Well another week goes by way too fast. The annual Jian Zhou lecture went ahead, with a different speaker as american airlines made the invited speaker miss his onnnecting flight.. Customs house is a nice venue for seminars though, even if not particularly needed. UQ did well in purchasing it.

Damn XP sucks compared to vista. struggling with this lappy.

Currently watching qld roar vs perth glory. I know its cheap to watch the A-league football, but I never remember when Brisbane is playing a home game. Since foxtel owns all rights there is crap all advertising on free-TV now aswell.

I really struggle selling tomtom GPS units at DSE now, even though people come in and ask for it.Garmin and Mio are so much better, but if people ask, its an easier sale to upgrade them to a better tomtom model then change their mind to a new brand. ahh sales, its so easy and requires no thought. I often wonder whether science is the right career. I know sales itself would lose my attention after a couple of months at full-time, but there is a lot of other stuff in that area.

For those geeks out there, if you want to know how to turn your mio into a full PDA, give me a buzz. I'm sad I know.

matt finally succumbed and joined facebook... who else out there hasn't joined yet?

I quite like pet sabotage and scrabble apps for it aswell.



so yeah - moving seems like the thing to do. A lot of people are giving brissy the flick. Next out of here will be alex, who despite hating americans, is choosing to live there.

Anyone want to move my stuff to melbourne for me? removalists are expensive and suck to organise.

kthxbi

my month of free platinum foxtel is over.. alas, i will survive without the excess crap.. going with basic + sports for a little while.. damn foxtel is crap.
also, ABC classic 106.1FM has its 100 top concero pieces starting tomorrow morning (sat) from 8 am.

ahh red eye platinum, how good you taste..
I have tried many energy drinks, and none compare.
p.s. dumbledore's gay

Lately, I have watched a bit of pro surfing (c/o foxtel). Its damn amazing to watch.The footage they can catch nowadays.. There's a lot more to it than it seems anyway.


So yeah, just watched Surfs Up. Cool movie. A few funny lines, great animation, several camios and they did damn well at capturing the surfing. The movements etc were scarily realistic. I think they must have been watching a bit of foxtel too.


so, anyone know a cheap removalist - my quotes so far suck, or seem quite cheap (and so I think must be from budget companies).

My posts have been somewhat negative lately, apparently. that will change.

so yeah - heard Geeban play at the lesbian's food hall on tues night (T'n'G). Twas cool.

The light saber (wii control+software for light saber sounds) featured... was mad.

Apart from that, I more than likely have a job sorted. The NHMRC gave bryan funding, so I need to get it sorted but a position is available at the Monash Institute of Medical Research, unless some massive high-roller scientist-type comes along.

On another note, this UQ international med student should be kicked out of both medicine and Australia.

i now have foxtel, for a while. Channels like NatGeo Adventure just depress me. All I ever really want to do is travel (with my baby by my side).

I love walking into a place, asking two questions, and then being offered a free coffee.
Elixir coffee, next to di bella, certainly ain't bad. Not doing retail there yet though, just wholesale.
so no, it wasn't merlo warehouse, where I am virtually guaranteed a free coffee.

I'd be tempted to buy a Wii for This Game.

So yeah, the Kerr site is still not working due to features turn off cause of warez hacking.... fun.

new domain - worldofannwn.net - wait for it.

Speaking of hacking - my mio c520 was "unlocked" c/o the GPSpassion forums to give me access to all the windows CE 5.0 features..
aka MS word viewer, excel viewer, ppt viewer, adobe acrobat viewer. I also installed the TCPMP video player - to play divx's/mp4 etc and an internet browser (I don't think steph will let me buy a sd-wifi card though). Unfortunately this loads the little CPU a bit and if its unlocked the text-to-speech starts stuttering occasionally. So I had to leave it as an unlock bootable SD-card, so I can run it as normal when demonstrating to store staff.

Did you know Mitac owns both Mio Technologies and Navman (land-based GPS, water-based is still brunswick corporation).
Mio is very up and coming though... new models out in 4-6 weeks including the a702 and the c720t.

Dia Hard 4.0 - actually enjoyable. Some parts obviously way over the top. Kind of humorous, but well worth watching.
Premonition - I don't like sandra bullock, but yeah not too bad. Interesting anyway.
NeXt - Not the biggest fan of nicholas cage's acting ability, but he certainly goes in interesting films. Quite good. A little different to most. Dissapointing ending, but I won't say anything about it. Jessica Biel wasn't too bad (acting wise).

Bourne Ultimatum - next to watch, I think.

I am now in my second, quarter of a century. I feel old.
But, times are a changing, and it's a good thing, i hink.
A flowing river, not a stagnant pond.
Now, Can I win it.

I remember once, as a very young kid, I was singing a song. Strokin' by Clarence Carter.

I didn't quite realise how dodgy it was at the time, and kept singing when my dad told me to shut up.He, of course, slapped me quite hard.

Quite a bit later in life, I wanted to hear that song again... damn the 90's were dodgy.

Click here to watch th film clip.

Every year harvey norman has a "supersized category conference" for the top sales staff/managers from stores around australia. 30 vendors are invited to hold stands and demonstrate their products to the staff (in 10 minute sessions, 10 peeople at a time etc). So Mio GPS had a stand with synnex (distributors). I got paid to stand there and occasionally rattle off specs.
I managed to pick up:
1x Playstation3 Hoodie/jumper
3x Mio polo shirts
1x mio soft softball
3x Mio pens (different types)
1x D-Link polo Shirt
1x Atari T-shirt
1x Atari hat
2x intel mouse pads (blue light and USB hub built in)
1x generic headphone/mic set from synnex.
A bunch of demo cd crap.

I also got paid to play a pre-release version of the new Need for Speed (xbox 360), Heavenly Sword (playstation 3) and PES 8 soccer (Atari/PC). Also paid to play with the new nikon D300 and some toys from canon.
an interesting break anyway.

played with an iphone yesterday. some dude was in and has an unlocked one (running on vodafone) to film the aus commercial.
sexy,
mio is also sexy, for the most part.

Some shots from the CRL sand mine on North Stradbroke Island (was there tutoring).



And my sister is a litle unique - her latest pets, hamlet and Maddi





Also, I am soon to be a pimp for Mio. Training in melb Thurs/fri - back sat night.

[Listening to: %T% - %A% - %B% (%D%)]

Wasabi peanuts and MS word... oh what a day.
Free 17" CRT monitor for someone.
superman energy drink is pretty average.
my tongue is burning.
deleting movies off my HDD - if you want the movie-list drop me a line.

I guess you could call me a coffee snob. I love a good coffee and know what I like.
It doesn't help that steph works at merlo and that gets me the good beans, or a good coffee when I go into james st.As much as that would bias me towards merlo, I still love grinders and di bella (or lavazza & vittoria made by the select few). Today on the way home I went into Merlo to get a takeaway. There were no parks (3pm, james st, understandable). I continued driving home to albion and passed di bella. For once, there was actually a park. I went in to get a T/A sk flat white, but they don't make it on your choice of blends any more. You are stuck with premium or their pick.
Their pick happened to be rainforest allianze something or other. A certified Fair trade agreement approved single-origin bean. As much as I love coffee, and like the idea of workers in the poorest countries having decent work conditions, I can't normally afford to stick with that choice. These beans aren't particularly more expensive though.
Unusual taste, nice (kid of rich, creamy but fruity) enough, but I probably wouldn't go it again.
It was free since I hadn't tried it before and the guy just gave it to me.
I don't really know the point of this story...

As much as a PhD depresses a person working on it, I have no totally lost enthusiasm.
I still love science. I still quest for knowledge and understanding. It still intrigues me and drives me further on.
I still want to work as a scientist - just not in the same project as my PhD :)
finished lab work, need to focus on writing better.
Any pointers on how to not procrastinate?

I have been sick for a while now, damn cold.
Must write thesis, llab work is done.
Finally starting to feel a bit better now... doesn't help having to work while sick.

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