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Hi everyone,

Ivanhoe (My NAS) is finally getting its USB ports repaired and Ulrica (my laptop) has had its power circuity repaired and is getting the fan replaced (hopefully). It isn’t raining here, but I almost wish it would. I have been watching communitychannel for a while now, and I dare attribute my desire to video blog to seeing her work and having so many potential readers make up excuses based on their laziness and my post’s longevity.

Anyhow, she asked an interesting question about whether I would let anyone stand under my umbrella, which really made me think. Because most of the large umbrellas I get my hands on , end up breaking or being ruined by the weather or other people. Despite this I am quite sure that I would most likely give them the umbrella to stand under alone and get wet instead of them, until it was time to get my umbrella back.

I don’t mind the rain at all, and have the strategy of wearing multiple layers when there is any chance of rain, so that the outer layer absorbs or deflects all the water and the inner layers stay dry. The only problem with this strategy is if you spend prolonged amounts of time in the rain, your shoes and socks get drenched, particularly if you don’t watch out for puddles.

In the case of spending over an hour in the rain, your best bet seems to be to just were minimal clothing and thongs or barefeet and just get wet.

My left ankle is strangely sore, like it is sprained or streched or something, I am not exactly sure what causes the pain, but it makes walking hurt significantly more than normal. I have tried various methods to alleviate the pain, but to no avail, at least for now.

The umbrella question for me becomes a metaphor for a morality gedanken (thought experiment see Trolley problem on the vilionist in a coma), for both how different people cope with stress and life circumstances and for the amount of moral self sacrifice / ability to be loved and give love.

People like to take the easy path, despite the consequenecs for doing so. In the subsquent rush to adopt apathy, indifference and ignorance as the easy methods out, they don’t seem to realise the sacrifice / consequences they cause themselves and others.

To quote Red Gum, “If you don’t fight you lose”. Huxley and Orwell clearly demonstrated the means that humanity could be socially conditioned in order not to care, think and question. When there is nothing left to fight for, will we have lost ?

Or are we losing already … ?

(Apologies to those who lost Pachisi or any other game, it wasn’t intentional)

Thanks for listening / reading,

Benjamin Southall aka Appleman1234

Hi everyone,

I have been quite busy, but not as productive as I would have liked to have been. I got to watch most of The Alzheimer Case last night and I recommend it highly.  It made me reflect on morality and how setienence and genetic moral instincts fit into human development, as all that can actually evolve is the social conditiioning passed from parent to child or from society to individual and then from individual to society.

I had a nice discussion with Tim on how addictions can cause underlying genetic changes to a society, and the question of whether human conceptualisation and to a greater extent human morality is merely an addiction we have to cope or adjust to life.

I have also been further studying copying mechanisms that people use deal with emotion stress and circumstances in life along with other social motivations , dynamics and interactions. I am enjoying both my maths subjects and most of the project work for the other subjects , despite its longevity and depth and pressure.

Not having my laptop (it is being repaired (hopefully)), is quite the inconvience, although having the 6 Gentoo Xen images running for ITN771 is nice, especially as we have VOIP working now. After significant testing I have discovered the real strawberries are much tastier and sweeter than the strawberries and cream Allens lollies.

I found a really good list of skills required to be a Game Developer and was plesantly surprised to see that I had most of them. I have also been trying to deduce Blizzard’s path finding algorithrm from comparing creep path finding in various mazing TDs, the resistance and movement probably indicate a D* or A* algorithrm but I can’t work out the coeffecients from deduction alone and I have a bat’s chance in spaghetti of actually seeing the source code, so I guess I will just never be sure.

In other news I can make full pan sized pancakes without burning them , after the amount of practice I have had. Ivanhoe still has broken USB ports and both my knowledge and recall continue to surprise me when I am able to help and assist people with work from subjects I haven’t done but have some knowledge in.

I would really like to start roleplaying again but GURPS seems to ebbed in to the abyss for the moment and forum rpging is to incohesive for me. I finally got my ext3 drive working with the silly machines from uni using ext2fsd.

I also was reminded by Hui Min about Padan cake and Kek Lupis Sarawak and am now craving Indonesian deserts, however Bondi Bali reminds of exactly why I promised never to go back to Bali, so I will probably end up returning to Java instead.

What type of food haven’t you had in a long time and would really like to have ?

Best wishes and have fun,

Benjamin Southall aka Appleman1234

Hey everyone,

I just discovered that the Queen St Mall Sizzler doesn’t exist. And that is such a shame. I remember when the Queen St Mall used to have a rollercoster at the top of it and used to have a LEGO playground. Such fund childhood memories.

As you probably know the words succubus and incubbus are names of demons that sleep with their victims and torment them. These words come from the Latin root cubare (”To lie”), and the prefixes in and sub, which mean on top and below respectively. Getting bored with just these demons, I began elaborating on less gender specific demons below using other Latin prefixes.

List of Demons

jugccubi I lie chained
juxtaccubi I lie beside
intracubbi I lie within
retrocubbi I lie behind
velocubbi I lie quickly
uncubbi I lie hooked
transcubbi I lie across
strepcubbi I lie twisted
fellacubbi I lie sucking
paccubbi I lie peacefully
regcubbi I lie straight
pravcubbi I lie crooked
phalacubbi I lie shining
percubbi I lie through
oedcubbi I lie swollen
odorcubbi I lie fragant
nudcubbi I lie naked
lenicubbi I lie gently
lacrimcubbi I lie crying
ignicubbi I lie on fire
contracubbi I lie against
concubbi I lie with
cirrcubbi I lie curled (tentacle)
aurcubbi I lie golden
augcubbi I lie growing
audicubbi I lie listening
ambicubbi I lie on both sides
amorcubbi I lie loving
abscubbi I lie away

I just finished fiddling around with indices referencing stuff, it is an a -1 , rather than a, just to spite you…

Saturday was spent with Aunt and Uncle from WA and was quite nice if not a very long day, I got up at 6am (went to bed a 1:30am) and then went to the Rocklea Markets…..

Hope you are having as much fun with assessment and other odds and ends as I am or am not,

Benjamin Southall aka Appleman1234

Hey,

Darkness falls , surprising success progress, rhymes hit the blackness of the river as I pass strangers and comtemplate hidden metaphors, meanings and realities of illogic and life in song. Clarity comes to me , understanding clearly what was blurry long ago, realising little pieces that had be out of focus like a reflected, refracted fractal rippling towards a nonlinear chaotic realm of convergence back to rationality.

Icecream is cold and good, especially for sad people. Their is no age restriction on Wii Tennis :).

Have fun and best of luck

Benjamin Southall aKa Appleman1234