02 Nov 2005
Why don’t we fill the hole with the current state goverment?! Would save waiting until 2007!
From an SMH blog comment. I can’t wait for the next election!
The venerable mum/dad lab/lib metaphor (elucidated in this piece — search for “Labor is mum, the Coalition is dad” — and shamelessly repeated by the SMH many times since) is wearing thinner and thinner in NSW, as Labor repeatedly shows itself to be comprehensively incompetent in both the realm of social welfare and “hard” issues such as keeping contactors in line and maintaining order, etc. And yes, before anyone jumps up and down about it, it is playing on gender stereotypes, but it’s just a convenient metaphor. So get over it.
01 Nov 2005
Sit down and argue about the semantics and purpose of “propaganda” for eight pages. Deftly avoid the question and hope they don’t realise no judgement has been made. That whole expectation is so un-academic, anyway.
*laughs at folly of HSC Modern History outcomes*
Meanwhile, Tori has finished her HSC as of ~12.30 today. I hate you I hate you I hate you! Well… no, I really don’t, but you know that so it’s okay. :) Congrats!
01 Nov 2005
Just me playing with Inkscape, nothing in particular got burnt in the making of this image.
The image links to a larger PNG of the same.
You can also get its Inkscape SVG source file… it probably won’t open in certain other editors — specifically Illustrator (I say this because it’s been tried before, though not with this particular file).
The advantage of this being an SVG is you can blow it up to whatever resolution you want, get a large format digital printer, and stick it on the side of your fully-sick car, if you so desired. Or, you could just view it on your computer screen!
01 Nov 2005
This is a seriously cool program. Sure, it’s just a frontend to mplayer/mencoder, but it’s so easy! Having said that, I’m still not game to touch more than half the options, but whatever :P I now no longer need to pull out my Coldplay Live 2003 DVD to watch tracks on it :D
(I’d ripped it before, but couldn’t figure out how to do individual Chapters as separate files, so the resulting file was the whole DVD)
And yes, this program is probably illegal in Australia, as in the US. But then so are iPods prior to iTMS.
31 Oct 2005
So, as soon as I uploaded a moderate-resolution WMV version of the video to year12.joahua.com, Google Video decided it was going to approve it. However, it seems the Google version is pretty poor quality (yes, I uploaded the same version to both Google and my own site), so if you want quality it’s best to go with the year12.joahua source — though the audio quality on both of them seems to be about the same.
The Google Video version will play in your browser (using Flash Video).
The hosted Windows Media version can be saved to your computer (right-click, “Save Target As…” or “Save Link As…”, depending on the browser).
The Windows Media version is ~23MiB, so I’d assume the Google version will be (probably significantly) less than that.
Now with added lyrics!
(Thanks to Ben, though I don’t know I agree with the end bit, and think he’s hashed out sections where it’s entirely possible nothing was even said :P)
I’ve had Mrs Christie for three years,
When she speaks it’s like music to my ears.
Having her has been such a blast,
Marcelo told me that he wants to touch her arse.
I started out with Oud then Sinovich,
Year 12 English proved to be quite a bitch.
You may think you’re pretty far from first,
But don’t worry Tyrone will always be the worst.
Always try to steal my essays from you,
‘Coz when it comes to English I just don’t have a clue,
And now it’s coming down to HSC,
I’m going to need the Lord to pray for me.
I went down to class just the other day,
And I had something really witty to say.
I was just about to speak but then just my luck
{the part where} ? except Garrett never shuts up.
Always have to steal my essays from the ‘net,
Here good looking dont know what to do,
And now it’s coming down to HSC,
I’m going to need the Lord to pray for me.
We’re going to take it down a bit.
(Hums)
So let’s get down to Module A, B and C.
Oooo, Ondaatje’s making love to me.
Oh baby, baby, won’t you come, come with me,
To an imaginary journey on pages seventy two and seventy three.
When I get that feeling, I need textual healing,
Ondaatje is making me feel, so damn fine.
The syntax literary techniques and devices all showing,
Shakespeare is getting my juices flowing.
I’m going down to Kubla Khan, (Oooooo yeah)
And sweetheart I want you to come, (You come)
When I take that Coleridge off the shelf,
Damn, he makes me want to touch myself.
When I get that feeling, I need textual healing,
Ondaatje is making me feel, so damn fine.
The syntax literary techniques and devices all showing,
Shakespeare is getting my juices flowing.
(Textual, textual, textual healing,
Textual, textual, textual.) x2
When I get that feeling, I need textual healing,
Ondaatje is making me feel so damn fine.
The syntax literary techniques and devices all showing,
Shakespeare is getting my juices flowing.
Textual, textual, textual healing,
Textual, textual, textual.
Now, who wants to timecode it for me?! Captions await! ;-)
