Life in the geek lane

random ramblings.....

22.9.02

Went out for a feed of thai food last night. My thai friend came back up with me from sydney when i came back last. He is going to help me do the webpage project that we did a proposal for (if they ever let us know when to start). Anyway, a friend of his that i had net when i was at uni was down from Mackay for the weekend, so we all went out. Wasnt too bad, had a bit of everything and it was neat.
The person that owns the restaurant was good friends with them all so we went around there again for lunch today, and once again it was great. Makes me hungry again thinking about it.

Anyway.... I need to find more work. I kinda feel like im wasting my time with the phd now. I mean its going to take 8 years to do, and ultimately wont make a difference at all. Im starting to think i should put it on hold and concentrate on getting a decent job, one that i want to do. hrmmm damn i hate that... now im starting to wonder what im doing..

I just get a feeling that i should be working now, getting myself some experience and getting around, not jsut sitting back at Rocky doing my phd and working part time. At the moment i cant see what the point of it is... I need to think long and hard about it...

Damn i feel like ice cream... hrmm i think i might go get some and go by the uni to print some stuff out... yeah, that will do, driving is good for thinking.

going going gone....

20.9.02

Made leaps and bounds wiht my VPN app, it works now and looks pretty neat. Just gotta fix a few little ugly things up and it should be sweet.

Everyone go here http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/2003/nameform.cfm
its really neat!

hrmm, righto, thats wnough, only a short one today, im gunna get back to marking exams and vpn app :)

19.9.02

*grabs chest and squeezes*

saw my ex just a little while ago at the uni, she is still studying and is back in Rocky after an unsucessful time at Brisbane... hrmmm
Told me about little Alpha (dog i bought her when we were together), apparently he was hit by 2 cars. Run over him, he was basically dead. They took him to the vet and amazingly he survided, even though his eye poped out and they put it back in, broken jaw, brain damage. Doesnt walk straight, walks in circles, etc etc... poor thing, and he still isnt toilet trained and bites like crazy... kinda makes you wonder about putting pets down. When is the right time? I mean you gotta wonder... hrmmm somthing to think about.

Got some more marking to do - computer graphics this time, should be cool. Just gotta get the others done this weekend then i will start on these.

Oh i met my ex's FIONCE (how do you spell that?), anyway, i typed it in capitols cause she emphasised it when she introduced us LOL. I thought that was funny. Neither of em seemed that happy and i was just sitting there trying not to smirk too much...

*growl* damn im getting hungry...

I feel like writing again... i get the sensational every so often, i should do it more. I was looking through some of my older blogs and found poems i had written that i forgot about.


ok, im going to eat...

18.9.02

Got a rip of the xXx soundtrack today, a mate of mine bought it so i thought id 'sample' it. Its not too bad, a lot of heavy stuff on it but its pretty damn good.

Im off to a LAN at the end of this month. Another mate is having one at his place, a few of us are getting together to play some games. Havnt played any LAn games in a while and should be good to have a bash. Probably be playing some UT2003 (the demo is out and it rocks!) and some war3, and whatever else we feel like at the time :)

Put in a timesheet today for the tutoring i do, $70 an hour isnt bad going really for tutoring a subject. Anyway i hadnt claimed any time yet so i thought id do it. bleh boring stuff really...

*yawn* righto im going to eat, i dont really have anything to blog about but its cool..
dammit. I have blogs from back in February, but for some reason they dont show up in my archive list when i publish it... grrr grrrr, yet i can load then manually and see then.. sheesh...

whats going on here?

17.9.02

*yawn* hrmmm, im tired for some reason..

Not much is going on.. found this cool link: Australian Public Toilet Map. Yep, if your ever lost in Australia with internet access, and you need to find a public toilet, then this is the place to go.. kinda weird that.. i wonder who gets to be the webmaster for that site, what an important job, making sure the toilet map page is up to date and current.. would be a full time job im sure..

Did everyone know that "The speed of a modem does not speed up the internet connection you have" - yep thats right.. apparently...or so says some dude whos assignment i marked.. hrmmm - wrong - no marks sheesh

Got more assignments to mark for a different subject, geez, i wake up everyday and i have an email from someone else who needs marking done. This time its another post grad subject - IT type subject, 62 to mark ... *ka ching ka ching - dollor signs in eyes*

*sigh* ive got no food left, i need to go shopiing but havtn had time.. hrmmm take away for tea tonight ... hrmm what to have, its such a tough decision...

oh!, downloaded UT 2003 from the uni last night, came down at around 500k/sec! swish!... 100meg in about 2 minutes... dang!.. been playing it and its damn good!

righto, im done...

hrrrmmm know where did that bottle of coke go...