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Hey everyone,

To start off with,

You have seen Snakes on a Plane and all the other parodies across the Internet / Interwebs. You love Snakes on a Plane for two reasons.

1. Samuel L. Jackson

2.“Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!”

Well I was recently sitting in my Linear algebra lecture, scrawling notes down , when it occured to me, that The only thing better than Snakes on a Plane is Motherfucking snakes on this Motherfucking plane! and the only thing better than that (being the enthusiastic Maths student I am) are Vectors on a Plane or Isomorphic Vectors on a Isomorphic Plane.

I wonder if we can get Samuel L Jackson (or even better Jesse Ernest Wilkins, Jr
see (http://magazine.uchicago.edu/9708/Images/AAWilkins.gif)

), to star in a more Maths educational film Vectors on a Plane, or maybe I will just have to make another Flash or MNG animation / parody / tribute (The world needs better MNG animators and animation support). And can you imagine come exam time the number of Linear Algebra Students that will say Enough is enough! I have had it with these isomorphic vectors on this isomorphic plane!” .

Also we were proving that B1A commuted to B2A, which I immediately interpreted as B1 being B1 the Banana and B2 being B2 the Banana and A as being their thought matrix. As it commuted successfully (so we proved on the board) B1 and B2 were thinking the same thing. (Are you thinking what I am thinking B2 ?) For more maths humour see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_joke and

Also my I made lemon sponge pudding nice, and it was quite tasty, I still prefer butterscotch but you take what you can get and my hair is all plaited / braided up properly now.

The question today is once an IN joke is common knowledge, is it still an IN joke or does it become an OUT joke ? Does this idea apply to things other than jokes ? If you have any funny in jokes I would love to hear / read them ….

Chill out or Stay Warm

Benjamin Southall aka Appleman1234

Hey everyone,

I went to Supernova this weekend, it was awesome but somethings were a bit of a let down.

<RANT>
Disappointment 1
KA-LAN Attendance was so low…., I was only registered member and biggest UT2004 game we had, had 4 human players. On the upside however I did meet two really cool people .

Disappointment 2
I didn’t get to play / duel (not in tournament, just normal game) Yugioh with anyone, instead getting abused and heckled by 2 collectors that wanted my Gold Top Don Zalous . (Anyone heard the term NFS …..)

Disappointment 3
Most of the stuff I wanted to buy was either to expensive in comparsion to its actual value to me or not avaliable for purchase.

Disappointment 4.
DDR brang back memories of LCA2007, (Thanks mark_alec) and $3 for a bottle of water is a rip off and Tales of Earthsea premier which I really wanted to see was sold out…

However Supernova wasn’t all bad

Leet Thing 1.
Meet two really cool people from KA-LAN.

Leet Thing 2.
Acquired lots of free stuff and got to watch 300 and Blackadder

Leet Thing 3.
Got to hang out with Gatl for almost 2 days … (Thanks Gatl, I hope you enjoyed your uni stuff evasion and all your shopping)

Leet Thing 4.
Hellsing Ultimate 2. This was a one my first few exposures to Anime and I enjoyed it greatly .

Leet Thing 5.
Got two possible job offerings and got myself a blueberry cheesecake in freezer at home. Yum

</RANT>

Other notes about Supernova include , I got to preview night 9 hours early , then went into city and didn’t end up returning to preview night, instead spending the day studying / working (half heartedly) and configuring Anope (IRC Services bots) on Olympus and helping Dorian Gray get a new sub domain for phpbb3 testing and stuff.

I have chapped lips from the weather and lots of shampoo,soap etc (I don’t eat chocolate, and received an organic hair and bodycare pack instead (And it is all from the only range I would buy (but the shops won’t sell me), w00t )

I also did some work on 008 (MAD = UML project), and while I don’t like UML, Umbrello makes the diagrams childsplay. I greatly thank the KDE Team for making my life easier once again . (Dia is also good, I should probably rewrite / update my ORM set for Dia…, mmmm, maybe after I get Netrek Cow and Quadra 1.2.0 to compile cleanly…)

I have get back to work on the 4 group assessments I have to complete. (I am so closed to finishing my Linear Algebra one it isn’t funny, oh well maybe it is ). I also have to watch more Anime and read more Manga (Gatl and Supernova demonstrated how in the shallow end I was…)

I am still also looking for part time work and part time fun…
I am going to start chatting and studying before I have to catch the late bus to cheesecake (I mean home) .

Hope you enjoyed your Easter Break as much as I did,

The Question today is
Vampires or Werewolves which would eat more ice cream and sandwiches and you have to state a reason why …. ?

Benjamin Southall aka Appleman1234

Hey everyone,

I was in a MAB101 lecture at the moment, studying F and T distributions …, but that is over now and I have Easter Break. COUGH!!! Easter break should be called Easter break from classes, because that is all it is a break from classes. (Easter by itself is special for another few reasons… (Jesus sacrificing himself, Other spiritual new life festivals and celebrations etc )).

I have at least 3 group projects todo and lots more study todo (ITB006, ITB008, MAB101 Worksheets etc). I also lots of catching up to do on chatting to people, blogging, publishing and finalising ideas and stuff I have created etc etc.
To keep a long story short… I am quite busy, but not busy enough to care or spend / waste time with good company.

I missed my 006 lecture last night due to a family commitment (Alistair Hulett concert) , which involved a BUS traffic jam and having to walk from Adelaide St to Brunswick St with my little brother, but we made with 5 minutes till the calzones were ready.

The atmosphere of the restaurant was quite nice, as were the kalamata olives, (the pips just slid out of the olive, and there was no strong brine aftertase.) The waiter was friendly and funny and the calzones weren’t bad (not as good as the Italian ones, but not bad at all). Real Italian calzone, pizza and pasta ruins most calzone, pizza and pasta made anywhere else or commercially unless it is made by an Italian.

The concert was awesome. Alistair Hullet mainly focused on the Australian and Scottish labour and union strike. He was accompanied by Dave Swarbrick on violin / fiddle , whose mastery of the instrument was tremendous, and had by foot which was keeping in time, sore from matching his 16/16 time with the occasional 32 in for good measure.

None of Alistair’s songs from Backstreets of Paradise were played, however he was kind enough to give me a link to all his Youtube recordings . His new albums are Red Clydeside and Riches & Rags so if you like folk music or protest folk music relating to Australia and Scotland (protest folk is akin to Red Gum etc) then please visit his website http://www.alistairhulett.com/ and / or purchase his albums.

He should be at the National Folk Festival in Canberra by now, if your lucky enough to be attending that then you’re in for a treat.

In Greenroom news, Rembo has wrecked almost all of the machines by quick formatting them and not making the partitions bootable, or bad images with no usb support or a single ip address configured. We also resurrected everest on a different machine (to its original one) (so the Greenroom has a least one working machine) and procured a nice big black server we like to call Olympus (one higher then everest). ATM we are setting up useful stuff on Olympus and we already have IRC. #QUT server qutirc.no-ip.org and port 8000 I believe if you attend QUT and want to visit us.

Thanks for reading, the question is When and what was your last experience that you found it difficult to keep a straight face ?

Stay safe over Easter.

Benjamin Southall aka Appleman1234