Quotes of the Week

Fist up, I was in the accommodations office collecting my flat keys, and I see this poster on the wall about how you should report racism. Well, the officer is off finding out other stuff so I might as well read it to pass the time. Well, reporting racism can be good because yada yada yada and it can really help them by a number of different ways, but they can help you by “believing you and taking you seriously.” Well, that’s a bloody relief, isn’t it!? Can you just imagine them making fun of what you’re saying and then telling you to go away? That sounds like bloody Venezuela!

Later on we’re on one of our introductory lectures, and the professor is going over the whole passing rules and that stuff (ours is different from any other school’s so yeah) and he says that if you have a “pretty good failure” then they could pass you, but that it would have to be examined (that’s not overall… you see, the way the CS School works is that you have to pass both your exam and your coursework components.. so what he meant was that if you got a very good mark on your exam but you failed your coursework by a margin of 5% then that would be a “pretty good failure” so depending on your circumstances then you could be passed). Anyway, I thought the concept of a “pretty good failure” was quite funny. When you graduate you’ll get a degree diploma that says “Pretty Good Failure” and well, at least you didn’t flunk. I guess that means you’re the best of the shit ones. At least you’ve got that much to be proud of.

We then had a Time Management lecture with one of my favourite professors. That was hands down the best introductory lecture ever. The guys funnier than fuck. Just to give you a taste, before the lecture started he was fooling about in the internet showing us this flash game where you draw a line and then this small animated guy on a sleigh follows the line (crashing if your lines are unreal). He told us that he had spend hours on that thing because it was addictive… well done for time management, eh? As of today I’ve spend at least two hours on that crap game.

One of the tips he gave us was that if we really wanted to get something done, then we shouldn’t rely on PDA’s and/or other task-making software; if we really want to get something done then we should write it down on paper, because you know, “people have a weird relationship with paper.” As soon as he said that, the guys behind me burst out laughing which in turn then caused me to laugh. He then gave them a look and said “Yeah, you guys have too much time on your hands” and kept on.

He had another memorable moment in the lecture (well he had tons… but I’m just putting up the top two). He was talking about high paying tasks and low paying jobs (not money wise but satisfaction wise) and important and not as important tasks. He then talks about a low paying low importance task and give the example of washing the dishes. You can just put them off and survive for a long time without washing them. But then he says “although some might argue, because washing the dishes is dangerous. People can fall into the bin and stab themselves with a knife” and that caused the whole theatre to laugh hysterically. “No, it’s true! At least 5 people worldwide are killed yearly by falling into their bin and getting stabbed by a knife” and that caused some people to stop laughing, but other disturbed ones like myself to just laugh harder. I had a Rasmuson moment there… I couldn’t stop laughing for minutes. So well, they all now know that I’m a psycho, bit deal… they were going to find out anyway.

Lastly, the three of us (you know which three) were hanging around the city centre, and there’s this double jointed (so double jointed he was almost triple jointed) in the middle of the street performing some… erm… very original material. We decided to watch what this guy had to offer as we were killing time anyway. So well, lots of cool yet disturbing stuff and lots of jokes, but the one that caught everyone was when two guys that had been there for the whole show decided to leave right before the finale in order to not pay. He yelled back at them “those two at the back are tight arses… when they wake up tomorrow their girlfriends will be pregnant!” I’ll just leave it at that. Class.