Here Comes Dr. Tran!

Everyone's favourite action hero, Dr Tran!

Oh yeah, since this is my first post here, I guess I should say "Hi, I'm Pat. Not an alcoholic, and as of yet, there aren't any V support groups set up so I'm fine". Most of you all know me anyway as the non-sleeping, V drinking, yet-another-engineering-student.

Have fun with the exams kiddies (those that have them)....I know I will.

Work It.

Haha, so funny. It comes from this site. I'm too lazy to figure out how to turn a picture into a link.

EDIT:
Wow, that was easier than I thought. Anyway, back to study. (the picture links to the site now)

So True.

English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over the head, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

~ Courtesy of the Operators at the #Schlock_Mercenary IRC Channel

And yes, Ben, I'm a nerd. Get over it.

Hahaha

The Ideal Student.

Following on from Joan's horsepower post, I thought I'd blog about the vibe I'm getting from my course. I present to you the definition of the ideal engineering student, hereon known as the ideal student for the sake of simplicity.

The ideal student is perfectly healthy all year round. It has no job, no friends (though it does have colleagues), no family and no emotions. For practical reasons, an ideal student can be considered to be in one of two states. The first is the study state, which lasts for the duration of the semester. The second is a hibernation state, which lasts for the remainder of the year and is used to conserve energy and cement the concepts it has learnt during the semester into it's consciousness. When talking about consciousness of the ideal student, it is important to realise it is not the same as you or I. The mind of the ideal student contains one desire - the desire to learn. Notions of love, humour, sadness and pain are alien to the ideal student.

The ideal student's natural habitat is the university. It migrates between lectures, tutorial rooms, the library and labs. Under no circumstance will the ideal student enter the refectory or club, as these areas degrade its "study field", which extends 2m around it's body and stimulates the study centers of the ideal student's brain. For this reason, ideal students often gather in small "study groups", combining their study fields to increase productivity.

The ideal student is incredibly organized, recording detailed notes on every concept it learns and every experiment it undertakes. These notes are dated, numbered and organised in folders. The taking of these notes, or "journals" is so highly prized amongst ideal students that it has become a holy ritual, with the beings that oversee the journals being revered as the infallible gods they are.

VENTING/Bogans

Well its 9:10pm on a wednesday night and i'm here to randomly vent a little of the stress thats building up from having a dodgy computer, losing a usb stick, having parents who think u can help fix the dodgy computer, not receiving certain skeletons on time (or at all), having more people than usual living in the house, having less room in the house, and channel ten continually repeating House!

As you can clearly see, all these stressing things only build on the stress i should already be feeling as a med stduent with a job and a penchant for procrastination. In short, I'm going to vent. The best target is of course: Bogans

GAHHHHHHHHH GOD I HATE BOGANS!!!! Walking around in the willows, a whoe family of them, not wearing any shirts, with their greasy bogan hair. Why don't they wake up and realise that the only people who think that having a yard filled with half-dismantled cars are other bogans? And that if they hadnt spent all their money on buying said pieces of car then maybe theyd be able to afford basics like shampoo and t-shirts? I mean seriously, it's like theyve never heard of hygeine! Half of them walk out of the toilets without washing thier hands, a sure sign that you're stuck in the dark ages before the germ theory of disease. But the astonishing thing is that despite their unmowed lawns littered with car parts, severe sun overexposure from lack of shirts and poor hygiene they STILL remain to annoy people. How can the bogan gene STILL be present in society if all this is going on? It makes no sense! They should have bred out by now! But still they continue to exist. Bogans have ot be the only creatures on earth that simultaneously disprove both evolution AND intelligent design. Becasue lets face it, we can't breed them out despite our best efforts (education, hygiene etc), and nothign INTELLIGENT would design something as useless as the bogan. All this does is lend more credence to my Theory of Unintelligent design, which states that there is so much wrong with this universe that it couldn't POSSIBLY be the work of anything INTELLIGENT, and so it must be some incredibly unintelligent omnipresent being that created the universe, probably behind the intelligent one's back.

It was probably some bogan of an omnipresent thing. BLOODY BOGANS!!!!

Sandwich Day!!!

Just ignore the title....

Lately I've become a myspace whore. Joel made one first (behind the excuse of wanting to get Rockstar Supernova pics) and then I thought they looked alright and it was another way for me to procrastinate and not study for exams.
Anyway now I've had one for just over two weeks and I've already got 77 friends (not including Tom the ceator of myspace who is automatically added when you sign up). I reckon my mysppace looks incredibally cool (ooo spelling).

Now I'm going to tell you all to go check it out here.
And then Joel's myspace.
And then Ben's myspace.
And if you're really interested Panic at the disco's myspace.

If you have a myspace and want it added to the list just let me know.... but do you really want to conform to the ways of a myspace whore???? (not that it's that bad)

Rumours

Just to clear up some of the rumous that have been circulating as of late - Joe's bossom was definately not rubbing up and down my back in the Living End concert mosh pit and even if it had, I definately would have not enjoyed every single minute of it...

Funny Words!!!

Call me Immature, but these words from medicine and related biological sciences set me giggling every time:

Angina (Especially "Acute Angina")

Mastication

Phagocyte

Enjoy them!

Horsepower

Excerpt from the Big Book of Units and Unit definitions.

"Which brings us to the topic of horsepower. Horsepower shall be a measure of the rate of work accomplished over time, and shall be defined as equal to the effective power transfew of the average horse. Several points should be noted. 'Average horse' refers to an average of the power of all breeds considered as a variety of horse in the conventional sense. However in 1918 the animal rights movement resulted in the conclusion that it is not constitutional to prevent a donkey from being considered a 'horse'. Thus the unit of horsepower was changed in 1919 to reflect the new average. We must also considered the variety of situations in which the power of a horse can act. The horsepower is referred to as the power of a horse on level ground, at atmospheric pressure at 25 degrees celcius ambient temperature, with no wind present, and without any encouragement apart from a standard bale of hay (18kg 30 degrees celcius) placed a distance of 11 imperial feet from the horse at the time of testing. The variety of geometries of horse and the varieties of equipment that may be present on the horse means that to standardide the unit we conceptualise the 'ideal horse.' The ideal horse is an approximation to the average horse for use in measures of power, and refers to a perfectly spherical horse of mass 400 kg, density 1.167kg/L, and of uniform composition. The ideal horse will be approximated to consist entirely of water. The power of the ideal horse is referred to as the power of the 1919 standard with the compensations for the ideal state given by the ideal horse equation. The equation will not be stated here as it is beyond the scope of the book, including the evaluation of double integrals.
Given these basic principles the application of the standard unit of horsepower is both logical, useful, and simple."

Tilt

Study? What is this "study" you speak of?


Click to Play!

The Missing Link

I think I've found the missing link between emo and regular music. This is the video to Crystal, a New Order song from 2001.



Note the tight pants, long straight fringe and emo looking shirt. Is it a coincidence, or something more?

Happy Birthday Joe!

Guess what I found out today? I'm going to be spending my 18th - one of the biggest milestones of life - at endoscopy visits.

I'll turn 18 and get to watch people have cameras shoved inot one of two orifices, and be given the chance to see inside said orifices.

Happy Birthday!

PS. For some creepy people out there, the phrase "Happy birthday" is here used with the strongest sarcasm imagineable.

Games!

Here's the next of my addictive, procrastination-inspiring games:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/helicopter.shtml

I'm going to make you all fail....

Think you're cool...?

My Record: 20.763 seconds

Let's see you try and not get addicted

http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html

Why?!?!?!?!

Why... are... Rivers advertisments... so... boring...
Why... are... Rivers advertisments... so... boring...

Even if they had good clothes, I would not buy them purely because their ads suck.

Pirates!

Guys, We should all be Pirates.

It'd be heaps more fun than....well, anything!

Except being Asronaughts or Superheros, but those are much less likely to happen.

So who wants to join me crew?

Romantic Dreams!

I've been sitting doing my Learning Portfolio for the last day or so and watching the first two seasons of Scrubs, and I've realised that i may have a strange, romanticised image of being a doctor in my head, which may or may not match up with reality. So to avoid becoming an actual Doctor and discovering it's nowhere near as fun, I have a proposal for you all:

Let's Become Pirates.

I mean come on, it can only be as cool as they show in the movies! Who's got a boat?

I hate cleaning!

Tonight from about 3:00AM (on pain of internet connection confiscation) I cleaned my room. While cleaning, I found an ANZ frisbee from O Week, a Christmas card (from Christmas, strangely enough), and four towels. Christmas was 7 months ago. I make such a good uni bum. On the upside of this whole cleaning business, I have an awesome mix CD for Eve's car and can actually see the floor of my room. Floor! And rug! Who would have thought such things were in my room? On the downside I haven't actually finished cleaning - that's going to happen tomorrow when I wash all the clothes and bedding that were lying around on the floor. I think its going to come to about four loads. I need a maid. A maid or a robot. Perhaps a robot maid?

Take a hint!

WOULD IT KILL YOU TO TRIM YOUR MOLE HAIR?!?!?!?!

This isn't directed at anyone in particular, just members of society in general.

ZIM NEEDS YOU!!!! Yes YOU!!!!

Whilst searching through the never-ending (very unlike the series which only had two seasons) invader zim sites I came across an online petition to nickalodeon to bring back ZIIIIIIIIIIMM!!!

So please, if you have any room left in your hearts or a single sane thought in your mind, go to the site and sign... For Zim and Gir... mostly Gir... he's so cute .


Go here.

You wont regret it...

Double posting rocks!

I want to go into town. When can we all go into town?

Revenge of the geeks

It has finally become clear to me why so many people play games like WOW (World of Warcraft), Everquest and Kings of Chaos. A friend of mine introduced me to Kings of Chaos today and I found it to be a great way to waste time... well I do have seven weeks of it to spare. The thing that most appealed to me was that it didn't require actually buying anything and it is all free. Plus the great satisfaction you get when someone attacks you and you get your commander to attack them meanwhile building your own army up enough to slaughter them yourself.

Am I a geek?

I guess by its anonymity that no one would ever be able to know if anyone "cool" was playing it or not... unless you had access to thier bookmarjed site on thier computers.

Definately revenge of the geeks

Interested? Just click here.

Booze!

Way back at the beginning of the year Danielle said she'd buy a bottle of red (or other form of alcohol) for whoever got me to pass my learners. Well, I've had them since March, and only just remembered last night that it was John and Eve who were the driving force behind me passing the exam. That and the fact that I needed some form of ID to say I was 18. Liam may think he helped, but he only lent me the book (which wasn't even his to being with). So, If John and Eve will just leave a comment saying what they want, Danielle can say yea or nae, send me the money and I'll buy the alcohol, what with me being 18 and all.

The Bean

I've been arguing with Ben about his ability or inability to live in a house by himself. He keeps talking about moving out but in my opinion, Ben has no chance of surviving without people to keep him from going all Ben. Here are some statements that Ben might make if he lived away from home.

"I'm gonna go to uni now and leave my house unlocked."

"Tonight, I'm sleeping on the footpath. It's warm."

"Let's go down the street and taunt those thugs."

"Let's go play in the petrol."

"And for a drink, this topping, out of the bottle."

"Ahhh noooo theres noo meaaat. Oh, I'll have this old ham."

"And for dessert, this bolt."

"Ohh wires. It's a banquet tonight."

"I hope I'm not still sick for work at 4am tommorrow. Oh well, it's 2 am now, I may as well just stay awake."

"But I don't waaanaaa pay bills!"

"Ohh, theres sparks coming from the switch."

"If we throw the TV at passing cars will they take pity on us because we're mad and buy us a new one?"

"Will they accept Ben Dollars?"

Blow up the uni!

Isn't it the best idea ever? We can repopulate the campus with trees and put some koalas out there. Everyone loves koalas.

Uni.

It's time for a study break, and I'm going to tell you all about how horrible uni is, even though you already know it (unless you're doing arts).

University is evil. Why? Because you have to pay to go there, and they feel the need to jerk you around, give you bullshit assignments, and during exam week, give you enough stress to cause massive heart failure. It's like paying someone to kick you in the balls!

And now I have to go back to study.

Melodrama

It seems that in my boring life, I have to make things interesting by having conversations with Ben that introduce a bit of spice regardless of the fact it just makes me look gay or weird (two separate things, not saying that gay is weird). See for example:


Damian: i'm getting my guitar and paintings hung up tomorrow

Ben: awesome

Damian: speaking of hung up, i still love you

Ben: oh...

Damian: not exactly the reply i was hoping for...

As you can see, it can get pretty messed up. Please help me break this cycle by making my life interesting or at least by inserting some melodrama yourself so I'm not the one who always looks gay or weird (and even though they're different things, I'm often portrayed as both at the same time)

Dooooooom!

Other people get to be random, so I figure it's my turn.

Ahem.

Doooooooom! Impending doooooooooooom!

That pretty much sums up this week for the first year engineering students at JCU.

Things I've Learnt in Med

1. While med kids love to get drunk and pick up, few of them can differentiate between male and female cadavers.

2. While hilarious, it is not ok to take photos of the skeletons in compromising or threatening poses.

3. Ditto Cadavers.

4. An easy way to freak people out is to film them and then tell them you're a med student.

5. It is important to attend all meetings, or you may find yourself having to dress as an asian girl.

6. Some people don't know when you're being serious. Not telling them alienates you. Telling them spoils the fun.

7. Your home group will not perform "The Pap Smear Song" with you.

8. Even if it seems like a good idea at the time, being electrocuted for display purposes really isn't.

9. "Islet of Langerhan" is not a scottish holiday destination

10. Doctors were snobs over 100 years before they figured out a cure that actually worked.

Theory time.

Ok so here's a theory. If the medicine kids are off making these tapes with fellow humans for their enjoyment. What's going to happen when the VET kids get bored?


Just a thought. It had to be said.

Dr Mark!

It might not be the most appropriate title, but it's funny and Mark twisted my arm. Plus, I'd do anything to grab attention from John's fiendishly witty post, the likes of which he should do more often. Much more often.

Anyway, a bunch of us are going to go see the Ignatius Park College (isn't it great that anyone can edit a wikipedia entry?) production of Aladdin, and because of how hard it is to organise everyone, I'm setting up this blog for people to express their interest. We're going to see it on the 27th of this month, and are probably going out for drinks beforehand. More details to come soon.

The Ben Murphy

Extract from Encyclopedia Johntannica

Ben Murphy:
Mammal.
Prone to acute laziness.
Diet consists mainly of ice cream topping eaten in pure form, and chips and gravy.
Sleeping patterns are nocturnal, species is known to have sleep enzyme concentrations raised when in the proximity of one lecturing on the topic of mathematics.
When exposed to stituations of stress, the Ben Murphy's fight or flight response is manifested in the form of loud complaining which scares away its enemies.
The Ben Murphy prefers to sleep stranded accross multiple platforms such as chairs rather than upon continuous flat surfaces.
The Ben Murphy is known to procrastinate even in simple tasks such as breathing, often waiting for very long periods between inhalation and exhalation. For this reason the ben murphy is prone to consistent losses of consciousness.
The Ben Murphy is attracted to the artificial light created by cathode ray tubes.
The Ben Murphy's typical habitats are chairs, the ground, buses, and beds.
In all situations the ben murphy is in its natural state when sitting or lying down.
This completes the entry on the Ben Murphy.

My day in a nutshell.

Firstly, no i didn't spend my day in a nutshell, i did something even cooler. "Cooler than spending your day in a nutshell? What could be cooler than that Joe?" i hear you say. Try this:

Imagine this, you're a first year med student with no training in any sort of clinical skills at all, and when you walk in the door your supervising doctor with the cool irish accent makes you take out a random patient's stitches.

Then you get to inject some lignocaine.

Then take a patinet's medical history.

How can you expect the rest of the day to live up to that? 100% Pure Awesome!

By the way, i will post the assignment as soon as it's finished. I had planned on finishing it and hence posting it sooner, but laziness, other study, and a lack of actually being taught the subject matter got in the way.

What will they think of next?

Here's a new one for you... Emosexual

Random Assignment Posting!

Who wants me to post my entire med assignment on this blog?

Just for kicks?

Dr Seuss was a Literary Genius

I was feeling pretty bummed about uni, what with its hardness and all (DC motors can bite my ass, along with MATLAB) , but then I found a book Ms Glover gave me last year called Oh, the Places You'll Go!

And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!

I feel better already.

You know it's time to go to bed when...

...you say the following to Ben in a state of deliriousness.

when people go to bed and say "night" and then say "morning" when they get up, is it like an assurance thing where they're verifying that it is infact that time of day?
or is it more an observation?

"night"
"why yes, it is!"

perhaps they simply abbreviate "good night" and "good morning". that i'm not sure
i think otherwise

SUBJECT CHANGE

I got this information from a leak in the Prison Break writing room

"So guys... what can we do in next weeks' episode?"
"We could kill some people off"
"Yeah alright. Everybody else like this fresh idea?"
*crowd mumbles approvingly*

Don't get me wrong, I love the show and the plot lines are good. There just seems to be alot of death. Soon, this show will have a higher character turnover rate than Home and Away. Seriously, the only characters who have been on that show from the start are Alf and Sally. I think Michael and his brother (momentary mind blank of name) will be the Alf and Sally of Prison Break and no one else will last longer than half a season. That's all I got. Goodnight

Whether the weather is hot...

Isn't this weather great? Seriously, we've hit the really small gap between Summer and Winter that Townsville gets. It's not quite long enough to be called "Autumn", it's only about two weeks long at best. However, it's also the best weather townsville gets, right between "Roast-your-dinner-in-the-shade" summer and "Oh-look-my-saliva-is-freezing-in-my-mouth" winter. I'm loving it. Who else is loving it?

Who just thinks I've finally run out of ways to procrastinate?

Procrastination

I should be studying

Come on, it'll be fun.

The other day I was sitting in McDonalds, eating (devouring) a triple cheeseburger and noticed something. I have a tiny fat roll. You can only see it when I sit down, but its still there. This is a problem. If it gets to ten times its current size, I may be considered overweight. I can't be overweight - I make fun of the people on the biggest loser (it's inspiring that they're losing weight and becoming healthy, but their jiggling is so funny).

Instead of taking the sensible way out and dieting, I'm going to counterbalance my fast food diet with exercise. So, starting in the mid year break, I'm going to climb castle hill twice a week. Yes, you read that correctly - twice. To stop me from getting bored/slipping and falling to my death I'll need other people to come along and climb with me. John has already said he'll come so that he can work off his own fat roll (which is returning to it's former glory). Who else wants to join us? You know you want to.

Change of John's name

As you may or may not know, serial blog commentor (and serial pest) John Eldridge is known as Eldo. After revising this nickname with him, I've decided that we're changing it to elko for these two reasons.

• If you say it out loud, it sounds like alco
• If you spell it backwards and add a Y, it becomes yokle

As we all known, John is an alcoholic yokle and therefore this name is much more fitting and so without his consent, I'm commanding you all to spread the name... along with retrosexual

Mouth-numbing

List of Absurdly Stupid and Annoying/Occasionally Hilarious Words Learnt Courtesy of Medicine:

• Alpha-Ketogluterate Dehydrogenase
• Phosphoenolpyruvate
• Schistosomiasis
• Glycogen, Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, Glycogenolysis, Glucagon
• Sustentacular
• Squamous
• Lumen
• Gonadotroph
• NA/K-ATPase

Happy, hoppy, happy easter.

I'd just like to wish everyone a happy new easter and a wonderful second-half of semester, and for those lucky enough not be enrolled in university, have a happy, hoppy, happy time. :-)

Toes and Beanies. And Porridge.

**I cheated and double posted. This is at my blog too.**

I'm having porridge for breakfast. Oats and milk and mixed spice and honey. Yummo. Warm. Creamy. Tasty, tasty goodness.

I have a new beanie. It's the most awesomest beanie in the whole, wide world. I know this because wearing the beanie gives me psychic powers of beanie-knowledge. Which is cool beyond coolness.

For a start, it has earflaps. How cool is that? And it's green, which is a good colour. It has dongly bits from the earflaps, so I can tie them under my chin if it is especially cold, or above my head if it's a bit warmer. You can't see it in the picture, but it has little tassels hanging off the top too. All in all, it is the coolest beanie ever, and it's awesome. So Awesome with a Capital A. I dare you to find a More Awesome Beanie in the world.

---

Captain Beanie, whose ears are warm. My toes are cold.

She gave him a discombobulated look and then left forever.

So very ANNOYING!

This game is evil.

New Word

First there was hetrosexual, then there was metrosexual and now, thanks to Damian's mind, is... retrosexual. Don't know what it is, don't know what is means but spread it regardless. I guess it means you've got the hots for old people. Like how I think Audrey Hepburn's a slammin hottie (in her youth that is. I think she's dead now so if I had the hots for her in her current state, that would just be messed up) Ahhhh Audrey... have breakfast at Tiffany's with *me* dammit, ME!

The truth...

Well you have all been waiting a long time for this, so here it is, copied from a conversation mere seconds ago:



Ankles. Jamin. Everybody was kung fu fighting says:
perhaps i'm a bit of a nerd



Hell has officially frozen over.

Yeha!

You know what's funny is when people make a typo when saying 'yeah' and it comes out as 'yeha'

Yeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaa!

"Hey are you going to uni tomorrow?"
"Yeha"

It's like they're an easily excited, stereotypical cowboy... who goes to uni

Patrick the Duck

I'd like you all to meet my good friend Patrick the Duck.

He's a new addition to the Shibby and is tres helpful (just as i am tres French) because he covers the evil little fuel light.

Now i can drive the Shibby around when i'm broke, guilt free. FREE!!

This is a diversion

There is no real point to this post apart from pushing Ben's last post down the page when you open it up. No offence but I was a little tired of seeing a huge close-up of John's face everytime I came to see if anything new had been added. Hopefully this will do the job.
Too bad that the whole "spread the name" thing didn't pick up... however, it did cause my car to rock on Friday night as Ben and John continued to fight... they were grabbing each others balls or choking each other or... something :P

SPREAD THE NAME!

John and myself have gotten into a competition where we see who can make a nickname stick. I call him Joan and he calls me Bean. I think he might be winning at the moment, because Damian called me Bean the other day. But I have an ace up my sleeve. I present to you a giant picture of Joan!


I encourage you all to copy this picture and make it your display picture. SPREAD THE NAME!

Blog name change

Hey just letting everyone know that Anna's and my blog has changed its address again, hopefully for the last time. It is now www.alternativetotherapy.blogspot.com so everyone update your links and bookmarks (HA! I'm probably kidding myself thinking that you have it bookmarked).

P.S. Ben is a lesbian

Alphabet? More like Alphastupid!

Why is it that our alphabet needs an order? For the need of putting things in alphabetical order isn't big enough to warrant a need for our 26 letters to be in an order. They can list names and stuff another way. There isn't a need for musical notes to be named after a letter - they could be called anything. So why is it then that we need an order? Who decided that they had to be in the order in which they are? I have a theory that they ran out of things to teach in grade 1 and decided to give the alphabet an order so they'll have another thing to teach. What do you reckon?

"Happy Birthday!" "Indeed"

Well it's my birthday today not that anyone's noticing. From the few people who have taken the obvious hint and said Happy Birthday, I've noticed that I'm obligated to reply to that.
"Why thank you" I'm expected to say. Thanks for what? Taking the hint? Saying two words. Oh wow, what an effort. I must thank this person for saying two words. I'm not spitefull, I just think it's crazy that we're expected to do this. To me, saying Happy Birthday is on the same level as "Good morning" or "later dude". We don't have thank them for that do we?

For the rest of the day, on the off chance someone wishes me a Happy Birthday, my reply will be to the tune of one of the following.
"Yes"
"Indeed"
"Buy me a drink"
"Oh wow, you took the hint"
"I'm older than you. Suck!"
"It could be better"

Unless of course the person actually remembered and it's the first thing they say when they see me and they're all excited, an over-eager "Thanks!" on my behalf will be reserved.

An interesting encounter

Joel, Ben and I had a bit of an interesting encounter last night. Go here to read what happened.

Get Physical

We all really need to get fit and if we all take a bit of time out every week we can live happier and healthier lives.
Obesity is a major problem facing more and more Australians every day.

So I have found an answer...:

Catering for all Townsville students, the Social Sports Program includes competitions in the following sports:

• Touch Football: Monday nights… 7.00pm – 9.30pm (3 men & 3 women)
• Soccer: Tuesday nights… 7.00pm – 9.00pm (3 men & 3 women)
• Netball: Wednesday nights… 6.00pm – 9.00pm (3 men & 4 women)

Nominations are only $240/team (no weekly fees).
Download the Nomination Form and drop it in to the Sport & Rec office along with your payment.

Games last for 30 minutes each and run for 10 weeks.


I'm up for any of these... wi if you're interested leave a comment or email me and I'll try and get a team together. Just remember all it takes is....

TEAMWORK

Picking a Bone

I realise that, as a contributor on this blog, I should read it every now and then. I haven't been. Sue me.

In response to my little brother's post about things that make him go "what the hell are they doing???", I have the following things to say.

1. "I rolled a natural 20!" is not frequently used in tabletop gaming (eg Warhammer 40K). It is more frequently used in "Pen and Paper roleplaying" (usually just referred to as an RPG), specifically ones using the d20 system. The most famous of these is Dungeons and Dragons (duh), but there's also d20-Modern and a few others sneaking around out there. The significance of "rolling a natural 20" is as follows;
   
   
   D20s, or twenty-sided die, are used to determine the level of success of any given action (usually combat based, but sometimes things like bluffing). If you roll a two, you just succeed. Like, you scratched them on the head with your broad-sword. Not real impressive. However, if you roll a 20 (natural 20 means "I didn't fudge it, I promise!"), then not only do you succeed good, you get extra bonuses for being spiffy. Like, you hack their head off with a nail file bonus.
   
   
   
2. LARPing is kinda fun. It's like acting, only you're not working from a script. You make it up as you go along. Plus, you get to annoy people by running around in a costume. I'm trying to convince my friends that we need to LARP our Vampire game, especially as it's set in Adelaide (where we conveniently live). It's not working at the moment - we got distracted as to how one would LARP sucking blood from someone. I refused to have someone lick tomato sauce off my neck. It went downhill from there. By the way, LARPing refers to Pen-and-paper games again - you need to sort out your different breeds of RPGs.
   
   
3. Star Trek is Cool. I have a six foot poster of The Original Series main cast on the back of the toilet door. Spock and Kirk staring at you when you're on the can is a bit disconcerting at first, though.
   
   
4. Yes. Hentai is very, very wrong. Don't ever think otherwise. Not all anime is bad though. Watch Hellsing sometime. Most awesome.
   

This has been a public service announcement on behalf of geeks everywhere. Don't hate me for it.

40 Hour Famine

This year we should all do the 40 Hour Famine, because

• Helping feed, clothe and educate the poor people of Africa makes you feel good inside
• I want an excuse to eat a pounder from McDonalds (for those of you who don't know, a pounder is four times the size of a quarter pounder. I didn't know you could actually order them until a few months ago and I've been dying for one ever since)

So if you're interested in joining let me know via the comments section. I think you can do it whenever you want if your group is big enough (at least, that's the way it happened at my church.). If we do it so it finishes on a weekend we can all go out drinking after. Or we could go out drinking during it, though I've heard drinking on an empty stomach is a bad thing.

**EDIT**

I just heard back from the good people at world vision, and you can do the famine any time after the official weekend, which is on the 18th to the 20th of August. As the next holidays after that are in December (there's no way I can be that patient) I figure we should just do it on the official weekend. That is, if anyone's interested.

He he

I just got a fortune cookie and the fortune inside said:

A sky rabbit will have three openings to its den.

Now, is it just me or is that really funny?!!

he he he

My 18th

My 18th birthday is coming up and I've decided to have a barbeque, then go out on the town. The trouble is, I don't know who to invite. People may get offended if I don't invite them, but I can't invite everyone I know. What to do, what to do...

Any advice?

Extreme plum

I have just spent summer sorting plums. Now as exciting as that sounds, and WAS, there is just one thing i would like to share with you..

Hee hee hee

Ah parents sometimes

I found out that my parents have been reading my blog regularly for the last few weeks at least, so I have changed the url to www.thelonliestasparagus.blogspot.com , however this url is only temporary until Joel and I figure out a good one that we both like.

Moving on.... today I drove Joel home for the first time, I figured he was just a teensy bit nervous when he asked me in all seriousness "Are we going to die?" But in the end he said I'm pretty good and he finally feels safe in a car with me.



Also today I made cookies and ate half of the batter myself. They are triple choc chunk and are so nice and chewy. Everyone I see at uni tomorrow gets one. HAHAHA Evie dosent because she is a lazy bum and only has two days of uni a week.

Woe is Anna

Anna is getting a laptop for uni. Yaaay. Her father was supposed to (and said he would) give it to her today, as it is sitting in the shop, just waiting to be picked up. The problem is, he didn't. Why? Nobody knows. Seriously, it' weird. She was supposed to get the laptop today, it's all ready to be picked up, her dad said he'd get it today and then he returns home empty handed. What's even worse is he didn't even provide an explanation, hence the title for this post "Woe is Anna".

Some of you would be asking why I'M posting about Anna's lack of a laptop. Well, it's because she's lazy, and likes it when people write about her. Mystery solved.

What the???

No, not the "Oh look, there's a misprint on this packaging/newspaper/other thing, insert laughter" that Rove McManus is famous for making simultaneously annoying and popular, I'm talking about actual stuff that makes you go "What the hell are they doing?". The following things make me go "What the?"

1. Tabletop gaming. Some people call it fun, I call it playing pretend. If you replace "I rolled a natural 20!" (I don't know what that actually means) with "I'm a dinosaur!", I'm sure you'd find the similarities uncanny.
   
2. LARPing. LARP stands for live action role playing, or so I'm told. It's like tabletop gaming, except instead of just imagining that you're an elf/wizard/fish, you actually pretend to be one. You know, you run around with fake swords and stuff. It's the "mature" way to play dress up. Ungh.
3. Star Trek. I have no idea why people like Star Trek. The acting is bad, the plots are bad, in fact, the whole thing is bad.
   
4. Hentai. Enough said.

So. What makes you go "What the?"

WHY!

Well a week without the internet, it was said that it could never be done. But here I am, almost half way into my week of unexplainable torture. I'm currently over Anna's bumming her net for 15 minutes before I go back into my withdrawals. I decided a short post was neccessary to thank a special someone for the other day.


Dearest Anna,

You are the scum between my toes. Just the thought of you makes me want to run away. Everytime I see you I want to vomit. Your voice is like 1000 hands scratching 1000 chalkboards. You irritate me beyond all measure.

Love Joel.

P.S. Thanks for the roses

Plagiarism. I know, it's boring. Bear with me.

I’d like to find out your thoughts on plagiarism. It’s been a bit of an issue lately, and what really astounds me is how people defend their actions when caught out. I’d hate for someone else to just lift my writing word for word and publish it on their own site with no recognition, yet some people think it’s perfectly fine because “it’s just a blog”, "everybody does it" or because “the copying can be interpreted as a degree of flattery towards the artist”. Sure, it can be interpreted as flattery. It's still nice to ask first, or at least show some recognition. It’s not hard to write something along the lines of “I found this and thought it was really cool, you can find the original over at this site”. Unless of course writing something like that will cheapen the post because your readers will find out you didn’t write it – it’s just something that required the keys CTRL C and V. If that’s the case, perhaps people should consider writing their own material.

So once again, what are your thoughts?

Hmph

I just went for my first driving test and FAILED!

Why?

Because I didn't give way quick enough when there were cars coming from both sides and the one that was closer was too close for my examiner and she slammed on the brakes.... ggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Now OLD Transport wont let me book another one until Friday 3rd of March... that's three WHOLE weeks away. :-(

If that hadn't happened I would have passesd.

Hi I'm Anna by the way. Co-administrator of the blog formaly known as The Greatest And Best Blog In The World, the only reason it's not known by that anymore is because we thought we'd stop rubbing its greatness in the faces of all the other blog owners out there.

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I just had a phone call from the driving school and there is no one avaliable for that friday...only the friday after. Why is this so hard?

D&M

Wow a random blog for random posting at random hours. Sounds random. But why am I here? We all know my history of readerless blogs/being too lazy to post anyway. As such i feel that i am only dragging Superblog down. I may in fact be blogging kryptonite.

Actually thats somethign to ponder. If Kryptonite was so rare in the world of superman then why did so many of the baddies have it? And speaking of baddies, why are there always so many more of them than superheroes? I mean come on, some of them have got to be double-dipping. The Juggernaught could easily have been the Rhino in different clothes. I wonder what happens at superhero conferences when someone double-dips a sausage roll? like do superheroes really care about each others germs? most of them are invulnerable anyway. unless there's some of that extensively rare yet ever-present kryptonite in the room.

Man this random blog is just opening up way too many questions. im not sure i can post something this heavy on a blog like this.

Enter the Queen of Squirrels

I'm Ben's older (not oldest) sister. I'm really not sure why I'm here, as I've not met any of you, but there you go.

I'm not really sure what I'm meant to post, so here you go:

"Drunken Santa"

Emma

Welcome to Superblog!

Well as you could probably tell Superblog! has a new snazzy banner. Designed by yours truly in the early hours of the morning... even though I have to get up for another day of uni in a matter of hours. It obviously has the super appeal which will make Superblog! the biggest and superest blog on the net.

Superblog, as was previosly mentioned by Ben was a creation by us to have a blog that all our blog friends can post on. As long as you contributors post once in a while it should be an awesome blog that will offer many different stories and opinions on many different random topics. Even if you don't want to take the time to sit down and write a post, you can just post a picture that you find funny or simply a pic of a group of friends. Just anything to keep the posts ticking over and ensuring that theres always new stuff here. Most blogs these days have trouble with regular posting so hopefully having a massive contributer list we will ensure that never happens to Superblog. Of course we will all still be posting on our seperate blogs but this blog can be a space to post stuff that wouldn't normally be considered post-worthy.

So make up new words, write a random song, post a new picture, write about you're awesome day, show us a site that you love. Post anything!

ps. If you think the banner is good, I love you. If you think it sucks, Go to hell!

Funny

I just had a funny conversation with Damian. I found it so funny I thought I'd share it with you

Damian: k i'm going to bed

Damian: bye fatty

Ben: bye ugly

Damian: too mean

Ben: i'm sorry i didn't mean it

Ben: ....

Damian: you've already hurt me ben

Ben: no, i really am sorry

Ben: ....

Damian: and i really am hurt. my whole life has been one big ugly spiral

Damian: i'm going to go throwup now

Ben: why? you're ugly, not fat

Damian: then i'm going to hang myself

Damian: pff

Ben: well, all i have to say to that is "mheh!"

Damian: well i say mheh to life

Damian: goodbye cruel world

Ben: please don't damian

Damian: ooohhhhhhhhh

Ben: you have so much to live for

Damian: *dying sounds

Damian: like what?

Ben: cosmetic surgery

Ahahahaha.

The huge ass blog!

Welcome to Superblog!, part of the Coffee and Other such things and Whatever Joel and Anna are calling their blog now network. Oh, and pigeons are involved as well. The aim of this blog is to get as many people posting on whatever random stuff strikes their fancy - we can leave that sensible stuff for our actual blogs (unless the random stuff is your normal posting material, in which case you should just do whatever the hell you feel like)