The online home of Appleman1234 / Benjamin Southall

Hey everyone,

Today is my first day living in the city, and it seems to be absolutely great so far. I am currently waiting for my laptop to return from warranty repairs.

Back at Uni I am, a week early, planning and organising numerous tasks and exploring my new surroundings. I got a new bed and its so comfortable, and my new room is so cosy .

I went and bought my IT text books for my subjects this semester and I managed to get them second hand. (Yay!!) But the price still made me grimace. I only need to get the Maths textbooks now and some more pens and pacers and I am set .

There was a big Sabayon Linux split up, with cvill64 and Squarebottle resigning due to development issues and expectations not me, and blackmail accusations and other harsh words.

I am remaining interested in contributing to Sabayon Linux, but have noticed (with the assistance and kind words of wolfden), that trying to help and implement my passion into Sabayon Linux ATM, isn’t currently wanted by lxnay (lead developer), so I will sit and wait on the sidelines till I am I wanted.

I also got new batteries for my speaker pillow (cushiony musicy goodness), and I bumped in to Gatl (Celia) at the secondhand guild bookshop. I then went to return my books home and get the ones I was loaning to Gatl.

Also got to instant message Cheater & Bo & Sabrina, I need to update my userbar, to patch / hack my fortune script, and do more interesting things to blog about, besides helping those Bosnian business first years.

Finally concluding this entry is me reminiscing back to watching Theatrebiz and remember BNW, Oh brave new world, with such people / things in it ?

The question today is If you were stuck on an Island kind of like the terribly predictable Lost TV Show, how would you react ?

Have fun & chill

Benjamin Southall aka Appleman1234

Hi everyone,

Sorry that this post is so late, but I didn’t get the photos back and uploaded till after LCA2007 (See the following post for more on that).

I am now official 18 (well 18 and 1 month and a bit), I can now legally choose to abstain from certain benefits of being 18. One such benefit that I won’t obstain from is the one which allows me to transact in online commerce. Paypal, Ebay, etc here I come .

My birthday party was hosted at The Sofitel on the eve of my birthday. The preparty (Organised by my mother) was fun , and I hoped I mingled enough. Thank to all the people that attended the preparty, your company was wonderful. Photos are in my gallery which is at the same address as this blog, but replacing /blog/ with /gallery2/ (here) .

The Sofitel did a great job, the food was great, the cake was awesome (see photos), the room was great, etc. Other great people included Derek Matthews (our MC and game moderator for the evening), the guests that showed up, (Thank all you all so much, for making it a memorable experience), the guests that didn’t and RSVPed (you missed a fun night) the waiters and event manager and the Sofitel organiser / correspondent, the pastry chef, anyone else who I forgot to mention.

Highlights of my 18th

• Presents (I did not expect any presents only guest presence but I got quite a few, so thank you all very much
• The IceBreaker (The background info that was only for Derek’s eyes, but he read it out to everyone, whilst censoring on ocassion)
• The conversation (Lots of friends talking at the same table, gave lots of varied conversation, including hypothetical conversation about naming my future partner and kids)
• Mafia , this was awesome despite Derek’s occasional mistake, People caught on fast, features of this included, Crazy intelligent, rambling suicidal innocent townies played by Ruben and I , The sneakiness of the Mafia, The number of people killed by Mafia, saved by Archangel only to be killed by Assasin, The crazyiness of the voting
• Mao, it was fun, Andrew & Megan knew different rules to me and I got caught out twice
• The speechs of my father and me
• The Cake

To all the people that did not come and were invited, regardless of RSVP, I would like to eventually catch up with you all and this will be easier due to my relocation to Brisbane this year.

Christmas

Christmas was grand and traditional, I shared it with some dear family friends on the Gold Coast.
The German tradition (of the presents on the 24th night) and the perform something for Christmas or no presents, and other traditions were wonderful. I sung Favourite things from the “Sound of Music”. There were bonbons and carols, and great food…..

Then slept till 25th and had Christmas brunch with the same friends, then went to family gathering in the afternoon.

The Party of the Futurrrr

The Party of the Futurrrrrr, was the New Years party I attended with Dallas and his friends, all aspects of this including the lack of sleep beforehand (installing Gentoo for Dallas all night ), the drive to Brisbane, meeting Dallas’s friends who had a Wii, an awesome flash comic series on Newgrounds and cool future costumes. Think Robot and Buzz Lightyear of the Futurrr.

We had fun on the way down to the party which was out past Logan, it is a cross between a treasure hunt and a Super Mario platform game in a roundabout level. We got there eventually , and I met some more nice people and spent New Years playing Blank White Cards (Think Mao + Charades but simpler and crazier) , watching drinking games, singing and listening to folk and other types of music in the early hours of the morning, talking and a little bit of sleeping.

Only to arise to pancakes and smiles and the urgent rush of Dallas needing to get back to his office for Work. (being on call is fun ). But all in all it was a great new years with great people.

Sorry if this post is too long or too short or too delayed etc, I will probably be updating it or elaborating if I need to.

Best of Luck and Have fun

Benjamin Southall aka Appleman1234

PS: BTW how were your Christmases and New Years ?

Also BTW, I didn’t finalise this post till after LCA so even though it all happened between 23 Dec 2006 and 5 of Jan 2007, the date on this post is kind of wrong