blueyoshi

Nintendo Related Laughs

2007-04-14T16:51:04Z

Nintendo A Capella

The most difficult SMB mod EVER! (and the most patient player)

Scarred

2007-03-24T02:06:02Z

I am officially scarred for life...

I've heard some pretty grizzly stories in my time, both my sister and dad are doctors who've worked in emergency departments. Honestly nothing comes close to the story I heard yesterday morning from a co-worker.

It made me sick then, it makes me sick now. No horror movie writer could ever conceive of something as gruesome, and certainly no one would be willing to produce the special effects...I've tried and failed to re-tell the story, the words just won't come out. It is far worse than death for the poor guy involved.

The accident happened at a mining town, but honestly it could have happened anywhere - it was a cycling accident involving only the rider and a non-flat surface!

Scary scary stuff...

blueyoshi @ 2007-03-08T07:50:00

2007-03-07T23:04:09Z

Wheee something challenging at work, we get this request for an in process automated measurement system to replace a manual stop work and tape measure affair. Nothing out of the ordinary there. The specifications are a little rough though. They want to know a distance to within +/- 0.5mm (they don't really need this level of accuracy for what they're doing but don't like to make things easy on us - I'd like to suggest the tape measure wasn't up to this but haven't the heart to imply the operator's claims are so flakey), so anyway better yet it requires measuring at least two other distances to +/- 0.25mm to achieve this. Still, that sounds do-able...except for the fact it's over a range of more than a thousand times that, in a dusty environment hot enough to fry any electronics. To top it off there's bits flying everywhere with explosive force and they want an average failure rate of less than once a year.

Apparently these restrictions don't apply to their own work, the internal mechanical designs have the weight of a related part estimated to within an accuracy of +/- 153,000kg(!) Funny how people's acceptable degree of accuracy changes depending on who's problem it is to sort out... ;)

Time table for selling my cars (both of them) has stepped up a notch, so if anyone's interested speak soon or forever hold your piece ;) Be looking at ~$8k for the '88 rx7 turbo convertible manual, and ~$2k mark for the '91 323 hatchback auto. (These prices are based on the low end of the range these cars typically sell for according to The Red Book)

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Punk Rock	60%
Hippie	57%

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Sex	17%
Substances	22%
Travel	47%

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so basically I'm a greedy, lazy, cynical, well-travelled young professional.....damn straight! lol

and agreeing with socialists 39% of the time means you are one? so American this test rofl

blueyoshi @ 2007-02-06T18:35:00

2007-02-06T09:40:22Z

You know it's a slow day when a cheap, safe, patentless, cure for cancer gets noticed by one or two news sites.

I love training courses. The whole getting paid to do very little except eat classy restaurant meals at the company's expense is somehow appealing...

in other news, thinking about selling my turbo RX7 convertible...so if anyone happens to be looking for or contemplating something like that, let me know.

A very strange movie (and a very normal job)

2007-01-09T16:49:50Z

Just saw "Babel". I can't think how to describe that movie, it's such a strange mix that it's difficult to decide if I enjoyed it (There are three very loosely linked stories spanning Morocco, The US/Mexico and Japan)...certainly the film is engrossing, possibly a little unecessarily shocking in rare moments, but it's really hard to judge such things.

Got to wake up in a few hours for third day of my new job. It's absolutely staggering how large this company is compared to the previous places I've worked. There are five seperate offices in the Perth CBD alone (the head quarters are in Sydney.) The one I work in is only mid-sized and still occupies four entire floors of the building its located in. The level of organisation is extremely impressive, although that does mean the processes are at times a little bureaucratic. Lots of other engineers starting now, although the only other one I knew before (another UWA EE grad) hasn't started yet. Most of the other fresh grads are mechanical or civil, with people from all uni's it seems. The first couple of days have been very pleasent, and I think if I don't like this job I'll have to leave Perth to find anything that might be more appropriate, so fingers crossed.

"live" journal

2007-01-03T16:00:03Z

been putting off posting in lj a long time...not sure if procrastinating procrastination qualifies as laziness, busyness or both.

Actually it's more my inability to click the submit button on anything I do write these days.

Spent the best part of '06 working rather unusually solidly on various parts of thesis project. It's pretty boring stuff to anyone except me at that time. Suffice to say I worked far too hard for the meagre point allocation (equivalent to two normal units.) Learnt/increased experience in many useful skills, got more marks than I needed, spent lots of reasonably fun late nights of excessive tea consumption, bad food, bad singing to out of date songs, and otherwise being silly with various other honours students who lived in the same building, enjoyed seeing thousands of dollars wasted as a fellow student set some of my supervisor's equipment on fire, and otherwise made the best of it all...but it still sucked >____<

'07....I'm just gonna hate you now and avoid any disappointment >:(

actually the last week, inc. most of the '07 part has been pretty good, but one bad thing today soured my mood enough to let this one get submitted, call it foreshadowing :P

blueyoshi @ 2006-11-21T04:02:00

2006-11-20T20:02:02Z

You are 85% English.

Congratulations! You may now take your place as a subject of Her Majesty.

"And did those feet
In ancient times,
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
In England's pleasant pastures seen?"

Well, no, but it's a cracking good tune.

How English are you?
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I suspect to be 100% I would have to be born in London rather than Nottingham, because I'm sure I've spent enough time in the East Midlands to know how people would answer those questions.

normal service will resume in 14 days....

The future is a few seconds ago

2006-10-16T23:17:53Z

Honours student 1: I appear to have created a circuit that operates faster than light, the answers are coming out before I supply the input data!!!

Honours student 2: That should make it easier to decide where to go for dinner tonight

So true.

Somehow I managed to accidentally leave a stray section break in an essay I was writing Sunday night. This made my page numbering go 1,2,3,4,5, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and I ended up writing 13 pages when there was a hard limit of 8. Don't think I'd be fitting in sleep anytime soon even if I avoided making mistakes like that eheh. Going to miss uni...sort of.

Dave the camp site

2006-10-08T15:12:45Z

So the crew of Top Gear went on a caravan holiday (Season 8 Episode 6, if anyone hasn't seen this they must...best Top Gear ever.) Anyway as they enter Dorset (the region of England with their booked camp site) Richard Hammond, who booked it, frantically tries to remember the name of the camp site, and then giving up stammers "Dave....the camp site's called Dave."

I swear that's not as ridiculous a guess as it might seem. I'm used to my name causing the odd bit of confusion - in a 21 person geometry and trigonometry class at school we had 5 Daves. The teacher used to side-step the problem by qualifying his comments "Shut up Dave ...all of you."

Tonight I realised that once again my name may have been causing a little confusion. I finally added starph0x to my msn list (previously communicating through ICQ) and realised that we both have our MSN names set simply to "Dave". It's worth pointing out that the two "ahaha" did not come from the same person, so anyone considering dragging us into a group conversation ... be afraid! ;)

Update: One of my friends is now complaining that he actually has a third "Dave" on his msn list!

3:30am is when the misfortune elves are at work

2006-09-28T20:54:37Z

So I managed to go a whole night at uni with no weird 3:30am incident.

Unfortunately that was last night, tonight was a little different...

I was kicking around not doing any work for a bit, and discussing respectively owned jap import sports cars with a fellow final year guy in another department. This particular owner was less enthusiastic than most, having a non-turbo engine and yet still managing to spend a fortune on repairs. I was explaining how my turbo seems to stand up to pretty much everything including the track and drag strip.

When my fellow petrol-head went back to work I decided to go for a bit of a joy ride. Came back 5 min later with a warmed up engine and convinced this same guy to come for a ride (and yes, at you guessed it, 3:30am.) We had a little fun, then pulled in the servo on the way back to get some supplies. Of course what should befall the person who was espousing his car's reasonable reliability than a break down. Engine is turning, can hear spark plugs firing but it just doesn't seem to want to go through the last ignition phase succesfully. Tried deflooding it to no avail, and that's about as much as I can do without tools.

Guess I'm not going anywhere before my 9am lecture...Which is ok I guess since I wasn't really planning too anyway.

Finish off with massive congrats in anarch_kitty's direction on the engagement, apologies to bonta_kun for being late to discuss things earlier in the day - sleep got the better of me for a while, and lucky last this solid piece of advice from a free footy I got earlier today:

Everyone got that?

edit: Tried to start my car again just now, and all is well. Guessing it was some kind of flooding or a temporary electrical glitch (Rotaries seem to love to do that kind of thing.) Important thing is I don't have a huge repair bill and it's back where it belongs at my home now (home as in uni, not my less common other home)

It probably could have looked worse...somehow

2006-09-27T17:30:51Z

Sitting in my lab at uni in the early hours of the morning, I am reminded of what happened when I was still doing the same at 3:30am last night...

Left to grab a drink and managed to get locked out (I swear this is not something I do very often). My student card (ie. RFID door key) was sitting in my wallet, which was now stuck in the lab. This is normally a good sign that it's time to go home, which would be fine except, for comfort's sake, I'd taken my shoes off while working and they were also in the lab. My mobile phone was also sitting in the lab, and likewise all the shrapnel in my wallet, but then who I am going to phone at 3:30am anyway?

At least I had my car keys...so no big deal...except that one of the screws on my license plate had decided to unfasten itself (quite common as it needs a special mounting which only has two screw holes) when it touched the curb (something that's also not uncommon with lowered sports cars in general.) Still that's no drama except that...the tools I need to re-attach it were...you guessed it, in the lab!

No wallet means no money means no taxi either so that wasn't an option.

So I drove home at 3:30am with my license plate on the passenger seat, no drivers license or ID of any kind, no money and no shoes.

Yes officer....I swear this really is my car!

....on reflection I should have called out campus security, but I didn't really feel like sitting in an empty corridor for an hour waiting for some grumpy dude to rock up and tell me how stupid I am.

Meanwhile it must be about time to venture out again, better pack a student card, wallet, keys, phone, rations and a pair of pliers or wrench just in case!

Mmmmmmmm.....rations

I hear it's gonna be a hot night in Mexico

2006-08-24T12:56:08Z

So one of the guys who works in the same lab as me at uni came back from Mexico two days ago. Sitting there flipping through his lonely planet Spanish phrase book that he'd left on the desk this afternoon and found the "Social" section. Some choice phrases on offer there including but far from limited to
"Can I buy you a drink?"
and just to make sure the reply is clear
"Your ego is massively inflated"

It quickly gets a tad more "optimistic"...
"Would you like to come in?"
"Do you have a condom?"
"I don't want to do anything without protection"

...and finally downright surreal
"I can't get it up - Sorry"

Try and visualise some poor guy frantically flipping through his phrase book to explain that one!
At least he'll be ready for the response as "Piss off" and "I never want to see you again" were conveniently on the next page XD

...and now back to test ~~study~~ cramming eheh

edit: in case you're not familiar with my locations, livejournal has politely turned it into a google maps query :P

kekeke

2006-05-22T11:41:10Z

Apparently I am getting an offer this week from a large engineering consulting firm. Think I might end up owing people dinner ;)

Meanwhile, test in 13.5 hours - must be about cram time.

oh, and someone finally found a good use for a mac XD - Silly use for the harddisk protecting motion sensor

Also have survived 3 days with a very pink hello kitty + bell dangling off my phone, dunno if I should be proud of my success with this challenge or not ^^;

Eye of the storm

2006-05-14T17:32:15Z

A very relaxing weekend nears completion. Spent about half of it studying for test and preparing for some mock negotiations that are both tomorrow (well today heh). The crazy thing relative to most weekends of late is that left the other half free for non-work type stuff. Got BBT twice, much DDR/Singstar, fit in some movies, and much quality time with ~~new monitor/new 3d card/piano+recently functional hands~~ friends

and Mother's day of course kekeke *hugs Mother*

Huge thanks to Gabe for shouting dinner, and nekomancy for cooking for many of us on Saturday.

Anyway, thought I'd post this since I had the test result lying around from way back, and it seems to be the in thing atm

Holiday in 6 months wheeeee

2006-05-11T23:52:42Z

So I woke up this morning and realised I'd gone to bed too early last night (plus gone out for dinner) meaning I still had a ton of work to do....this happens every single morning, irrespective of whether or not I put in 15 hours at uni the day before
so this morning I did this instead :P

I. Action and Adventure
(x) .hack//SIGN
( ) Airmaster
( ) Battle Arena Toshinden
(x) Bleach
( ) Blood+
( ) Burst Angel
(x) City Hunter
(x) Cowboy Bebop
(x) Dragonball (any)
(x) Flame of Recca
( ) GetBackers
(x) Inu Yasha
(x) Lupin III (any)
( ) Mai-HiME
(x) Naruto
(x) One Piece
( ) Tenjou Tenge
(x) TRIGUN
(x) Saiyuki
( ) Yu Yu Hakusho

Total Here: 12/20

II. Comedy and Parody
( ) 2x2 = Shinobuden
(x) Adventures of the Mini Goddesses
( ) All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku
(x) Azumanga Daioh
( ) Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
(x) Di Gi Charat
( ) Dragon Half
(x) Excel Saga
(x) Fruits Basket
( ) Galaxy Angel
( ) Here is Greenwood
(x) Kodomo no Omocha
( ) Kyou Kara Maou!
( ) Midori Days
( ) Pani Poni Dash
( ) Project A-ko
(x) Ranma 1/2
(x) Tenchi Muyo
(x) Those Who Hunt Elves
( ) Urusei Yatsura

Total Here: 9/20

III. Drama and Miscellaneous
( ) Beck
( ) Full Moon wo Sagashite

( ) Gankutsuou
( ) Genshiken
( ) Glass Mask (original or new)
(x) Haibane Renmei
( ) Hitsuji no Uta
( ) Honey & Clover
( ) Kaleido Star
( ) Last Exile
( ) Le Portraite de Petite Cossette
(x) Monster
( ) Paradise Kiss
(x) Princess Mononoke
(x) Read or Die OVA
( ) Speed Grapher
( ) Twin Spica
( ) Weiss Kreuz
( ) Wings of Honneamise
(x) Yakitate!! Japan

Total Here: 5/20

IV. Ecchi/Mature
(x) Agent AIKa
( ) Cutey Honey
(x) Ebichu
( ) Golden Boy
(x) Grenadier
( ) Hand Maid May
( ) He Is My Master
(x) Iketeru Futari
( ) La Blue Girl
( ) Lingerie Senshi Papillon Rose
( ) Mahoromatic
( ) Mezzo Forte
( ) Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
( ) My Dear Marie
(x) Najica Blitz Tactics
( ) Negima
(x) Puni Puni Poemy
( ) Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend
( ) Wicked City
( ) Yumeria

Total Here: 6/20

V. Fantasy and Supernatural
( ) Angel Sanctuary
( ) Aquarian Age
(x) Berserk
(x) El Hazard
(x) Final Fantasy Unlimited
(x) Fullmetal Alchemist
(x) Howl's Moving Castle
( ) Magic Knight Rayearth
( ) Mushishi
(x) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
(x) Record of Lodoss War
( ) Scrapped Princess
(x) Slayers
( ) Tales of Eternia
( ) Trinity Blood
( ) Tsubasa Chronicle
( ) Vampire Hunter D
( ) Violinist of Hameln
( ) Vision of Escaflowne
(x) X: TV

Total Here: 9/20

VI. Historical and Alternate History
( ) Anne of Green Gables
( ) Basilisk
( ) Barefoot Gen
( ) Chrono Crusade
( ) Grave of the Fireflies
( ) Fire Tripper
( ) Kaidomaru
( ) Legend of Condor Hero
( ) Millennium Actress
( ) Nadia - Secret of Blue Water
(x) Ninja Scroll
( ) Otogizoushi
( ) Peacemaker Kurogane
( ) Porco Rosso
( ) Rose of Versailles
(x) Rurouni Kenshin
( ) Samurai 7
(x) Samurai Champloo
( ) Steel Angel Kurumi
( ) Victorian Romance Emma

Total Here: 3/20

VII. Kids and Family
(x) Angelic Layer
(x) Astro Boy
( ) Beyblade
( ) Castle in the Sky
(x) Detective Conan
( ) Digimon
( ) Doraemon
( ) Hamtaro
( ) Kiki's Delivery Service
( ) Kimba the White Lion
( ) Monster Rancher
( ) My Neighbor Totoro
(x) Pokemon
(x) Samurai Pizza Cats
( ) Sazae-san
( ) SD Gundam Force
( ) Sonic X
( ) Speed Racer
(x) Spirited Away
( ) Yu-Gi-Oh

Total Here: 6/20

VIII. Magical Girls and Boys
(x) Cardcaptor Sakura
(x) DNAngel
(x) Earth Girl Arjuna
( ) Erementar Gerad
( ) Hime-chan no Ribbon
( ) Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
( ) Magic Users Club
( ) Magical Girl Pretty Sammy
( ) Magical Stage Fancy La La
( ) Mahou no Star Magical Emi
( ) Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha
( ) Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok
( ) Ojamajou DoReMi
( ) Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo
( ) Pretear
(x) Sailor Moon
( ) Saint Tail
( ) Tokyo Mew Mew
( ) Ultra Maniac
( ) Wedding Peach

Total Here: 4/20

IX. Romance
(x) Ah! My Goddess
( ) Ai Yori Aoshi
( ) Air
(x) Ayashi no Ceres
( ) Boys Be
( ) Chobits
(x) Fushigi Yuugi
( ) Hana Yori Dango
(x) His and Her Circumstances (a.k.a.: KareKano)
( ) Kimagure Orange Road
( ) Kimi ga Nozomu Eien
(x) Love Hina
(x) Maison Ikkoku
( ) Marmalade Boy
( ) Peach Girl
( ) Piano
( ) Please Teacher!
( ) SaiKano
( ) To Heart
( ) Video Girl Ai

Total Here: 6/20

X. Science-Fiction
( ) Appleseed
( ) Blue Seed
( ) Bubblegum Crisis (any)
(x) Crest of the Stars
( ) Galaxy Express 999
(x) Gundam (any)
( ) Macross (any)
(x) Outlaw Star
(x) Patlabor
( ) Planetes
( ) Please Save My Earth
( ) RahXephon
(x) Saber Marionette (any)
(x) s-CRY-ed
( ) Soukyuu no Fafner
( ) Space Battleship Yamato (a.k.a.: Star Blazers)
( ) Stellvia
(x) Transformers (any)
( ) Voices of a Distant Star
( ) Xenosaga: The Animation

Total Here: 7/20

XI. Shounen-Ai and Shoujo-Ai
( ) Ai no Kusabi
( ) Descendants of Darkness
( ) Earthian
( ) FAKE
( ) Fish in the Trap
( ) Galaxy Fraulin Yuna
(x) Gravitation
( ) Haru wo Daiteita
( ) Kannazuki no Miko
( ) Kizuna
( ) Lesson XX
( ) Loveless
( ) Maria-sama ga Miteru
( ) Mirage of Blaze
( ) Oniisama E
( ) Seikimatsu Darling
( ) Song of the Wind in the Trees
( ) Sukisho
( ) Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito
( ) Zetsuai/Bronze

Total Here: 1/20

XII. Sports
( ) Ace wo Nerae
( ) Ashita no Joe
( ) Ayane's High Kick
( ) Baki the Grappler
(x) Battle Athletes
( ) Buzzer Beater
( ) Captain Tsubasa
( ) Eyeshield 21
( ) Ginban Kaleidoscope
( ) Hajime no Ippo
( ) Hikaru no Go
(x) Initial D
( ) Major
( ) Monkey Turn
( ) One Pound Gospel
( ) Prince of Tennis
( ) Princess Nine
( ) Slam Dunk
( ) Suzuka
( ) Wild Striker

Total Here: 2/20

XIII. Surreal and Psychological
(x) Akira
( ) Betterman
(x) Boogiepop Phantom
( ) Elfen Lied
(x) FLCL
( ) Gantz
(x) Ghost in the Shell (movie or TV)
(x) Hellsing
( ) Jigoku Shoujo
( ) Karas
( ) Madlax
( ) Melody of Oblivion
(x) Neon Genesis Evangelion
(x) Noir
( ) Paranoia Agent
(x) Perfect Blue
( ) Princess Tutu
(x) Revolutionary Girl Utena
(x) Serial Experiments Lain
( ) Texhnolyze

Total Here: 10/20

Total: 80 out of 260

Got a 19" monitor yesterday, which makes it easier to watch anime from bed (I've never found using a laptop comfortable for watching stuff, even though I will happily type on a laptop in bed). Will have to try and find more free time somehow ^^

Anyway, now I better seriously get busy hehe

Can't argue with this one...

2006-04-25T09:01:52Z

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Concert Concert Concert!!!

2006-04-24T16:41:46Z

Wheeee, submitted 45 page digital microelectronics device physics assignment this afternoon (42 pages of which written in the last 15 hours)
Assignments where one tiny mistake implies rewriting 2/3 of it are not especially cool
group members who go to singapore and then get drunk rather than helping to the small extent they can aren't particularly ool either

BUT, the Nickelback concert tonight was very very cool XD
Only managed to squeeze in one hour of sleep before hand, but it was more than enough to keep me awake once it got going.

Wasn't expecting so much, even though there are a few Nickelback songs I love, but they went through all the very best songs, not really giving special attention to the new album. Also Chad Kroeger really knows how to work a crowd, getting everyone to sing along and have a great time. Perhaps a little too much magnesium or whatever they were using for some of the super bright lighting effects, it was quite blinding and headache inducing at times.
A fantastic experience though, Thanks nekomancy for buying the tickets :D

And if my writing seems even more incoherent than usual....well yes I should probably get some sleep finally eheh

Status: Dead

2006-04-22T18:02:02Z

Awesome night, much DDR + bbt + karaoke + DDR + DDR + DDR + ... (another 6 games after pretty much everyone else went home)
Note to self: singstar before karaoke is not a good plan
Managed to lose the lens from my glasses under the DDR machine at about 12:30am and had a huge crowd standing around watching me move the machine trying to find it ahaha, such a retard I am

Cheers to lord_blitz for "organising" the whole thing, such a champ XD
And nekomancy for knowing the hit box phone number and sounding like a genuine imitation taiwanese (seemingly an invaluable skill for actually getting offered a room by karaoke places)

and now...time to crash for a few hours then pull an all nighter++ to get assignment number 1 finished on time
Saw some people hand it in today >_< but they had group members.... and can't be bothered getting it correct.....but still.....think I'm gonna wish I couldn't be bothered by ~3am tomorrow lol

I wanna play more... :'(

2006-04-21T16:59:13Z

Singstar Rocks Rocks!
Huge uni assignments where group members don't help don't rock.
That is all.

ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

2006-04-19T12:07:58Z

So I finished my proposal at midday on the dot yesterday. That took an all night session, not least because it was so hard to cut down to the word limit, and I was completely exhausted. Obviously this meant the logical next thing to do was spend a few hours filling out a long and tedious job application which closed that day -____- Although the arrival of the original Singstar which I ordered off ebay did save the day somewhat XD

And the best bit...I have 5 more assignments due in the next 12 days, and my group members for one of the larger ones, which is the next due, are not going to help much (one is out of the country until after it is due, other can't help for another three days.... YIPPEEEEEE!) *sits alone at uni getting extremely drained*

Expect to here more whining from me :P

in the meantime, some awesome comics
VG Cats Bubble Bobble
VG Cats Kirby

blueyoshi @ 2006-04-18T05:10:00

2006-04-17T21:20:01Z

ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH >___________________________________<

I hate trying to be "academic" with electronic engineering/computer science stuff. 90% of the time, if something cool has been done and is sufficiently documented or available to be of genuine use, even just for comparison, then you can bet it's not the result of an academic project. *throws out list of genuinely good references that aren't acceptable in acadaemia, inserts dodgy crap*

Yes I am aware of the hypocrisy :P

FAAAAAAKE IT BABY THEY WON'T EVEN KNOW *bops along*

blueyoshi @ 2006-04-16T20:45:00

2006-04-16T12:55:06Z

Wait what am I doing...
CONCENTRATE *Slaps self*

So much for aiming not to write 90% of this the night before eheh

Looooooooooooong weekend

2006-04-14T15:33:57Z

Been studying logic synthesis for the last week, so if anyone feels their logic needs synthesising...you know who to call :P

More seriously gotta get my proposal done by tuesday, so this easter is certainly a very long weekend :/

My supervisor would be so proud :D

Caution: Car talk ahead

2006-04-12T15:14:38Z

So...my FC RX7's quarter mile is officially...
15.38 sec @ 143km/hr
Isn't that fascinating.....no not really but oh well

For a 1988 electric convertible with everything stock, I was quite happy
Unfortunately I lost quite badly on that run to a Mazda 323 (a much older, crappier model than my 323.) That most definitely was not stock ahaha
The two friends I went down with pulled best times of 17.1 and 17.2 so I wasn't quite the slowest car there eheh

Edit: Think we were the only asians there, and yes I'd definitely have to include myself in that category. Was surrounded by rednecks and I managed to pop a lens out of my glasses while removing a helmet, and spent the next minute trying to pull my car over half blind lol

blueyoshi @ 2006-04-11T23:15:00

2006-04-11T15:51:34Z

Tonight I found myself in the company of people who have not seen either The Usual Suspects or The Big Hit...what is wrong with you people *glares at anarch_kitty, perseid, nekomancy and the lj-less* ...I feel some rectification is in order.

Saw V for Vendetta...which was surprisingly enjoyable, especially considering it was quite a long movie. Possibly loses points for American's badly portraying Britain, bonus points for the only person who's place of birth was revealed was the same as mine (Nottingham), one year off from me though, so unfortunately no I am not the future note writing lesbian :P
I guess that means someone American figured out there is more than one city in England, so hearty congratulations to whoever that was.

Also got my new laptop (a dell inspiron 6400). Feels like a bit of a downgrade from the thinner, lighter, Samsung X50 which also had a more powerful 3d graphics card (Radeon X700 whereas the Dell only has a Radeon X1400, barely half as fast). Apart from being made of heavy plastic instead of light and strong magnesium alloy, the screen, catches, buttons, trim etc. on the Dell just feel plain tacky. It does have the new dual core processor however, also twice as much ram and a larger hd, so it will make certain uni work less frustrating, even if games won't run as nicely. It also has a softer keyboard and touchpad buttons, which was my main reason for switching to the Dell (No point having a nicer laptop if I can't use it a lot without injuring myself - and now there's another friend of mine with the X50 who's sustained hand injuries). So with great sadness I hand the X50 over to my dad, who paid for the Dell (They cost exactly the same price atm, so it's a reasonably fair trade.)
As one friend commented, it just didn't feel right seeing Dave with a nice looking laptop....probably true ehehe