One endless episode of curb your enthusiasm only with an engineer instead

FML

2009-07-08T02:20:42Z

Today, I was texting the girl I am in love with. I was dropping hints about liking someone who I didn't know if they liked me back. Flirting a little. And just when I thought she'd say she liked me too, she said "Don't worry, if you were straight, I would definitely date you!". FML.

Who does this remind me of?

letsburn00 @ 2009-07-07T13:37:00

2009-07-07T05:41:00Z

Apparently the odds of my losing my job in the next few weeks has gone up to past 80%. My boss is now totally fine if I find somewhere else to work. He told me all this then called up a guy who used to work there to see if I they had any availabilities. apparently no...

At least I'm getting out on good terms. My boss feels really bad about letting me go (or more correctly, the company imploding).

In a wierd turn of luck, I'm having to give up my lease today as well. I had a choice to either keep it, or dump it and today was the deadline. I really love where I live, but it's just got to be this way.

I'm still going to get a new car. Current objective is a camry for under $1500. preferably under 1000. cheap to buy and cheap to run is the objective now...just like your mum.

letsburn00 @ 2009-07-06T23:11:00

2009-07-06T15:16:30Z

Helping my brother and sister in law move into my brothers new place in the next week or two. He had it built. It kind of sucks that he bought his house right before prices collapse and trust me on this, they WILL drop at least 30% form their peaks, the bottom will not occur until at least 3-12 months after the first homebuyers grant ends.

My rules for buying a house?

-Don't buy until first homebuyers grant is over.
-Don't buy until interest rates are above 8%.

There ya go, just saved you $50,000. And just to freak you all out, have a look at this graph

Homeopathy

2009-07-06T00:47:08Z

Best parody of homeopathy ever

letsburn00 @ 2009-07-05T19:02:00

2009-07-05T11:14:47Z

Firstly, me and jerrica are now together, and I've never been happier with someone. Even though she just farted in bed. (I just showed her that I typed that and she didn't kick me, wow)

Had a great time at supanova with everyone. I went with Jerrica, ended up hanging with karlee, sarah, samara, lucy and Paul and a whole bunch of other people. Me and Jer kicked ass at the cosplay competition. Video and pics online later.

I may or may not have bought the entire robotech boxed set...thats 2500 minutes of stuff. I wish there was a way to capitalise numbers, Thats of 40 hours.

I also bought a few collections of DMZ. DMZ is a comic set after a second civil war develops in the US. New york is declared a demiliturised zone, but in reality a massive war still occurs in it as a insurgency, with war-lording etc occuring alot. It's really interesting.

i can totally imagine this happening to me

2009-07-02T15:21:32Z

future house is awesome house

letsburn00 @ 2009-07-02T21:49:00

2009-07-02T13:51:19Z

Supanova this weekend, along with a whole bunch of other stuff. I'm 90% sure it'll be a great weekend, and 10% worried that things will go badly.

Things happen when they happen, I hope everyone can be happy together. I've had the best time this past fortnight.

Here's to good luck.

Wow

2009-06-26T14:00:57Z

Wow. Anyone who wants to see a massive flamewar. Go to my Facebook. My comment was "Well, Michael Jackson is dead."...flamewar of course ensued....

I believe Ariana summed up the flamewar best..."lol what happened here?!"

I'm keeping my head out of all this, but if I die, feel free to make fun of me. I can make that call about myself, everyone else I'll keep my mouth shut.

Indirectly stolen from Jason

2009-06-23T04:57:41Z

I work with this stuff at work all day anyway, but it's still fuckin awesome to see when people do crazy shit like this with it. They also use this stuff in really really high end microphones.

I got it from here It has a bunch of other things, like aerogel. which I was researching how to produce a few months ago. And non-newtonian fluids. Search "non newtonian fluid" on youtube and you'll get some really freaky looking videos.

letsburn00 @ 2009-06-21T16:56:00

2009-06-21T08:54:57Z

mmm....hugs

Omegle. the perfect cure for being bored on your lunch break

2009-06-18T06:20:37Z

Connecting to server...
Looking for someone you can chat with. Hang on.
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: goddamnit frank.
You: I'm not frank....I'm frankette, franks twin from a parallel universe
Stranger: with tits apparently too
You: nah
You: though I do have three sets of genitalia
You: the third one fits martians
Stranger: and the other two
You: thats for the humans in this unverse
You: they seem to find them amusing
You: so what did frank do
You: ?
Stranger: frank was a huge bastard
Stranger: and stole my house.
You: bastard
Stranger: i know
You: if he went to the mirror universe, we'll catch him
You: we have our ways
Stranger: ive heard of your kind
Stranger: so has frank
Stranger: and marsha
Stranger: and belinda
You: usually involving large amounts of nuclear cheese and magic markers
You: OH NO belinda is involved too
Stranger: yea
You: this is more dangerous than I thought
Stranger: well i told her to stay awawy
Stranger: but you know those curious ones
You: I'll call the president, we need to move to DEFCON sausage!
Your conversational partner has disconnected.

letsburn00 @ 2009-06-18T09:08:00

2009-06-18T01:15:28Z

Emma and I broke up. Basic reason is that her and i worked fantastically as FB's, but for a relationship you need to feel a personal connection with someone(even in an open relationship like we had). After we started dating I didn't start feeling that, and neither did she. Only difference was that I felt that you needed to feel some sort of connection and she didn't really see the point of that feeling that when the sex was great. Though she was pretty pissed off at me, and i may have pushed her back into the lesbian camp for a few more years(apparently all men are assholes, prob not the best finding from her first go with the Y chromosome).

I think I made the right choice. Certain parts of my anatomy hate me though.

On why Obama is quiet on Iran

2009-06-16T05:44:11Z

The reason why Obama and the US are currently being relatively quiet on the issue of Iran is actually pretty simple. Iran's power group likes to claim that anyone who is against them must be getting their funding and ideology from outside the country(which is a fair cop, given the bad shit that the west was getting up to in iran in the period prior to the late 70's). Obama and co understand this and realise that if they start making a big noise about the Iran's elections being faked then the religious folk who run Iran can say "look at that! Told you, the US is a supporter of these troublemakers!".

Obama and co want to make Iran at least be open with the US, and really don't want the israeli's to bomb the Iranians nuclear facilities because that will just cause a shitstorm and derail Obama's attempt to get israel to pull back from the occupied territories over the next decade (yes, it'll take that long at the very least). If Iran really is just making uranium for the purpose of making energy, then some very basic monitoring of it's reactors and enrichment facilities will confirm this(a truly civilian nuclear reactor makes plutonium that is extremely difficult to turn into weapons, and the weapons that it can make are almost useless from a truly military perspective, which is why North korea still can't produce a nuclear weapon that even approaches the yield that the US had in 1945). This is what Mousavi claims he'll do if elected. Since Iran absolutely should develop nuclear power for energy use (as should most countries that base themselves on cheap energy, especially in a world with plug in hybrids) this would be a viable outcome. That said, I seriously doubt his odds of turning Iran's policy, even if he was elected and all this mess was over tomorrow.

That all said, I don't know enough about Iran's political system to say whether Ahmadinejad would have won the election or not without some vote tampering. It's possible that the Election was similar to the one Russia had a year ago, where the incumbant would have won anyway but they just decided to make doubly sure. But either way, thats the basics of why Obama and co are just "worried about the violence" and other similar comments.

letsburn00 @ 2009-06-12T16:32:00

2009-06-12T08:52:05Z

Watching A doco. It's made especially amusing because I know one of the actors in it. Yep, this is the doco about the gallipoli Sub that old John Robertson was in. The guy playing the submarine captain looks extremely familiar and I can't work out where from.

I gotta say, some of the modern experts seem like rather odd people.

Some basic analysis of the crisis

2009-06-08T07:50:48Z

This video is a basic analysis of the financial crisis from an economic perspective. I personally think he's a little too much in favor of the theory that high savings are the biggest cause. I think anemic production is major as well, but whatever. It's still a good introductory that goes through the very basics of the situation and how it all spread around.

Spank photo

2009-06-07T05:44:31Z

Here is one from spank last week of me and emma

This post brought to you by me being slightly under the influence.

2009-06-06T19:11:55Z

I've recently been brought into the influence of Damien Rice. This song is called the animals were gone. and some lines in it basically can be best described as what sounds to me as beng like what true love is. What I try to articulate it as at least. Sadly, it's also really sad, but still really good.

Another song that also feels like love is Livin life, when sung by the eels, sadly the sound is a bit off in this recording, but you can get the idea out. I've got a way clearer version on my ipod and it sounds great. Simple song, but good song...

hm...I think I should prob shower and go to bed now...

letsburn00 @ 2009-06-04T08:54:00

2009-06-04T01:20:54Z

Sometimes things get wierd, when Jerrica is hanging out, things get very wierd :P.

The acceptance of violence against me is slightly suspicious.

letsburn00 @ 2009-06-03T18:38:00

2009-06-03T10:36:06Z

VIOLENCE AGAINST PETER

letsburn00 @ 2009-06-03T17:53:00

2009-06-03T09:53:25Z

Note to self, do not leave your computer logged in when you're in the shower and Jerrica is on your computer.

letsburn00 @ 2009-06-03T17:44:00

2009-06-03T09:43:11Z

This account has been taken over by Jerrica.

S'up

=)

letsburn00 @ 2009-06-01T21:36:00

2009-06-01T13:44:42Z

This has been one of the most complicated weekends that I've ever had in the history of my dating life. And people who know me know that's really really saying something.

But things are now relatively good. The worse case scenario was averted and I didn't loose something very important to me.

Anyway, in a random aside, I have decided that even though I may lose my job soon, buying some stock was a great idea (not just cos I bought in within a week or 2 of the bottom). I just received my first distribution. Buying at a market low makes yields extra tasty. Now just gotta wait 3 or 4 months for the market to get ever lower than it was in march. pity I'll prob be unemployed by then.

Oh well, shit happens.

Post that makes little sense ahoy

2009-05-30T07:29:18Z

Went to spank, had an ok time. Though there was a bit of a downer...Ok a massive downer while I was out. Got home and looked at my phone.

Then there was some completely unrelated SMS's...

Life likes being complicated. But while being complicated it prefers the old "Yeah, you know the problem you've got...BAM here it is, but much more conflicting.". I need to learn to be more of an asshole to people, it seems to stop complications like this.

Yes this was a very cryptic post.

letsburn00 @ 2009-05-29T17:29:00

2009-05-29T09:29:08Z

It has come to my attention that the United states of America is well and truly fucked. And I do mean really really fucked.

That is all...

PS. Anyone who bought GM bonds is either a complete idiot or knew what they were getting into.

BEST THING EVER!

2009-05-24T12:00:45Z