{"id":23,"date":"2006-11-22T09:43:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T11:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/applemansigloo.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/22\/freedom-irony-coincendence-love\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T05:07:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T07:07:44","slug":"freedom-irony-coincendence-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applemansigloo.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/22\/freedom-irony-coincendence-love","title":{"rendered":"Freedom, Irony, Coincendence, Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone,<\/p>\n<p>All my five exams are over (lost two lives on the maths levels but gained two on the IT subjects) and till next February I am temporarily free. (No more University till February)<br \/>\nIrony seems to like to throw itself on me, with coincidences and random events occurring all around me lately.<\/p>\n<p>From bumping into people, hearing love songs after witnessing fist fights, dealing with friends and acquaintances in similar scenarios, cliched  pop cultures references leading towards mockery of anything sacred, people striving for difference that in doing so they become the same.<\/p>\n<p>However, that doesn&#8217;t mean all fun and games till then. I have already compiled a to do list of tasks, jobs and other fun stuff to keep myself from becoming a lazy pathetic holidaying slob.<\/p>\n<p>I will be attempting to be more active in the OSS (Open source Software) development section of my life as I now have the time to do so, I am also looking for part-time \/ casual IT work for over the break. I made a resume Website for 002, that I might polish and upload.<\/p>\n<p>List of Random Recent Events<\/p>\n<p>Silence at the Beach despite the lack of lack of people and sun burnt legs.<br \/>\nMention in speech at get together.<br \/>\nExcessive laughter and inspiration for parodies and comedy in online conversation.<br \/>\nFree but not Free, ultimate Irony<br \/>\nUpdates and Bugs, Where is Mortein ?<br \/>\nBroken electronics and dirty plates<br \/>\nAn actor, a chair, five men, five loves<br \/>\nTo elaborate (at least on the last point)<\/p>\n<p>I had the pleasure of being in the audience of not only the wonderful comedy of Cheater and LMM, but also in the audience for a play called the Dressing Chair, hosted at the Upfront Club. The characterisation  was written, directed and acted to perfection. I recommend it to anyone looking for an excuse to avoid something else they don&#8217;t want to do.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, The Upfront Club has a mean rump steak&#8230;, even if their fish of the day is No Fish. (Quoting Curtis whose blog seems to be indefinitely down Nice Fish , No Fish)<\/p>\n<p>In other news, this post has taken the longest to write, due to lack of inspiration and eloquence. Knetworkmanager is finally working and my Gentoo configuration and updates are slowly and smoothly being completed. Quadra (1.20) works with CPU usuage bug, and I just need to make or update the ebuild.<\/p>\n<p>18th Birthday party is edging closer. Thanks to all those that bothered to RSVP.<\/p>\n<p>Slashdot is almost metamorphosing into songmeanings.net and Webcomics keep my smiling even when my smile is so translucent you could see through it.<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck,<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Southall aka Appleman1234 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone, All my five exams are over (lost two lives on the maths levels but gained two on the IT subjects) and till next February I am temporarily free. (No more University till February) Irony seems to like to throw itself on me, with coincidences and random events occurring all around me lately. From bumping into people, hearing love songs after witnessing fist fights, dealing with friends and acquaintances in similar scenarios, cliched pop cultures references leading towards mockery of anything sacred, people striving for difference that in doing so they become the same. However, that doesn&#8217;t mean all fun and games till then. 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