Car on fire!

Tonight I was innocently working on an assignment, when there were some weird sounds coming from outside my bedroom window. Dave & I went to investigate, and it turned out that there was a car on fire!

By the time we went out there to check it out, there were two firetrucks, and a few policeman checking it out. One of them asked us some questions, but I was too into my assignment to notice that anything had happened.

So what type of car is it? The fireman I was talking to thought that it was probably a Hydunda Excel. I think it used to be white, but it's pretty hard to tell! So if you own an Excell, then I know where it is!

Yes, that it steam / smoke coming from the car... and it didn't smell very nice.

Demo Day Success

A big thankyou to everybody who came along and supported us at demo day. The day was a great success, and hopefully we get marked really well for it! (We get our marks tomorrow).

Just in case you don't know, we have been working all year as a team on our Help Desk Analyser. Demo day was the day where we got to show off all of the work that we had done.

Survey :: Slave2Work

How much time do you spend doing uni work each day?

It only just occurred to me how much work I'm actually doing at university this semester. I know that I have been struggling to get 8 hours sleep a night, and that I haven't had time to do a lot of lifes simple pleasures. But, I didn't realise how much work I have been putting into uni.


The standard Australian day:
8 hours at work
8 hours in bed asleep
8 hours for lifes simple pleasures
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24 hours in a day.

The standard 3rd year Bachelor of computer day:
8 hours in bed asleep
11-12 hours of uni work
4 hours for lifes simple pleasures.
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24 hours in a day.

So you wake up, go to uni, take a lunch break, get back into the work... You then look at your clock and realise that it's 6pm, so you head home, cook tea, eat tea... Then you jump back behind the computer and get back into uni work until about 10:30 - 11pm. That is your day!!

4 hours left over is great you say?
Time gets eaten away... Because it takes about 1 hour to get out of bed, have a shower, eat breakfast, and get to uni. And then about 0.5 - 1 hour for lunch. And then you get home from uni, so you need another 1 hour to cook tea. If you take a 15 minute morning tea and afternoon tea breaks that equals another 30 mins, and if you probably take 30 mins to go to sleep. And those 4 hours add up to the time left for lifes simple pleasures.

So that equates to not having enough time to live. No time to:

• Relax
• Go for a walk/jog/run
• Read the Bible
• Pray
• Worship
• Watch Tv
• Pick up chicks
• Relax
• And even cook

So I have 2 questions that I want to ask you today...

• Do you live your life like this?
• How many hours a day do you spend doing Uni work?

The Latest...

So what is happening in the super exciting life of Humphrey these days?

Well uni has been really busy. This week has been a BIG week for project, because this Monday coming is Demo Day. Demo Day is where we have a stall, and we have to show off all of the work that we have done this year. It's open to whoever wants to come along, so you better come now that you've read this! If you don't, I'll feel super-rejected, and never talk to you again! (Only kidding). Anyway, it's from 11-3 this Monday the 26th of September.

apart from that, not much has been happening. In one unit we have to write a Java guessing game for a mobile phone. I just given a music aural assignment today. YAY!! And my motorbike pursuit in Graphics hasn't come very far this week. Hopefully it will VERY SOON!!

Anyway, that's about everything that has happened this week, so have a good one!

Animation Taking Strides

Well, I started working on my 2nd assignment for Computer Graphics & Animation. I know this sounds weird, but I really enjoying working on this assignment. We have to create a 30 - 60 second 3d animation using only C++ to create it.

My plan is to create a motorbike that will automatically interact with gravity and the terrain. Once I've done this, then I'm going to create a big motorbike chase! I'm pretty excited about how this might turn out. It also means that I'm putting to use all of that trigonometry that I learn in college!

Stay tuned for more info about how this assignment is going :-)

The Devious Photographer

Thomas told me that I had to tell the story about how I took the traffic light photo in my last post.

The closest set of traffic lights to my house are only there to allow people to cross the street. I drove up there in the rain, and got out of my warm car. Now the lights only go red when a pedestrian presses the button, so I went and pressed the button. I then took a few steps back and tried to take a photo of the red light. That was when I found out that my camera had flat batteries.

By now a large line of cars had pulled up at the red light. I quickly returned to my car, only to receive some VERY ANNOYED looks from the stationary cars. One passenger even stuck his unholy finger up at me!

I managed to find some spare batteries in my glove box, but this time I headed down the street to the next set of lights. I waited for the lights to change by themselves this time before I took the photo.

Surviving Wallace & Gromit

So why is this post entitled, "Surviving Wallace & Gromit"? Well, today a few of us humans went and saw Wallace & Gromit. While we were driving back, we skidded through a red light! The driver in question pleaded and begged that I wouldn't disclose their identity. Bucketing rain and chatting people could have been why the driver in question didn't see the red light. However, I believe it was because the driver wasn't paying attention!

Anyway, back to the movie...
It was an awesome flick. My favourite part would have to be the "May contain nuts" joke. No idea what I'm talking about? Then go see the movie, cause I'm not going to give away the plot.

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Updated: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test!

Sorry guys, but Stuart & Thomas informed me that I posted the wrong score in my blog. So I have now found the right values and have now replaced them. Sooo....

For The Record:

• A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
• A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
• A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

I scored less than half in all three, earning me the title of: Joe Normal.

(Go and take "The Nerd? Geek? or Dork?" test now)

Melbourne Photos Available

I've now got all of the photos from Melbourne on my photo gallery.
To see them go to www.humphreysphotogallery.com
I'm still yet to put the videos that Caleb took on the site.

Melbourne Spirits

Today we got back from our Melbourne trip. Yes! That's right, I went to Melbourne!! How cool is that?? We went because we managed to get some $30 tickets on the plane! So that's only $60 for a return ticket. I thought I better go, as I spend more on petrol at times.

I went with Thomas, Stuart, Caleb, & Laura. For those of you who are on the ball, you'd know that is the whole Project Team. It wasn't just us project people that went; Stuart & Elly, + Amelia & her sis also came. Except we didn't see much of us, because they organized different accommodation then we did.

The trip lasted for 5 days, and was heaps of fun.
So what did we do? Well just to get started we...

• Flew over there
• Checked out the crown casino
• Stayed at the backpackers
• Explored the many skyscrapers
• Went to the aquarium
• Ate pizza and all you can eat casino buffet
• Explored the zoo
• Having a primate throw a rubber chicken at us
  
• Shopped
• Explored the public transport system
• Spent over 30 mins watching the trains, trams, taxi's, and car out the window of our room
  
• Felt the fire display at the casino
• And lots & lots of walking!
  

The rest of the guys also went along to the Lion King Production. Apparently it was absolutely awesome, but I went and visited my cousin Isobel & my Aunty Denny. :-) My cousin lives out at Geelong, so I got to catch the train all the way out there!

So there you have it - A very quick summary of my trip to Melbourne!

Further details / photos at:

• My photo gallery
• Tom's Blog
• Stu's Blog