Friday, November 25, 2005

Last ever undergraduate uni results!


Well I received my uni results today. I'm really happy with them, because they are higher on average then they were last semester. :-)

I was particully happy with my music (elective) mark. Anyway, here are the results!

Aural & Ensemble 1A 1 71 Distinction
Software Engineering Project A 1 82 High Distinction
Computer Networks 1 80 High Distinction
Knowledge-Based Systems 1 78 Distinction
Aural & Ensemble 1B 2 67 Credit
Software Engineering Project B 2 84 High Distinction
Computer Graphics & Animation 2 86 High Distinction
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing 2 86 High Distinction

Friday, November 18, 2005

Spare time!

So what does somebody like Humphrey do when he's on holidays and got nothing else to do?? He works on a jig-saw puzzle. So after many hours of pain and frustration I have managed to get some of the pieces matched together :-)

Anyway.. back to the old granny sport me thinks!

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Jams Outrageous Bucks Surf

6:20 am today... RING RING... goes my alarm! Got out of bed, ate, and headed off to the East Coast for Jams Bucks Day! Yay! We hit the surf, and we went hard core. I kinda froze to death, as the wetsuit I was wearing had short sleeves and arms. But that was cool :-)

I sorta stood up on the first wave I caught! However it wasn't long after that, that my hands and feet started to go numb. I discovered that surfing is rather hard when you are numb limps, so I ditched the board and went body surfing instead!

After that we all went off to get some hot chippies for lunch! So good after a big surf :-p Then we played a game of Olly Oop. Which is an awesome game which involves passing the ball around while doing crazy jumps, and trying to stay in the circle!

We then did the usual Bucks Night things.

How tough is my camera?

On the way home, I left my digital camera sitting on the top of the car. So the combination of a corner and 100 or so clicks caused it to fall off the roof. We heard a thud, and we all turned around, only the see my camera rolling along the road.
Anyway, we u-bolted, and picked it up... and guess what? It still works fine! A few minor scratches and a very slightly munted battery bay is about all that happened. Keep in mind that the road was sealed, and the camera was not in it's case. That's a pretty good effort I think... Not even the lens or the LCD display got a single scratch!! Also the sudden jolt didn't corrupted any data on the memory card either.
Thank you Jesus!

That reminds me of the Usb Flash disk that I left in the pocket of my jeans while they were been washed. So the flash disk survived both the washing machine and the drier.... and it still worked fine. Actually, I'm still using it!

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Crazy Bogans!

Last night I could hear some bogans making a racket outside our house. It sounded like there were smashing our fence! So I went outside and shone my torch at them. That probably wasn't the smartest thing to do, because that really.. yes really pissed them off! They wanted us to fight them. Instead of fighting them, we rang the cops (who didn't actually seem to come).

This morning I went outside to discover our remodeled mailbox and fence.

If anybody know who those bloody bogans are, let me know and I'll go talk to their parents! :-)

Uni is over!

My Saturday morning exam marked the end of my undergraduate degree!! Yes that's right... I've finished! Just a lil matter of a graduation ceremony and I'm all done! :-) Here is a lil picture of how I feel about computers now that I've finished a degree in computing!

So what now? Well I'm planning to go back and do a year of honours!

New Keyboard & Mouse

Last Friday, my new wireless keyboard and mouse arrived! As it arrived the day before my last exam, I didn't actually get that much study done.... But that's ok, because I needed an excuse to not study! :-)

This keyboard/mouse was a bargain! This exact model sells for $175 down in Launceston, but I got it new off eBay for $66 including postage!! :-)

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

My College Animation

I was sorting through some of the junk that is scattered throughout my room, getting it ready for when I move, and I came across a CD. On that I found the animation I did back in college. Here is in case any of you are interested in seeing it.


See it here:

college_animation.mov
(9Mb QuickTime Movie)

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Optical Illusion?

Hey guys, I came across this while studying for an exam:

Are tiles A & B the same colour?


Click here to see the answer

More info and full description at:
http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html