Filed under: Tech
Actually, no, it’s not a giant key. It’s the brand new 3rd generation iPod Shuffle (I meant the one on the left. The one on the right is a giant key…), and I never understood why they call this the Shuffle, and the larger one, the Nano. I mean, look at the thing - it’s puny! Which means you won’t know it’s there, which means you’ll leave it in the pants you threw into the washing machine, or in that gap between the seats in the bus. Just imagine going to the lost and found at the bus interchange…
Idiot: “Hey, have you seen my MP3 player?”
Customer Service Officer: “What does it look like?”
Idiot: “It has no buttons…”
CSO: “Oh, it was here somewhere. I must have lost it…”
And yup, it doesn’t even have buttons anymore. It just has a switch on top to select between off, shuffle, and play in order. The rest of the controls are on a small bar along the earbud wire, which allows the player itself to be just about as tiny as my ability to chat girls up.
Which is why I still love my iPod Classic…
Filed under: Ramblings
It’s recess week, and I’m still afloat! Still alive, and not trying to impale myself with sharp objects. What’s more, I actually got a bit of a break this weekend. After 5 long days of nothing but work, I’ve gotten myself to sit back, and do nothing for 2 whole days. Which end in 10 minutes…
And like most girls, I naturally spent my break going shopping. Except I’m not a girl… Anyway, I went to Ikea yesterday and got myself a rug for underneath the drumset, to keep it from sprouting legs and running away from me while I’m playing. While I was there, I took the opportunity to get myself a rat too. It’s white, machine-washable, and very fat, which makes it really nice to squeeze. I know it’s all very random, but so is the box of lego I bought last week. It’s a model of a mail plane (yes, mail, not male…) that’s quite fat, but not so nice to squeeze.
So in 10 minutes time, the fun ends, and the work continues. 5 tests lined up in the next 10 days, one of which I’d just learnt of this afternoon. Hopefully, it all ends well, but I’m not betting on that.
It’s the end of week 3, and I am quite afraid. I’ve got 1 assignment and 1 tutorial due next week, a project that my team has yet to begin working on which is due in 3 weeks, and another lab session on Monday to hinder me from getting any of that done before the end of the week. I didn’t get much done today either. I spent half the day out of the house, and the other half constantly being distracted by everything around me, which made today another unproductive day.
Yes, another.
I’ve been really unfocused lately, and I’ve never really been able to warm up quickly enough to get on top of my work from the get-go like I have in all my previous semesters. Maybe it’s the lack of a real break since 2 semesters ago, or the riduclous schedule that I have this semester, but whatever it is, it’s leaving me feeling a bit knackered already.
And this is just the beginning…
Filed under: Music
I’m in love. In love, not with a pretty girl with a svelte figure and a cute face, but with half a dozen sweaty American blokes, including a rather “well-rounded” one.
Fruity eh?
But it’s not as queer as you might think. I’m in love with the Dave Matthews Band! I discovered them a few weeks ago, and I had no idea why I’d never really paid attention to their music before. It’s not just your run-of-the-mill 4 piece band. The Dave Matthews Band is a 5-person affair, involving a singer and guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, a violinist, and a saxophonist. Here’s the band performing “Two Step” and “Lie in Our Graves”.
Yes, that’s a violin he’s playing. Not a banjo, not a tuba, but a violin.
Everytime I hear the violins enter in “Lie in Our Graves” (it sounds a whole lot better in the studio recording), I get a mental orgasm. I know this sounds even more fruity, but there’s just no other way to describe it – both the feeling and the music. It’s sort of alternative rock, but it’s sounds so much more musical than most of what I’ve listened to. In fact, it’s more like some kind of weird fusion that actually works. It’s a bit of rock, a bit of funk, a bit of jazz, a bit of country, a bit of something else that I can’t quite figure out, and a lot of music. Wonderful to listen to.
And then there’s the drummer, Carter Beauford. That’s the fat dude sitting behind the drums, but you can’t see him very well, because he’s hiding behind that massive drumkit. And what a drumkit that is. It consists of a whole smorgasbord of toms and cymbals. And the best part is that he actually uses every single bit of the drumkit during his performances! It’s insane! It takes a certain kind of drummer to do that, and Carter Beauford is that kind of drummer, and I absolutely love that kind of drummers.
So if you’ve got the time, do check out the Dave Matthews Band, especially their first 3 studio albums, “Under The Table and Dreaming”, “Crash” and “Before These Crowded Streets”. If they don’t blow you away, you’re probably too fat.
The new semester is finally here, not that I’ve been looking forward to it. 6 modules again, but there’s physics this time, plus the MMC looks like it’s becoming a bit more demanding now, so this is going to be another hell of a semester. And I do mean “hell”. I shall finally understand the meaning of the term “Monday Blues” as I fast every other Monday. A full day from 9 to 5. No lunch breaks, no tea breaks, which means my face will turn blue with hunger. Or exhaustion, or both.
If there’s any consolation though, the “Chemistry of the Ocean” module seems rather interesting. The lecturer keeps pronouncing “salts are” as “salsa” (“The ’salsa’ very concentrated…”), and at one point, he was advising us that “if you’re late, please enter through the backside… door… Enter the LT through the backside door if you know you’re going to be late.”
It looks very promising indeed.
