02 Jun 2004
Yeah. They’re pretty cool. I’ve got myself six meters of seriously fat Figure 8 audio cable for absolutely nothing. That rates as cool in my book.
So, whilst they’re giving me free stuff, I’ll give them a little bit of a plug. They’ve got this new clock released this year, okay? Now, normally I absolutely hate all that gimmicky crap they’re moving towards, but this is very cool. Product number is XC0170, and it’s not listed on their website yet (as of this evening at 6:02PM)… you know how you get those things which have metal rods in them, and you press your hand on one side, and get an imprint on the other? Like a RealWorld™ emboss filter? Yeah, that’s how this clock displays the time!
Very cool. It’s $99, which is kind of expensive for something that tells the time, but has immense leet factor.
So why were Jaycar giving me free stuff? I mean, I’m cool and all, but still… Yeah, okay, I’m not cool. But I did send in my “Send me a free catalog next year” form in LAST years catalog. And apparently, AusPost wanted to charge them $10/copy to mail out (it’s a kinda chunky catalog – good thing Farnell don’t use AusPost… actually, I think they’ve abandoned the free mailout idea. For those who don’t know, their catalog is literally about the size of a pair of Yellow Pages books, and they used to (possibly still do) mail it out for free.) – so Jaycar went “well screw them, let’s milk it for all it’s worth in terms of customer goodwill!”
Hey, I have no problems with that. I had to choose between getting $10 worth of free stuff and collecting a catalog in person, or BUYING A STAMP, sending a RealMail™ (i.e. not email!) to Jaycar, and then having to WAIT for AusPost to get this catalog to me. Mmmm… hard decision.
So yeah, I randomly wandered down to Jaycar this arvo (Ben tagged along), picked up a free catalog, and jumped on an offcut of cable (six meters!), because it was so incredibly cheap (list price was six bucks, but zero is better!), and also another blue LED, just to offset the spare change (which they can’t give – the LED was $3.95, so I only “lost” 5 cents).
The LED will be going in a CD drive eventually, I think. Yet to decide which one. Whenever it happens, I’ll post something.
In other LED-related news, Jaycar have Luxeon Stars in their catalog!!! Woooo!!! Can’t wait to get some and randomly put them all over the place! Go hugely insane power suckage!!
Ooooh… and they also have TRI COLOUR LED’s… none of this auto-switching crap, these have actually got like four pins on them (or three, or something… I can’t remember)! If I had skill, then I’d start trying to build some massive LED display device… but I don’t, and no-one is paying me to try ;).
So yeah. Excited about lots of geeky stuff. Very cool. Go buy stuff from Jaycar ;)
02 Jun 2004
English Journal Entry #1
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Today was the first time all of our group confirmed that, in fact, we WERE a group (I was absent when the assessment was handed out), and we discussed a few things.
Having determined who was in the group, we set out to agree on a plot of sorts. The first suggestion was that we satirise, and generally poke a stick in the direction of, the politics (and associated envy) associated with positions of student leadership at SACS. Upon reflection, this potentially would have been offensive… and a better idea was reached. The original wasn’t anywhere near twisted enough for our groups liking, so we embarked on something a little more warped.
Essentially, the plot is three characters in a play are jealous over the parts of each other. The play being our group presentation, the jealousy being related to our parts within the play and the individual marking of these roles. We’re playing ourselves in a play about ourselves — recursively, the play is set in the development of the play itself. So, scripting will be based on real dialog occurring in our preparation.
We’ll be making use of soliloquies, having (forcibly brief, given the four-minute time constraint) moments of reflection in which various characters reveal their thoughts (whilst the other two are “frozen” in time).
01 Jun 2004
Just not always on time. But, as vaguely indicated would occur, a new feature has emerged on this website.
It gives me the opportunity to ask stupid questions, and get stupider answers. As opposed to asking stupider questions, and not getting ANY answers.
I’m still wondering which is better, but hey. Anyway. Cool new feature, and all that. Try it out. I hope it works. Or, at least, pretends to work. That form really just emails your comment to a monkey, who has to manually edit the webpage – no databases around here, kiddies.
Just for the record, I’m joking. That’s MY monkey, animal rights activists!!
01 Jun 2004
Hmm… I’ve decided to make use of the commenting system, both because I can, and because it’s genuinely something useful in this instance. Yep, that’s right — “KLICKING DA BUTTN!” has useful applications! Just, err, remember to type a message first, okay? Good. If you don’t, then not much happens…
So, this “call for names” isn’t about conscription or anything. I don’t want YOUR names… well… I do want your name, if you’ve got a cool name or something. No, I’m just hopeless at deciding on names of any kind, and I’m meant to be writing this short story thingamajig for English. I’m needing at least two names — one which sounds überly evil, and another which is that of a victim — who becomes evil by the actions of the überly evil one. Get all that?
So, two names — a really evil one, and a moderately normal (but preferably obscure, because obscure names are cool) name… yeah. See, I wasn’t wasting my time developing a commenting system! It has genuine applications in the field of… err… name harvesting?
Why do I sound like a spammer…
31 May 2004
Yay! That evil, bandwidth consuming, link-following, unintelligent POS has finally been banned from this server by a certain admin.
Despite the random meddlings of the evil MSN bot, everything is still running fine (unless, of course, you happen to be trying to access this website from an address in the 65.54.164.x range, in which case, you’re screwed). So fine, in fact, that another website hosted on this same server, administered by the aforementioned admin, just hit 16,000 posts. Not bad for a community forum started on a weekend sometime last year (Mar 16, 2003).
Yeah. Cool factor++. And stuff.
p.s. that feature still in the works – I have no idea where my weekend went… was the most inefficient use of time ever, methinks. Personally, I’m blaming Novell/Ximian for open-sourcing a certain product, but I shall rant on that later, if I remember to…