italian seacreature uses cpu to kill mobsters.

Hello Jesus.
Are you listening ?
Sorry for not updating in a while, I know how much you like reading my blog.
Call me sometime, and we’ll have lunch. 

 

Now, onward to more important things. 

We (my roomies+Christopher) visited the Melbourne Aquarium last saturday. The fish were plentifull. They even had a shark, even though they advertised it as “sharks”, they really only had the one.  It wasn’t even very big. The one we saw at St. Kilda beach was way bigger, and more awesome. After that we ate at Feddish, a nice italian restaurant.
Below is a sneak picture from the aquarium. I can’t remember what we were talking about, though judging from my posture, I just delivered a brilliant punchline. OH SNAP.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next day; Christopher came over, to spend a few days of what turned out to be relentless DotA.

First though, we went to a Computer Market,  they had craploads of cheap hardware and movies, games, software.
It was like christmas.
Alas, the geekyness could not last. While I was there I got a call from my old teamleader from work. She’s in Melbourne for the time being and wondered if I wanted to hang. Of course I obliged, and swiftly got the hell out of the market and hopped on the train to Melbourne city.
Basically, we went to Feddish and I had the same meal I had the day before. Their Cream Chicken Pesto Penne  is the best thing on the menu, measuring at over 20 megatons of delicious.
After that, we went to see a movie. We totally gambled when we picked a movie. 

Shinjuku Incident, a crime thriller starring Jackie Chan.
What would you expect? Jackie Chan beating the living daylight out of mobsters, sounds like a field trip to me.
But no, Jackie Chan did not flash any fly moves at all. If anything he got the crap beat out of him.
Don’t get me wrong, oh no, it was a pretty groovy flick. Imagine Scarface, with chinese people. In chinese. Taking place in Shinjuku, instead of Miami. 
The movie theatre was full of asians, so we felt fairly out of place. Especially when we didn’t understand the apparent culturally related inside jokes.

I got home later that evening, and played DotA til the birds ceased their songs.
God damn birds.  

Indeed, ’twas a blessed weekend.

 

PS: Here is a picture from a photobooth at the aquarium, measuring at over 20 megatons of artistic WIN.

internet download limits make me sad

Hello there.
Here in Australia we have download limits on our internet subscriptions. This means that in our house, a house of 4 nerds, we can only download 60 gb a month. If you go over the limit, you pay extra per mb.

INCONVENIENT.

The billing period reset last friday, and I finally feel like this is a home again.
The odd thing though, was how well I worked while the internet was down. With schoolwork I mean.
We had our first week of lectures last week, and already; 3 homework assignements. I’ve finished one, and will commence the second shortly.

So much has happened, dear diary.

We picked up Resident Evil 5, as a birthday gift for Stian. He got the collectors edition, which was full of supersweet swag.

Me and Tukun have been playing it co-op. It is so cash. I don’t agree with people who say it’s racist because you mow down black people. It’s racist to zombies, not black people.
Your sidekick in the game is an African, but she honestly doesn’t look or sound anything like it. I don’t know what’s up with that.

I also bought “A Streetcar Named Desire”.
I’ve only been able to see half of it so far, because my pc’s DVD drive decided to stop reading it this morning.
The half I saw was really good, it’s so well written it busts out classic lines and memorable quotes every minute.
One of them of course being “Hey, Stella!”.

I will depart with another quote, slightly more poetic than the last one.

“All of these deaths, the long parade to the graveyard. Father, Mother…  Margaret, that dreadful way.
You just came home in time for funerals Stella. And funerals are pretty compared to death.” 

that’s some serious lack of internet

So.
Yeah. This is awkward. Long time no speak.
Since last time I (and we) have found a house, for living in.
As well as acquired  a TV, internet, and other important things.
The house is nice, and big, almost too big if you think about it.

I had gone a long time without internet and TV, and honestly felt out of touch with the world. No more internetcafes for me I guess. Huzzah. As an indicator of how long I’ve been gone, my Google Reader had 972 unread items.  Thank you Kotaku!

 

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In  unrelated news; Australian TV is awesome, we get the Comedy channel, it’s all comedy. Sitcoms and standup. Arguably the best idea anyone ever had.

In a week, school starts.
Horay for school? Only time will tell.

the msn the world forgot

On a poor recommendation from Tukun I decided to download and try Msn 9.0.
This event set loose a chain of events that would lead to relentless frustration and confusion.

The problem was that Msn 9 is horrible. It has this weird annoying design and I instantly longed for my old msn with the custom black color. It didn’t take long for me to start looking for the old install file, but of course it was long gone. So I had to download it again. The odd thing was.. that the internet had almost seemed to condemn and forget its existence. Like an enforced disappearance it was nowhere to be found.

The first file I found turned out to be msn 7.0. That won’t do it. I found several other downloads that swore to be msn 8.5. Either the install file didn’t work, or it was actually msn 8.0, or like one of the versions, which was in Spanish. I would have rolled with it, but it also turned out to be a non-working install.

It took me a total of 7 tries, that’s 7 downloads to get it right. That’s how stubborn I am.

It was like some weird Twilight Zone episode.  Msn 8.5 is arguably one of the best msn releases, but now good luck finding it.

Still though, this msn 8.5 i settled on doesn’t have the cool color options my old one had. So no more slick black msn for me I guess.

For those interested, here is the one I found (via mess.be)

dear facebook users

Take a hint.

Why would I want a 3D-puppy? There is something wrong with you people.

Free Rice

This is basically a game where a word pops up and you have to chose one of four words, where one of them is the correct synonym (or, meaning of the word). It’s a pretty neatskin way to practice your vocabulary and for every right word you get, you donate 20 grains of rice to some poor fella.

I guess that’s good too… if you’re into that kind of stuff.