Archive for December, 2006

I logged on to my blog to post today to find I got some error about my database.

WordPress database error: [Can’t open file: ‘blog_comments.MYI’ (errno: 144)]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM blog_comments WHERE comment_approved = ‘0’

Corrupt table but I couldn’t go into phpMyAdmin to repair it and it errored out. So I had to go in to the command line and repair it that way.

mysql -u dbuname -h dbhost  -p dbname;
repair table blog_comments;

Which sorted it and I could finally log in. To find 148 comments had got past Akismet in the past few days. Awesome.

So tonight was Wendy House. I started the day with a day shift which was quite busy, I spent most of it running round getting stock out. I was glad when it was over. Headed back to uni afterwards for Wendy. I went in around 11:30 and spent some quality time standing around until I finally found Sophie and Verity about 12:30-12:45ish.

I had a really good night in the end the playlist was excellent this month – they played Self Esteem by Offspring as well as Muse, Green Day, Evanescene, Britney, Bloodhound Gang, Electric Six and loads of other random stuff that I liked. So yeah, in conclusion, awesome Wendy. I really enjoy hanging out with Sophie and Verity and my love for Wendy has been renewed.

Ok so Chuck Norris can do anything right? There is nothing he can’t do. That’s assumption one.

Assumption two, when Chuck Norris does a push-up, he doesn’t push himself up, he pushes the world down.

However this causes a conflict as the dictionary definition of a push-up is “pushes the body up” [1] therefore Chuck technically isn’t doing a push-up as he isn’t pushing the body up. But the idea that he therefore can’t actually do a push-up contradicts assumption one.

Hmmm.

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Did I miss anything?

Seriously, come on, let’s not be retards here. When people are having to post disclaimers like this it just shows how silly the whole situation is. I mean how could my blog ever been seen as the opinion of my university. How can an organisation even have an opinion? It can have a policy set by people with opinions but it can’t have an opinion in itself.

To be clear, the above is not true and is in no way a disclaimer for this blog. Anyone who takes it as such is concenting to being grinded into a thin paste, being packed up and sold animal feed on eBay.

Well it’s not as the Coca Cola adverts haven’t been on but then again I think we maybe need to accept that they are not coming – we might have to celebrate Chrismukka without them. Still, I think I’ll live providing that the traditional values of giving multinational lots of your hard earned money to see short lived smiles on other people’s faces are upheld. Can’t wait until I’m the multinational.

Anyway let’s recap what has happened of recent. Saturday was Sarann’s birthday shindig which involved us going to Bourbon and then a series of other bars and restaurants in search of somewhere that wasn’t totally packed. Vain hope I know for Saturday night but it’s all about keeping the hope alive. We didn’t find it though and so ended up going home at 12ish as most people were too tired to brave Creation.

Then yesterday was our “students have finally gone home we can move in Bondi again” night. It kicked off with a meal at L’Oranise which was quite nice and then (after much insistance that it was important we went given flights and plans were scheduled months ago to allow us to go) we headed to Bondi via cake at Sarann’s. I didn’t have a brill time there but we ended up coming back to mine to eat the recently purchased fast food where I had a really good talk with Sarann and she introduced me to the joy of hurting people (or Taekwondo as she calls it) which was awesome.

Finally today I slept. I got to bed at like 3-4ish and slept until 10 when I got up to borrow some DVDs off Michelle before she left and then went back to bed and slept again till 3-4ish. The best part is I can continue to sleep until Saturday :D. It’s been literally months since I’ve had more than one consecutive day off so I intend to take full advantage of it.

Went to see the Lostprophets last night after Phil kindly volunteered his ticket after I was unable to obtain one myself. It was a good gig, Graham seems to disapprove of my comment that the lighting effects and technical aspect of the show were very impressive but well, they were.

The band rocked too. Although they didn’t really have flow – they seemed to just stop in between songs and occasionally strum their guitar in a quick effort to tune it or something. That said frontman Ian did his best to try and get the audience going.

We were towards the back so as usual most of the show involved me screaming my lungs out while everyone around me just stud and watched but that’s there loss :p. Plus B did her share of singing and everyone got going by the end so it’s all good. And importantly I got a t-shirt which is very important given I’ve totally run out of clean ones.

And Sarann said “what about, breakfast at Mac-ey D’s?”
I said “I think that, everything comes burger shaped”

So there we were. Sat round in DEC-10 having pulled an all-nighter on coursework. So it seems like a good idea to go to the D for breakfast. After all it was somewhat pre-planned. Last time we were walking home from town myself and Sarann discussed the idea of doing an all-nighter than going to McDonald’s for breakfast.

Si was a breakfast virgin and went for the quite solid choice of Bacon and Egg McMuffin as did Sarann. I went for the McBacon Roll. I feel it’s a classic. It’s weird how many coursework deadlines end there. I mean, me, George and Si went down after we did the first SE20 coursework and me and Sarann went down after doing the AI21 coursework. It’s quickly developing into somewhat of a tradition.

Atheist Soc is moving! We had a societies assembly today, the block bookings form is filled in, the funding request form is filled in, plans for events are being drawn up things are just generally moving! So yeah, yay.

The coursework deadlines are drawing ever closer so most of the evening was spent in DEC-10 working on SE20. I’ve got most of the code done now to the point where I have a to do list I’m working on. You can always tell when you have the bulk of a project done when you find yourself creating your own little to do list of things to finish off before you’ve achieved everything you wanted to achieve.

Around 10:30ish myself, Si and Michelle finally gave in to our bodys’ desire for food and headed off to get takeaway with the plan of hypothetically going back to labs afterwards. By the time we had finished talking which was well, nowish, we decided it was probably best to get some sleep instead :p.

Still, it’s been a really cool night. It’s cool to spend time just chilling out with people especially as people are going to be disappearing off for Christmas in a week or so. Of course now comes the inevitable choice – to go to bed or to watch some X-Files. Hmmmm.

Friday was George’s birthday so we were Otley Running it. It was going to be a costume superheros and supervillians themed Otley Run however it got cancelled in the end. Amusingly enough George decided not to spread the word that it was cancelled and so Charlie, Sarann and Claire came in costume anyway,

It was a decently successful run we made it all the way down to the union although we did skip the Arc (no loss there) and The Pack Horse. Still, usually Otley Runs fail well before there whereas the plan was to go to Fruity so we reached our destination. Those of us that didn’t have tickets (most people that weren’t George) headed back to The Library but Phil got turned down because he didn’t have ID so we went for food and dissolved.