I rode the Giant Drop at Dreamworld yesterday
I nice lady named Andreana gave me her telephone number on Friday, Friday two weeks ago. She told me to call her, I haven't and had in fact completely forgotten about the whole engagement until today when I opened my 96 page A4 Binder Book I am using for various notes. I wonder what on earth goes on in my mind some days, I can't even remember if she was pretty. I'll imagine she was.
I have a fairly food stained form from the Library Services Manager from QUT asking the manager of UQ Libraries to waive the $50 annual fee I would need to use their facilities. I should submit it, I should visit UQ.
The change in exchange rates for the AUD to USD, which might I add is completely abominable, has caused QUT to dump over AUD$200000 in database subscriptions. Additionally PhD people have access to a rather secretive database where the library pays per query. I think that's just a bit mental so I made the same query five times and then logged out really fast.
There's a movie out titled "The Obama Deception", it's apparently non-fiction and somewhat documentary in nature. It's by this guy named Alex Jones. Here's the blurb:
The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global slavery. We have reached a critical juncture in the New World Order’s plans. It’s not about Left or Right: it’s about a One World Government. The international banks plan to loot the people of the United States and turn them into slaves on a Global Plantation. Covered in this film: who Obama works for, what lies he has told, and his real agenda. If you want to know the facts and cut through all the hype, this is the film for you.
Realistically though you need only youtube the title of this film or Alex Jones and you'll be assaulted by the usual appalling litany of clips of or relating to everything, nothing and fractions of remotely connected ideas, some of which have relevance. Not entirely sure the guy is a cook but he's for sure embittered by some fairly sour lemons. My interest is piqued though so I may chase this rabbit a wee bit further so I can say I told you so at social outing in the years to come, and as one appear informed and superior.
I was browsing this site, it's called treehugger.com it bares some germaneness to my research. Realistically though it's akin to a pop quiz on global warming how-to's and stories on the latest things we've slated for our robustly bias piece writers. Anyway, that aside I'd like to draw you to the marvelous advert I had flashing away below me whist reading about a man who saved a black bear, yes a bear, from drowning... After he shot it, sneakily though they left that out of the story headline.
This is not even a joke I'd make
This from Wikipedia on the infamous fundamental attribution error:
In attribution theory, the fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or overattribution effect) reflects our erroneous cognitive tendency to predominantly over-value dispositional, or personality-based, explanations (i.e., attributions or interpretations) for the observed behaviors of others, thus under-valuing or unacknowledging the potentiality of situational attributions or situational explanations for the behavioral motives of others. In other words, people predominantly presume that the actions of others are indicative of the "kind" of person they are, rather than the kind of situations that compels their behaviour. However, the overattribution effect generally does not account for our own ability to self-justify our behaviours; we tend to prefer interpreting our own actions in terms of the situational variables accessible to our awareness. This discrepancy is called the actor-observer bias and stands in direct opposition of the Fundamental Attribution Error.
I should have gone to the gym this evening, instead I ate grapes, drank milk and made pasta sauce and had some of those little pasta things with food folded inside of them. Tomorrow I am busy, I have a meeting with my supervisor, it's at midday, I expect we'll have lunch. I'm ferreting out references as I write this, I just nabbed "The Effect of Goal-Setting and Daily Electronic Feedback on In-Home Energy Use" from the Journal of Consumer Research. My article comes from 1989. I am trying to understand the psychology behind why people behave the ways they do in groups when asked to make environmental concessions and compete, or not.
In other news:
The Day the Clown Cried is an unfinished and unreleased 1972 film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis. It is based on a scriptment of the same name by Joan O'Brien, who had co-written the original script with Charles Denton 10 years prior. The film was met with controversy regarding its premise and content, which features a circus clown who is imprisoned in a Nazi camp. The Day the Clown Cried has become somewhat infamous among film historians and movie buffs for a film that has never officially been released.
I now want to share with you two other new and interesting things.
The first is a video presentation of a fairly revolutionary piece of technology being developed by the MIT liquids research lab, and can be found on the TED Talks website here, watch it, watch it now: http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
Next is an article from a recent issue of Nature, one of the worlds pre-eminent journals for all things of or relating to it's title: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7235/abs/nature07853.html
The long and the short of the article is that within a few short years we may well have rechargeable batteries which take mere minutes to fully charge from empty. Consider what this means for the automotive industry, heck consider what it means for lightning rods on the tops of buildings for that matter - if you could fashion a battery to suck up all that free juice, why we'd be laughing.
I've also found my way back to OWL and this wonderful page on active and passive verb use (voice): http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_actpass.html
I used to have this gee wizz addon for Firefox that used to flag out all the passive verb use in a webpage. I miss it dearly.
That'll do for now, though if anybody has it, I'm chasing the soundtrack from "The Big White". A movie so good Robbin Williams the protagonist is quoted saying: "There is a picture of my movie on a milk carton. Have you seen this movie? It's missing… I don't know what happened to it… it's a funny movie... a strange movie. But it's literally one of those productions where you go... phht, gone. Not even straight to DVD, just gone."
I have a fairly food stained form from the Library Services Manager from QUT asking the manager of UQ Libraries to waive the $50 annual fee I would need to use their facilities. I should submit it, I should visit UQ.
The change in exchange rates for the AUD to USD, which might I add is completely abominable, has caused QUT to dump over AUD$200000 in database subscriptions. Additionally PhD people have access to a rather secretive database where the library pays per query. I think that's just a bit mental so I made the same query five times and then logged out really fast.
There's a movie out titled "The Obama Deception", it's apparently non-fiction and somewhat documentary in nature. It's by this guy named Alex Jones. Here's the blurb:
The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global slavery. We have reached a critical juncture in the New World Order’s plans. It’s not about Left or Right: it’s about a One World Government. The international banks plan to loot the people of the United States and turn them into slaves on a Global Plantation. Covered in this film: who Obama works for, what lies he has told, and his real agenda. If you want to know the facts and cut through all the hype, this is the film for you.
Realistically though you need only youtube the title of this film or Alex Jones and you'll be assaulted by the usual appalling litany of clips of or relating to everything, nothing and fractions of remotely connected ideas, some of which have relevance. Not entirely sure the guy is a cook but he's for sure embittered by some fairly sour lemons. My interest is piqued though so I may chase this rabbit a wee bit further so I can say I told you so at social outing in the years to come, and as one appear informed and superior.
I was browsing this site, it's called treehugger.com it bares some germaneness to my research. Realistically though it's akin to a pop quiz on global warming how-to's and stories on the latest things we've slated for our robustly bias piece writers. Anyway, that aside I'd like to draw you to the marvelous advert I had flashing away below me whist reading about a man who saved a black bear, yes a bear, from drowning... After he shot it, sneakily though they left that out of the story headline.
This is not even a joke I'd make
This from Wikipedia on the infamous fundamental attribution error:
In attribution theory, the fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or overattribution effect) reflects our erroneous cognitive tendency to predominantly over-value dispositional, or personality-based, explanations (i.e., attributions or interpretations) for the observed behaviors of others, thus under-valuing or unacknowledging the potentiality of situational attributions or situational explanations for the behavioral motives of others. In other words, people predominantly presume that the actions of others are indicative of the "kind" of person they are, rather than the kind of situations that compels their behaviour. However, the overattribution effect generally does not account for our own ability to self-justify our behaviours; we tend to prefer interpreting our own actions in terms of the situational variables accessible to our awareness. This discrepancy is called the actor-observer bias and stands in direct opposition of the Fundamental Attribution Error.
I should have gone to the gym this evening, instead I ate grapes, drank milk and made pasta sauce and had some of those little pasta things with food folded inside of them. Tomorrow I am busy, I have a meeting with my supervisor, it's at midday, I expect we'll have lunch. I'm ferreting out references as I write this, I just nabbed "The Effect of Goal-Setting and Daily Electronic Feedback on In-Home Energy Use" from the Journal of Consumer Research. My article comes from 1989. I am trying to understand the psychology behind why people behave the ways they do in groups when asked to make environmental concessions and compete, or not.
In other news:
The Day the Clown Cried is an unfinished and unreleased 1972 film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis. It is based on a scriptment of the same name by Joan O'Brien, who had co-written the original script with Charles Denton 10 years prior. The film was met with controversy regarding its premise and content, which features a circus clown who is imprisoned in a Nazi camp. The Day the Clown Cried has become somewhat infamous among film historians and movie buffs for a film that has never officially been released.
I now want to share with you two other new and interesting things.
The first is a video presentation of a fairly revolutionary piece of technology being developed by the MIT liquids research lab, and can be found on the TED Talks website here, watch it, watch it now: http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
Next is an article from a recent issue of Nature, one of the worlds pre-eminent journals for all things of or relating to it's title: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7235/abs/nature07853.html
The long and the short of the article is that within a few short years we may well have rechargeable batteries which take mere minutes to fully charge from empty. Consider what this means for the automotive industry, heck consider what it means for lightning rods on the tops of buildings for that matter - if you could fashion a battery to suck up all that free juice, why we'd be laughing.
I've also found my way back to OWL and this wonderful page on active and passive verb use (voice): http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_actpass.html
I used to have this gee wizz addon for Firefox that used to flag out all the passive verb use in a webpage. I miss it dearly.
That'll do for now, though if anybody has it, I'm chasing the soundtrack from "The Big White". A movie so good Robbin Williams the protagonist is quoted saying: "There is a picture of my movie on a milk carton. Have you seen this movie? It's missing… I don't know what happened to it… it's a funny movie... a strange movie. But it's literally one of those productions where you go... phht, gone. Not even straight to DVD, just gone."