Woof · 2008-08-01 13:14
A sadist, a masochist, a murderer, a necrophile, a zoophile and a pyromaniac are all sitting on a bench in a mental institution.
"Let's have sex with a cat?" asked the zoophile.
"Let's have sex with the cat and then torture it," says the sadist.
"Let's have sex with the cat, torture it and then kill it," shouted the murderer.
"Let's have sex with the cat, torture it, kill it and then have sex with it again," said the necrophile.
"Let's have sex with the cat, torture it, kill it, have sex with it again and then burn it," said the pyromaniac.
There was silence, and then the masochist said: "Meow?"
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Roll off · 2008-07-22 11:06
Well, didn't we have fun last Saturday! I can't remember the last time I've had such an idiotic grin on my face. Hanging off my bike like a monkey, trying to scrape my knee on the deck around corners. I managed to pass a few people (you know that drafting thing from "Days of thunder"? it works). It's amazing how much it chops up your tyre, dragging your bike around corners.
My best lap time was 1:47.00 - 46 seconds off the record.
Seriously considering getting into some 125cc MotoGP racing.
More from this day here.
The Hoon's guide to Oran Park · 2008-07-18 15:48
- The Kink, setup for braking as you won't have time to stand up for turn 2, so get used to heavy breaking while leaned over.
- Fast entry on angle - designed to suck you in - apex + exit off camber but it widens so feels too slow on exit (hint: just slide through to maintain speed), pull in to setup for #3
- Depends whether using dogleg or not, slight off camber, just like up #4 as # is very important
- Very strong positive camber uphill, but wheelspin can be a problem - important as getting exit here adds speed through to #7 in almost one sweeper (I drop onto right knee before exit bridge)
- Takes quite a tug to change, the front wants to lift uphill
- Positive camber, but drops away/flattens out wide, so hold exit tight as possible building speed for the flip-flop. can feel way too slow on exit due to positive uphill camber or panic if too wide too early (i.e. go in late) Important for speed here all through flip-flop
- Flip-flop - this is where markers are important. Build slowly, watching how your turn in & exit points change with speed. The only way to do this is with markers as you cannot see.
- Similar to #8 as is uphill positive camber - surprising how much speed lose due to hill (you can go in faster!!). Also important for slingshot down the straight - keep close to the wall, keep an eye out for riders coming out of pit lane at the end of wall.
Wait, what? · 2008-07-18 10:27
So far so good, I've moved into the new place in Leura without too much drama. My good friend Rohan, whom I've known for donkeys years, has a truck license and helped me move. Amazingly, I filled up a 2 tonne truck with my shite. Appreciate the help, mate.
Last night I tuned my alarm to some local station. I woke up to some dodgy aussie song about the 2000 Olympics. Like a clean version of Kevin Bloody Wilson, one for the whole suburban family. Then the crime report for the mountians that week .
Some teenagers charged with kidnapping because they jumped in a dudes car and made him drive somewhere. Car parked at the station with handbag on passenger seat has it's window smashed and purse taken. More teenagers arrested breaking into an empty house. Some guy was arrested for being intoxicated and chucking a pole through a police car window.
Violence against police cars? Is that the worst the mountains has to offer?
More and more I feel like it's an area you could probably leave your house unlocked in while you nip up to the shops. In Sydney there would be no fucking way you could do that and get away with it for long.. people getting stabbed, shot, home invasions, torture, murder, random bashings, all sorts of crazy shit to make you paranoid.
I haven't even had a weekend in my new place. This weekend I'll be busy on Saturday, I'm going to a ride day at Oran park! No chance to relax Saturday. I'm going to try and put my knee on the deck. Must remember to get a lap timer.. :-)
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Tally ho · 2008-07-17 15:44
Finally got my shit sorted WRT Axis2 and JNDI datasources. Here's a hint: if you've filled out context.xml and web.xml with the right stuff, and you're getting the error:
Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'
Trust the pope with all those kids? · 2008-07-17 13:16
Spag Bog · 2008-07-16 13:33
It's official: Java combined with Axis2 and Tomcat is the worst learning experience I've had, bumping off the WIN32 API from the -1 position. Never before have I read so much misleading, conflicting, under-documented bollocks. Some of the official stuff is even just plain wrong. The WIN32 stuff, which I consider messy and verbose, has correct documentation. The last 3 weeks have been a friggin nightmare, I've written maybe 100 lines of application code. The rest of the time has been spent configuring, re-configuring, blowing away when I realised something wasn't the right way to do it, then doing it all again because it wasn't really clear the first time.
I'm champing at the bit to actually get started, and this crap is holding me back. I'm about ready to do a major dummy spit.
Business time · 2008-07-14 13:56
Getting the hell out of Sydney · 2008-07-04 11:04
My application for renting a house in Leura was approved, I get the keys on the 11th of this month (next Friday)!
I've been feeling good about this move since I made the decision. Now that it's actually happening I feel bloody great about it! It's a 3 bedroom home with a huge backyard, shed, garage and BBQ. It also costs about half of what I've been paying in Bondi.
Finally, I'll have space to be able to have some normal things to do on the weekend! Not only that but it's walking distance to the Blue Mountains national park. As a kid, growing up in Buttfuck, Tasmania, there wasn't much else to do (that interested me) than bush walking. I'm looking forward to getting back into it. I'd even like to invest some time into learning some survival skills - bush tucker, hunting without guns, end-of-civilisation kind of skills and just go bush for a few weeks. That would be cool.
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Busted! · 2008-06-24 17:18
They finally traced the printer messages back to my computer. I was asked to stop. "OK" I replied as I typed crontab -e into an xterm and commented out the hourly printer status update script. Apparently the new CIO has been going off about it, because someone complained when the printer message was set to "HAVE A NICE DAY" when it was raining outside! I guess some people just weren't born to smile.
Never mind about them.
I'm currently involved in replacing a document management system called Tower IDM (that I heard we pay around $AU20k per quarter for) with a home grown Java solution. I'm doing the growing... it's rather interesting actually. There are basically 2 operations: get a document and put a document. I'm exposing it via a SOAP interface.
What makes this interesting is that I'm using Java, Tomcat, Eclipse, Axis2 and Hibernate. I haven't done any Java since Uni - it's been a pretty full on week! I told my superiors I'd have something in two weeks. I have until Friday to show something. I have the feeling though that they will be expecting a completed product - it will be complete, but for sure there will be bugs. And then we will have to integrate it with what we already have - I couldn't wait around to organise all the other crap I'd need to integrate it as I go so I'm using stuff totally contained on my workstation..