From the Ashes of Your Unglory

So, I read this blog today by a guy who i have chatted to before, but wouldn't really know from a bar of soap (I didn't even know he had a blog till someone else linked me to it). but, and I say this with as much dignity and maturity as I can muster;

OMIGOSHWTFBBQ AWESOMEST BLARGOSPHERE ON THE WHOLE INTARBLARGS!

So, I hope anyone who might read this goes there and checks it out.

I say this as I am at uni, STARVING, but unwilling to go home and eat just because I dint have the Internet at home at the moment. And when I say "just because I don't have the Internet at home (at the moment)", I probably mean "I don't have MSN at home, and id kind of like to chat to this guy on there. Maybe. A little...". But that's basically the same thing.

I went to club med also, for a nice family holiday, and I collected some photos and videos which I will share in the fullness of time. Currently though, I have to write my PhD candidacy which is a formal proposal and summary/timeline of what i want to do for the next 3 year. Quite honestly, I think its a gigantic waste of time, having as it does such amazingly pertinent questions as "What ethical issues do you envisage arising in the course of your research?" and the very notion of having to timeline THE NEXT THREE YEARS OF MY LIFE is totally ludicrous. The best ethical issue i could come up with is that my work will lead (in a very tiny increment) to a better understanding of high temperature superconductivity, which subsequently leads to the development of room temperature superconductors, which in turn leads to a revolution in the world energy market and destabilizes the world economy, for which I would be directly responsible (sort of...). At the moment I am sticking with "It is envisaged that no ethical issues will be encountered during the course of this research" and having done with it.

Uni is also buying me a laptop, so I decided to go absolutely apeshit on peripherals and ask for a monitor, a docking station, an external keyboard and a printer. If I don't get to own it, I may as well enjoy the hell out of it while I'm using it. It will be nicely complemented by the new gaming rig I'm going to purchase with my upcoming tax return - a computer that will be phenomenally powerful that it will shake the very foundations of the cosmos.

The Cosmos. If you look closely, you can see the blur caused by its foundations shaking.

In the wake of the Australian release of the almighty iPhone I decided to put aside my abject loathing for all things Apple, and surrender to the feeling that i got in my pants every time i saw the iPhone on TV. Unfortunately for Apple, its evil corporate douchebaggery got in between me and defection - My mobile phone service provider 3 did not get the iPhone (despite a substantial petition that it put forward) and the enormously anticompetetive attitude of apple ,whereby it is only available on 24 month plans, and not for outright purchase (the approximate cost of buying out an iPhone and breaking a 24 month contract is $1200 AUS) resulted in me springing for the remarkably similar LG Viewty U990. The Viewty is a nice touch screen phone, which it took me a little while to warm to, but as you can see below, stacks up quite well against the iPhone.


And with that, I believe I am done