sciency stuff

Last Thursday, an occultation occurred between the moon and Jupiter. Jupiter is that tiny little spec in the pictures below. I was expecting something cool to happen, but it was just a tiny white spec dissappearing behind the moon. Pfft, I'm stupid.





I just discovered google maps. You can fuckin look at satellite photos which cover the entire world. Holy crap. It's so detailed, you can see cars on the street. I've located my house, The University of Queensland, Lang Park, Statue of Liberty, where the World Trade Centre towers were, the landscape in Iceland used in the Bjork film clip for Joga, and Wimbledon. You can zoom in on everything except Antartica. I'm sure you can't look at certain bits though. Like Area 51, or anything Military-ish.

Well I must study for my last exam on Thursday. Hurrah!

e^procrastination + 3(exams) = n! (where n = me stressing out heaps)

I just started playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I played it the entire day and didn't study at all. Cool. I'm seeing Bailes tomorrow, got a test on Thursday, and I'm not feeling that great about it. All I need is 40% on it to pass the course. It's an interesting subject, but the maths is a bit too much for me.

Here's something interesting for TISM fans, penned by Damian Cowell. It details their trip to the Earthcore festival in Victoria. He talks about TISM walking unmasked through the crowds at the festival. No one notices them of course. Oh I hope they've still got the energy to do another tour here. They are so good.

Oh yeah, I went a bit over the top with javascript in my template. I made a NIN concert countdown, a Smoking Gun news feed on the side and a live picture telling you the current weather in Brisbane.

look at me, aren't I great?

I finally got the mark back for my Web Information Systems assignment. I seriously did weeks of work on that, and I ended up enjoying working on it. I got 28.5/30! It's worth 30% of the course overall, so that's a friggen lot. But then the tutor for the subject posted this on the newsgroup:

Hi all,

I forget to mention the highest marks.

For both INFS3202 and INFS7202, the highest mark is 28.5% (1 in each course).

I've never gotten the highest marks in any uni course before, so I'm very proud. But there's still a 52% exam for it, so that could screw me over.

If this blog allowed me to put javascript in my posts, I'd start a 'X days until NIN concert' counter.

I just figured I can put javascript in the template. Wacky do.