Monday, April 23, 2007
20 questions
My mother now has two of those 20 questions electronic doovies. We took one each and used the same item (teapot) to see if they would behave the same....not. While they both got the answer right, the questions they asked were somewhat different and in a different order. Do these things have limited free will? We also did a run with the item "Virus" only my mother answered the questions truthfully, while I tried to get the answers as wrong as possible. Mum's machine got the answer "virus" while I got "lynx". There you go, the opposite of a virus is a lynx. Also, from a previous test, another word for "world peace" is apparently "Fart". At least it is according to a 20 question device.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
...must...finish...thesis...
Why can nothing ever be easy. Just after I finish all the examiners requested changes , write the report on them, fix the page numbering and figures etc and print out a copy of my thesis to go to the head of school, I find the updated requirements for my thesis.
1. extra declarations in the front (causing an extra page to be necessary)
2. pdf version to go to the library
You might think the 2nd isn't hard, but my pdf converter is changing the font size a bit, resulting in the pages shifting so that the page numbering will be out again, table headers will start on one page with the table on the next page, some figures will end up over text etc etc.
It doesn't help that the pdf is required to be the same as the hard copy that I have already printed out with much time and trouble and the whole conversion thing is really slow/sometimes not even working since I have a 252 page document full of pictures. Arrgh...and Arrgh again
1. extra declarations in the front (causing an extra page to be necessary)
2. pdf version to go to the library
You might think the 2nd isn't hard, but my pdf converter is changing the font size a bit, resulting in the pages shifting so that the page numbering will be out again, table headers will start on one page with the table on the next page, some figures will end up over text etc etc.
It doesn't help that the pdf is required to be the same as the hard copy that I have already printed out with much time and trouble and the whole conversion thing is really slow/sometimes not even working since I have a 252 page document full of pictures. Arrgh...and Arrgh again
Friday, April 13, 2007
Argh! Friday the 13th
I just realised what day it is.
I'm also a little peeved. I you read lower down you will find the blog where I conscientiously got my fluvax. I paid full price, doctors appointment and fluvax cost etc. Now my workplace has sent around an email saying "Come over to building X between 11 & 1pm and get your complementary - free - no charge to you - provided by us - flu vaccination. Bummer.
I'm also a little peeved. I you read lower down you will find the blog where I conscientiously got my fluvax. I paid full price, doctors appointment and fluvax cost etc. Now my workplace has sent around an email saying "Come over to building X between 11 & 1pm and get your complementary - free - no charge to you - provided by us - flu vaccination. Bummer.
Now what was I going to say again?
I logged on with the intent of writing something. I can't remember for the life of me what it is.....oh yes, hands start typing, brain kicks back out of neutral.
I bought a new DVD player yesterday. The old one started making screeching noises and the screen froze. It like to think it was because it was old and cheap and the plastic gears were failing. But it may have been encouraged to fail by the fact I sat it on the end of the sideboard in my room, under the video player, under the TV - no gaps here people, just one on top of the other, DVD at the bottom. Unfortunately I've had to do it with the new one too. There is just nowhere else for it to sit that I can get to it/have direct line of sight with the remote. Maybe I can get some dowel and make air gaps between each, but the DVD player is still going to have the whole weight of my tv and video on it.
Anyhoo - the new one is a Sony that I got on sale. It has the impressive function of the remote being able to control turning the TV off and on - like a multifunction remote. It can also change the visual angle of the scene it shows - assuming the DVD has this function. As I'd never heard of this before, and the DVD's I played last night didn't, I'm not expecting to be able to use this much.
Being a name brand it also has region 4/region encoding on stickers and in the manual. The old one didn't (the advantage of no-name el-cheapo DVD players). So I got online using my extremely slow dial-up and spent 30 minutes searching for something to make it region free as I have region 2 DVDs that weren't made in region 4 format. Eventually I found a forum where they said, and I paraphrase, "Ignore the region 4 encoded sticker, thats all it is. This model came out of the factory region free and they never locked it." Lo and behold, I put in the DVD and they were right.
On other news, I just took a specimen out of the soaking tank and managed to get formaldehyde solution over the top of the glove and onto my watch. I washed it but I can still smell formaldehyde in the cloth band. So it's now off my wrist and waiting for me to give it a good soapy scrub.
I bought a new DVD player yesterday. The old one started making screeching noises and the screen froze. It like to think it was because it was old and cheap and the plastic gears were failing. But it may have been encouraged to fail by the fact I sat it on the end of the sideboard in my room, under the video player, under the TV - no gaps here people, just one on top of the other, DVD at the bottom. Unfortunately I've had to do it with the new one too. There is just nowhere else for it to sit that I can get to it/have direct line of sight with the remote. Maybe I can get some dowel and make air gaps between each, but the DVD player is still going to have the whole weight of my tv and video on it.
Anyhoo - the new one is a Sony that I got on sale. It has the impressive function of the remote being able to control turning the TV off and on - like a multifunction remote. It can also change the visual angle of the scene it shows - assuming the DVD has this function. As I'd never heard of this before, and the DVD's I played last night didn't, I'm not expecting to be able to use this much.
Being a name brand it also has region 4/region encoding on stickers and in the manual. The old one didn't (the advantage of no-name el-cheapo DVD players). So I got online using my extremely slow dial-up and spent 30 minutes searching for something to make it region free as I have region 2 DVDs that weren't made in region 4 format. Eventually I found a forum where they said, and I paraphrase, "Ignore the region 4 encoded sticker, thats all it is. This model came out of the factory region free and they never locked it." Lo and behold, I put in the DVD and they were right.
On other news, I just took a specimen out of the soaking tank and managed to get formaldehyde solution over the top of the glove and onto my watch. I washed it but I can still smell formaldehyde in the cloth band. So it's now off my wrist and waiting for me to give it a good soapy scrub.
Monday, April 02, 2007
The Tsunami Warning
..has eased. Apparently we are not going to be hit by a tsunami caused by the earthquake in the Solomons. Apparentlyt some government employees were sent home from Pallarenda this morning before the confirmation from Willis Island came through. I came in to work this morning and someone said "have you heard anything more about the tsunami that is supposed to hit us?" My response "Tsunami...what tsunami...aren't we supposed to hear about these things?"
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