Headless Moron

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Feeling dizzy....
jawapro
Tue 19/08/2008 10:06 PM

I've been working on my Network Cabinet project for the last few hours under the house (there's a sort of workshop down there). Unfourtuanly the floor beams are just the wrong hight so you dont see them if you're looking at whatever you're working on - and I've donged my head at least a dozen times tonight.

Seriously considering glueing a heap of foam to the worst ones. Soften the blows a little.

Now excuse me while I black out for a while....

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Run for the hills!
jawapro
Mon 18/08/2008 08:31 PM

That’s a photo that would worry a lot of my friends (and my parents).

Not because I look like an idiot - or a half mad axe murder who has upgraded to a circular saw.

The reason it’s worrying is that it’s me - with a power tool.

Which means I’m planning on building something.

That’s enough to send my friends running for the hills and wondering what’s wrong with me.

You see - I’m not the sort of practical person who builds things. I never really have been - regardless of my Dad’s influence (he’s the sort of person who does).

Over the last 2 weekends, I bought myself a Circular Saw, a Jigsaw, and some building materials. (Jigsaw as in the power tool, not a puzzle - although I think it puzzled my parents.)

My track record of building things doesn’t really extend much beyond my recent LAN Box - which Dad helped a lot with (although I designed it).

So why am I doing it? I’ve got a spare room that badly needs some shelves, a computer room that needs a network cabinet, and a Mac that needs tossing - so I want to start building stuff. Plus - I've been watching a lot of Scrap Heap Challenge - and that's probably given me the bug to build.

Unfortunately the building materials were being carted home on top of a trailer load of tree clippings from Terreth’s, and fell off as we were almost home. I was traveling behind in my car and had caught a lot of lights which Dad (and the trailer) had missed, so I was a fair way behind, and when I caught up, Mum was standing on the trailer trying to hold the stuff on while Dad drove off the bridge where they’d fallen off.

So now the melamim (which I can’t spell - the white stuff you build shelves out of) looks pretty scratched and messed-up, but as Dad said - if it’s me whose building something, it would probably look pretty shabby anyway. At least until I get some practice.

I also finally got myself a mower - so I can tame some of the jungle in my yard. I think I actually used to have a path leading to the washing line somewhere in there…..

So stay tuned. If the building projects turn out ok - there will be pictures. If not - well, there will probably still be pictures.

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Is Bigfoot as fake as the Olympics?
jawapro
Sat 16/08/2008 12:01 PM

I have been trying pretty hard, and managing to ignore almost all of the Olympics since the Opening Ceremony (which I only watched because I was invited to a friends place to watch).

But it turns out that half of it was faked anyway.

Those impressive fireworks of Godzilla’s footprints marching up to the arena - they were generated on a computer. When we saw it on the Opening Ceremony, I remember thinking the pilot in the chopper/plane did a good job filming it all. Well - there was no pilot, just some animators on a computer somewhere.
Apparently the fireworks did exist (apparently) - but the footage was faked.

And then there was the little girl singing. The song itself was completely forgettable - so the only thing that made it stick in your memory was the fact that she was obviously lip-syncing. The whole room commented on it when we were watching the ceremony.

Now - that would have been ok. But it gets worse. She wasn’t even the one singing it! The recording was from another girl who was originally going to sing, but the Chinese decided she wasn’t pretty enough.

Added to that some rent-a-crowds and children supposedly from minority groups who were just actors - Beijing is doing a pretty good job of being a Fake Olympics.

But speaking of fakes - some dudes in the good old US of A have apparently found a Bigfoot body and stuffed it in their freezer.

Of course - 90% of the world thinks it’s a hoax. They have changed their story so many times it’s almost impossible to believe them. But wouldn’t it be awesome if they actually did have an unknown species of American Ape in their freezer.

Just so they can say "Screw you - here's the body" and show it to the world. The world would have to stop calling people like this crazy and eat their own words. That would just be cool.

Personally - I’m not convinced that there’s not an unknown Ape in America (and other parts of the world with similar stories) - but I’m not at all convinced there is one either.

The American duo (plus another Bigfoot hunter they’ve roped in) are planning to release more evidence today, but somehow I doubt it’s going to prove anything.

Put it this way - the Olympics have been confirmed as a fake. Bigfoot at least might be real...

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Starcraft
jawapro
Thu 14/08/2008 10:43 PM

Well - it's taken me ages, but I finally finished Starcraft.

I must confess, I did get bored of it after getting pwned again and again in the last few missions, so I resorted to cheating.

Now - I hate cheats. It's on record - I despise them. I love the fact that Command and Conquer just plain doesnt have any. But there can come a time when a game stops being fun. When this happens - you have 3 options. You can just give up and stop playing. That's ok, as long as you're not interested in the story. You can just knuckle down and keep playing until you manage to finish it. Or - final option, you can find some cheats.

So I went the whimps way out - and used some cheats to storm through the last 3 levels. I could have done it without the cheats - but it probably would have taken weeks (they were insane levels).

So now I can relax - and start playing something else.

Another task I can tick off my life's to-do-list.

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08/08/08
jawapro
Sat 09/08/2008 11:28 AM

Well - last night was a good night.

I had every intention of playing some RA3 and totally ignoring the Olypmics.

That changed with a phone call.

One of my friends (Tim) who I haven’t really talked to for ages rang me up and invited me over to his place to watch some movies and the Opening Ceremony.

So I went.

Caught up with a couple of guys I knew from Geneva, and watched a couple of movies.

After an argument about which movie was better, Serenity or Fifth Element (I was on Serenity's side) we watched Serenity because a lot of people hadn't seen it. I sooo love that movie - but it probably dosn't make as much sense if you haven't seen Firefly first.

Then we watched the Opening Ceremony for the Olympics. Lots of Chinese guys on drums tried to give the world an epileptic fit.

It was interesting - and especially fun to laugh at the guys who stuffed up (like going the wrong direction or forgetting to turn their lights on/off) but it was defiantly the low point of the evening. Both movies were better.

When the athletes started walking about, we talked about waiting to see Australia, but put a movie on instead. Good thing too - after the movie we still had to wait for them. Glad we didn’t sit through the whole thing.

The second movie was something I thought they called The Manchurian Utility. I'd never heard of it.

When they put the DVD in I realized I'd just misheard them, and it was called The Man Who Knew Too Little. I still hadn't seen it, and it's quite amusing.

Then we watched Australia march out to the Olympics followed by the Chinese - and then we gave up and started choosing another movie. I decided to bail out here, as I had things to do later in the day and could do with a little sleep before I tried.

So that was how I celebrated the 8th of the 8th in 2008. How about you?

P.S. Thanks heaps for the invite Tim!

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