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Cynical? Me?

2007-02-20T13:19:45Z

Cynicism is a terrible, disfiguring character trait if used by the individual who is forced to carry a bitter chip. He will use his cynicism to cope with the weight of life and all its trials. But cynicism harnessed to your advantage can help debunk fraudulent mysteries that prevent us from sharing in what is possible and what is ours. At all times cynicism must be balanced with a belief and faith in the intrinsic goodness of our fellow man. Nobody really wants to be ad, even when they are pulling the trigger or handing out the towels for the non existent showers.—the JAMs, The manual: how to have a number one hit the easy way

SELLAFIELD

2007-02-11T15:41:36Z

Perth Google Earth...

2007-02-10T16:37:03Z

..has anyone else noticed someone with a lot of time on their hands has added ADSL2+ information links and phone number ranges for telephone exchanges all over Perth? Nutty.

Hey anfael

2007-02-05T12:05:42Z

GLOMP THE BISHIES!

CYD's furry tutorial

2007-02-04T16:07:50Z

Either i'm too tired to find this satirical tutorial on being a furry offensive, or i have a better sense of humour than i thought. It's quite difficult to hate it because someone's put much more effort into taking the piss than i'd expect anyone to.

Werewolf fans and wolfly people in general..

2007-02-04T08:34:25Z

..here is a song you may dig: TV on the Radio's Wolf Like Me, one of the better songs about werewolves i've ever heard. Preview it at Bleep or watch the video which isn't actually that good.

For zexyz

2007-01-31T06:34:19Z

I miss you heaps, man.

Furaffinity

2007-01-26T07:49:43Z

I have a furaffinity account now as kurreltheraven. Unfortunately it's down.

Jhonen's been at it again..

2007-01-15T00:32:53Z

..this will probably tickle anfael: a transcript of Jhonen Vasquez and his mate Aaron making fun of Rikki Simons, the voice of Gir and devotee of ham. To start off..

0:31:52 Aaron A.: Hmm. Rikki said Screw On Head was coming on right now, but I don't see it. I think he is on acid.
0:32:19 Jhnen V: rikki is generally drunk.
0:32:58 Jhnen V: on ham.
0:33:10 Jhnen V: christmas hams from several seasons back.
0:33:12 Aaron A.: It's sick, isn't it. Ham drunks.

..and it just gets sillier from there..

3:25:05 Aaron A.: I just picture his big sweaty head poking out of the earth, waiting for ham.
3:25:17 Jhnen V: just his head is sticking out?
3:25:34 Jhnen V: the rest of him, absorbing vital ham juices that have seeped into the earth.

...and sillier...

3:31:11 Jhnen V: once, against the army's orders, this one scientist, gentle and curious, argued that RIkki was peaceful, and that to destroy him would be a loss to science and to our very humanity.
3:31:39 Jhnen V: He approached rikki, and when RIkki made some mumbling sounds in response, the scientist turned to the army men and said "see...he does understand!"
3:31:57 Jhnen V: and then was incinerated by flecks of white hot ham that rikki belched at him.

There's even fan art of this conversation. Woo!

The computer saga..

2007-01-12T17:01:13Z

I'd be posting this as Dooj but i've forgotten the password and can't be fucked retrieving it. Haaahaha. Egh.

Ah whatever.

RIP Robert Anton Wilson

2007-01-12T00:33:02Z

That's it then. Pope Bob's body has finally given out on him. In his own words: Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd.

Easy for you to say. Ah well, thanks for leaving so much good stuff behind there, Bob.

Am i nerdy?

2007-01-10T07:21:15Z

This LJ is now a meme and irritation dump. I'd say coredump except i never figured out what that was except for something that made a file that took up all my user space on the UNIX server at uni.

But i told the test i don't dance.. what the hell..

2007-01-09T12:21:35Z

The Slow Dancer
Deliberate Gentle Love Dreamer (DGLDm)

Steady, reliable, and cradling her tenderly. Take a deep breath, and let it out real easy...you are The Slow Dancer.

Your focus is love, not sex, and for your age, you have average experience. But you're a great, thoughtful guy, and your love life improves every year. There's also a powerful elimination process working in your favor: most Playboy types get stuck raising unwanted kids before you even begin settling down. The women left over will be hot and yours. Your ideal woman is someone intimate, intelligent, and very supportive.

Your exact opposite:
The Hornivore

Random Brutal Sex Master

While you're not exactly the life of the party, you do thrive in small groups of smart people. Your circle of friends is extra tight and it's HIGHLY likely they're just like you. You appreciate symmetry in relationships.

ALWAYS AVOID: The Battleaxe

CONSIDER: The Maid of Honor or The Sonnet

Link: The 32-Type Dating Test by OkCupid - Free Online Dating.

Air conditioning!

2007-01-05T00:02:03Z

So after today wolphin and i should both have wee air conditioning units in our rooms. The price for Wof? Lots of money.

The price for me? Being hauled out of bed at 8 in the morning by an English gentleman with a hammer drill. :)

Speaking of national anthems..

2007-01-04T00:38:01Z

..the word girt cops a lot of shit for appearing in Advance Australia Fair in the context our home is girt by sea. It's no surprise that there's strange words in our national anthem given it was written by a Scot, and given the Scottish dialect of English has a lot of words in it that haven't stuck around in modern English. Girt is one of them.

It's a proper word, the present form being gird apparently from the Old English gyrdan from which we also get the words girdle (are you paying attention now vulpyra?) and girth which is the English word for circumference. As well as imparting ideas of surrounding, encircling and fastening ("Trees girded the green fields, Dooj was immediately girt by eager furries"), gird also has the meaning of preparing for action or mustering strength. (Dooj girded himself for the day with breakfast.)

You could sing our home is surrounded by sea but you'd be doing some intense syllable-mashing to replace one syllable with three. You'd also be speaking French. Then again Australia is a Latin name.

Christians, leave our National Anthem alone

2007-01-03T14:33:10Z

I know Australia has a fairly horrible and plodding national anthem but someone really needs a good shake and slap for associating this foul Christian dreck with it.

With Christ our head and cornerstone,
We'll build our Nation's might.
Whose way and truth and light alone
Can guide our path aright.
Our lives, a sacrifice of love, reflect our Master's care.
With faces turned to heaven above, Advance Australia fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia fair.

"Missing sixth verse" my fucking arse. That verse is girt by shite. Peter McCormick was far too busy writing about how early European Australia was England's long-distance bitch to be such a blatant god boy.

Actually the national anthem sounds really good as a cheesy trance tune. No shit.

It's a good thing they didn't time me..

2007-01-02T08:08:35Z

You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

Noodles without vinegar

2006-12-30T07:10:57Z

I just had some noodles without vinegar, as some people have suggested i should. To those who think cheap noodles can be eaten without vinegar i say this: you are wrong. Now i have a mouth full of beef flavouring and horrible corn and i am sad. Moo. :(

Things i learnt from Treasure Island

2006-12-25T06:28:54Z

Yarr. I finally got around to watching Treasure Island yesterday at my dad's place. He gave the DVD to my brother as a Christmas present, and watching it i learnt the following important things:

1) Pirates, despite their reputation, are fucking useless. When they're not double-crossing do-gooder English gentleman types, they're double-crossing one another, getting completely paralytic on rum, or killing one another. They also can't shoot straight and go completely to pieces without a strong leader.

2a) Long John Silver is Milo Kerrigan's long lost uncle.

2b) Ben Gunn is Gollum's long lost nephew.

3) G-rated movies used to be way more violent in the 1950s: Treasure Island features quite a few stabbings, a few impalings, numerous gun shots to the face (including one at point blank) and a great deal of duplicitousness on behalf of its characters. Fairly brutal but well entertaining stuff.

4a) An inebriated pirate with a dagger is no match for a poncy little kid with a gun.

4b) An inebriated pirate with a dagger is still no match for a poncy little kid with a gun even when said poncy little kid is pinned to the mast with a dagger.

5) Pirates might be horrid but they're still Christians. Apparently.

There's probably more but that's enough food for thought.

Normally i don't do memes..

2006-12-15T10:02:57Z

..but this one ends on an ultrasonically high note:

On the twelfth day of Christmas, doujoux sent to me...

Twelve fallimars drumming

Eleven atpaws piping

Ten eris a-leaping

Nine linguistics dancing

Eight stripes a-milking

Seven dreams a-sampling

Six movies a-dxing

Five co-o-o-omics

Four tails

Three constructed languages

Two numbers stations

...and a bumcivilian in a stephen fry.

Noodles: Jade Pagoda Non-Fried Ramen Noodles, Beef Flavour

2006-12-13T09:19:32Z

A lesser known noodle. "Beef flavour" fills me with dread, but we'll see how they perform..

Value: 79c for 85g of noodles and seasoning sachets. A fairly mid-priced noodle with the promises of No MSG! No fried noodles! Is this a diet noodle then?
Preparation: Easy enough: noodles in boiling water for three minutes, take off the boil and add sachets to make soup. And my own step, VINEGAR IT TO DEATH.
Healthwise: From the packet: 1426kJ/341 kCal for 485g of noodles and soup when cooked. Of that is 10.7g protein, 1.9g fat of which 1.0g is saturated (notably not very fattish), 70.3g carbs of which 5.3g is sugars, and 1896mg of sodium. Figures don't take into account the vinegar i added.
Tastewise: Not bad, actually, considering the noodles boiled over. :P I think i hit it with way too much vinegar for it to retain the original flavour. There's a vaguely beefy aftertaste.

VERDICT: I think i killed it with the vinegar, properly. What was left was neither brilliant nor offensive. These will do in a pinch.

Noodles: Indomie Mi Goreng Rendang

2006-12-13T04:49:57Z

After yesterday's shitty Nong Shim, it's back to try Indomie. Indomie Mi Goreng is known the world over to students and other for its cheapness and niceness, so it's time to try their rendang flavour. ('ve been assured by connoisseurs of noodles that all Mi Goreng varieties taste the same anyway.)

Value: 47c for 80g of noodles with lots of seasoning sachets.
Preparation: Easy enough: noodles in boiling water for three minutes, mix flavours separately, strain the noodles and add to ingredients. And my own step, VINEGAR IT TO DEATH.
Healthwise: From the packet: 1630kJ/390 kCal for 172g of noodles and stuff when cooked. Of that 172g is 8.4g protein, 16.8g fat of which 10.9g is saturated, 51.5g carbs of which 7.8g is sugars, and 930mg of sodium. Figures don't take into account the vinegar i added.
Tastewise: It doesn't smell that appetising. Tastewise it's a little bit nasty but generally pleasantly spicy.

VERDICT: Probably wouldn't eat these again if i had a choice.

Noodles: Nong Shim Shin Ramyun Hot and Spicy

2006-12-12T07:56:57Z

This journal has now reduced down to noodle reviews. I bought all the stuff i haven't tried yet from Woolworths and i'll be going through them all over the next few weeks. (I'm forced to eat noodles because of the financial rigours of buying presents for people for Christmas and having a credit card i don't want to max out again.)

Value: $1.18 for 120g of noodles plus soup and stuff. That's a fuckload of noodles. It's more noodles than i can fit in a bowl. The serving size is apparently 1. "1 fat fuck", i think it says in Korean.
Preparation: Put it all in boiling water, cook for five minutes, serve with "egg or your favourite vegetables". (My fave vegetable is vinegar.) So a couple of extra minutes' wait on anything else i've tried.
Healthwise: 2120 kJ/493 kCal, 11g protein, 17.8g fat of wihch 9g is saturated, 75.6g carbs of which 5g is sugars, and 2160mg of sodium. A fairly solid meal even without the suggestion of extras.
Tastewise: It says hot and spicy, so let's see what other flavours it's got aside from paprika (and the vinegar i added of course). Not many. The vinegar's managed to soak in the noodles and the soup, while pleasantly spicy, really isn't that great. Actually the soup's that evil and spicy that i feel like i'm going to choke whenever i drink a mouthful of it. I've got the same spicy feeling on my lips i get when i have Nando's in fact but none of the chicken-related goodness. My brain it screameth HEY I GOT SPICY LIPS SO WHERE'S MY EXTRA HOT DOUBLE BREAST PERIPERI CHICKEN BURGER YOU TIGHT NOODLE-SCOFFING CUNT!!.. er yes..

VERDICT: Not cheap enough to be this nasty. Serve is very large yet leaves a burning sensation in your mouth, like a Texan housewife on a spit. Mi Goreng still has it.

Christmas presents..

2006-12-12T05:19:40Z

..with the exception of wolphin and a couple of family members, nobody who i've not already bought Christmas presents for gets anything from me this year. It's not me being a tightarse, it's just that my family got in before everyone and asked for some ludicrously expensive stuff.

Also there is a need for me to eat and have petrol in my car, overrated as that may seem.

Bouncy!

2006-12-05T13:11:40Z

Watch me bounce around in my funky new fursuit head made by MEEEEE! Yes! I do make them myself once in a while you know. But it was made with the able coachifying presence of fallimar. It goes with the fu tail at the moment. Will there be hands and feet? Possibly. If i really get ambitious and design stuff and learn how to use the sewing machine.

From an idea to this..

..gave me vaguely this..

..which then became this..

..and latterly this.

The nosie is real rubber though, how cool is that. :D

At the moment i'm listening to what sounds like a queer club anthem of past or future which is all the more satisfying considering some of the lyrics have been taken nearly verbatim from the Bible. What a stormer. All the more cool because the production's been done by a guy from work. The arrangement's not great and the bass isn't even summed (pah!) but it's such a killer hook.