Terrorists store knowledge base in virtual worlds...

Second Life in the news again.
Are we still scared of technology or what?

http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,22161037-28737,00.html?from=public_rss

The Mighty Boosh - Tundra Rap

Its never too late

Ahhh The Mighty Boosh.
I am da moooooooooon.

I have had so many things to write and never gotten around to writing them. I have no attention span. I can't even gaze at clouds anymore, and that is despite them being different from the clouds in Victoria, somehow more coastal I think.

There are some strange differences here. That is what I wanted to write about. You know how in the Flinders St Train Station that at peak time and for most of the day, people who want to wait for the escalator to doing its thing whilst remaining stationary will stand on the left and the right hand side becomes a moving mass of people, desperate to cut two seconds off their lives by getting ahead ahead ahead. This does not happen in Perth. Not at All. Everyone gets on the escalator and wait. Even in peak hour. Everyone knows it will take two seconds to get to the top, so they stop and stare.

Another one. Everyone and I mean everyone says thanks to the bus driver on their exiting of the bus. Mostly verbally, but sometimes it is a wave or a nod. "Thanks Driver" is what i say. No one feels like a nob saying it cos they are offering their thanks completely sincerely. The only time this does not happen is when there is a mass exit - such is that occurs at a central station.

Lattes. I have mention this previously. The giant milkshake latte is the standard in Perth. I imagine it is like that because everyone makes such shite ones, that they apologise with size upgrades. It doesn't make up for it.

Meh. Right now I want to be so many things that I get nausea thinking about it. How can I fit all these things into my life? By thinking about them. If I did them then I would be tried. Oh, I am tired.

Its Roger's birthday sometime around now. Crazy Swedish man! I might call him.

More SL stuff...

a FOUR CORNERS story from March 2007
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20070319/default_standard.htm

More comments about SL when I get back from shopping.

Sidebar back to terse pants

New use of old words: recontextualising the self.

I used the word diabolical in a sentence yesterday for the first time since Helen left the country.

Sick

I had a flu shot in March! Why am I sick? I was allergy infested just before I became hideous, but whatever. Anyways, I am pleased to announce that I have gotten my results back from first semester 2007, a semester in which I moved interstate, did five weeks of work experience whilst fending off the dole police, got (found?) a boyfriend, moved house, moved in with boyfriend, got a job and met his parents for the first time by them coming to live with us for two weeks. I did well at life, let alone uni. I did very well, despite ridiculously low assignment marks - two of which made me cry.

How can I be bad at assignments? I am the master of the assignment! I do have a sneaking suspicion that I am crap at report writing, which is a completely different beast to the essay. If I am to do reports in my life as a librarian, I will need a personal assistant with tertiary qualifications in editing and a graduate diploma in tact plus pushiness (as well as how to handle literary divas - although I would not necessarily call myself one).

I have to go to Boffins now and sit on my bottom for eight hours answering all manner of questions about books. Fab.

Terse Pants

I have started using terse again. I have word moods I think. Perhaps they reflect my behaviour. I am not feeling terse, but I am using to describe the emails I was sending at work today - even saying that I was putting my terse pants on. What a nob.
Talking of words and nobs, my boss called me on a word today. I said, "dufusly", to which he asked what that meant. Of course I replied that it was an attribution...that one can have the ability to behave in a dufus like manner. He then asked me what dufus meant and this is when I started spluttering about being a word sooth and voice of a generation and other such drivel. So I thought I might look up the word 'dufus' on dictionary.com
Definition: an incompetent and stupid, though well-meaning, person; also called [doofus]
And in saying the word, as my boss kindly pointed out, I was being what I was trying to say. Oh well.
That is all.
I have brain freeze from bangers and mash. That is how it is in the southern hemisphere.

Holidays

I know I know that I have not been posting again. Of course, in my blame free world of self denial or some such other words that make sense - it's Spescha's fault this time. She is here and there is talking - loads.

Of note is the exam story from Friday week ago now. I am a distance student, so I go to an exam centre that Monash has set up in my town. Other DE students go and so I sat exams with psych students and IT students, both undergraduate and post like myself. My exam on that Friday was the final exam of the whole exam period for semester 1 2007. I was the last one scheduled and the last one in the room. There was only three in the beginning of the exam, so I did not have that much company to begin with, but that would ruin the lonely illusion. My exam went till 4.30pm and by 3pmish I was alone. Soon after this happened the invigilator asked me if I would like a cup of tea. After I said yes and the tea was on my exam table with me, the invigilator brought over a large tub of biscuits. Yes, biscuits to have with my tea. SO in the final exam I sipped my tea whilst eating a TIM TAM. Do you think this was an unfair advantage?

The other story of note is that I have a new job. Well in fact I now have two jobs, one of them is the usual working at Boffins kinda deal and the other is working at Curtin University as a Trainee Librarian. I am going to work reference desk at a university library! It is only 10 hours a week, but it is good news and good pay and will set me up to get a great job at the end of it. Who knows where I will end up working in 2008!?