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[Liz]

Jon you don't scare me at all.

(Also I bet Eed is a little turned on. Don't be afraid to admit it, it's okay.)

[SonofZ3]

I just saw one of the Audi "Progress is beautiful" commercials, and I thought the song was cool. I checked it out and audi has it for free download on their site (cool). It also is only a 40 second song created solely for the commercial (not cool). Couldn't they least make the whole damn song?

[David_Dovey]

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Nope, I've had about as little experience with any of this stuff as you can have, outside of constantly listening to synth music. I don't know, there's gotta be a way to learn. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it, I suppose. There are going to be definite disadvantages to just jumping into this stuff cold, but I figure as long as I'm determined I'll make it work for me. I might not have talent, but I can make it a skill, you know?

Man, like I said, you can get pretty far with just experimenting and playing with the little knobs and doodads and seeing what comes out. And as far as the more technical stuff goes, it's really pretty logical. It might take a while longer to work it out than someone who is used to using hardware synths but you'll get it eventually I imagine. Plus hopefully one of the books you get will help.

In conclusion, don't stress. Making music is fun!

[McTaggart]

So I've only been up for two hours so far today and I've gained nothing and lost my phone, my temper, my self esteem, any momentum I had and my motivation for leaving the house. What a shit day.

[mooface]

aww, sad qc people feel better <3  i am sending you love and happy vibes


i have been doing a lot of things that i really enjoy and that make me happy.  i might be trying to do too many things at once, though.  it's kind of stressful.  and the boy is leaving for dublin in a week and i want to spend all my time with him but i can't because i am pretty much busy from morning until night. poop.

[valley_parade]

*pounds wall*

BASEBAAAAAAAAAAALL ARRRRRGHHHHH

[Ladybug]

That last post describes my feelings towards soccer last night pretty well. Goddamnit. 4 matches where we've been 11 against 10 after a red card, had the lead, and either ended up with a draw or losing (like yesterday). 10 minutes left, 11 against 10, 1-0 at home should not end in a 1-2 loss. 3 out of 4 of the regular line-up defenders can't play the next match either, due to injury/too many yellow cards. Fucking hell. I haven't been that mad after a match for years.

[jodizzle]

Oh you kids and your sports. It's adorable.

[McTaggart]

Ok, the phone seems salvable if I can get a hold of a torx 6 screwdriver and a replacement screen. $65 and some waiting for a screen to arrive is a better deal than $150 at least for a new phone. I guess I could pay about $65 for a phone without a bunch of features I don't use but god damn there are no cheap and pretty phones. There is a gorgeous sony ericsson for about $150 though, which is about what my current broken phone cost me I think that that's the replacement if I can't fix this one. Also partially at stake is the way I consider myself a maker. This should be fixable by just replacing the screen and I'll be damned if I can't do it myself.

So tomorrow I need to get up, get a haircut, get a screwdriver, open the phone and assess the damage and order a replacement lcd if that's gonna fix it. I suppose I should try and find a phone to use in the meantime too.

Also I'm disappointed to learn that 'salvageable' is actually the word I should have used in that first sentence.

[0bsessions]

Dear Blog Thread,

Please settle a dispute for Shane and I:

Which is more interesting: Patrick or a giraffe?

[David_Dovey]

[0bsessions]

Vs.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

dudes, giraffes fall like six or seven feet to the ground the second they are born.

that's pretty badass.

[Dimmukane]

I was watching Animal Planet a couple days ago, and I saw a couple giraffes fighting.  They flail their necks at each other until one dies of internal bleeding or backs off.

[David_Dovey]

Yeah but Patrick worked at McDonalds

[Alex C]

Also, check this out: Giraffe tongues are a weird blue-black. Also, they are hella long.

[Edith]

H.O.T.

[Metope]

I don't like giraffes. One of them ate my ice cream when I was at the zoo. No matter how far I tried to walk away from him, he could always reach my ice cream, even though he was behind a fence.

[RobbieOC]

I have hung out with a giraffe:



I have never hung out with Patrick, but that giraffe was kind of a dick, so I'd have to go with Patrick.

[Barmymoo]

I have never seen Patrick or a giraffe except in pictures. Patrick is ace but giraffes are amazing so I'm afraid I'm voting for giraffes.

[BankHoldUp]

Dear Blog Thread,

A frantic, late afternoon phone call from my sister found me standing in my dad's house, looking at a massive hole caused by a drunk putting his/her torso through the drywall at the end of the hall.

My sister had thrown a party there the night before, and my dad would never know...except of course, for the body-sized cavity in the wall. Missing half the tools I'd need to perform a convincing fix (e.g. I used a power drill for all the cutting and a meat tenderizer to hammer in the nails) I replaced a three foot square section of drywall in a matter of hours. A quick sanding and some paint, and you can't even tell the hole was there.

I guess if my degree ever stops being useful, I could just fall back into a career as a drywall contractor.

[allison]

That is impressive. I threw a party once, and it ended the same way - with a hole in the wall. However all my brother had to say was, "Shit, you're fucked." Your sister is a lucky kid.

Also, I am so so torn between the giraffe, and Patrick. I'm leaning towards Patrick, because maybe that giraffe thinks that rape is a joke. I know Patrick doesn't.

[sean]

I was gonna say Patrick but after reading these giraffe facts you guys posted I'm gonna have to say giraffe.

I mean, unless Patrick has a blue/black tongue and starts battling people with his neck, its a losing battle for him.

[ruyi]

Vs.

PatrickNeverFunny.jpg

lol

[KvP]

I am well on my way to applying for college. Finally. Wheeeee.

The nice thing is that I've completed enough college credits already that I don't have to submit my high school transcript. So instead of having a .8 GPA, I have a 3.5 GPA! I may also be in honors, although that will remain up in the air until the end of the semester.

Once that's all done I get to start planning on moving into my own place! Exciting times.

[RedLion]

Huuuurrrgh.

Guys. For the last few months, I've just been having fun: flirting, going on non-steady dates with a number of girls, fooling around a bit. Lately, it has become more serious with one them. She's a very kind girl--sweet, funny, open, non-pretentious and very cute. We've gone on repeated dates and had great times, and I've spent the night at her place the last few days. Last night she said she wants to date "seriously," in a steady way; that was fine with me.

However, as we started talking a bit more deeply, I learned something about her past that sets me ill at ease. When she was 17, she dated a guy who was 30. For over a year. I really try not to judge what a person has done in their past, but that really weirds me out. Furthermore, the guy had kids. He was a divorcee. When she turned 18, he wanted to get married but she said no (at least she was smart there.) Anyway, then she dated someone her age for a few years before breaking up awhile ago. She said she'd "just about given up on relationships" before I came along.
(Now, that last sentence just seems really over-dramatic to me. However, if she's being sincere, then I'm flattered.)

The whole way-older-man thing was about 3 years ago for her (She's 21, I'm 19). But I'm really conflicted on this. I really do have quite a lot of affection for the girl; I thoroughly enjoy being around her. I also know that age becomes less of a factor as one grows older, but at the time, she was still a minor! It's just, well, a bit creepy. And, having been with her, thinking of her being with a weird "old" guy..I don't know. It makes me feel uncomfortable.

I don't want to tell her "sorry, it won't work" just because of this, because she really is a wonderful, beautiful girl and it shouldn't reflect on her present character, but it's become a pretty big hangup for me. Maybe I'm just not being mature about the situation, though.

Thoughts?

[Slick]

sack up you fucking dick

[Slick]

(sorry I am not trying to be mean but really dude, like, whatever, it was in the past)
(if everything else is fine, don't worry about it)

(dude)

[Scandanavian War Machine]

yeah dude

[RedLion]

:shrug: It's just that 13 years is a pretty big fuck difference, especially when she was having sex with a 30 year old when she was 17.

[ruyi]

Yeah but 4 years is a pretty big fucking difference as well. She has changed enormously from who she was at 17.

[Slick]

Hey that was when she was seventeen ever done anything foolish when you were seventeen?
My interpretation of the events: she is chronically unhappy and needs to latch on to someone to feel better. She really was just swearing off of relationships until you came along because she didn't have the resolve to stay alone. Now you're here. And the fact that she was needy when she was seventeen bothers you.
All human interaction is fleeting, man. Ditch her for someone happier.

[Slick]

or: go with how you honestly felt about her before this triviality popped up and have a meaningful, nonjudgmental relationship that makes both of you happy.

[RedLion]

Yeah, you guys are right. It shouldn't bug me as much as it has. I guess I've just never really encountered this with any of the girls I've been with before, so it was a bit of a shock to hear it, but it shouldn't make me break things off with her.

Thanks!

[Spluff]

GASTRO.

SUCKS.

Just thought you needed to know, blog thread.

[ViolentDove]

You know what else sucks?

American scientists. They don't respond to emails! Now I have to get up at 7 a.m. to harass them by phone.

[KvP]

Woooooo the copy of Reason came through. Now I just have to wait for the manuals, because holy crap this looks dense.

[CamusCanDo]

Dear blog thread,

I found out this afternoon my girlfriend of two years has been cheating on me!

[Stryc9Fuego]

Oh, man! That is a sucky discovery, and I honestly can't think of anything to say that won't sound like me being a prick. I'm sorry to hear about that.

[CamusCanDo]

Yeah well, you could be a total prick and I don't think it would phase me at all, as opposed to shitting in my heart. So you're good!

[jodizzle]

Dear Blog Thread,

The last week or so has been stressful and awful!  So tomorrow night I am going to Brisbane and taking Brett out. To the Theater.
I am all class.

Love Jodie

[Metope]

Dear mr B. Log,

I hate people who hates people riding bikes. Today when I was riding my bike home from class I passed two old ladies out walking their dogs. I slowed down and steered my bike in a nice half circle around them, being very polite and probably making a bigger turn than I actually had to. Needless to say, I never even came close to bumping into them or their dogs. Still, one of them was all like "Oh, these bikers! Why can't they ride their bicycles on the road like other things with wheels, they don't belong here on the sidewalk!" What a bitch. If I ride my bike on the road, I know I will get honked at angrily at least two times per 100 meters or so, because bikes don't belong there either and I'm slowing the cars down. Why can't these people realize we have to be somewhere? Fuck it, I have a seminar at 4, and I will be an ass and mess up traffic on purpose all the way to uni (and old ladies: walk your dogs in the fucking park where they will have more fun than on a narrow and dirty sidewalk).

Love,
Kristin

[Inlander]

Oh man, when I was living with my English grandparents in Surrey in 2003, I encountered so many arseholes when I rode my bike on the footpath - even though I was always slow and careful, and often stopped completely when there was a pedestrian coming the other way, and generally behaved much more respectfully to the pedestrians than any of the homicidal drivers ever did to me when I went on the road. The worst pedestrian I came across was a guy who was walking towards me down a quite wide footpath with his two young daughters. Now, I'm always extra careful when there are kids around, so I stopped riding and pulled over to the side of the footpath, giving them as much room as I could so he and his daughters could pass. I even smiled in a friendly way at them. So what does he do? When he passes me he starts tugging on my sleeve, as if to pull me towards the road, while saying "On the road! That's the place for you!" When I explained to him that I quite genuinely feared for my life whenever I went on the road, and that I was posing absolutely no threat to him or his kids and in fact treating them with what I felt was quite a lot of respect, he stuck his finger in his mouth and started making mock-gagging noises at me.

Man, people in Surrey suck harder than any people I've ever met anywhere else.

[Metope]

That's ridiculous, why would he do that? Most of the Englishmen I've met were very polite and cheerful, but then again, I've never been to Surrey. I'm always careful when I meet pedestrians to, and I always slow down no matter what, but I think that will end soon if they don't realize people on bikes have the right to exist too. Denmark is so far the only country I've seen with a great solution to this. They have a bicycle path between the sidewalk and the road... So simple, and yet so genius.

[Inlander]

Ingenious until you realise that people on electric scooters use them, too, and you almost get run over because you're not expecting anything that fast to be coming along the path.

[Metope]

Ahhh shit, what's wrong with the world? I will ride my bike even if it will result in me becoming a martyr.

[valley_parade]

*pounds wall*

BASEBAAAAAAAAAAALL ARRRRRGHHHHHWOOOOOOOOOO YEAH

[october1983]

Dude from Surrey is a dick

Man, I am kind of conflicted here. While it is no excuse for his behaviour, in England you are kind of supposed to cycle on the road. It sounds like you were being incredibly considerate and patient and generally okay, and if everyone who cycled on the pavement acted in the way you described it would all be just fine and dandy, but the truth is they really really don't. I have been out for a couple of hours today, and I have nearly been hit by bikes careering around the same corner twice (said corner is at the bottom of a hill, and the pavement is really wide, so they can come down fast and take a wide turn around it, but there is a wall blocking your view of what's around the corner, I am surprised more people have not been hurt by cyclists there). Today is not an unusual day.

I definitely feel for cyclists in London, because there are ridiculously few cycle lanes and the roads can be fucking lethal - I know a handful of people who have been at least clipped by cars, a couple who have been knocked over by them, and one who was smashed into by a fucking bus. However, I also know a number of people who have been knocked over by dangerous cyclists while walking, so it works both ways. I guess the conclusion is that everyone just needs to be more careful and considerate, including that dick who tried to pull you on to the road - while I can understand where his frustration came from, taking it out on the dude who is going out of his way not to cause the same problems is probably not the Best Idea.

Also, we need more cycle lanes.

[Inlander]

For whatever reason, the law is that cyclists belong on the road. That is maybe a raw deal but I figure there are probably some good reasons for it.

That'd be fine if all the roads in England were dead-straight Roman roads and had a bike lane down the side. The roads around where my grandparents lived in Surrey are narrow and twisting with a blind corner every fifty metres and absolutely no shoulder to ride on, with cars and trucks and buses careening along them at about 100 kilometres an hour. Now, I ride everywhere in Melbourne where I live now, and I ride "defensively", never assuming a car can see me, even in broad daylight, until the driver's behaviour demonstrates otherwise, and Melbourne drivers can be crazy with scant regard for the rules of the road - but I have never in four years of living here felt as endangered as I did in my five months or so of living in Surrey. Ordinarily I'd have the utmost respect for the law of a country to which I'm only a visitor - but there's no law in the world that I'm going to habitually risk my life or even just my health for.

But dick cyclists are as bad as dick motorists. We've got plenty of both in Melbourne, sadly.

[Barmymoo]

Blog Thread.
My personal statement is still not finished. It has to be submitted within the next eight days.
I have to work til ten tonight and I'm so tired I can barely keep my eyes open, and it's only quarter past three.
I have still got another lesson to go, and it is not an interesting lesson.
I am not sure that this university malarkey is a good idea after all.