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jhocking:
--- Quote from: muffy on 22 Jun 2008, 15:59 ---I am pretty intrigued as to what a human-computer interaction exam would entail... Though I figure it's just some terminology I'm not used to, it still sounds bizarre and kind of cool. Like, 'How often do you talk to your computer?', 'Do you guys hang out often enough?' sort of questions.
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Back at Carnegie Mellon you could major in human-computer interaction.
Ladybug:
I wish I could do that.
Inlander:
On Saturday night I rode to Northcote (couple of suburbs over, ten-minute bike ride) to see a gig at the rather wonderful Northcote Social Club. I haven't been on the High Street in Northcote for ages, and was surprised to find that they seem to be having some kind of arts festival there: every block had at least one shop-front in which the front room was empty, and some strange art installation was in place. Pretty cool! The gig was also pretty good.
The bloggy bit begins when I came out of the gig, four hours or so later, and upon unlocking my bike and trying to ride it home, found out that the back wheel was completely fucked. I can only assume that some drunken idiot fell over the bike, smashed the shit out of the back wheel, then felt bad and stood the bike up again against the rail to try to make it better (the back light had also been almost knocked off, indicating a collision of some kind). I make this deduction based on two assumptions: (1) that a collision forceful enough to so buckle that back wheel that I had to decouple the brakes just to ride the bike home, would also have knocked the bike over; and (2) that if it was malicious damage rather than accidental, whoever did it wouldn't have bothered to stand the bike up again.
Anyway, on Sunday I went to my local bike-shop. The wheel was too badly damaged for them to repair, so they replaced it instead. For $115. God-dammit.
Thaes:
Today I got a letter confirming my place in one of the universities to which I applied. Oh, the joy! Oh, the glee!
jhocking:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 22 Jun 2008, 18:54 ---I can only assume that some drunken idiot fell over the buck, smashed the shit out of the back wheel, then felt bad and stood the bike up again against the rail to try to make it better
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Because standing the bike back up fixed everything.
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