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Holy Fecal Matter
19th November 2008 03:24:45 PM
Today I had my last exam (woo!)
But oh God, getting there was crazy.
First of all my brother wanted to go to the gym (I do not know why he has a gym membership, but whatever, that's irrelevant). Since his car is always parked in front of mine I was all like "Yeah OK we'll take your car". This was at about 11:30. So I grab his keys and he says "You'll have to use the other set of keys since I need this keyring on my set", the keyring lets him in or something I don't even know. So I grabbed his other set of keys and absent mindedly locked all the doors, so when I came back I did not have my keys and the doors were locked.
Fortunately, I know all the cheat codes to this house and was able to get in.
So I waited a while until it was about 12:10PM and headed off for the 887, which was due at about 12:21PM at the stop near me. BUT THE DAMN THING WAS EARLY and as a result I missed it. So my next option was get the 886 from the terminus. So I went home, unlocked everything, got my brother's spare keys, moved his car (as it was back in front of mine by now), backed out mine, put his back, locked everything, then drove the hell to the shops (where the terminus is located).
I just managed to get on the 886. On the way to the city there were a whole heap of delays too... every light was red and there was roadworks going on at one point.
I was getting rather irate.
Luckily I made it there and got to the exam room with about 10 minutes to spare and all was well.
Then I went home and that went without a hitch.
I'm going to Whitfords for ITG tonight. It's half price so yay.
I am horribly confused by the UWA CSSE (School Of Computer Science and Software Engineering).
We got our second project marks back today, so I figured I would calculate how well I need to do in the exam to pass the unit. The answer surprised me.
I need to get a whole 4.583... (recurring) PERCENT in the exam to pass this unit.
The exam was out of one hundred, this means I need a mere 5 marks (I don't think they award fractions of marks) to pass...
I'm not complaining or anything but just... what? It's crazy.
Is anyone else in this kind of scenario with one of their units?
Oh... also here is a photo of me eating a sausage and bun with no sausage (because Nicole thought it would be a great idea to throw them in the bin...)
Stephanie has a dog named Jessie. If you pat Jessie whilst in the presence of Stephanie, your total number of points doubles.
Let x denote the total number of times you pat Jessie (whilst in the presence of Stephanie), as a function of x what is the total number of points you will receive?
For convenience let y denote the total number of points you receive.
Get your maths on!
Edit: In the interest of keeping Gareth happy, I have changed the wording of the question slightly. However, Gareth's answer is correct for one possible interpretation of the previous wording.
So yesterday TimeZone in Whitfords got a new ITG machine, which apparently came from Melbourne!
Needless to say, I was there.
I got there at about 6PM, stayed till about 9:45PM
It was awesome. The machine is great, and I am sure it will stay that way. I would imagine that after all the TimeZone guys went through to get it, they will take great care of it.
To make things better, all games were half price yesterday (for some reason on every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday they are making all games half price).
It was great, a lot of people from Orbit were there so it was fun to see them again. I also met another UWA student who is doing C programming (a unit that I do). Interestingly I have never seen him in lectures, he had very distinct purple hair... I suspect he did not go to the lectures along with more than half of the C programming students. He calls himself Seb.
I got a few videos:
James plays "Determinator" on expert (one of the hardest songs on ITG). James is one of the best players in Perth.
Jayce plays "Lemmings On The Run" on double (two pads) hard. I say a naughty word in this video, oops. Jayce used to be at Orbit a lot, we play at about the same skill level (except he is way better at double than I am).
I'm going to go there again next Wednesday after my final exam. Anyone else want to come? It'll be half price again!
Needless to say, I did not get much (well, any really) physics study done last night, the exam was today, it actually went OK!
C programming exam is tomorrow! Rather than spending this time studying, like I should, I have been writing this, and also putting pictures of mathematicians on my pinup board... Have a look:
These guys rock. I think Euclid's years are wrong though... it's hard to find the correct ones when it was so long ago.
Time well spent, I say. Bonus points if you can identify who the Chinese mathematicians are! (though to be honest, I am not even sure all the pictures are correct, and no points for identifying Mr. Lee) I want to get some Japanese and Indian mathematicians on there too, but there's limited space. I think I have most of the very important ones.
Oh, yeah, all the times on the site are two hours out now. This has happened because of daylight saving time; we moved our clocks one hour forwards, whereas in California (where this site is located) they moved their clocks one hour back, since all times on this site are recorded as Californian times (and I add to them to make them GMT+8) they are now off by 2 hours. I'm just going to leave it because I am lazy. Maybe I'll figure out how to get it to record times as GMT+8 some other day.
Well, remember I had that massive burger? I decided I wanted to nullify that. Below is a highly mathematical and scientifically acceptable equation which shows how I achieved this:
See, on the left, we have me eating the decuple cheesburger (which, by Jenny's estimate contained at least 3000 calories), then we have the addition sign, followed by a screenshot from ITG, showing that I burned 3000+ calories. If we take one picture as 3000 and the other as -3000 then we get 0! Hooray.
All square.
I actually did the whole ITG thing in one session it took several hours (the play time displayed in the screenshot is only time spent actually playing, IE not selecting songs of whatever). It was pretty amusing to see how my scores dropped and dropped as I kept playing, starting off in the 90%s, then gradually falling to 60s and 70s.
There was a lot of sweat. It was very tiring.
So anyway, today I went to JSR to help my brother collect some of his art stuff, it was pretty neat, I spoke with Ms. Benson for a while, I would have walked around to say hi to other teachers, but Dad was waiting in the car so I couldn't stay long. My brother has actually made some pretty neat stuff. Check this guy out:
I don't know what it is, but it looks pretty cool. It's rather large too (compare it to the A4 piece of paper in the photo).
He also made a clock, some mosaic thing which is apparently a fish and a table. Also he did this:
Him and his friend Steven (on the right) went to School on the last day like this. However, I think my brother should have been Luigi and Steven should have been Mario. Apparently Steven thinks he is taller than my brother, when he quite clearly is not...
So anyway, I haven't done much in the way of exam preparation lately, I actually spent a large amount of time today fixing my dance pad's bar. When I got it, it had really dodgy supports that were welded on so poorly, they eventually broke, and what handn't broken I forcedly snapped off (with my brute strength). So today I went to Colli's (you know, the hardware store) and got some shelving brackets and bolted that thing up:
Drilling through the pad was harder than I thought it would be... see after the initial metal there is just soft wood, but for some reason which is beyond me, halfway through there is a metal plate. I managed to get through it though and now the bar is very secure. I'm quite pleased with it.
On to some more serious stuff, today is the 11th of the 11th, I hope everyone did something appropriate at 11AM.
Also, I don't often ask this of people... but could you all please make a serious effort to read and understand this? It is a very serious issue (I'm not even joking here) and it is just plain wrong. I won't go into it here, that is what the site is for; but please read it and show as many people as you can.
So yeeeeah. My sister is coming over for lunch tomorrow, that'll be cool. I also have a physics exam on Thursday, then a computer science one on Friday and then maths on Saturday morning! YES!
I have not yet begun study.
Should be good, should be good.
OK, study hard everyone. Good luck with all your exams!
This went down last night at ECU. The Otaku Society (the same society that had the BBQ not long ago) had an 'Old School Cartoon Night', which I went to because:
a) I am a member and it is free; and
b) There was Captain Planet and Dragon Ball Z
So anyway, Tyler was also there and for some reason wanted 12 cheeseburgers. So we went to the nearest MacDonald's and got 12 cheeseburgers (we tried to get a discount but the lady would not let us).
Then when we got back to ECU I had the amazing idea of making a massive cheeseburger, Tyler approved and we quickly set about making this monster 10 layer cheeseburger (the other two remaining burgers and bread were eaten by other people). What would you call a 10 layer burger? I am thinking "decuple cheeseburger" based on this article.
Tyler filmed the final two bites:
You can also hear (and see!) 'Astro Boy' in the background.
I was (unsurprisingly) sick this morning. It was disgusting. It also turns out that I have a viral infection in my throat! As such I did not go to work today and won't be tomorrow. In fact, I was laying down for most of today and have eaten very little. I have had noodles and strawberries.
Yup.
I swear, if anyone brags to me about managing to eat a 'Pounder' from MacDonald's I will show them the picture of me and the decuple cheeseburger and proceed to tell them they are a wuss.
I wonder how much ITG I would need to play to burn off all the calories from that burger...
Edit: Here's another video from the night, just for Nyk:
It's hard to make out what I am doing from the bad lighting, but I am basically licking the burger... yeah.
Hey everyone! I finally have time to make a decent blog entry. I still find it weird that I don't have hours and hours of free time like I used to. But bleh, whatever.
First and foremost, the MATH1020 notes are up! ALL OF THEM, ALL 179 PAGES OF PURE CALCULUS AND STATS GOODNESS. I'm glad people have been using them, and I apologise for not getting them up sooner. Hopefully I will go through the notes soon and check for mistakes.
So yeah, a lot has happened lately, I reversed the work ute into a car a while back, that was weird, I also accidentally stole about 500 dollars from a lady at work. Luckily, through the magic of me doing nothing, both of those things have sorted themselves out!
I also got a free lunch at work today! Something to do with a horse race, I dunno. I got Subway, it was pretty good.
So yeah.
I didn't go to UNI for the last week, which made me quite sad, but I had to work on this programming assignment that I kept putting off; mainly so I could help Ray weed his garden, there were (and still are) a lot of weeds, and Ray's Mum often buys me a nice lunch, she is so kind.
I actually went to UWA at crazy hours of the morning a few times to test my program on the Apple Macs on which the assignment could have been marked. I could have done this remotely over the net, but it's way more fun to be in a Mac Lab at 2AM. Got the assignment finished, the program runs rather slow which I could have fixed if I started sooner, but whatever, I think I will still get an OK mark. I might fix up the program and release it here sometime soon.
The ITG machine (which is now at the Morley Sport And Recreation Centre) is broken again! BUT, it is broken in such a way that it gives you FREE GAMES! Though it is probably fixed now, as I told the manager and gave him the money for the games I played, BECAUSE I AM AN HONEST PERSON DAMN IT. I was also glad to hear that the Rec Centre have had the machine repaired twice (it now has a proper coin slot!!), since it tends to imply that they care about the state of the machine! I also think I have some serious respect points with the manager now. He called me 'a champion!'.
Speaking of champions, if you remember a few entries back I drew a comic about Gareth being a champion. Well, Steph, being as awesome as she is, drew an alternate ending to the comic, check it out:
If you look closely you can see that the Oreste aliens have Pis for eyes. Steph calls them their 'Pis'.
She also drew this one, which I like, because it turns out that I am Oreste:
The other day Dad and I drilled a hole through one of our walls to connect my ITG PC to our LAN, that was successful, and I also tidied the cables and that.I also found some videos of my Dad on the news from 2005, so I whacked them on YouTube for all you guys to watch, because I know you care.
They got his name wrong, it should be 'Terry Ball'.
And here's another one that was on the news a few days later:
They got it right in this one.
The British pensioners did take this to that European court thing, and we finally found out the result yesterday - they were turned down, 6 judges to 1. Isn't that terrible? I don't see how it's fair at all.
Seriousness of the topic inside, I think the videos are hilarious. Maybe it's because of the way they get my Dad to walk and look all serious, and flick through the pages of some printed stuff. I especially like when he walks out our front door and is all like "I AM IMPORTANT AND HAVE PLACES TO TAKE THIS FOLDER".
Hell, whilst we're on the subject of videos, here is one of me on my home ITG pad thing:
I'm slowly getting back into the groove (managed to get 97% on TRICKY DISCO! YEAH). I've decided that I will play ITG at the Rec Centre on Sundays from now on! The machine needs to make the Center some money, otherwise they may get rid of it. If anyone wants to come along and play with me, let me know! It'll rock.
Work has been pretty good lately. Lara, my manager has been deliberately leaving me alone in the store to try to get me some more experience. That said, here is a comic about how it normally happens:
Totally.
Oh, also Brandon (one of my UNI friends) recently brought his one million dollar camera into physics (it might have been 10000, not 1000000, but whatever), and took this photo which I could not help but add speech bubbles to:
If you would like, here is a template of that image, to which you can add your own exciting text.
Exams are soon! I need to start studying, maybe...
Umm, yeah. That's about it.
OH! I also drowned my phone at the beach the other day, and since I am a hypergenius and saved most of my contacts to the phone's memory, I have lost most of my contacts. I'll send out an email asking for numbers that I have lost.
In the previous post someone was asking if I could do the 1020 notes soon.
I'm sorry I haven't got them up as quick as I normally do, but I've been crazy busy with this programming assignment (which I really should have started sooner).
I basically have not slept this week, and have not been to UNI.
Hopefully I'll go tomorrow and get copies of the notes from my friends, then this Sat/Sun I will type them all up.
It's just occurred to me that next week is my last week of my first year at University...
Where did all that time go?!
I remember in year 1 thinking about when I would have to leave school, it seemed like it would be forever. Now in what seems like hardly any time at all I am nearly done with my first year at UWA.
I'd still prefer to be in year 11/12 at JSR though (even with Chemistry).
There are several things I have wanted to put on my blog over the past few months, but never got around to doing. They sort of weren't big enough for their own entry (or rather I couldn't be bothered just doing one small entry) so now that they've accumulated I will just throw them all together.
Here is a comic I drew which tells the (mostly) true story of how Gareth is a champion. This actually happened last semester, and when it did it was the funniest thing ever.
You'll have to click here to see it because it's too wide for me to post here.
And speaking of comics, Steph drew me this delightful one about a month or two ago:
The left bit is cut off because that is how Steph gave it to me, I am sure you can figure out what it says anyway.
And here are two videos that I made in year 11 with Andrew, Stevenson, Ross, Sean, Stuart and Ryan. They're not amazing, but I find them amusing.
This one was fun to make.
As was this one...
There's also the News video we made for year 11 English, I am sure some of you remember that. Sadly whenever I upload it to YouTube the audio goes horribly out of sync.
As soon as I can fix that it'll turn up here too.
I'll add these videos to the videos section later tonight maybe.
Yeah, you know you care.
Edit: Check out what else I found:
If anyone can remember exactly what this picture is from I will give you some free retic stuff!
Oh, and check out what I have done to my feet by sliding around on Stevenson's floor and wearing thongs to UNI:
I'll also get all the latest 1020 notes up tomorrow. I can't be bothered doing it right now because I have a Calculus test tomorrow that I am busy not studying for.
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