Jesus H Christ On The Bus!

I’ve just spent pretty much the entire day shopping for clothes so I now welcome the cool embrace of death. Hehe, just kidding. Actually I’m pretty chuffed as I:

a) Managed to buy something. (It doesn’t happen often enough!)

b) Managed to buy something different. (i.e not surf gear)

Originally I went into Rip Curl intending to buy a jumper(pullover/sweater/whatever) I had seen there a couple of weeks before. We are going out to a friends party at one of the swankier restaurants at Crown Casino tonight, and as I have hardly any clothes left after my pre-leaving London purge I though it would be as good a time as any to get some new stuff. (Ok, it was Rox’s idea but actually but deep down I was thinking the same thing. I just wouldn’t have acted on it without the gentle but remorseless prodding that Rox provides. Thats one of the reasons why she’s so great.:))
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Check out this old yet suddenly new technology Ajax

It has actually been around for ages but now its finally revolutionising the user experience on the internet! Cough, cough, hype, cough… Who said that?

Ok you found me out…. This is a blatant plug to get my hit count up. Ride the wave if it’s there man!

Does anyone else own a Netgear wireless router?

Mine is a brand new piece of crap that has apparently decided that being a wireless router is too difficult and just drops out entirely from time to time.

The funny thing is that it seems to always pick up again when I look at its icon in the system tray. It’s like its embarassed at its uselessness!

Thats the problem with only having one wifi device in the house. I can’t tell if its actually the router or the wifi card in my box thats causing the problems. Either way its totally bollocks as they are both brand new and it was working flawlessly yesterday.

Grrrrrr!

A law letting people in Florida kill in self-defence on the street without first trying to flee an attacker has been passed by Florida politicians…

• BBC News | Florida to expand law on gun use

Seriously…. I don’t want to believe that Americans are fucking idiots but it’s just so hard when I am constantly assaulted with stupidity like this.

If they passed this law in the UK then the whole of Woking and Reading would be killed off “in self defence” by next Saturday!

I’m still trying to work out if this is a bad thing…

Wow what a weekend that was! From start to finish it involved:

Friday:

• Getting drunk on my own (Try it, it’s fun!)

Saturday:

• Going to the gym (a mighty achievement)
• Going shopping
• Going out for lunch with Ruth and Alex and co.
• Going out for dinner (Wagamamas) with Rox and Deb (St Kilda is cool. ‘cept for the arseholes of course)

Sunday:

• Cleaning the house
• Going out for lunch with Steve and Megs
• Going to Rox’s ex’s house-warming (Two of her ex’s in one room + me. It was great!)
• Drinking about 16 beers (Probably cos of all the ex’s in the place making me nervous)
• Having a beer funnel (Made sense at the time… Just trying to fit in you know. Damn you Steve!
• Stumbling home with Rox at 2:30am hiccupping like a pair of drunken pirates on shore leave. (I’m sure I was singing sea shanties at one point)
• Hurling everwhere in my shiny clean toilet… (The damn thing was only cleaned that morning!)

Monday:

• Watching Farenheit 911 again
• Watching HellBoy again (for some reason)
• Having a minutes silence to think about the Anzacs and how their sacrifices during the wars has allowed me to be such a drunken bastard 60 odd years later
• Blowing up my wireless ADSL modem trying to upgrade the firmware. (20mins on the phone with tech support sorted it out.. Thank god for ExtraHard Resets and 24×7 Indian call centres!)
• Passing out like a corpse who had just had a massive weekend.

Funnily enough I felt worse on Tuesday than I did on Monday! I blame the dodgy preservatives they put in the beer these days! Don’t drink anything from CUB… It’s the devil I tell you!

PS: I hope you guys all had a moment’s silence for the Anzacs on monday. Their sacrifices made it possible for all of us young (and old) (occasional) pissheads to go out and get wasted without worrying about whether a Nazi patrol would show up in the middle of our house parties and spoil the fun! Thanks!

I’m drunk. Are you drunk?

Let’s get drunk………….er……

For the past couple of weeks Nicholas Cage and co have been in town shooting his new movie Ghost Rider. Earlier this week a shoot was being done on the Princess Bridge about 5m away from where I catch the train.

I took the camera along for a looksee and this was the result…

I don’t know exactly why this happens but its fucking hilarious that it does.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q261186

After weeks of waiting my book has finally arrived from Amazon!

This marks the first of what will be many Amazon purchases as well as the start of my new project to build a robot by the end of the year. I decided that I couldn’t go on about robotic world domination and everything all the time if I wasn’t prepared to get my hands dirty and actually build one myself.

I’ll give you guys some more details about the whole thing soon (someday) but it is basically going to detail how to build a basic robot (a simple beer-o-tron should suffice) from start to finish in 12(0000) easy steps.

As a bonus I found out today that my workplace is heavily involved with the sort of microcontrollers that I will be using so I will have a number of guru brains to pick if I get stuck. Should be an adventure!

Stay tuned for more info!

You are writing an email to someone and during editing you try to comment out a sentence instead of deleting it…

For a split second I was like, “Hmm… What the is the comment syntax for email again?”!

Now before you ask this link was originally featured on Something Awful as an Awful Link of the Day (Ahhh, that explains it says everyone in the know).

Behold…. Naked Dan The Handy Man! (SOSFW)

Hi again! Hey I had an interesting idea the other day! What if Jesus actually died of food poisoning and this whole Christianity thing is just a simple mistake? The symptoms of food posoning by certain bacteria have often been mistaken for being flayed alive and nailed to a cross by the untrained eye. My guess? It was just a case of Giardia Crucifxians in the chicken casserole during the last supper. Hmm, one to keep in mind next time you are at church eating “the body of christ” eh? That shit be contagious! [Ed: Don't smoke crack kids...]

Yes I know I said that I was going to move the old gallery photos over about 3 weeks ago but I still haven’t because I don’t have my new computer yet and trying to do anything other than look at porn check my email on this 433MHZ speed demon is totally insane in the brain.

Now usually I would tell you when I am going to try to do the thing that I just mentioned not doing but I really don’t give enough of a shit to even have a guess… Maybe by Christmas…

One of the reasons for the delay in getting the new computer is that we have finally gone and bought a shiny new leather couch! Its taupe in color, whatever the farnell component catalogue that is…

Its great to not have to sit on the floor anymore when watching our tiny television. We are getting a new tv as well but they seem to be having so much trouble getting it in I am starting to suspect that it is being hand assembled by the same interstellar space monks that make Gillette razor blades!

Continuing in the current theme of spending fuckloads of money we have also ordered a big desk for the computer. It ALSO hasn’t arrived yet so I am still writing this post hunched over on the floor like the hunchback of Notre Dame if he didn’t have a computer desk and had to write his journal posts really hunched over on the floor.

Its all coming together slowly but it is coming together. Except for the photos that is…

I don’t know the words but thats what it sounds like… I’m gonna need a whole new category for fat people doing funny things.

Watch it here!

WTF indeed…

http://www.google.com.au/googlegulp/

[Update]

Ok it was April Fools Day but that wasn’t the point… Ok maybe it was but still, WTF?

In other news Google is upgrading its Gmail storage to 2GB! About time too, I only have 992 MB free in mine…