Ekka

Time for the monthly blog post. This Saturday I'll be going to QPAC Concert Hall to witness the final of the Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition. It's a biannual competition, and I saw it last time. A 16 year old kid won and got about $10 000. It's dominated my Asians.

While I'm excited about that, I'm infinitely more excited about seeing NIN next Monday. I've been waiting 5 years to see them.That's a quarter of my life. Jesus, well that's what happens when you live in Australia. I'm a total sucker for cool light displays at gigs, and NIN have some of the best I've ever seen. I'm hoping for lotsa keyboard trashing and misc drunken behaviour.

Last night I went to the Ekka. There were lots of little things I remembered from the last time I went, which was a very long time ago. For example, some of the signs in the showbag pavilion; this little shower head display which compares the volume of water produced; the monkey race up the pole game in sideshow alley and just the general layout of the place. It was nice. Before the fireworks display I tried to imagine Don Bradman facing England on the RNA showgrounds oval. He made his test debut there. I also imagined what it would be like going to Livid. I always wanted to go to one, because: "It's like the Big Day Out, but it's a bloody lot closer!!!". However I've never liked the bands that play at Livid.

Also at the Ekka we managed to talk to Jabba, who used to be on channel-v before it got all crap. He was hanging around the Nova showbag stand. I managed to weave TISM into the conversation and found out he probably saw them, unmasked, at an airport. Other highlights were watching a guy chuck up near us, and Jabba hinting that he doesn't like a certain high-profile channel-v host. Hehe.

On the right I've added a bit of javascript which displays a random quote. I managed to find a quote my thesis supervisor made in a lecture from 1988. What a legend. Every few months he travels to Beijing. I've gotta ask him what he does there.

Also, I'm writing my thesis atm, and of course I have to use double line spacing. Which looks like this:

According to Sterling [2], controlling backtracking and good goal ordering are important concepts for designing efficient Prolog programs. He argues that goals should fail as early as possible. This reduces the number of recursive calls made, and leads to more “correct” Prolog programs.

Why the hell do you need to space out lines like that? This absurdity leads to another theory:

Theory #3

Academics use double line spacing to give the impression they have accomplished a lot more work than they have actually done.

Stupid smartarse uni people.