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The most important thing you know
I know that you can throw together a half-arsed essay at the last minute and get at least a Credit, maybe even a Distinction. I know that you can do this for a friend who is taking a subject you know nothing about. I know that you can obtain postgrad qualifications with little or no effort. I know that most of the university graduates who come to work for me lack basic analytical skills, that everything they write looks like a half-arsed essay and that they don't understand why that's not... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 5:33 AM on June 20, 2008
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n-Suit Playing Card Decks
In high school we designed a rather crass deck with the suits Pussies, Arses, Cocks and Fingers. We made an equally crass poker variation to go along with it, which was pretty much just dealing five, discarding two, drawing two then trying to come up with the best name for your 'hand'.
"Umm...Ace of Cock, Two of Pussies - Threesome."
"Duuuude, I've got Double Fisties - the Ten of Fingers and the Two of Arses."
Good times.
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 4:43 AM on May 5, 2008
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What Is Your Favorite Cookie?
Try some anzac cookies.
Cookies? COOKIES? They're BISCUITS. ANZAC BISCUITS!
Anyway, my missus made these two recipes from Ultimate Recipe Showdown, and they were fantastic. I mean seriously, seriously good. Just wow.
Exotic Spice Cookies with Ginger, Cardamom and Rose Water
Radical Rob's Chocolate Chip... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 3:25 AM on April 22, 2008
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Dear God. Prayers for the modern world.
Dear God
I just imported an iPhone into Australia, and now I hear that it's going to get launched here at the end of June. Please make the Australian model cost over a grand, have lousy battery life, pissweak 3G reception and have some fatal bug that bricks the lot of them and can't be fixed.
Thank you
Obiwanwasabi
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 4:33 AM on April 14, 2008
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Blinking lights!
As a simple example, the above image shows the implementation of a SR-latch using two NOR gates, as well as a SR-latch logic block...
Well alrighty then.
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 3:31 AM on March 28, 2008
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1 in 99.1
So, I guess you won't be making any more jokes about Australia being peopled entirely by convicts, then?
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 3:50 AM on February 29, 2008
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they're more like can openers than iron chefs
Well, apologies to all you jaded hipsters, but I didn't have any idea that any of this happened. I watch the Japanese version most weeks, and have seen the US version a couple of times. I noticed the US version (an earlier incarnation of the show, if I read the article correctly) was much, much lamer, but had never assumed any of these sorts of shenanigans went on.
And I will bitchslap the next one of you that disses Paula Deen. Chicken bog, ftw.
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 7:37 PM on February 21, 2008
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Umm, sorry about the genocide
British kiddies stolen during and after WWII...I went to a Christian Brothers school
Are, there you are, right on cue. Aggrieved White Australian #3477865. Here's a clue by four for you:
The apology for the forced, unwelcome and unnecessary removal of Aboriginal children has absolutely nothing to do with anything that happened to British kiddies or to you. It happened to them. It's a completely separate issue. Apologising... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 9:32 PM on February 12, 2008
MeFi post:
Air Supply
Air Supply vocalist Graham Russell was born in Sherwood, Nottingham. "All Out Of Love" was originally meant to be part of a Robin Hood rock epic, and the lyrics were:
I'm all out of love
I want to arrest you
Seriously.
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 12:04 AM on November 25, 2007
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Sleep is where Ralph is a Viking
Roughly 40% think he's using "Viking" to mean champion.
Is it wrong to want to beat each and every one of those people to death with a cricket ball in a sock?
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 3:21 AM on June 11, 2007
*sobs uncontrollably*
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 7:29 PM on June 11, 2007
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Standardized cheating
The first chapter of Freakonomics discusses this kind of cheating in great detail, using examples from the Chicago school system. Same results - lots and lots of kids getting exactly the same answers right and wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 5:45 AM on June 4, 2007
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Towards equal citizenship for Aborigines.
They tend to live in country towns in the middle of nowhere
Many rural centres have larger per capita Indigenous populations. However, in terms of absolute numbers, most Indigenous people live in capital cities and large urban centres.
In the cities, they mostly live in vaguely ghettoey areas like The Block (Eveleigh St) in Sydney, where most whiteys would never dream of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 6:53 AM on May 27, 2007
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V-TECH RAMPAGE
Reminds me of Police Quest for some reason - probably the "you didn't do something you should have, so the whole game ends now" thing. It also reminds me a bit of Bruce Lee on the C64.
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 4:53 PM on May 19, 2007
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the iGod chatterbot
Me: Hi God. What's up?
God: Hello. I am a Christian.
Me: Good for you.
God: I detect sarcasm.
Me: You'd be right.
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 4:42 PM on May 19, 2007
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Cycle crash cover-up uncovered?
Shoddy writing on the part of the Canberra Times.
No, sloppy reporting by me. We were talking about it in the office this morning, and several of us thought somebody had died in the crash. I checked the opening para of the CT article again, but should've read through. Mea culpa!
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 5:50 PM on May 3, 2007
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You've all been so kind. Can I go now?
And the frustrating thing is that he almost certainly is a member of al-Qaeda
Was this even a crime when he was arrested? If it'd been ten years earlier, he'd be a hero for supporting our allies against the Russians. Go watch Rambo 3 and its dedication to the brave farmer-peasants of Afghanistan, then think about all those folk in the US administration who provided material support to AQ pre-9/11 who are still walking free today.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 4:19 PM on March 31, 2007
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So, who's got wood for my sheep?
I guess I'm the only one who thinks Settlers is duller than month old dishwater. It's Monopoly meets Fish meets the Flanders.
"Got any wood?"
"No."
"Oh. Erm, I guess I'll build a road then."
"Alrighty then, neighborino."
Somebody should make a board game of Warcraft II.
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 10:50 PM on July 9, 2006
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Australian Bananas Costing Hundreds
I paid a little over AUS$10 for seven mediocre bananas last night. Why? One banana, with 500ml of 1% milk, a tablespoon of wheatgerm, a couple of teaspoons of honey and a tray of ice makes two pints of very filling smoothy (one for each of us). We have them for a low fat, low sugar, reasonably low calorie (around 200), high fibre nutritious dessert. I figured 70c each for dessert isn't that expensive - it's about what I pay when I make a smoothy with forzen berries.
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi
at 4:23 AM on June 20, 2006
