Anyone else feel like they spend more time and effort filling out forms and paperwork and running back and forth between different departments than they do actually doing university work? This is just fucking outrageous ( Read more... )

Every now and then, some grumpy, often older, wowser will write a stupid column with outdated and silly "rules" for mobile phone use that do not take into account practicality or modern lifestyles. Here is another one#1 is total bullshit. The idea isn't to make you look or feel "important and indispensable", it's to be aware of messages and calls ( Read more... )

I've been doing my best to completely avoid the DNC, despite how much all the Obama fanboys have been raving about it. I mean yeah he can do a good speech and all, but in terms of actually getting people to vote for you, no one gives a shit about what happens at the conventions. It's one big calculated event that actually does very little except ( Read more... )

The thousand delegates at the 2020 summit this weekend are supposed to come up with three policy ideas per group, one of which has to cost nothing. Clearly another 2020-style summit would not be one of them, as it's costing Australian taxpayers who knows how many thousand dollars and is bound to achieve absolutely nothing in real terms ( Read more... )

I hate christmas. I've hated christmas since the silly childen's awe wore off many years ago. It's a stupid holiday, like the vast majority of the holidays on the calander. But christmas is possibly the worst because of the tripple barrel of traditional values, religion and commercialism we are bombarded with every year, with every group under the ( Read more... )

It's "every day" not "everyday". The only time it is appropriate to use "everyday" is when the word is being used as a concept, such as "an everyday man" or similar ( Read more... )

Dear America ( Read more... )

Due to some completely unexplainable problem with my unit outline not showing anything on the last page, I did not see the topics for my P111 assignment until today. They are ridiculously fucking stupid. I had thought that one of them would allow me to debate the merits and failings of federalism and argue for greater centralisation in Australian ( Read more... )

Running a large two-day event with numerous things to do and people to not let down, and all with three hours sleep the night before and zero during the event itself, triggers different coping mechanisms in people both mentally and physically. I am a machine. I don't sleep, I don't relax, I stay focused as much as I can. I build up huge amounts of ( Read more... )

I'm having trouble articulating just how angry I am at pundits, both in the media and the blogosphere, who are capitalising on this disaster to score political or ideological points. It's everywhere, the crisis is still unfolding and the first thing the keyboard warriors do is seek out someone to blame - and who more convenient than their favourite ( Read more... )