For Rent: Studio Apartment in Sydney
Need a studio apartment in Sydney?
We are looking for someone to take over our apartment and furniture, etc ...
(the apartment is taken)
The apartment is located in Surry Hills, a very nice, lively district with it's very lovely and unique culture. It has a balcony, it's close to the central business district (I walk there every day), close to all shops and amenities, and the direct bus line to the beach is just around the corner.
Also, for Sydney rental prices it's a bargain ($185 per week). It is very bright and well located. You will have trouble to find something comparable for less than $200 or even above.
The Lone Cyclist
»With my life a smoking ash-heap, I left Australia in July 2004 resolved to ride until I found a reason to live again - the lost divine spark.«
- Mr. Felix
And he is still pedalling.
If you ever have some time available (yes, you do!), it's very rewarding to read through Mr. Felix' weblog.
An excerpt:
»On his search, Mr Felix has ridden through Hell, died in the bathroom, been visited by the Ghosts of Lovers Past, fallen down a mineshaft and most surprising of all, found the Green Gibbon. It?s now 5 in the morning, and he?s on the roof of his hotel in Narayanghat, taking a tea break and thinking about how all of this started.«
Curious? Same here! Read on ...
Cheers Felix! May the wind be at your back, mate! And may the spark go off one day.
Say hello to Mr. Pumpy.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Talking about sheep: By chance an electric sheep crossed my way. I have troubles to explain this myself ? I just call it a collective evolutionary open source digital genetic darvinistic artificial genome flock sheep breeding art form.
Some quotes from the website:
»Electric Sheep realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet. It's a distributed screen-saver that harnesses idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of animating and evolving artificial life-forms.«
»Its shape, motion, and color are specified by a genetic code, a long string of numbers. If a user sees a sheep they like, they may press the up arrow key to vote for it. Sheep that receive more votes live longer and are more likely to reproduce. These votes form a fitness function for the aesthetic evolution of the flock.«
»I believe the free flow of code is an increasingly important social and artistic force.«
You may call it a waste of bandwidth. I find this homage to Philip K. Dick's novel »Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?« extremely interesting.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sheep, But Were Afraid to Ask
I just came across Sheepfilms. Excellent! I love the simple style and I love when someone is making films to entertain and not to show off with technical bric-a-brac. There is a lot to discover. Enjoy!
Oh, and does anyone know: Why are sheep so damn attractive?
Judging from some of my own stuff I have to confess that I am addicted to these balls of wool on four sticks myself.
Any answers? Any support groups? Please drop me a line.
RALPH
Spending some part of my last two weekends I finally managed to bring my diploma thesis online. It's a »Manual for Story and Character Development with a Guideline for the Realization as Animation«.
It's quite large (the book has 200 pages) and some people asked me to publish it. So I thought a online version might help to get it a bit more public. Maybe it's of some use for you.
Now having made your mouth water here comes the drawback: It's in German only. (Sorry.)
So for those of you who speak German, take a look at ralph.nugob.org.
For those of you who speak html, the code is absolutely pure and clean W3C-conform.
Enjoy!
We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat!
This is a nice article on photo fakery.
Also visit the Museum of Hoaxes, and don't miss out the photo gallery and the top 10 worst April fools.
Almighty!
»What a crock of s**t - you could use those arguments to support a 1 button keyboard.«
(comment on the article Why Apple Makes a One Buttoned Mouse)
Wow! I never expected that Apple would bite the bullet and dare the impossible to sell a multibutton mouse!
I personally never liked (and never owned) a single button mouse because I always felt that with just one button I would have a surplus of four useless fingers on my hand.
Honestly I thought it's more likely that Apple would quit all that computer business and sell wombats or something, than to ever, ever introduce a multibutton mouse. One button versus multi-buttons seemed to be a question of faith in the religious war between the more fatalistic Mac and Windows users.
Well, now for me there is only one more thing left to change for Apple: please get rid of your secret company policy that all Apple Store staff have to be arrogant pricks. This is an international phenomenon and I don't believe it's just coincidence that you only have a chance to get hired if you are a snotty, opinionated dickhead.
Cheers!
Oz in a Nutshell
A brief description of Australia for all those of you who haven't been there yet, for those who did but neither could find the time nor the right words to describe this country, and last but not least for those of you who always needed a solid excuse to never (never) ever set foot on Australian soil at any price. Ever. Thank you, Mr. Adams!
»Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner. In fact it's not so much a country as such, more a sort of thin crust of semi-demented civilisation caked around the edge of a vast, raw wilderness, full of heat and dust and hopping things.
Tell most Australians that you like their country and they will give a dry laugh and say 'Well, it's the last place left now isn't it?', which is the sort of worrying thing that Australians say. You don't quite know what they mean but it worries you in case they're right.
Just knowing that the place is lurking there on the other side of the world where we can't see it is oddly unsettling, and I'm always looking for excuses to go even if only to keep an eye on it.
I also happen to love it.«
- Douglas Adams (The Salmon of Doubt)
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