Technically Brunette

I am quite content in admitting that i may just never leave my study again. I was kindly given a set of Lego Mindstorms for Xmas and as i have only just returned to Sydney i was only just able to start playing.

I decided it was best to start by constructing one of the documented models rather then let my ambition get the better of me. So sure enough i chose a model to construct. There was no fluffing around for me as i decided to jump straight into it and construct the nearly famous LEGO NXT humanoid Alpha Rex.

With 101 pages of PDF to follow and the occasional missing page and double pages replacing them i slowly worked my way through it while the boys amused themselves with a 20/20 match. The one thing i has quite blissfully forgotten about Lego and Technique was all those itty-bitty parts that even though there are ten of them in the box you can never find them on call. Between that and my usual clumsiness of dropping small, yet vital connecting parts that are seemingly never to be found again. Even with all this i still managed to work my way through this relative simple procedure, even if i needed to improvise a little to hold poor Rex’s head on.

Once Rex had physically been pieced together it was time to piece him together mentally, using the Mindstorm software. I have to say that i am not5r a big fan of the whole drag and drop concept of programing, i mean dont get me wrong it’s pretty and sure it teaches kids or newbies to programing the concept of making software modular burt frankly i find it tedious. What i have decided they really need is an option when it comes to the Mindstorm software interface, all they would need to do is put in a view option and create a compiler style view for us picky know-it-alls. That is if they want us to use their software at all and considering the alternative is cracking the hardware to enable the use of a C compiler i think they would defiantly prefer to put a bit more effort in to their own program.

All in all i think it is best if i give this product a few different ratings, these are as follows:

Physical construction of the product i give 4.5 out of 5 B9’s

As for the software personally i gave it 1.5 blue screens:

However i do give the product all in all a 5 out of 5 for usability for the average Joe Blow i also give it full marks for freaking out the dog.

I am sure that every woman who lives with a male will sympathise with me here, in-fact this is such an issue that a number of studies and research articles have been done to drop hints to the male race that all they really need to do to impress us (AKA turn us on) is to clean. Or is it?

The fact is that experience has shown me that men have a completely different standard of clean and how to clean. So are men really such delinquents when it comes to then finally doing cleaning or is it all a conspiracy in which they are so sure that if they do such a bad job we wont let them do it again? Well if it is a conspiracy then i think men really need to smarten up as this “poor Effort” or just not cleaning just means that they wont get laid and may spend a cold lonely night on the couch. To be honest men really should have got this through there thick skulls by now, however just in-case they haven’t here is a very blunt extract from The Married Male to finish:

So housecleaning and happiness are related?
In writing the book, I kept seeing the parallel between housework and sex in the interviews. Men said the happier their wives were in the division of housework, the happier the men were with their sex lives. We even looked at the numbers and found that there’s more sex in the relationship if the wife is happy with the division of housework. It doesn’t have to be exactly equal, the wife just has to think it’s fair. When a woman comes in she notices if it’s a mess, it’s often socialized in [her] that [she is] more responsible for the look of the home So if he can recognize that by doing a fair share, then he is often rewarded with sex. She’s not as angry, or burdened and she’s not as tired.

As most of you would already know my partner works in a water saving line of work, meaning he is continuously coming home with water restrict-ers, new water saving methods and of course criticism on how much of a cretin i am when it comes to saving water or recycling (which i feel is crap). Anyway last-night he found his precious water-saving shower head which he had obtained free in a show bag with those light bulbs and which i had manage to hide away for 6 months.

Now this shower head is exactly the same as you basic shower head except it has a water restrict-er in it which means it only uses 3 liters of water per minute (according to the Stu). At first thought this seemed like it would defiantly be producing a piss weak shower. However Stu was very proud of his find and he installed it straight away…with out telling me.

So when i had made the freezing journey to the bathroom (it is really bad in our place) all i could think of was the hot steamy shower that would soon be massaging my back with it’s perfect pressure. Instead what do i find? I find that when i turn the flipping taps up on full i get no more then a drizzle. Yes it was a warm drizzle, and yes it was a drizzle which would last a while however it is a fricking drizzle and not a nice shower.

In conclusion until you can come up with a water saving shower head that still provides me with the massaging pleasures of my old one or even just enough pressure to actually be able to wash i will be a cretin!!!

TELP

Recently there has been allot of who-ha about this second life thing which is basically like an on-line version of Sims where you actually spend your own money and do various things to create on on-line life like you wish you really had.

Well i thought i’d try and see what all the fuss was about, so i created an account. After typing in a shit load of info in various pages and then clicking join i haven’t received an email notification of my joining and i am also unable to sign in…. hmmmm

So my over all rating… this really doesn’t even deserve a donkey fart.

Letter ONE:

Dear Pedestrians;

You continually whine and complain about the lack of “Path Edict” shone by Sydney cyclers. If i had a penny for the number of times i have either heard or read about a pedestrian (be they a runner or walker) who is having a bitch about bike riders not ringing their bell, or indicating verbally that they are about to pass or even the complaints about riders hooning past pedestrians and almost “causing” a collision i would be able to afford a car.

Granted there are the occasional hoons on bikes however i would hate to tell you that this is the case in every “group” including pedestrians. The fact is that if you all took enough notice of the world around you when you walked you would see that at-least 90% of all cyclists do in-fact ring their bell or yell out verbally however your IPod is either stuck way to far in your ears or the volume of your beaty dance mix is turned up way to high and you are unable to hear. If you feel that either of these could be the case please either TURN THE F&%KING THING DOWN or GET RID OF IT. In regards to those complaining about almost being bolled over by cyclists please take the above advice regarding your IPod bat to you i will also despence this advice…. When there is both a bike only and a pedestrian only section and you feel that you have every right to park your ass in the middle of the bike only section (as a pedestrian) with your Ipod so loud that you cant hear me telling you I’m coming then you deserve to be decked and you are lucking as all hell that it was a near miss!!!

So in future please remember that if you had one of those fashionable ear drum blowers while the “incident in question” occurred SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!!!

Yours thankfully,

Sarah

Letter TWO:

Coming soon

Oh oh oh,

POTATOOOOOOS,

I like me POTATOOOOS,

I like em mashed, i like em hot,

Bit of butter, bit of salt,

I like my potatoooos

oh oh oh

Ok guys due to the failed attempts of Wombat and Stu to make our dear friend Joel an Internet celebrity, via the browser Barron, i decided it was time we tackled another angle.

May i present to you the intro to the new hit FLASH series “Joel on Patrol”:

I was intrigued to read in the SMH today the following headline:

Parents told not to treat children with pet products

This article was written after a child had become ill from an animal flea/tick treatment being used on him to get rid of head lice. Part of me is outraged that this even deserves article status as frankly i think the warning on the label should be enough for all to see and realise that they shouldn’t use these things on humans. However another part of me sides with the parents as given my experience with my sister and head-lice they properly used everything available on the market for human treatment and thought that the animal super strength stuff was the logical next step.

The fact is that head-lice are becoming immune to all these sissy herbal treatments that smell like orange or even the chemical ones which smell like poo (funny thing is that the poo smelling ones do smell nicer then the ones that are meant to smell like orange). I still remember literally skipping the country just to get away from my sisters hair, which even after hourly treatments of well EVERYTHING my parents could find was still teaming with nits (AKA Head lice), in-fact my mother remembers driving her to the chemist, by that time her head was a moving blob of black little things that bite, and once there cleared them out of everything. My mum was literally out of ideas and was about to shave my poor sisters head just to get rid of them.

In conclusion had my mother seen a packet of animal flea/tic product i am positive that she would have taken the risk, as it would have meant she didn’t need to wash the bed sheets 10 times a day and my sister 24 times a day.

It came as a suprise to me when i heard on ABC 702 at 4:04pm this afternoon that all the big media gooru’s have joined together in a meeting today to stand up against the lack of “freedom of speech” in Australia. “Fancy that!” I thought, “media wanting everyone to have a fair say… “. Ho ho ho that delusion didn’t last long as a representative from Fairfax spoke to Richard Glover regarding the stand soon cleared all foggy patches.

Basically all the heads of “reputable” media in Australia got together for a coushie lunch and of course stuffed them selves silly with oysters, lobsters, cucumber sandwiches, fillet stake, truffles, those itty-bitty cakes, Moet & Chandon, Penfolds Grange and perhaps some Hill of Grace. Between gracefully woofing down the provided goodies they some how found time to discuss how unfair it was that the government, major and minor companies and even individuals are extremely protective over privet and confidential information and how there should be some law allowing the media to access this information to of course “benefit the people” rather then produce a good story in this terrible news drought.

I must say that this is a very typical move by the media however i find it rather amusing the way in which they are arguing the matter, using the bloody line:

The people deserve to know the TRUTH…

Of course in this statement TRUTH stands for:

Totaly Ridiculously Unreliable Titty-lying Handful-of-shit

I don’t know how many of you have been into Target recently but if you can help it please don’t! What used to be a great place to go for a bargain in clothes, bedding, toys, cosmetics and home wares has now decided to live up to it’s school yard name of “Targét” and has almost become another Myer.

After going there today i have to say i am in shock, not only is everything neat and spotless (there where no clothes carelessly flung over racks or falling off hangers) but everything was colour coordinated… no joke. However shoppers beware, apart from the occasional bargain ( i got a heap of men’s work shirts for $12-14) the average price of things has not just increased but SKYROCKETED. Where you use to be able to get cheep women’s shoes and clothing for around $10 a pop the average price for a top is now $50. How on earth do they rationalise this? The fact is that target changed it’s image (and prices) when they caught on that shopping at target was the ‘COOL’ thing to do in high-school, i mean they even get some woopty-doo fashion designer to do a line for them, which might i add they are charging Boutique prices for. The fact is that they have totally missed the point. Target was cool because it was so cheep and junkie, kids could afford stuff there and they had stuff kids like none of this fancy-nancy stuff they have now. So until the real target returns i encourage every one to support Kool-Mart (Aka: K-Mart) and not this middle Australia crap.