Aegir’s Rantings

I want to shoot those little year 10 shits at my school using BitTorrent on the Wireless network, they’re absolutely trashing the bandwidth downloading crappy computer games and tv shows.

I’m still waiting for the day that people learn some courtesy on a network that’s shared between an entire campus. I mean, you do your warezing at home, where independent IP firms aren’t snooping in, where you’re not sharing a pipe with other people that have stuff to get done on the network… Flippin’ oath…

I smell another school witch hunt coming though, staff have already caught one little group of warez whores - Here’s to hoping the rest get caught…

I really, REALLY need to implement that image scaling trick (That doesn’t work in IE, mind you) in the CSS, that image, R, however cool, absolutely trashed the layout on my 1024×768 screen!

Bah

Too hard basket.

Going for my L plates before long. Sat the RAA L plates test, 42 multiple choice questions on the road rules, et cetera. Needed 32 to pass the test, 75%. I scored 29.

Mind you, I have not ever read the south australian road rules in my entire life ;). Neither do I pay much attention to what my parents are doing when they drive. Or am I a car fanatic. Infact, I’ve been trying to avoid getting a car for the last year since I became eligible to sit the test for my L plates.

Sounds like my car issue might be solved aswell. I planned on saving up all this year and part of next for a early 90’s Subaru Liberty stationwagon. 5 speed manual, all wheel drive. Aircon, power steering and windows.

Instead I’ll be getting the parents big boxy Volvo sedan. Automatic mind you, and either front or rear wheel drive, I think front. Power steering and windows though, and air-con. And only short of a turbo and some tweaking to be a contender on the roads. European engineered! Rapes just about everything going up hills!

Ahh, so that money I planned on saving this year can go towards one of them x86 Apple iBooks (Or whatever equivelent they release) that I’ve been hearing rumours about. The rumour I heard was 13.5″ widescreen with the full Apple Frontrow home media setup.

Most likely it’s going to be my mobile laptop, and sit allongside my chunky x86 pc compatible laptop, which runs Linux. The Linux laptop is getting near the 2 year mark, the hdd has had issues, the battery needs replacing aswell. But I have a three year warranty, so I’ll definatly be keeping it in service. As good as OSX is, I highly doubt that I’ll use the ibook in quite the same way I use this thing for. That and I have no real plans to install Linux on the ibook either.

My life has been a right royal barrel of monkeys lately. Fun for the whole family. Most of everything is explained in my friends and my VF journals, so I’m not going to regurgitate much here. The full story are in the nastydirtysecret journals that a few of us maintain, those that have access know how to get a look at mine.

It’s been shit, really. Very very shit. I keep teetering on the edges of depression all the damn time. Fridays at tradeschool are my only real respite from this madness in my life. It’s the one time where everything else in my life is not important. At tradeschool I’m a completly different person, with completly different problems.

Okay, admitedly I sit thinking away idly about a certain ladyfriend of mine for atleast the first hour or two of the day. But after smoko, after my plain hamburger and a coke from the shop down the road. I’m focussed on a different set of problems all together.

And thus I keep hope. Thus I don’t fall over and die.

Watched an interesting documentary on SBS this evening about these french dudes, some french, some african, some asian. All french, mind you, but, well, they were just running. Running, jumping, climbing through the sprawling urban enviornments, for the hell of it, for fun.

I looked at some of the stuff they were doing, and it reminded me of what I was like when I was young. Always hanging upside down off of somthing, running when I should walk, climbing over somthing instead of going around.

While it seemed childish, I looked at what people these guys were, who kept running, who kept climbing, stayed free and imaginative, then I looked at myself. Overweight, weak knees, too afraid to do half the shit I used to.

While lately I’ve taken to tearing up and down flights of stairs, mostly out of annoyance of the things (They’re so damn useless! Trudging up and down those things, they take way more effort than should be neccesary. I can run up the things two/three/four steps at a time, without exerting hardly any effort, and beat everyone up the damn things, I just don’t get it), but now I want to do more. I want to run instead of walking again. I want to climb over obstacles, not walk around them. I want to embrace my environment, not complain about it.

Looking again though, I want to apply this to everything in life. I want to do a good job instead of a half arsed, I want to make somthing. Not skim through barely.

I’ve made similar promises to myself over and over again, let’s see how far I can go to keep this one to myself.

After a bit of googling, this wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour )seems to sum it up well. But without just watching a video of these guys just running about, so fluidly, defying all obstacles thrown at them, it doesn’t do it any justice.

Well, a good dose of Killswitch Engage (The End of Heartache) followed by The Cat Empire (Self Titled), followed up by Foo Fighters (There is Nothing left to Lose) has fixed my mopey mood.

Hoorah for music!