soon! The games still looking pretty good too, even after they cut some stuff. Ahh yes, soon I shall be about to run about kicking chickens around, getting tavern owners mad at me, get guards throwing me out of town after I give them the finger, make outragous boasts about completing quests with one arm tied behind my back...
Anyway, it should be cool.
What's poor at this particular moment is that this comp at uni has a broken mouse. It's bullcrap, I have to navigate everything using keyboard shortcuts and stuff. It's quite irritating. All the others are in use too so i'm stuck with it. Well, those that aren't fucked up in some way anyhow. Poor ass windows XP. Theres always around a quarter of the computers out of action in a room at any particular time. Sometimes less on good days I suppose.
Anyhow...
THE ADVENTURES OF JED: MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE (continued)
Jed span about with a flourishing twirl resulting from the momentum he had gained while closing the door. He took an epic pose, then walked over to his desk to check out what he had been doing last time he was here.
His coffee mug, with some of that morning's coffee still in it, sat glued to a pile of papers with coffee stains all over them. Further up, pushed against the wall lay a red, half-finished woolen jumper that Jed had been working on. Those clothes stores never had anything he liked so he sometimes made himself stylish pieces of attire. Knitting wasn't really his thing though so the jumper looked a little sub-standard. A pile of science-fiction novels sat on the left hand side of the desk, half covered by yesterdays paper. The day before yesterdays paper lay crumpled on the floor beneath the swivel chair that sat before his desk.
Jed picked up his coffee mug and took a sip, taking a moment to remove the piece of paper that had remained stuck to the bottom of it. While he sipped he examined this paper. Along the top of the page it read "Ways to kill my evil boss" followed by a series of dot points. Jed tossed this back onto the desk and sat down on his old, slightly broken couch to watch the Olympic Swimming on his old, slightly broken TV. He enjoyed the swimming, so powerful, yet graceful. When the Olympics came to Beijing he would definately have to go watch in person. If he was still here that is. Things weren't looking so good in that regard.
This morning Gonz had calmly told him that he needed an ancient artifact that some temple out in the mountains had locked away in some ancient tomb. At first Jed had been ecstatic, after all, he never got to get out of the damn lab. Gonz had told him that the monk's probably wouldn't part with their artifact easily so easily, so he'd have to find some way to persuade them. This had resulted in Jed being given full access to the lab's funding. Jed was particularly pleased about this, he had immediately begun trying to think of ways to scam the money he needed for his parking tickets out of this. However Gonz had also told him that if he didn't come back with the artifact he would be out of here so fast that he'd get whiplash from the sudden acceleration.
That had made Jed less jubilant.
The diving came on, the chinese seemed to be winning.
...
Yey! Fable comes out soon! On september the 14th in the US in fact! Probably a little later here since the european release will be in october. But it's still pretty soon! The games still looking pretty good too, even after they cut some stuff. Ahh yes, soon I shall be about to run about kicking chickens around, getting tavern owners mad at me, get guards throwing me out of town after I give them the finger, make outragous boasts about completing quests with one arm tied behind my back...
Anyway, it should be cool.
What's poor at this particular moment is that this comp at uni has a broken mouse. It's bullcrap, I have to navigate everything using keyboard shortcuts and stuff. It's quite irritating. All the others are in use too so i'm stuck with it. Well, those that aren't fucked up in some way anyhow. Poor ass windows XP. Theres always around a quarter of the computers out of action in a room at any particular time. Sometimes less on good days I suppose.
Anyhow...
THE ADVENTURES OF JED: MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE (continued)
Jed span about with a flourishing twirl resulting from the momentum he had gained while closing the door. He took an epic pose, then walked over to his desk to check out what he had been doing last time he was here.
His coffee mug, with some of that morning's coffee still in it, sat glued to a pile of papers with coffee stains all over them. Further up, pushed against the wall lay a red, half-finished woolen jumper that Jed had been working on. Those clothes stores never had anything he liked so he sometimes made himself stylish pieces of attire. Knitting wasn't really his thing though so the jumper looked a little sub-standard. A pile of science-fiction novels sat on the left hand side of the desk, half covered by yesterdays paper. The day before yesterdays paper lay crumpled on the floor beneath the swivel chair that sat before his desk.
Jed picked up his coffee mug and took a sip, taking a moment to remove the piece of paper that had remained stuck to the bottom of it. While he sipped he examined this paper. Along the top of the page it read "Ways to kill my evil boss" followed by a series of dot points. Jed tossed this back onto the desk and sat down on his old, slightly broken couch to watch the Olympic Swimming on his old, slightly broken TV. He enjoyed the swimming, so powerful, yet graceful. When the Olympics came to Beijing he would definately have to go watch in person. If he was still here that is. Things weren't looking so good in that regard.
This morning Gonz had calmly told him that he needed an ancient artifact that some temple out in the mountains had locked away in some ancient tomb. At first Jed had been ecstatic, after all, he never got to get out of the damn lab. Gonz had told him that the monk's probably wouldn't part with their artifact easily so easily, so he'd have to find some way to persuade them. This had resulted in Jed being given full access to the lab's funding. Jed was particularly pleased about this, he had immediately begun trying to think of ways to scam the money he needed for his parking tickets out of this. However Gonz had also told him that if he didn't come back with the artifact he would be out of here so fast that he'd get whiplash from the sudden acceleration.
That had made Jed less jubilant.
The diving came on, the chinese seemed to be winning.
...
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Stories...
I have decided it has been far too long since I wrote a story, so I'm going to start one here on my blog. Every few blogs I am going to write a bit more of the story. It will be like some kind of serial or something. Feel free to post your comments on what YOU think should happen next :p (Note: I will usually go to great lengths to make something happen that no-one mentioned, so the more things you cancel out for me the more interesting things will get :p)
Ok, now I just need to think of a topic... ok, I will type RANDOM into google, click "I'm feeling lucky" then find word 9 on line 20 on that page (the time is currently 9.20) and the topic will have something to do with that.
Ok, the word is NEED. This should be interesting.
Alrighty, this will be the story of Jed Bellfinger, a clever but highly eccentric guy who's somehow ended up working for a crazy scientist on some secret government project in Beijing. He speaks no chinese. He needs to learn chinese, retrieve an object from a sacred buddhist temple, and pay $3000 worth of parking fines soon or he will be excommunicated from the country. He has also lost his passport.
THE LEGEND OF JED, MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE
"JED! Get your skinny butt up here!". Gonz Haizelburn, Russian scientist extraoridinaire, screamed down to Jed from a high platform of the abandoned nuclear missile silo. Jed looked up at Gonz, 30 stories above him. 30 stories, and only a ladder to climb it. *sigh*.
"Alright Gonz! Keep your toes on! I'm coming already!"
Jed Bellfinger didn't know why he kept working for this crazy basterd. It was probably because he would be kicked out of the country if he didn't, or thrown into jail for hundreds of unpaid parking tickets. Working for the government had its perks, and parking in Beijing was a bitch.
At least he didn't have to shovel gallons of cow manure from one pile to another, and sometimes back again. Jed shuddered as he remembered a previous job.
Jed began climbing...
Back at his dingy apartment in the city central, Jed was quite suprised to find his door already open. He pulled a knife of his boot (You never know when some crazy basterd will try and steal your shoes). As Jed slowly opened his door, he though "If my Rocky boots are gone there will be hell to pay"...
Suddenly, a great, green, scaly monster leaped out at him! "ARRG!!" Jed screamed and flailed wildly with his knife, managing to plung it into the creatures left thigh. There was a muffled, yet distinct human scream as the knife sank in.
"M^#&H $%@&@!!! You son of bitch! You stab me with butter knife! I kill you!" The cleaner for the building pulled off the head of the costume and clutched at the knife.
"Oh, sorry about that Cheng. I thought you were a monster." Jed casually pushed the button on a nearby intercom and requested that someone take Cheng to the hospital. "Don't worry Cheng, that'll come out good as new. Why are you wearing that anyway?"
Cheng looked furious "It is year of Dragon you idiot! Tonight is great festival! All staff in building wear costumes." Cheng seemed to think about it for a second, "actually, maybe is kinda stupid. Why they make us wear costumes while cleaning? It make no sense! OW" He clutched his leg again as he shifted weight to it.
Jed slipped into his room and locked the door while Cheng trailed off about the insanity of it all.
STAY TUNED!!!
I have decided it has been far too long since I wrote a story, so I'm going to start one here on my blog. Every few blogs I am going to write a bit more of the story. It will be like some kind of serial or something. Feel free to post your comments on what YOU think should happen next :p (Note: I will usually go to great lengths to make something happen that no-one mentioned, so the more things you cancel out for me the more interesting things will get :p)
Ok, now I just need to think of a topic... ok, I will type RANDOM into google, click "I'm feeling lucky" then find word 9 on line 20 on that page (the time is currently 9.20) and the topic will have something to do with that.
Ok, the word is NEED. This should be interesting.
Alrighty, this will be the story of Jed Bellfinger, a clever but highly eccentric guy who's somehow ended up working for a crazy scientist on some secret government project in Beijing. He speaks no chinese. He needs to learn chinese, retrieve an object from a sacred buddhist temple, and pay $3000 worth of parking fines soon or he will be excommunicated from the country. He has also lost his passport.
THE LEGEND OF JED, MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE
"JED! Get your skinny butt up here!". Gonz Haizelburn, Russian scientist extraoridinaire, screamed down to Jed from a high platform of the abandoned nuclear missile silo. Jed looked up at Gonz, 30 stories above him. 30 stories, and only a ladder to climb it. *sigh*.
"Alright Gonz! Keep your toes on! I'm coming already!"
Jed Bellfinger didn't know why he kept working for this crazy basterd. It was probably because he would be kicked out of the country if he didn't, or thrown into jail for hundreds of unpaid parking tickets. Working for the government had its perks, and parking in Beijing was a bitch.
At least he didn't have to shovel gallons of cow manure from one pile to another, and sometimes back again. Jed shuddered as he remembered a previous job.
Jed began climbing...
Back at his dingy apartment in the city central, Jed was quite suprised to find his door already open. He pulled a knife of his boot (You never know when some crazy basterd will try and steal your shoes). As Jed slowly opened his door, he though "If my Rocky boots are gone there will be hell to pay"...
Suddenly, a great, green, scaly monster leaped out at him! "ARRG!!" Jed screamed and flailed wildly with his knife, managing to plung it into the creatures left thigh. There was a muffled, yet distinct human scream as the knife sank in.
"M^#&H $%@&@!!! You son of bitch! You stab me with butter knife! I kill you!" The cleaner for the building pulled off the head of the costume and clutched at the knife.
"Oh, sorry about that Cheng. I thought you were a monster." Jed casually pushed the button on a nearby intercom and requested that someone take Cheng to the hospital. "Don't worry Cheng, that'll come out good as new. Why are you wearing that anyway?"
Cheng looked furious "It is year of Dragon you idiot! Tonight is great festival! All staff in building wear costumes." Cheng seemed to think about it for a second, "actually, maybe is kinda stupid. Why they make us wear costumes while cleaning? It make no sense! OW" He clutched his leg again as he shifted weight to it.
Jed slipped into his room and locked the door while Cheng trailed off about the insanity of it all.
STAY TUNED!!!
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
[Oh what a deluded quiz]
Category I - The Hub
You're a 'people person'. Networking runs in your
blood. Consequently, you can move through most
social circles with ease.
What Type of Social Entity are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
"People" person?? What the hell kind of crap is that? Bah.
Anyhow, time for an update. Hmm, well my deal with getting a viola has been postponed until I get more money, I managed to get the guy to cut $500 off the cool version, but I still can't afford it. He's giving me till november. Not sure if I can manage that but meh.
In other news I stuck around and watched the monash wushu club train after kendo. I even joined in a little. It was pretty cool, they do a lot of spinning and jumping and stuff, along with some fancy weapons work. I will definately join them. It's gonna be tricky though, it requires a certain grace I don't seem to have mastered from karate. I'll have to relearn about half my karate training while learning wushu, they believe that you only need balance to have power, so I'll have to get in touch with the "ju" (or soft). Should be good for my karate though, since we believe in a similar thing there. The sensei there is pretty good, I didn't see him do a lot but apparantly he was in some top national team in China along with Jet Li a while back. I'm thinking he may have injured himself in some way, which is how he ended up down here. I could be wrong, but he seemed to avoid doing the stances and things himself. It could just be that he didn't feel it was nessecary. I'm probably the only one there who doesn't know the basic idea of them after all.
Oh yes, I have also started writing a symphony. Crazy? Quite possibly. The way I've planned it it will go for around 40-50 minutes. It's gonna take forever to write. Oh well, it's pretty cool so far. I've been writing the first movement, its all epic. At the moment it's simply called "The Pirate Symphony" but maybe I'll think of a cooler name later, like "The Pirates of Donkey Cove" or "The Secret of Monkey Island".
Category I - The Hub
You're a 'people person'. Networking runs in your
blood. Consequently, you can move through most
social circles with ease.
What Type of Social Entity are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
"People" person?? What the hell kind of crap is that? Bah.
Anyhow, time for an update. Hmm, well my deal with getting a viola has been postponed until I get more money, I managed to get the guy to cut $500 off the cool version, but I still can't afford it. He's giving me till november. Not sure if I can manage that but meh.
In other news I stuck around and watched the monash wushu club train after kendo. I even joined in a little. It was pretty cool, they do a lot of spinning and jumping and stuff, along with some fancy weapons work. I will definately join them. It's gonna be tricky though, it requires a certain grace I don't seem to have mastered from karate. I'll have to relearn about half my karate training while learning wushu, they believe that you only need balance to have power, so I'll have to get in touch with the "ju" (or soft). Should be good for my karate though, since we believe in a similar thing there. The sensei there is pretty good, I didn't see him do a lot but apparantly he was in some top national team in China along with Jet Li a while back. I'm thinking he may have injured himself in some way, which is how he ended up down here. I could be wrong, but he seemed to avoid doing the stances and things himself. It could just be that he didn't feel it was nessecary. I'm probably the only one there who doesn't know the basic idea of them after all.
Oh yes, I have also started writing a symphony. Crazy? Quite possibly. The way I've planned it it will go for around 40-50 minutes. It's gonna take forever to write. Oh well, it's pretty cool so far. I've been writing the first movement, its all epic. At the moment it's simply called "The Pirate Symphony" but maybe I'll think of a cooler name later, like "The Pirates of Donkey Cove" or "The Secret of Monkey Island".
