Okay so I went a bit too deep in cloud contact storage, and have information spread across Microsoft, Google and iCloud.
I am going to overhaul my contacts so that all information (the original copy) will be on Google, and I'll have Microsoft Exchange pull information from there. Fingers crossed yo.
Then I will put all phone information again on iCloud. I do this because I don't want people I only have an email for to appear normally on my contact list. I will link my iCloud and Google contact cards.
Calendars will be on Google as well, as well as email. All Microsoft Exchange is allowed to do is pull so that my computer has access to these things through Win8 apps.
Facebook, Skype and Twitter are linked to Exchange and I cbf reversing that unless they really pose a problem. Hiding contacts other than Google contacts will solve any bloating of contact lists.
Please do not be offended if you send an email/text and I don't know who you are - that's just cos I dun goofed and lost your contact information. At the very least, I can always contact you through Facebook if I lost all other forms of contact.
On a related note, I merge MSN and Skype rather unsuccessfully as I don't use my Hotmail address for my Exchange account, and herpa derpa I lose all my messenger contacts. Importing via Vcard/CSV was a major flop and so basically I'm resigned to the fact that I have pretty much lost Messenger.
I posted this as a disclaimer for any future "who's this again sorry"s and also as a reminder to myself as to what I want.
round trip
Yay so I'm like back again and there are quite a few stories to tell, if I can be bothered typing them all up.
Well I'll start off by saying that cruises are an excellent way to travel, in that the service is uber, and there is plenty to do.
Service is great in that they make an effort to remember your names and your preferences. It's hard to explain why that's awesome but it is! And they stop and chat and stuff and are just awesome. And these are photos of cute towel animals that our housekeeper made for us daily!
And there were nightly shows that were not shitty - actually acts that have somewhat made a name for themselves. I also watched Looper in their cinema. It was a lot more convoluted than Inception (seriously wtf how do you not get Inception) in that JGL ages to Bruce Willis then JGL doesn't get to close the loop the second time (dw these aren't spoilers) and it's like wtf wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. But I got it after the scene where they talk in the diner and it's all good yay.
Also cocktails are dirt cheap at $7 a pop. Didn't check the beers but probably like $3 - $5 a pint. Seriously, it kinda scared me how consistently these ageing men and women drank throughout the cruise. There was this mixology class that I could sit in on I thought was actually gonna be useful. In actuality, they paid $15 to watch the bartender tell them what ingredients go in their cocktails as the bartender makes a double vodka lemon drop and two other overpoured cocktails to get them all drunk. That's actually really good value under the guise of learning. However, even though the bartender is putting two parts vodka one part creme de cacao, that makes drinks for more than one person. Also, he lets it sit for about a minute or two before even shaking. To the untrained eye, that looks like a lot of alcohol. To me, they are just gonna get a vodka-tasting cocktail that has been watered down too much :P. Still, it might be around 1.2x what the normal serving of ABV in the cocktail is, so yay! However, suffice to say I didn't go to another one of those classes.
Oh I also need to mention at this point that the legal drinking age on the line I sailed on is 21, so sadly missed out on cheap ethanol. Also they use some rail brands of vodka and other liqueurs that look dodgy as all fuck. I smirked when one of the people who paid for the course asked what brand of vodka the bartender was using, as if that's what you should be mixing with at home :L
Allow me to insert an anecdote now. There was this table adjacent to us that ordered wine every evening. In fact, this was almost every table except for ours, but irrelevant. Anyway they were Asian (Malay, I think) and the dude gets Asian flush. Now they could understand English, so I can't say "lol look how drunk the guy on the next table is". So I coded it to my brother "There is an increased amount of long wavelength visible light being emanated from the individual on the adjacent table". I had to repeat it a few times, but he got it eventually :L. So then the next day my bro said "The wavelength gently grows...", at which point some of you might follow up with "Coercive notions re-evolve", and identify it as MK Ultra by Muse. So then the intro tune of this song was hummed to indicate drunkenness. That's 4 layers of encryption yo: drunk->red->longer wavelength light->the wavelength gently grows->humming the tune of MK Ultra. Pretty much unbreakable. It was of note that he was drunk because the first night he started hugging the waiter after dinner and it was kinda embarrassing ahaha.
American duty free is also superior to Australian duty free. Where the hell else can you buy a 1L bottle of Glenfiddich 12yo for $36? I say, $36!!
I also had to rush my uni offer acceptance in netcafes on shore (the internet on the ship was satellite - slow and expensive) and that was a great adventure that led to me being separated from my parents for a good hour or two - will tell the story later.
I just weighed myself and I did not gain a single kilo after eating 5 course dinners daily. This is actually kinda sad for me cos I don't wanna be a stick forever :L. For the record I did nothing throughout the day and played Galaxy on Fire II on my iPhone if I'm not on shore. Also, did you know that the entree is the main course. Wtf I always thought that the appetiser was the entree fucking paradigm shift.
I also need to complain about how people drink cocktails and champagne and red wine (yes. all of them) but I'll do that in the next post.
Note to self of future posts: glassware, separation in Napier, souvenirs/duty free, rosemary dude, UAC times + deadline.
Well I'll start off by saying that cruises are an excellent way to travel, in that the service is uber, and there is plenty to do.
Service is great in that they make an effort to remember your names and your preferences. It's hard to explain why that's awesome but it is! And they stop and chat and stuff and are just awesome. And these are photos of cute towel animals that our housekeeper made for us daily!
And there were nightly shows that were not shitty - actually acts that have somewhat made a name for themselves. I also watched Looper in their cinema. It was a lot more convoluted than Inception (seriously wtf how do you not get Inception) in that JGL ages to Bruce Willis then JGL doesn't get to close the loop the second time (dw these aren't spoilers) and it's like wtf wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. But I got it after the scene where they talk in the diner and it's all good yay.
Also cocktails are dirt cheap at $7 a pop. Didn't check the beers but probably like $3 - $5 a pint. Seriously, it kinda scared me how consistently these ageing men and women drank throughout the cruise. There was this mixology class that I could sit in on I thought was actually gonna be useful. In actuality, they paid $15 to watch the bartender tell them what ingredients go in their cocktails as the bartender makes a double vodka lemon drop and two other overpoured cocktails to get them all drunk. That's actually really good value under the guise of learning. However, even though the bartender is putting two parts vodka one part creme de cacao, that makes drinks for more than one person. Also, he lets it sit for about a minute or two before even shaking. To the untrained eye, that looks like a lot of alcohol. To me, they are just gonna get a vodka-tasting cocktail that has been watered down too much :P. Still, it might be around 1.2x what the normal serving of ABV in the cocktail is, so yay! However, suffice to say I didn't go to another one of those classes.
Oh I also need to mention at this point that the legal drinking age on the line I sailed on is 21, so sadly missed out on cheap ethanol. Also they use some rail brands of vodka and other liqueurs that look dodgy as all fuck. I smirked when one of the people who paid for the course asked what brand of vodka the bartender was using, as if that's what you should be mixing with at home :L
Allow me to insert an anecdote now. There was this table adjacent to us that ordered wine every evening. In fact, this was almost every table except for ours, but irrelevant. Anyway they were Asian (Malay, I think) and the dude gets Asian flush. Now they could understand English, so I can't say "lol look how drunk the guy on the next table is". So I coded it to my brother "There is an increased amount of long wavelength visible light being emanated from the individual on the adjacent table". I had to repeat it a few times, but he got it eventually :L. So then the next day my bro said "The wavelength gently grows...", at which point some of you might follow up with "Coercive notions re-evolve", and identify it as MK Ultra by Muse. So then the intro tune of this song was hummed to indicate drunkenness. That's 4 layers of encryption yo: drunk->red->longer wavelength light->the wavelength gently grows->humming the tune of MK Ultra. Pretty much unbreakable. It was of note that he was drunk because the first night he started hugging the waiter after dinner and it was kinda embarrassing ahaha.
American duty free is also superior to Australian duty free. Where the hell else can you buy a 1L bottle of Glenfiddich 12yo for $36? I say, $36!!
I also had to rush my uni offer acceptance in netcafes on shore (the internet on the ship was satellite - slow and expensive) and that was a great adventure that led to me being separated from my parents for a good hour or two - will tell the story later.
I just weighed myself and I did not gain a single kilo after eating 5 course dinners daily. This is actually kinda sad for me cos I don't wanna be a stick forever :L. For the record I did nothing throughout the day and played Galaxy on Fire II on my iPhone if I'm not on shore. Also, did you know that the entree is the main course. Wtf I always thought that the appetiser was the entree fucking paradigm shift.
I also need to complain about how people drink cocktails and champagne and red wine (yes. all of them) but I'll do that in the next post.
Note to self of future posts: glassware, separation in Napier, souvenirs/duty free, rosemary dude, UAC times + deadline.
i dreamed
I was worried about only taking 10 units (I swear I added it together in my dream - I must've forgotten about Bio or something...). So there was something called 2U Painting. For some reason, no other, more mainstream alternative was available to me (where was eco, mod, even ext English.. anything more suited to my abilities than "painting"!!). So, begrudgingly, I took it.
Fast forward an indefinite amount of time. I was under the impression that it was right after the holidays. And I was in a said Painting lesson, and there was something due. Despite not knowing what the hell it was, I felt a sense of guilt/dread that usually accompanies forgetting to do hw (usually encountered in junior school). Everyone else (read: half the class; reread: most of the girls and only the most hardworking of guys) handed in something that looked like a game board. Oh, this class was pretty big. Like 20-ish people big ahaha.
Okay so like many people didn't hand it in, it was like the first lesson or something (that was my impression in the dream, don't be pedantic about how an assignment could be given before the first lesson) so I was like meh. Then we did some sort of painting analysis. Like we looked at a picture and took notes. I was typing shit up on a very badly formatted word doc so that my margins were huge and all my text was down a skinny column in the middle of the page. Kinda like an exaggerated form of this blog but I don't know how to change this layout :L. And some girl in front of me was writing as fast as people write in an exam, churning out 4 pages in like 3 minutes, with huge-ass writing like people tend to do in exams.
I resolved to see Connors and discuss my options because I kinda suck at this Painting class. Also the classroom smelt obscenely of paint fumes.
I don't remember if anything happened after this. But I did wake up quite soon after.
My first thought when I woke up was "Uhh I did take 12 units in real life, right... 4 maths 2 english 2 phys 2 chem 2 bio. Okay all good."
About 3 seconds later I was like "wait I kinda already finished the HSC."
A good deal my dreams are in school settings. Like last night we were doing a "study group" in some non-descript classroom, and it was past sunset, and we weren't really studying, just chatting and dicking around, and I swear there was at least one beer.
And then some male person I identified as the principal came along, and I wasn't wearing either a shirt or pants, and it was just wtf.
In unrelated news, I finally found shot glasses, and they were cheap as all hell. I also found citrus squeezers (the ones that are designed like a garlic press so hands never get dirty). All I need now is a citrus channel knife.
Fast forward an indefinite amount of time. I was under the impression that it was right after the holidays. And I was in a said Painting lesson, and there was something due. Despite not knowing what the hell it was, I felt a sense of guilt/dread that usually accompanies forgetting to do hw (usually encountered in junior school). Everyone else (read: half the class; reread: most of the girls and only the most hardworking of guys) handed in something that looked like a game board. Oh, this class was pretty big. Like 20-ish people big ahaha.
Okay so like many people didn't hand it in, it was like the first lesson or something (that was my impression in the dream, don't be pedantic about how an assignment could be given before the first lesson) so I was like meh. Then we did some sort of painting analysis. Like we looked at a picture and took notes. I was typing shit up on a very badly formatted word doc so that my margins were huge and all my text was down a skinny column in the middle of the page. Kinda like an exaggerated form of this blog but I don't know how to change this layout :L. And some girl in front of me was writing as fast as people write in an exam, churning out 4 pages in like 3 minutes, with huge-ass writing like people tend to do in exams.
I resolved to see Connors and discuss my options because I kinda suck at this Painting class. Also the classroom smelt obscenely of paint fumes.
I don't remember if anything happened after this. But I did wake up quite soon after.
My first thought when I woke up was "Uhh I did take 12 units in real life, right... 4 maths 2 english 2 phys 2 chem 2 bio. Okay all good."
About 3 seconds later I was like "wait I kinda already finished the HSC."
A good deal my dreams are in school settings. Like last night we were doing a "study group" in some non-descript classroom, and it was past sunset, and we weren't really studying, just chatting and dicking around, and I swear there was at least one beer.
And then some male person I identified as the principal came along, and I wasn't wearing either a shirt or pants, and it was just wtf.
In unrelated news, I finally found shot glasses, and they were cheap as all hell. I also found citrus squeezers (the ones that are designed like a garlic press so hands never get dirty). All I need now is a citrus channel knife.
solo
I've been trying to learn solos by ear (as opposed to from tabs) cos I figured that would be good for me.
I'm getting faster at it yay. I'm still sticking with melodic solos, as opposed to shred, cos I like melodic solos better anyway.
Done (in the last week - can't remember ones I did before):
Killer Queen - Queen
Bicycle Race - Queen
You're My Best Friend - Queen
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
Hotel California - Eagles (halfway done, and it is heads and shoulders above Stairway to Heaven solo. It's just so much better!!!)
Hit list:
November Rain - Guns N Roses (esp the final solo - major chillz from the first note)
Sweet Child o' Mine - Guns N Roses
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
One (Intro, Post Chorus, Main) - Metallica (maybe cbf with the tap one)
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix Experience (so I can finally use my wah without making it sound like a porno)
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix Experience (need to learn the whole song it's so pretty)
Floods - Pantera (I'd never get that tone out of a Strat though)
Blackbird - Alter Bridge
Open to suggestions (if I like the song :P). If I end up liking it and doing it, I'll dedicate a Youtube cover to you bahaha
I'm getting faster at it yay. I'm still sticking with melodic solos, as opposed to shred, cos I like melodic solos better anyway.
Done (in the last week - can't remember ones I did before):
Killer Queen - Queen
Bicycle Race - Queen
You're My Best Friend - Queen
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
Hotel California - Eagles (halfway done, and it is heads and shoulders above Stairway to Heaven solo. It's just so much better!!!)
Hit list:
November Rain - Guns N Roses (esp the final solo - major chillz from the first note)
Sweet Child o' Mine - Guns N Roses
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
One (Intro, Post Chorus, Main) - Metallica (maybe cbf with the tap one)
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix Experience (so I can finally use my wah without making it sound like a porno)
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix Experience (need to learn the whole song it's so pretty)
Floods - Pantera (I'd never get that tone out of a Strat though)
Blackbird - Alter Bridge
Open to suggestions (if I like the song :P). If I end up liking it and doing it, I'll dedicate a Youtube cover to you bahaha
what you can find on the internet
I found this article linked on reddit. I forgot the context, but the title made me wtf. Without spoiling anything, I'd say that the article is interesting, to say the least.
WARNING: Rape issues
Discussion below!
Okay I have to do some screening to prevent irrelevant comments:
WARNING: Rape issues
Discussion below!
Okay I have to do some screening to prevent irrelevant comments:
phrases to use to pretend you're not a bad person
As promised, just a little bit late.
Granted, offence is taken and not given. Hence, saying "no offence" does not stop you from giving offence. Depending on who you're talking to and what their values are, they may take offence for the most seemingly innocuous comment, or they may be happy with you making jokes about Hitler and the Jews.
That is why comedians can make the darkest of jokes and the audience still laughs - luckily only those that do not take offence came to watch the show.
But usually leaves a lasting impression of racism/sexism/etc, so uber duber.
Tries to justify the existence of their stupid statement, but in the end the statement undermines its own value.
A milder form of "no offence", in that it's not guaranteed to offend (of course, it could, though, if the listener decides to take offence).
No offence
Usually followed up by something offensive. I've seen about 3 cases where the following statement is not offensive. And it just seemed like the person used "no offence" for no reason whatsoever.Granted, offence is taken and not given. Hence, saying "no offence" does not stop you from giving offence. Depending on who you're talking to and what their values are, they may take offence for the most seemingly innocuous comment, or they may be happy with you making jokes about Hitler and the Jews.
That is why comedians can make the darkest of jokes and the audience still laughs - luckily only those that do not take offence came to watch the show.
I'm not a racist/sexist/etc, but...
Usually followed up by something prejudicial. A comment that is clearly inappropriate, and the person who says this is trying to pretend this is not their usual way of thinking or something.But usually leaves a lasting impression of racism/sexism/etc, so uber duber.
Just saying
Usually followed by something that everyone else wishes was not said.Tries to justify the existence of their stupid statement, but in the end the statement undermines its own value.
A milder form of "no offence", in that it's not guaranteed to offend (of course, it could, though, if the listener decides to take offence).
Frankly/To be honest/Not going to lie/etc
Feigns a sense of objectivity where none exists.I hate to be a told-you-so...
Usually followed up by said person being said told-you-so.I was being sarcastic/trolling/ironic
For those that really have no idea how those work. "Covers up" a bad joke because they've seen people use these terms to explain jokes that the perpetrator did not understand. It's really pathetic when I see this whipped out, when there is no trace of sarcasm or irony. Don't get me started on what "trolling" actually is.
return of the riddle
Haven't done one of these in a while.
Solve the puzzle, you get a survey yay.
Hints will become progressively available when I feel like it.
1) Courtesy of Monica: Those yellow things on the left and right are moons, not bananas.
2) E, G Ab B E, B F#, B D E
3)
4)
Solve the puzzle, you get a survey yay.
Hints will become progressively available when I feel like it.
1) Courtesy of Monica: Those yellow things on the left and right are moons, not bananas.
2) E, G Ab B E, B F#, B D E
3)
4)
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