You just know it can be traced back to a specific lawsuit

Here's another instalment of what is becoming an ongoing series of funny crap I see at uni. I was using the restroom in the physics building when this highly informative sticker on the wall behind the toilet caught my eye:



Seems a little redundant. If you don't know how to shit properly, you probably shouldn't be going to university.

Out of curiosity I checked a different stall and found one that wasn't ripped, with its helpful advice intact:



One can only assume the stickers have been put in place to combat the recent wave of students squatting on the toilets while they drop some friends off at the pool, only to shatter the delicate porcelain bowl and break their legs/arses. I guess I should report the torn sticker, before some innocent person forgets what to do when they pinch a loaf and ends up paraplegic. It's easy to see why it was ripped, of course: someone tried to steal the sticker so they could put it up at home to remind themselves of proper pooping protocol.

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Quality assured by Mike Hunt

In a lab at uni today I used this strange device:



More importantly, note the manufacturer:



It's not even a joke.

Time Cube

There is a loony in America called Gene Ray, who in 1997 created a website for his nonsensical "theory" called Time Cube. I won't even try to summarise it here because it makes absolutely no sense, but the website has become something of an internet phenomenon, drawing the ridicule and parody it rightly deserves.

Anyway, I was at a friend's place a couple of weeks ago when I saw this:



I present the 4 Colour Magic Time Cube Alarm Clock. I couldn't resist taking a photo.

Funnier still is the fact that it's not even close to being cubic.

A Google search for "time cube alarm clock" yielded a paltry six results, one of which was this photo. Much more cube-ish - worthy of Gene Ray himself.

KDE 4

I just found a handy guide to installing KDE 4 in Ubuntu 7.10. The idea of having multiple desktop environments on my computer has never really occurred to me, but I guess I am still kind of new to Linux. The more I learn, the more glad I am that I am no longer dependant on Winblows. Linux is just so cool.

I've heard good things about KDE 4. So I installed it and logged in, and so far it's pretty cool. Really slick too.

Guys. I am supposed to be studying for a maths test.

New Year's resolution

My resolution for 2008: 1280 x 1024.

Woodford

It's 7 am and I'm about to set off for Armidale. On boxing day I'll go the rest of the way to Woodford. My intertubes access will be sporadic at best. So to everyone who reads this...

Have a happy, or otherwise favourable Christmas or other holiday celebration, or whatever. Just merry Xmas and shit.

Lolthis guy

Guys I am propagating a meme.

Danger is my toilet's middle name

I couldn't walk past this without taking a photo:



Moral: A picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes you don't know what all those words are.

RAM the gates.

2.8 GHz P4
2 GB DDR-RAM
200 GB HD

I now know the true meaning of winnage.

All reading Achewood instead of sleeping

I've been reading through the seven-year backlog of Achewood. I'm almost up to 2005! If you don't read Achewood, you need to read Achewood.

I just remembered something funny that I forgot to blog. A couple of months ago I was watching Rove Live with the captions for the deaf people. Imagine being the poor bugger who has to type like mad trying to keep up with that for a whole hour, all making mistakes and going "damn, I could go for a drink right now but I have to type for this show". Luckily I can stop typing whenever I want.

Ouija

Finally, a Ouija board for the interweb age. If you've ever wanted to wear a t-shirt that not only had a fully functional ouija board on it with extra buttons like volume control and shut down, head over to TopatoCo.com and check it out.

To mark the occasion, here's a cartoon that will tell you everything you need to know about ouija boards: