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2006-10-23T13:20:00.000+10:00

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And another one bites the dust...

2005-08-21T18:55:00.000+10:00

Wow... it's been a long while since I last blogged. It's kinda good, since blogging can take up so much time, but yeah... to those few who might have followed my blog with some, for want of a better word, interest, it might be seen as disappointing.

Oh well. I might post more if I feel like it. At the moment, I have to do my Computing tute's but I really can't be bothered...

Red Dwarf set to engulf Australia

2004-12-15T23:06:00.000+11:00

Red Dwarf set to engulf Australia

Fantastic news! There is to be a Red Dwarf movie to be made, by most of the original crew, and it will be shot in Queensland. Click the link for the full story!

Red Dwarf rocks! I own seasons 1 and 2 (EDIT: and now 6)...

I might post an update on the rest of my life soon if I can be bothered, instead of playing games (PS2 and PC) incessantly.

~Greg out.

Update

2004-11-17T13:42:00.000+11:00

Well, I've been feeling guilty about not posting for a while, so here is another post for your perusal.

Since I last posted, I have

Finished classes for the year on the Thursday (11/11/04) night. Skipped the last hour of that maths lecture (since it was just going through a practise exam which I probably wouldn't do anyway)to print out lots of pages in the comp labs. Luckily the lab was practically deserted, and I was able to totally monopolise the printer, causing it to spew out what must have been close to a ream of paper. Very fun. Laser printers are so cool.
Been on StuVac since last Friday (12/11). You wouldn't know it though, my only study so far was yesterday doing 2 maths questions from the tutorial questions we were given. I've been too busy:
Playing World of Warcraft open beta. Got a key successfully at uni, even after the sign up page was down for a while, and got the 2.5G installer off Neil (see blog link in the right column) on DVD, and finally got to play on Sat. It's for some inexplicable reason the most addictive, wholesome MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) I have ever played (which isn't a huge amount, mind you). I might post more on it later, maybe when I can no longer play after the Beta closes (Nov 23, when it goes retail). Suffice it to say, those who aren't playing, are really missing out. Every oppurtunity I can play online, I have. And playing it with Neil is even better. It's great to see one of your best friends running around your orc as a troll, helping you kill critters and journeying these beautiful (yet surprisingly low-polygoned) landscapes with you.
Working. Did 10am-5:30pm on the Friday, 9-1pm on the Saturday, 1-4pm on the Sunday as a "Checkout Chap", and then this week Tuesday - Thursday I will be/have been doing Nightfill (putting stock out) from 5pm-9pm.

That's about it. Mum's presurring me to get back to study, so I might blog you all later. Good luck to all those doing uni exams, may your lack of preparation pay off, and your marks deny your parents worst predictions.

Randomness++

2004-11-10T20:23:00.000+11:00

See? I can be random, too.

The purple rhinoceros was chased by the pink wazoo. The small feet were entirely composed of peat moss. The ant climbed on top of them in delirious ecstasy. Which smells like human emotion. Which is like pie. For inexplicable and incredible simple harems.

Milking the bulldog can lead to distressing results. The tear duct can be squeezed dry. Justice is best served cold. My severed limb is flapping in the wind.

Killing stuff is mindless good fun. Unless, of course, you're the one getting killed. In which case, you probably smell.

Like fish.

Or amputational devices.

Like Windows.

Or World of Starcraft beta's. Sign up now at http://i.amgay.com.

This is not a drill. This is a rather large giraffe. It will repossess your children. With marmalade. Made out of sheep's eyeballs. And similar surgical instruments. Kalsonic is a cool brand. It's gonna have all my baby cyborgs. With meat in them.

~Greg out.

Randomness

2004-11-08T21:31:00.000+11:00

I've gone and completely forgotten why I clicked on the 'create new post' link now. Oh well!

Today was fun. Managed (after a very stressful and unathletic attempt at getting to uni as fast as I could after leaving at about 9:25am...) to get there on time (by 5mins or so!) to deliver my assignment I worked a heck of a lot of yesterday (Sun) on... Did part of a PHIL134 (Introductory Formal Logic) Mock Final Exam, thought I'd ace it, realised I need to revise or risk failing... oh well, yay for humbling experiences! Wound up talking to Natoli about far more important things though, like games, game design, PlayStation 2, and so on. Yay for shared passions! It was great to meet somebody else willing (given time, motivation and enough skillz) to program something reasonably ambitious, like for PS2, or something else similar. I'd love it if I only had to do half the work, and we wound up with something doubly as good! Then went to the labs and phaffed around/attended my COMP165 tutorial (there was no official tasks set anyway). I did manage to jam the printer beyond repair, though. That's always good for a laugh, and for meeting new people ("Can YOU see what's wrong with it?"). Then went shopping with Hannah and Anna (fellow Exec-ers) for food for NightLife (fortnightly Student Life leaders meeting). Despite all their self-induced stress, we came in under budget, with a good half trolley of stuff. Even if most of it was Home Brand stuff.

Random thought: I love having pseudo-plastic hair. I may be using it all wrong, and going through more experiments with my hair and gel than a scientist in a (privately-funded) lab, but it's so cool to feel like my own hair (which I can touch as much as I want!) is sorta plasticky and hard-ish...

Ummm... should probably be doing the minutes for NightLife or my COMP165 tut Qs... AND I have another 9am exec meeting tomorrow (which is hard when most other days I have to be there by 10am... if I go to my Comp lectures). Meh.

I know there was another point I wanted to make in this post, but I can't think of it right now. But, 2 things: 1) I did mean it to be a short post, and 2) I haven't had a chance/felt like typing up any of those series of article's yet. Perhaps in lectures tomorrow I can scribble some point outlines in my Palm.

~Greg out

2 New Demos, And Some Other News

2004-11-06T23:02:00.000+11:00

The Incredibles Demo
The new demo for the upcoming The Incredibles game has been released on FilePlanet. At first, I was reasonably impressed. The game looks quite good, and after I pressed most of the keys on the keyboard, I figured out the controls. Fairly clunky, I found. The mouse look wasn’t the greatest, and the camera was frequently not behind the character (Mr. Incredible), making it harder to navigate. However, his attacks (mainly punches, and a cool slam into the ground when you jump and press what I’m calling Heavy Attack [E, Right-click]) were okay. The best bit about it was that lots of the stuff in the game was destructible, which of course I set out to prove. I love punching up a virtual world. It makes up for my puny size in the Real World. :-) Then I got to some strange bit where Mr. Incredible hops on a flying saucer and tries to defeat this room full of enemies. So frustrating! The controls are a nightmare, and I could barely control the darn thing, let alone hit anyone with the lasers. Annoying enough that I quit to try the other demo I got…

Flat-Out Demo
Wow! This one is very impressive! It plays like a wonderful hybrid of GTA3, Colin McRae Rally (not that I have played that much at all), and Need For Speed: Underground. The best thing(s) about this game are: the awesome damage modeling, the interactive environments, and the ragdoll physics of the driver. This game is unique in that no longer do you have an indestructible driver that somehow survives any crash of the car, even if the car doesn’t… no! If you hit a tree, and you don’t have a windshield (most likely), the natural progression is for your driver to go flying out of the window in a flurry of limbs and sickening bounces along the ground. After watching enough limbs snap, the option comes up to ‘Reset’ and your driver and car (although still just as damaged as before) are placed back in the middle of the track, heading in the right direction. And the damage your car can take is insane. You start off with a sort of old-bomb type “muscle” car with lots of stickers on it to make it look pretty, and you end up with (after at most 1 lap) a twisted metal wreck with 4 wheels vibrating like crazy, a flaming engine that thankfully never seems to blow up, no bonnet, doors or other such niceties, and a car that does more doughies than an alcohol-fuelled teenager in an empty lot.

Oh, and did I mention the environments were amazingly interactive? Virtually everything you see will be destroyed in amazingly realistic ways. See a pile of logs stacked neatly up? Cannon into it, and you will damage your car, and send all the logs flying (not too far… they more roll, since they are heavy). Smash into that fence, and no longer will you rebound unscathed, but you instead go straight through it, splintering it into pieces if it’s made of wood, and so on. A lot of fun can be had by deliberately hooning round the environments, trying to see what you can spectacularly crash into, and see how many rotations your driver can do before he skids to a stop.

There are 2 race tracks, neither of which I did very well in, but both of which were great interactive tracks that even had long roads that weren’t part of the track that were just as lovingly detailed… I hate how in some other games, it’s as if the only part of the world that exists is the track you race on, which just isn’t the case.

But it’s the 3rd mode, called ‘High Jump’ that is just the best. This is where you get 3 attempts at driving down a ramp and pressing the Nitro button [Ctrl] to launch your driver through the air and try and get as much height as you possibly can, measured against this massive vertical ladder with height markings on it. I just love the ragdoll physics, and how much this reminded me of Stair/Truck Dismount except looking soo much better, and being more fun. It’s what I dreamed Truck Dismount would be like. Funnest is when you can launch the driver painfully into the ‘rungs’/horizontal bars in the height measurer thing, and watch him spin to the ground. Or launching him far enough to smack into the wire mesh that protects the crowd and watch him slide down slowly and excruciatingly as the physics gets a bit confused (it does an admirable job, though, and except for where it gets stuck in certain bits, looks remarkably realistic). Or having him smack into the solid side of the ‘ladder’ and come tumbling down. The replays can be hilarious. My best height was 102.something metres, and my best score around 250 or so. Give or take. And if you press ‘up’ during this mode, you slow the time of the game down a lot, allowing a sort of ‘bullet-time’ effect to appreciate the awesome ragdoll effects. A very fun mode that just exploits the best features of the previous levels. You should definitely try this game, and let me know what you think in the comments page!

Other News
Been working a fair bit recently. They have finally learnt, I think, that Layby is usually a busy area and in need of more than 1 person at a time. So I have been that extra person for quite a few shifts, as opposed to having to contend with the 2 – 3 others for one of the 5 shifts available for casuals (Thursday night, and 2 per weekend day). I worked out I did about 16 hours this week, and will do 16.5hrs next week. This is fantastic, as I desperately need the money at the moment, with, amongst other things to afford:
1. A PlayStation 2. Wanted one for aaages, I have a PS1 and lots of games for it, all of which will still play on the PS2, and of course, the games it has are even better! $244 for the new slimline version, which includes online adapter and stuff… have convinced my bro to go halves with me in this and San Andreas (below). We will both benefit from it, and we both really want San Andreas after loving (Grand Theft Auto) Vice City.
2. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. With awesome reviews, this game looks to be fantastic, and wonderfully huge in scale. $87 from Target.
3. A new 17” monitor, for around $175. I need one, my current one is crap, has dodgy colours, a max resolution of 1024x768, which is fine for games, but too small for a desktop work area. It will finally complement my graphics card a bit better, which is a Gigabyte 9600XT, which still copes well enough with most new games. Tank has generously offered to put $100 towards this, since he bought Neil a new hard drive, and reckons he has heaps of money. Who’s to argue? Makes me feel kinda guilty though… I’ve done nothing like that for him…
4. Blackadder DVD Box Set, all 4 seasons - $85 from Target. I love BlackAdder, but have only seen a few episodes, and it’s wonderful (if slightly bawdy) English comedy, which I love. Plus, it’s got Rowan Atkinson in it, which is awesome, and he’s distinctly less mute, another plus. Not that Mr. Bean wasn’t so much more funny due to the limited dialogue.
5. Want to get a router sometime soon. At the moment, I have to connect to the Net through my parents’ machine, via ICS (Internet Connection Sharing), a feature of Windows 98SE onwards (I think). However, when they go to bed early and turn their computer off, it means I get disconnected from the net. And they often just switch it off without thinking, leaving me wondering why I suddenly got shafted from the net. These are sub-$100 from MSY, which I’m hoping are of sufficient quality for my needs, and not too security compromising :-).
6. Day to day impulse spending. I’m not too bad, I suppose, but I could be more stringent with my money. All those $20 from the ATM take sizeable chunks out of my pay.

So, yeah. I need lots of money to pay for all this. I should have enough, but how dangerously close my account dips to 0, I have no idea. Hopefully not too close.

Oh well, there is other stuff to tell, like my younger brother’s girlfriend coming round for dinner tonight… sigh. She was nice, though. Not much to tell here without saying too much in too public a place. And I still have to type up the first of those articles in the Why I… series. I think I’ll do that one on Why I like/use my Palm. Stay tuned, and sorry for the extremely long post (2.5 pages of size 12 font in Word). Oh well, if you wanted extra content, you sure got it! And if you didn’t, you got it anyway!

~Greg out.

New series of posts

2004-11-04T10:51:00.000+11:00

This is the announcement for a new series of posts, all starting with:

Why I...

The motivation for this series is that I figure one of the roles of this blog is to allow others to get to know me a little better. So sharing why I do stuff, especially why I like certain stuff, allows that. Besides, I have an intrinsic belief that whether we realise it or not, other people are absolutely fascinating. Obviously some are less fascinating than others, but hopefully I'm interesting enough for you to read my reasons for a lot of the stuff I do. You don't have to agree with me of course, but at least hearing me out is polite, if not mind expanding.

In particular, my planned articles on my Palm usage, and my obsession (I admit it... for better or worse) with games, and why I can say I like the incredibly geeky art of programming, all might open the eyes of those who cannot fathom the mind of a computer obsessed person like me. In a rash generalisation, this applies especially to girls, most of whom seem to have a great deal of trouble understanding any the gamer mentality, and a lot also struggle to see how one can spend so much time parked (metaphorically) in front of a computer screen. Ironically, those people often do the same, spending half their lives on MSN, anxiously awaiting one of their 150 contacts to engage them in a 'conversation'. Not that I hate MSN, I'm just being cynical again. I, too, use it, but I don't use it as obsessively as some, nor do I often have that as the sole reason for going on a computer.

So I hope you enjoy the new series, as always feel free to leave feedback in the form of comments (if you don't have a Blogger.com account, don't be put off... just select the 'Anonymous' radio button and be sure to put your name at the end).

The change of URL and name

2004-10-31T17:09:00.000+11:00

Blogger was being stupid and saying that 'goldhacker.blogspot.com' wasn't working, or didn't exist, or blah.

So I tried changing the address, but I figured - this might happen again! (BTW, I changed the name to suit the current new address (the one at Blogspot, anyway), it's just another play on 'Blogger' sounding like 'Bugger'...that being, 'Blogger That'.)

So, I got a free redirecting domain name from the people at Now.nu, http://goldhacker.homepage.nu. This is so I can change my address at Blogspot.com, and then just update the Now.nu redirection address. That way, any loyal readers won't lose access to my blog, a true catastrophe/stroke of luck.

Just to explain the changes. Thanks for your understanding (and to anybody who managed to go here after my old address didn't work!)

EDIT: Of course, after I posted that, the old address mysteriously sprang back into 'existence'. Strange. So I'm now again using goldhacker.blogspot.com for the time being, and updated the redirection url goldhacker.homepage.nu to compensate. But please use the latter, so if I have to change my Blogspot address you don't have to suffer. Thanks heaps!

Brief update

2004-10-31T17:01:00.000+11:00

Sorry to all those lulled into a false sense of regular updates, the past 2 days have had none, pretty much.

It's because I've been busy working (9-5 Sat, 11-2 Sun) and went to Eddy's last night... had little time at home.

I will update later. I g2g get ready for church now.

Voyager, Arnold, and Aliens

2004-10-29T18:47:00.000+10:00

Voyager:
For those that don't know, and want to, there is a Star Trek: Voyager marathon on cable TV's TV1 channel starting tonight (Fri 29th Oct) and going through via 27 episodes till 5pm tomorrow. IMHO, Voyager is definitely the best Star Trek series, although Next Generation is also fantastic, and the original series also good (for a laugh at the old special fx, anyway).

Arnold:
After all the fuss over Arnold Schwarzenegger running for office in California, we have heard little of how the big-muscled, slow-talking movie star is going in his new position. No word on policies, or rampaging through the streets armed with a 9-gauge. What is he up to, I wonder? Anybody know?

Aliens:
Listening to the awesome Switchfoot album "The Beautiful Letdown", I was listening to the repeated line "I don't belong here" in the title track and realised how easy it is to become lost in the veil of this world, when we as Christians really do not belong here. There won't be blogs, games, or computers in heaven. Or all the other temporary things of this world. Yet I, and so many others seem determined to clutch onto all we have in this world, unable to see beyond our mere 80 years on this planet. This is just a friendly reminder to me and my brothers and sisters in Christ to always remember we "don't belong here" and are meant to live as if our home is in heaven, not here!

AtomFilms - Bottom of the 9th

2004-10-29T17:16:00.000+10:00

AtomFilms - Bottom of the 9th

A hilarious short computer animated film about a guy's antic on the john... not really rude in any way, no details are shown of course, and it's well animated and quite funny. Nice work by the animator. Again, open in IE so the javascript works for the popup that contains the movie. Goes for 3mins10secs. Enjoy!

Amusing Quote from Soldat readme

2004-10-29T15:25:00.000+10:00

Please remember that this is a small shareware game made by one man. If you try to break the game protection you make harm to yourself because the author can stop making the game if he;s out of money and with overload of work making new anti-hack and anti-cheat systems all the time. If you want to hack something please concentrate on big company's like EA Games. Hacking a big commercial title will prove that you are good, please leave Soldat alone.

That's just funny. It's from the Soldat readme. I don't recommend the game, because it doesn't run on my machine. You can get it from FilePlanet if you're desperate. I just love how the author tries to palm off hackers (not g01d ones, of course) to bigger companies, naming EA Games in particular, and tells people to leave him alone. Gotta love it.

AtomFilms - Spider-Man: The Peril of Doc Ock

2004-10-29T14:36:00.000+10:00

AtomFilms - Spider-Man: The Peril of Doc Ock

Open with Internet Explorer (sucks... but what can you do?). Watch this movie, it's a LEGO version of Spiderman 2... not that I've seen the real movie, but this one looks pretty darn cool.

Worth watching (only 3mins49secs).

Purple Citric Avacado's

2004-10-29T13:15:00.000+10:00

Just for a random title, instead of "Another Post" or "It's me again... on my own blog..."

Yesterday: Didn't do much. Slept in though my alarm (well, heard it, reached up automatically to turn it off, and went back to sleep... or so I'm told. I have no recollection of doing so) until about 5 to 10am. Realised I had a lecture in 5mins time, so I went back to sleep, knowing my next "important" class was at 5pm. Got up at about 11am/midday, phaffed around getting ready/watching TV/checking emails, etc. Did the maths quiz due today with the help of QuickMath.com, oh the joy of it! When I finally left around 4pm, I stopped off at Neil's house, and stayed too long chatting, so I eventually got to uni at 5:30pm, too late to go to class (I feel confident enough with Philosophy anyways, the only downside is missing more great quotes and Alex's antics). But there was enough time for a middy of beer with friends in the club lounge. Went to maths, left at half time (7pm) because none of us understood what was going on at all, and returned to the club lounge for beer and pool. Plus I played a cheesy arcade game that was like Street Fighter with kid-style anime graphics, and the way to beat the opponent was by playing a puzzle. Still, it was $1 for 2 games, so I wasn't complaining. I lost the first game, then won one and lost the next. All for $1. I also lost in pool after coming from behind to just miss out vs. Tim (see previous posts for links to his blog). Then got a lift home from uni with Marto, who I pretty much only know through his generous provision of lifts on a Thursday night. He's one of Tim's old school friends, and amusing to share a car with, as "road rage" is a pretty good summation of his driving style. Good driver, though... just very vocal about others who might not be.

Today: Woke up at 9, played RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Demo(cool game, very new, nice graphics, I like it). Then some Tribes: Vengeance Multiplayer Demo, and then finally got onto the net, discovered I had finally downloaded a Red Dwarf episode (Season 3: Episode I - Backwards) where Rimmer and Kryten land in a backwards version of Earth... it was quite a good episode, laugh-out-loud funny in parts! I love the dodgy old special effects, you can pick so many flaws, but they do the job, and it looks cool anyways. Which brings me to now, typing away at another long post for my blog.

Plan to post a brief review of the Need For Speed: Underground 2 Demo after this in a seperate post.

~Greg out.

Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Demo

2004-10-29T13:13:00.000+10:00

The demo for Need For Speed: Underground 2 has been released at FilePlanet (amongst other sites, I'm sure). I downloaded it last night and had a play... here are some brief thoughts:

Graphics are nice enough. They seem fairly realistic, I like them, and the headlights etc are quite nicely done. No real beefs here.

Damage modelling: As in the previous game, frustrating none! It's very annoying to crash head on into an oncoming car and have both cars bounce a little but otherwise remain unscathed. Of course, I know the reason why (games with licensed real-life cars such as NFSU usually have the license to use the car model given on the condition that their car is not damaged. For instance, in the demo, the only drivable car is the Nissan 350Z. Nissan would not have given the rights to use that model if player could turn their nice car into an unrecognisable flaming twisted wreck). It's still incredibly frustrating, though, ESPECIALLY in light of the more realistic graphics, etc.

Handling: I dunno, I'm not much of a car game (or car) enthusiast, but it seemed a bit frustrating... sometimes I would turn okay, but others it would be too much or not at all. Weird. Could have been something to do with the "Handling Control" or some such setting.

Game modes: You get a limited go at the 'explore' mode, where most bits are blocked off, and I can't really figure out much to do that's interesting. You get a track each for 'quick race' and 'drift' modes. I prefer the drift, although my fingers ache after playing that one for a while. My top score was finally remotely respectable at 89,659. Can you beat that? (Yes, of course you can).

That's about it for my thoughts on that. Has anyone else tried it?

Oh, and Neil's post about a brain in a dish controlling a flight sim is also very cool. Read the article and shudder.

Sorry to all the dialup users.

2004-10-29T13:03:00.000+10:00

Sorry, I guess I got carried away there. Please comment on this post as to whether you want to see the rest of those CAD (Ctrl-Alt-Delete) comics or not. I'm guessing not. And I apologise for the swearing if it offends you so. Me? I'd prefer it if it wasn't there, but if used sparingly, it can make it funny.

If I get too many flames, I will delete all those posts. They were done using Hello from the same company that produces Picasa, both of which work together as excellent image filing tools, and which I would recommend at least trying.

2004-10-29T13:01:00.000+10:00

I love this CAD cartoon. (21/51)

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I love this CAD cartoon. (20/51)

2004-10-29T12:59:00.003+10:00

I love this CAD cartoon. (19/51)

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I love this CAD cartoon. (16/51)

2004-10-29T12:59:00.001+10:00

I love this CAD cartoon. (14/51)

2004-10-29T12:59:00.000+10:00

I love this CAD cartoon. (12/51)

2004-10-29T12:58:00.001+10:00

I love this CAD cartoon. (10/51) - Sounds nice...

2004-10-29T12:58:00.000+10:00

I love this CAD cartoon. (9/51) - All Computing students need to take note of this one!

2004-10-29T12:57:00.001+10:00

I love this CAD cartoon. (8/51)

2004-10-29T12:57:00.000+10:00

I love this CAD cartoon. (4/51)

2004-10-29T12:55:00.002+10:00

I love this CAD cartoon. (5/51)

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I love this CAD cartoon. (3/51)

2004-10-29T12:55:00.000+10:00

I love this CAD cartoon. (1/51)

2004-10-29T12:45:00.000+10:00

I love this cartoon of Vice City madness from VG Cats. "Its funny 'cos it's true."

Microwave Oven Experiment Page

2004-10-28T20:54:00.000+10:00

Microwave Oven Experiment Page
I'm gonna steal this link off some other guy's blog, cos I think it's pretty cool. I wish I could do half the stuff in my microwave without ruining the parts I haven't yet ruined. And without getting yelled at (for good reason) by Mum.

So I'll watch these videos instead.

Check it out!

My Day

2004-10-27T22:44:00.000+10:00

Completely ignoring the fact that my introductory post is far from complete for now, I shall procede to comment on my day, which will probably only make sense if you know me well enough at the moment, i.e. anybody who is likely to be reading this, which, of course, is no one.

Today was kind of interesting. Certain bits of it, anyway.
Started off with doing absolutely nothing related to COMP154 (Databases and Information Systems crap) in a prac for that subject.

Had an interesting Student Life ICS Core Group. My wit was running hot (or so it seemed... i.e. people were laughing... probably AT me, of course)...

Aside:I have been using "i.e." a lot in this post. Which is strange, considering I hate the Microsoft product by that same acronym. Instead, I use the far superior Opera web browser, which is well worth checking out for everybody, for reasons I will explain later, I'm sure. I'm very vocal about it, generally.

(back to the Core Group story)...People seemed to find my mention of one of ICS' needs of "girls++;" quite amusing. Oh well. I guess it's only cos one of my ideas of a computing joke is "[anything]++" if you want more of it, or if [anything] increases. Maybe they just haven't heard me use it enough yet for it to be as decidedly unfunny as the rest of my "jokes". We went through a sketchy version of our Strategic Vision for ICS, especially since Dan (check out his blog, as well) is likely to be leaving next year. Geoff is quite the expert at writing upside down, I was very impressed.

Then I was supposed to meet with Joy, but she had work, apparently. So I got "stood up" in the social, non-dating sense of the term again.

Then I had a COMP154 tut, which as usual, I just chatted with Adrian in.

Then I had IT with Dan, which was spent talking about girls, some of what becoming a Student Life worker actually involves, and back to girls. I think.

I then "studied" with friends for the MATH135 (First real 1st Year Maths subject... and the devil.) test worth 10% at 8pm (for me, anyways).

Then I went to Philosophy with Pembo which was unusually funny, even for Philosophy. I mean, it's usually amusing, because of Alex, my drunken Scottish philosopher lecturer (or so I like to think), but he had some great memorable quotes that I wrote down because I can never remember them. ;-) I'll post these later, and do a grand collection of them all at the end for reference, which I will post here if I remember.

Maths was interesting. Not because of the lecture content (although I was having one of those "Wow... I ALMOST get this." moments, which was probably because I was listening for once). My two friends on either side decided they were not going to listen, though, and one borrowed my phone to play games on while the other borrowed my Palm to play games on. It was quite rare, my pockets were relatively empty, and instead of me being the one playing with my Palm/phone, my two friends either side had them, and I was listening. It was just weird.

The test after that went okay, thanks to Tim and Dave's heads up on what to expect. I should pass (bet I won't now). That's it for today, I suppose.

I can so see this blog getting either deadly dull real soon, or just fizzling out altogether soon, but maybe not. We'll see.

~Greg out.

Welcome to my Blog.

2004-10-26T19:03:00.000+10:00

Welcome to the blog which will detail some of the lurid details of the better-left-unsaid thoughts of my mind. So I'll type them up instead, and hopefully some poor lonely soul with nothing better to do will read my ramblings and take solace in the fact he's not nearly as crazy as me.

First, a brief summary of my present situation (as at the date of this post):
I am 18 years old, who finished the HSC last year (the high school equivalent of ultimate torture...a.k.a. the final year of high school here in Australia), and I am studying at Macquarie University in Ryde, NSW. My degree at the moment is Computer Science...

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