Ok i saw this on another site, but basically I had no idea who Kevin Federline (or "K-Fed") was until I saw it, than I looked up his name on google and found that he is Britney Spears boyfriend. So here is a video that was shown on MTV of "K-Fed" grooving to his new rap song he made (called popozao, which is brazilan for "fat ass" or something), he looks like a total tool and I am jealous of all the equipment he has wherever he is (I am sure he wouldn't know how to even hold any of those guitars in the background). Anyway watch it cause its slightly amusing to see rich idiots thinking they are rockstars and then watch this parody video of the same clip but to different music. Funt.

Yep I'm reading random blogs again and you know what? About every 3rd one I've read the author has referred to themselves as being a geek. Not just in passing, they say things like "I am such a geek" and "I'm so geeky" etc. These people say it like its cool to be a geek, like it is different. Sorry, so what if you like computers more than "normal people" and so what if "normal people" think you are "weird" because you carry lots of "tech gadgets" around, which probably consists of some sort of convergence device phone type thing and a laptop/iPod/PDA. Big fucken deal. Everyone is doing it. Also just because you have a Mac and a lot of other people don't, doesn't mean you are "geekier", it just means you either A) have more money to blow on shit or B) you bought it cause it looks cool. (TIMEOUT: Lets give the whole "better quality" debate a miss for the moment shall we? :) ) You didn't buy that shit for some particular use that only a Mac can do. Don't get me wrong, I think Macs are pretty cool and would love to one day have one of my own to play with, but don't sit around yabbering on how Macs can do so much more shit than PCs/Windows, because when it comes down to it, you are WRONG! Oh noes! Your geeky powers are dwindling!

Seriously, if you call yourself a geek on your blog (I'm talking constantly on your "about me" page) you are probably not a geek at all, cause all those real geeks actually hate being called a geek.

WORST POST EVA!

Why is it that when I want to go overseas somewhere in the second half of the year, maybe the UK, the glastonbury festival decides to have a year off??? I mean, its not like it is a "must do" in my lifetime or something, but the option to go would have been nice.

Tonight I figured that I hardly look at anything new on the Internet, so I thought I'd just clicking on random blog links and see where it would take me. So now maybe two hours later I have ended up wanting three things in my life, 1. I want a bigger fridge/freezer so I can marinate shit for like a week and then freeze it. I'm not talking a chicken breast or two, I'm talking about pork bellies and shit. 2. The older I get the more I would like to have children, I saw two blogs that had pictures of these beautiful kids with parents a who had them years younger than I am today. I hope one day I will be in a position to have children, and not too old!
Lastly, 3. I want to go to sleep, night.

serp, you just ate seven discount profiteroles in the space of 4 hours. That was your first mistake...

Because I am bored and people on forums I read tell me to do it, here comes the "Four Things" meme.

Four jobs I've had
1. Dishpig/Waiter/Cleaner
2. Computer Technician
3. Web Developer/Sales Manager
4. Military Strongman (Ok thats not true, it was really Data Entry).

Ok thats not defined jobs but they are the 4 jobs I've had (the most interesting ones)

Four movies I can watch over and over
1. Aliens (Thanks astro)
2. Eddie Murphys 'Delirious' (Does that count as a movie?)
3. Hackers (Matthew Lillard <3)
4. Russian Climbing

Four places I have lived (In order of most time spent)
1. Melbourne
2. Portland
3. Roma
4. Brisbane

Four television shows I love to watch
1. The Shield
2. Battlestar Galatica
3. The Simpsons
4. Babylon 5

Four places I have been on vacation
1. Shanghai (although not strictly a vacation :/ )
2. The "Inside Track" of the Birdsville Track
3. Thailand
4. All around Australia

Four of my favourite dishes
1. Pad thai chicken from the Thai place down the road.
2. Anything from Mish in Camberwell or Banjaras in Malvern
3. Gyoza
4. Shiitake mushrooms and beef stir fry from the CSIRO diet

Four websites I visit daily (how bout I don't do blogs for this one)
1. WP
2. Yahoo Fantasy Basketball (I have a team in one of the leagues, I am coming second woot!)
3. BOM Melbourne page
4. The Age (gotta get my crappy Australian news reading on)

Four places I would rather be right now
1. Sitting on a beach, earning twenty percent
2. Overseas exploring some country I've never been too
3. In deep space
4. In an air conditioned room, anywhere

Four bloggers I am tagging
Anyone who reads this and can be bothered :) I'd be interested to read it.

This weekend hasn't seemed like a "weekend" at all. It has been one big bag of weather hell. It has been so god damn hot in our flat that we have had to take multiple cold showers per day and then stand in front of the fan to cool off. Today the temprature didn't fall under 29 degrees in our flat for the whole 24 hour period and today it reach 35 degrees in the flat, now that might not sound hot but considering the lengths we went to to keep it cool in here it was VERY high! Now its at a freezing 24 degrees but the heat coming off everything in the flat is causing it to be still very uncomfortable.

Hooray for heat bitching!

Tomorrow I get to see my oldest sister, I never get to see her (or lately even HEAR from her) that often so its a big thrill. She just sorta turns up in Melbourne often unexpectantly and says "I'm here", I was suppose to see her today but she was at a wedding last night and didn't get out of bed until 2pm or something and by then it was too hot to do anything. I hope tomorrow goes down well, it can often be quite a drama when any 3 people from my family get together in one place (moreso when all three of the siblings get together!).

I also have a bit of shit to get done this week, annoying "paying things" shit. I've been putting it off for so long due to the rampant christmas spending I did this year. Its putting me quite under the pump finacially which is upsetting because I am generally very good with my money. I guess I'm just use to giving myself a buffer with money and over the years I've built that buffer to be larger and larger and now I am back to living on the wire it is stressing me out!

Sigh, can you tell I can't be bothered writing? I hope I can go to sleep soon!

Tonight was so exciting, why? Cause I got to see a picture of Sorges turd!

So i've gone into preference allocation mode for my last semester, it looks like no matter how I do my time table it is not going to be as good as last semester. Which I guess wiuld be pretty hard since last semester was pretty much the best timetable I've ever had. Oh well I'll have to wait and see!

Tonight I finally got around to watching Casshern, which I had been threating to do for at least a year now. I ended up turning it off just over an hour into it, sure the visuals are great but the story line is very predictable and I'm not a guy who likes to think about where the plot is going during a movie, however with Casshern you don't even have to think, it is just so obvious from the get go.

However I'll probably watch the rest tomorrow, just to make certain that it doesn't totally rock out at the end.

Waka Laka for Osaka!

You know what is good about ADSL2? The fact that right before your quota is shaped or reset you can leech the hell out of everything and get your moneys worth. The other day I got 13 gig of stuff on the last day of my quota month when I only had 100 meg quota left. Sweet.

Next time I'll be more organised and get more! mooowahahaha!

My friend Stace sent me this amusing research (I sure hope no one did this seriously) about disappearing teaspoons, my favourite part from it is this:

What this study adds

"We lost nearly one teaspoon per 100 teaspoon days

People have no control over teaspoon migration; escape to a spoonoid planet and resistentialism are equally plausible explanations."

Classic.

Tonight I'm feeling quite sad for my father, one of the six Australians dead in the Eygpt bus crash (the unamed man) was a good friend of his, and I feel so terrible for him as anyone who knows my dad well, knows that he is a man who chooses his friends wisely, keeps them few, and keeps them close to his heart. And even though I didn't know this man myself except for a quick introduction and chat I once had, I know that he was an extremely smart man who enjoyed his life and work, and it really saddens me that such talented man has had his existence on this planet cut short by a tradedgy like this. I only hope that his companion that he was travelling with pulls through (Appartently, his companion is in quite a critical state).

Some of you have probably already read this, but here are 10 reasons to never accept a diamond ring (even though I do think diamonds are pretty and sparkly and wooo :) ).

I've always been a person to think that diamonds were way way over valued even when I was a young child who had no concept of where they came from or even how they materialised. Then when I got older I learnt about most of the things in this 10 reasons list, I guess this article sums it all up nicely and is a good reference point :) .

Sigh, getting a job after uni seems like a lot of work. Well getting 'a' job might not be hard but getting one I could be vaguely happy working in for a few years will probably be hard. I don't have the greatest uni marks so grad positions will probably be out of my reach for all the big companies in Melbourne. This bundled with the fact that I actually don't know what sort of job I want makes all this extremely hard to figure out! not something I should be trying to do at 1:30 in the morning I guess. :)

Over the last week or so I have been getting really really bad cravings to eat chocolate right before I go to bed. Which I end up caving into cause they are really really bad. I'm going to have to work on stopping that, usually I'm pretty good abstaining from that sorta thing.

So whats new? Fuck all, just sorta sitting in limbo doing what i barely have to do to get by. Waiting for my money situation to sort of sort itself out, I spent quite a bit over the xmas period on everyone in my family, usually I have the cash to cover it and the usual 'life' expenses but this time I've fallen well short. Although I can't say that I have regretted buying/spending cash on the stuff I got for people or got for the flat, so that is generally a positive for me.

Waiting for all the uni shizzle to start up again for the year, this starts happening in just over a week from now, with all the allocating of classes, society meetings and other crap that will have to be done. This is good, I am feeling like I have minimal time but it is not like I am doing much with this holidays, apart from playing Civ4, which I am finally getting sick of (well for a while anyways).

I've been reading my books I got for xmas/birthday, I finished The Google Story not long after christmas, while I personally found it a fairly interesting read and started to get all my technology juices flowing in my brain again, I would have to agree with most of that 'Publishers Weekly' review found on the page I linked to be pretty true. The book felt like it was writting a chapter at a time and really bloats each chapter with covering stuff from earlier chapters and constantly reminding us how Google is a 'Good Company' and reminding us that the founders are well educated, 'good guys' that genuinely like each other and that Larry is a technology nerd (And hence the 'quiet one') and Sergey is the guy that actually has a personality (despite also being a nerd) and yada yada. But yeah, I still didn't mind it for all of that :) .

Currently I'm working my way through afew books consisting of

The Rough Guide to First-Time Europe. A bit light on with actual information about countries in Europe and has a lot of stuff in there that would be covered in any 'travel' book, but still I am enjoying reading it and it really makes me want to travel over after this last semester of uni.

1421: the Year China Discovered the World I'm liking this book, really gives a decent history on China in that era and how they actually sailed around the world to places like America and Australia hundreds of years before the history books state, seems pretty factual based too.

and last but not least Hacking Digital Cameras which is sorta reads like a collection of web articles about doing strange shit to digital cameras, one of the things I am really interested in doing from this book is making a car mount for my camera (on the inside near the rear window). Something I might get off my arse and do before school (but probably not).

So what did serp do today...

Not much, got up late, did the reading rounds on the Internets. After sorge resparked my interest in Lauryn Hill's "The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hil" album again I decided to finally found out what actually happened to her. All of a sudden she was going to take over the world but then didn't. This article explained it to me pretty well, it is a bit sad although hollywood predictable. I hope she ends up getting it back together and starts making music on her terms again. Really was (still is?) a great talent.

Then astro came home, I ate food, sat around a bit, played civ4 for ages. Ate Pizza Hut in a sober state for the first time in forever. I tried a different topping and paid the price. Watched crap on TV, chatted to various people on MSN, and now I'm here!

Yay the Internet is back and it is fast! getting about 789KB/s down on average, which is pretty much flat out for a standard ADSL 1 modem. Now I gotta rush out and buy a billion ADSL2+ for the 2200-2300KB/s goodness! (although it is not like I really need that speed, I chew through the quota just going 150KB/s).

It is looking more and more that the Internets at my house is not going to be fixed today :( Which could mean a few more days. It has been down since the 28th of December (midday). Again I repeat that this sucks!

In other news, the Swinburne library is a lot of fun when there are hardly any students around! It is so quiet and all the resources aren't hogged by having yahoo/aol/msn instant messaging gangbangs (and no, there is no one queuing for this computer so I am not being hipicritical by making this blog :) ).

Also I've been jamming with Civ4 a lot of the last few days and I've been enjoying it more and *gasp* winning! Well sorta winning, I get into positions to win via the various methods but always put it off to try and win via space race (but always just lose), suck0rz.

NYE was good, it was so god damn hot that astro and I just sat around at her mums house with her brother and his girlfriend and had a feast and about 2 drinks to bring in the new year. It is about the first time since I was 14 or 15 that I didn't go out partying or drinking or whatever. Feels good.