Tag Archives: Life

Board

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I’m the idiot who would break into the post office to pop all the bubble wrap.

I’m the idiot who would break into a hardware store to zip all the zippy ties.

Not many days of school left and I’m trying to keep motivated. Currently struggling in Physics, this relativity stuff is horrible. You know the whole “If was standing on a bus that was traveling at the speed of light, what happens if I walk forward” and “If I’m traveling at the speed of light and I look in a mirror what will I see” type of stuff.

I’m struggling to understand and use the provided formulas correctly. Hopefully I’ll get this sorted before the final exam -_-.

Anyway, I just thought I’d share what’s happening with my life and school.

Corn

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Do you eat your corn around or across? I go across. :> This is exactly why the Bureau of Statistics needs a revamp, I can’t thing these statistics anywhere.

The Bureau of Statistics, is a nice a place to troll around if you have a few hours to waste. You can find some really interesting information of your area.

Dennis Ferguson

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I’m gonna try and keep this short and snappy. The guy is legally a free man. What he done was wrong but he done his time, and he’s allowed to do what he pleases I wouldn’t mind him living next door to me, because he’s gone through the process

He has to live somewhere and as long as he doesn’t re offend it’s fine. Unless you want to charge him with another crime, leave the man alone.

I don’t condone his behaivor, but if your bitching, why don’t you change the prision time for these cases, rather than annoy him.

Spud Gun

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Being messing around with some friends with a spud gun, we’re still working on improving the design and getting it to fire higher / faster, but our basic design works decently. Our 90mm design is simply a 1m 90mm pipe that has a whole drilled in the center for a BBQ sparker and a screw on lid on one end.

Our next design will have a proper combustion camber, smaller barrel, using pressure rated pipe, a gas injection system (the screw on lid gets slowly melted making it hard to get on and off. Other idea’s will include using a camera flash electronics to fire the sparks. The caps on those are awesome.

BTW, this is illegal, and I would never fire one of these off, unless I was off shore or had the correct permits. Blah Blah Blah. Insert legal disclaimer here.

CSI – Unmissable

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I saw an advert on Win TV (Channel 9), claiming that an episode for CSI was “Unmissable”. To me, unmissable sounds like, it’s impossible to miss it. If this definition is correct, does that mean I can file false advertising claims on Win TV, as I did end up missing that episode?

FACT!

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At time of writing bananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananana is the first instance in which a bana[na]+ is not found in google [dot] com.

Fuck I have no life.

Human Barcode Reading.

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Long story short, practice tests are boring, and boring times provoke doing boring tasks, such as learning howto decode barcodes.

The coputer read sheet contains a 4 by 8 square matrix, with certain squares blackened.
Hmm, 8 squares, sounds like 8bit binary. Kinda. This is what I learnt, remembering that I was in an exam so I couldn’t use outside world help.

This is the barcode if it was written as binary (the first few attempts of me decoding it failed because I was reading it upside down).

11011100 | A
00001101 | B
00010101 | C
00000001 | D
(3349)

Now to read is quite simple, you get rows B and C and put next to each other, which make a 16 bit binary code.

0000110100010101

Which equals 3349, correct according to the number under the barcode. Now the next problem is what are rows A and D for. I presume they are for check sum, row D is a simple, “this row should equal one” check, but row A is left. If anyknows how the checksum works, comments would be nice. Btw, this was from a QCS prac. exam, I thought they would use something a little more harder.

Some more barcodes
00010111
11110001
11110110
00000001
(61942)

01111110
10000010
11111110
00000001
(33534)

Teachers Rights

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Today (well at time of writing 22/5/08), I was walking with a group home during a flex off period, and we came across a sports class that conducts scenic walking as a sport. The teacher stopped us like he was a police officer in authority (personally I was going to keep on walking, as I thought it was a joke and if it wasn’t it’s out his rights to stop us. But nearly everyone else in the group stopped so I thought I would conform) and got use to show ID, so he could determine if we were in Grade 12 (The only grade that can get variation at the time). Now as far as I know, we had been let out of school and weren’t under the control of the school and teachers have no right to stop students. If we were waging we would be placed in the brilliant absent system and so on so forth.

Should teachers be able to stop students and check if they should be in school? I think not, your thoughts would be appreciated.