So very very cool

Pandora is a very cool thing. Read about it, then enjoy.

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Mergh

Okay, okay, I've finally gotten around to starting to fulfil my promise of keeping the Student Life Blog updated once a week.
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So what if it's just a joke?!?! It's updated isn't it?!?!? The nerve of some people...

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Someone else's dream

Hey hey, I'm being unoriginal again. Nic's blog asked the question: What would be your ideal career? Since I have several and didn't want to write a novel in her comments section, I decided to write the answer in my own blog.

Option no 1: Rock Star

This is the most unlikely of the bunch, so I've put it first. To get this to work, I'd have to gain stage presence, a killer bod, and a band.

Option no 2: Film Director

Still not likely, but less so than option no 1. To get to this option however, I would have to first start off in Option no 3 or 4.

Option no 3: Sound Designer / Composer for film

This is where I wouldn't mind ending up. You know all those cool "vvvjjeew, vvjeeeeew" noises that lightsabers made in Star Wars? A sound designer came up with those by waving a microphone above an exposed CRT. A guy named Walter Murch is perhaps the Godfather of sound designers - considering he did the sound on the Godfather, and also for Apocalypse Now. He's received several oscars.

Option no 4: Film Scriptwriter

Charlie Kaufman is an example of what I'd like to be. Of course, not the neurotic weird kind of Charlie Kaufman, but the genius scriptwriter, yes.

Option no 5: Composer

Yes, I would lower myself to writing pop songs for better looking people to sing. I get the royalties anyway, and while they're languishing about the effect of aging on plastic surgery, I'll be happily living off their image.

Option no 6: Teacher

I would like to teach one day, it just seems to be something that comes relatively naturally to me, and I enjoy it. I would like to one day guide a large orchestra to victory in some competition or something. Or just give a big band a head start into the world.

Option no 7: Traveller

This isn't really a job per se, more of like what I will be spending my time doing when I'm retired. I want to see so much of the world... but that deserves its own entry in this blog. More... later perhaps.

Option no 8: Circus Performer

Not really.

Option no 9: IT Professional

My least favourite option. I've spent enough time in front of computers in the last couple of years to be sick of them already. I'll do it if I have to (it's big money if you know where to look) but I'd rather be travelling or making music.

Option no 10: Pastor

This I guess is more of a dream... in that I still feel that I have a lot within myself and how I live my life to work out before I consider it. I think this is a distinct possibility due to my Public Speaking abilities, but this is a position which requires more than qualifications. I believe that it requires a certain degree of commitment to moral purity, and a track record that shows that you're continuing to work towards knowing and imitating Jesus Christ every day. I'm currently unsure as to whether if, under close examination, my track record would be able to be passable - I know His grace covers all things, but I'd rather wait until I'd attained victory over some rather large sin in my life to do something large like Pastor a church.



Well I guess that's about it, I've listed all that my mind can think of, from the dreams to the mundane to the absurd. So now it's your turn - go to Nic's blog or put it in these comments as to what your dream career would be. Comments in my blog can also be on the topics suggested by my careers, like the pastor option.

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Conspiracy Theories 2

Hmm... it's not paranoia when people are out to get you, innit. I got an email this morning which contained an article about September 11, and how it's pretty much a hoax insofar as what America tells the world happened.

Immediately I think, what a load of croc, and go to move to the next email, but I thought, why not, I may as well read it. So I did, and it wasn't too bad, and it pointed to this website http://911research.wtc7.net/ . This site actually wasn't that bad - the author seems down to earth (for a conspiracy writer) and he's prepared to admit that if proof comes to the contrary of any of his opinions, he'll stand down.

So that was my reading digest today, apart from another book (Aaron I found it on your desk and picked it up, I got hooked) by Tony Campolo called Speaking My Mind. If you haven't read it yet, go out and get it from koorong or word, it's a really hard hitting book.

So until next time, make sure you fill up the comments section with all the conspiracy theory (from illuminati to ufos) trivia you can find over this great expanse of the net. I'll be looking as well - for skeletons in the closet, ufos in the sky and dead mafia in the barrels in my backyard ;)

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A cupla kwoats

If god is inside us than I hope he likes fajitas, coz that's what he's getting.

Every 12 seconds somewhere on this earth there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

A hotdog feeds the hand that bites it.

I locked my coathanger in the car. Lucky I had my key.

The trouble with work is, it's so daily.

They cant fire me. Slaves have to be sold.

My Karma ran over your Dogma.

I spilled spot remover on my dog. He's gone now.

There are two times I feel stress. Day and night.

My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday.

Give blood. Play hockey.

FOR SALE. Parachute. Only used once. Never opened. Small stain.

100% of studies show that if you dont eat, you'll get hungry.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

In the force, if Yoda is so strong, construct a sentence with words in the proper order why can't he?

Energiser Bunny arrested. Charged with battery.

The Three Rings of Marriage... The engagement ring. The wedding ring, and The suffering.

I had a lovely evening. Unfortunately this wasn't it.

Back inda hood

Now that I'm back in Brisbane, I've taken my study back up - that is, the study of film :) Last week I sat down to Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Fantasia 2000 and Fantasia. I just wanted to see what had happened to the old favourite. I'm not sure which one I prefer. The newer one is quite cool though. Indiana Jones is still as good as the day it was made. That trilogy is timeless.

On saturday night I watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Johnny Depp (Did I just hear a collective female sigh...?) and I was suitably impressed. Originally I thought it was a satirical jab at Michael Jackson, but it's turned into a great movie on its own right, and it promotes family to boot. The new oompa loompa songs were rather bland, but I guess nothing can compare to the LCD trip of little orange men dancing around while words bubble into existance onscreen. By the way, everyone is right -the new oompa loompa is creepy.

Last night I remembered one of the films I've always wanted to see but never got to - The Graduate. Now I can see why this film was so universally lauded. It's a biting satire - it explores the concept that was just coming onto the social scene at the time - that is, life's meaning falls in getting everything I want. I think the film painted a great picture of showing that this concept, taken to its full end, means that we not only take things from other people, but we can start taking other people - and we can take these people away from our friends and even our children. I'd recommend this film for anyone, because apart from an extremely brief scene with flashes of female toplessness, it doesn't have any foul language that I can remember, and it really is one of the best films ever made. Biting satire, great soundtrack and memorable characters.

Hmm... I think i've spoken enough. Go & have some anzac bikkies or something ... oh wait, you must perform a risk assessment first. :)

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The perks

This workplace, the main helpline at QUT, just seems to keep getting better. Today we're celebrating one of the casual staff members becoming an Australian Citizen - by having a morning tea with Australian themed things like macadamia biscuits, lamingtons, timtams & pavlova. I'm really enjoying my work.

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