Author: daveg

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For the leechers

If you’re on Telstra Bigpond, you might have noticed that everyone’s usage meter got reset to 0MB over the weekend. Apparently it was because they’d been counting bandwidth usages from their “unmetered” sites such as Bigpond Files, Gamearena, etc. There’s some more talk on the subject over at the Whirlpool Forums.

For the film buffs

Went to good ole Mac Centre on the weekend with Rozie to watch Batman Begins. Most excellent. A very adult interpretation of the Batman franchise. Very low on the camp/cheese factor of the previous movies (even though I did enjoy them. How good was the Prince soundtrack for the first movie?) Rozie thought it was the best Hollywood flick for her this year. She liked Chrisitan Bale alot. Can’t say I dug Katie Homles that much (begone eviiil Scientologist!). Lots of cold nipple action from her for some reason though. I think even if you don’t care too much for Batman in general that this would still be an enjoyable movie for most.

A whole lot better than Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith!

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  • The Hacker’s Diet
    How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition
    (tags: howto diet)
  • Real Life Tron
    This is needed: gps-receiver, backpack with laptop(Tatonka Serverpack with Gateway Solo 2500), keyboard, trackball (from old broken laptop), helmet (giro switchblade) with display (old viewfinder)
    (tags: coolshit hack)
  • StreetWars: Killer – NYC
    A round-robin, all city, 24/7 water-gun assassination tournament
    (tags: coolshit)

Great Moments in Instant Messaging

[some_moron]: Hi David!
[some_moron]: Are you there?
[me]: Hi. Yes, I am. That’s why my status isn’t “away”
[some_moron]: Oh, great!
[some_moron]: Can I call you?
[some_moron]: What’s you’re number?
[me]: You’re already talking to me now. Why do you have to call me?
[some_moron]: Because, I need to ask you some questions
[me]: And this can’t be done over IM?
[me]: *sigh* OK…

Why oh why do people time and time again do this to me? If you want to call me, just call me! Don’t IM me, then ask me if you can call me. It’s completely redundant FFS. If I can’t speak to you on IM, there’s a pretty good chance (like a 100% chance) that I can’t speak to you on the phone.

And asking for my number. At work we have this really nice corporate whitepages system, which some poor group of developers have spent lots and lots of their time, coding, so that people don’t have to do dumb stuff like send emails (which already have signatures with phone numbers of the people that they’re asking the number of) or IM’s asking what somebody’s number is.

These tools are there to make like easier… use them!

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Another crazy ebay auction

What’s with people selling of entire collections. Today’s crazy auction is a guy selling off thousands and thousand of 7″ records. Currently the auction is at US$5200.00. The catch is that you have to go to New York to got and pick them up. No delivery!

The time has come to clean out my basement, and if you want thousands and thousands and thousands of 45s you may be just the person to do it!

I’m 60 years old next month and I’ve been collecting (hoarding) records since I was a kid. For years I sold records in Goldmine and Discoveries magazines as Steal-A-Record, all the while buying more and more records. When eBay started I began selling records on eBay. But somewhere along the way I switched over to selling comic books (as Steal-A-Comic) and for a few years now I’ve been wondering what to do with the thousands and thousands and thousands of 45s I’d accumulated.

Well the time has come to get rid of them all and I do mean ALL! And that’s the catch. THEY CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE SHIPPED! The winner must pick them up. AND THE WINNER CANNOT PICK AND CHOOSE…EVERYTHING MUST GO! Here’s what we’re talking about.

The NES collection I previously mentioned closed at US$10,099.99 without the reserve being met.

The DJ’s on the box again…

So if you’ve got nothing to do (or you do have something to do, but want something waaay better) you can hear me djing down at Goodbar on Oxford St in Darlinghurst this Friday night for the opening night of Floppy Disko. I’ll be dropping a stack of hip house for about an hour and a half (that’s three times more hip house than I got to play at Jack Your Body!!), so if you’re feeling you want to move, jump, jack your body, git on up!

OK, so after upselling myself, I should also mention the rest of the Floppy Disko night. Other far more capable dj’s are The Lost Boys: (Sex Worker, Complex, Skreech & Black Eyed Boy), OSC-001, Junior & more. Also playing live are the Death Set, Cherry 2000. They describe it as a night of limp electro, flacid acid, lax funk, soft cock rock & relaxed grooves, so it should be a fun, mixed up kinda night.

Its $10 on the door, or free if you get one of their dope invites.

I’m Better Looking Than You

Well, according to this article over on the Sydney Morning Herald from the weekend perhaps I am (unless your “Eurasian” as well):

Eurasian features have been associated with beauty since Somerset Maugham extolled the exotic appearance of a woman of mixed race more than 80 years ago in his short story, The Pool.

Now Australian psychologists have shown there is a scientific basis for this stereotype.

Now who am I to argue with “science”. 😉