Tuesday, August 30, 2005

In the spirit of giving...

in the spirit of giving; i give you a mini-rant:
I'm going to hurt the next person who decides to change lanes without telling me before hand.
I'm pissed. The number of people on the roads nowadays that decide to swerve between traffic without the little yellow light flashing is monstrous.
The little yellow light? It's called an indicator people. It INDICATES whether your going to cut me off. It gives me a chance to slow the hell down... or speed up.
Even going around corners; people decide to slam on the brakes at the last minute. 'Coz it is so much trouble flicking the indicator on. You know what is so special about the indicator? when you get around the corner IT TURNS ITSELF OFF AGAIN. You turn it on, it turns it self off.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction... basic physics. If you cut me off, without indicating you will get the finger.


In the spirit of giving; i got a new phone.
the Sony Ericsson K608i. Took me a little while to come around to it since i'm picky with what the phone looks like. I've also resolved to learn all the functions of the phone instead of living in a niave limbo about what it can and can't do and how much it will cost me, like i did with my previous phone.

In the spirit of giving; i give you the best program ever created...
now, who likes lego?
who hated it when you're making your masterpiece only to find out you don't have that one vital part... who hated having a limited range of lego to choose from? Who hated it when you needed a blue block and you only had fire-engine red ones?

Well rejoice,your problems have been solved. (If you could only feel my heart race)
Lego.com has released a free download called Lego Digital Designer Software. You download for PC or Mac.
You then install the app which allows to you to build your masterpiece offline. You will never be short of a piece again.
But the fun doesn't stop there; the program allows you to print out the plans, blueprints, isometric instructions. And you will need them. You can then upload your final design and buy the pieces necessary to build it.
At this point i'd like to mention i'm crying with happiness.

[Edit]
i've played around with the lego app. It seems you are limited to the preset sets, about five of them. I can only guess that in the future they'll release more online sets for us to play with. (Since it checks for new blocks everytime you start up i think its an educated guess)

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

another year...

yay, birthday, yay...
...
thats it i'm outa here

Sunday, August 21, 2005

things that are musical

wasn't well a few weekends ago; the bottom had fallen out of my world since the world had fallen out of my bottom... not a pretty picture. I had some time off work and it would've been a whole lot more fun if i wasn't feverish and hallucinating.

Last week was considerably uneventful except that basketball was cancelled. (By my count we're none for six) So we went and saw Stevie Starr at the Epping hotel, (unofficial site) which was quite illuminating.

The weekend just past was great. Since i'm about to hit 24 (and my sister 22 due to a freak occurance... that or my parents only did it twice; same time of year, two years apart) we had a family breakfast down in DeeWhy at the Ark Lounge. Then off to meet some or my wife's friends (which are also now my good friends) at the Lyric theatre at Star City for Mel Brooks' The Producers. Gay fun for the whole family... ahem.

We went back stage with Katie (asst Stage manager), briefly met some of the cast (Hiya Bert) and off to a small cafe, where Reg (lead) weirded me out. Then off to Oscars for dinner. Very good cheap food, fantastic interior (I'm sure normal pigs don't come with that many ribs though.)

Sunday was a lazy lunch with the in-laws, a lot of fun and more great food. I came away with a nice bottle of wine some dark chocolate and a voucher for dymocks. The rest of the afternoon was spent reading Harry Potter... Dani (my better half) had her brother's copy and I had Dan's. Stayed up till 2 this morning until i finished it. Start to finish it took me... around 9 hours.

more to come