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by aspekt
Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:55 am
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Topic: Gripe thread
Replies: 31832
Views: 2715975

yeah im not sure how asia survives. I love white rice, brown rice if im feeling it in salad. bizzaro brown rice has too much texture for my liking. It's nice when it's mixed into stuff but when 75% of the meal is brown rice it doesn't do it for me. I have a really big thing with textures. If the te...
by aspekt
Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:52 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Gripe thread
Replies: 31832
Views: 2715975

On the topic of sushi... I hate it when you get hand rolls that have only half the filling the size would lead you to beleive they have..... IE: one whole half is nothing but rice.... shits me. not related at all but my girlfirneds brother is a health nut apparently (i call it a eating disorder) wh...
by aspekt
Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:31 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: quality food...
Replies: 5852
Views: 589003

how far north do they deliver? ;)
by aspekt
Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:25 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Movember
Replies: 174
Views: 18426

I'm down. Work is endorsing this one as well.
by aspekt
Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:32 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Buying goods over the net: Local or International
Replies: 23
Views: 2130

universal sea wrote:
aspekt wrote:
I'm pretty sure that it's stuff under $1,000 doesn't attract duty...
that's right, as I mentioned in my post. I called up a company about this earlier this year.

In Canada it's like $60 before duties kick in, here, a grand, is super.
you did too. my bad =D
by aspekt
Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:31 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: quality food...
Replies: 5852
Views: 589003

I got this 4 pack of "Blaire's death sauce" for my birthday (variety pack). I opened one of the bottles and was totally disappointed by it. I think i must have put about half a bottle into a meal before i could taste it. So i went through the first bottle and the rest of them were just sit...
by aspekt
Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:36 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Gripe thread
Replies: 31832
Views: 2715975

should have done some dentistry to him with your fist ;) gripe: sushi places that only give you one soy sauce fish despite buying two sushi rolls. It's probably on par with pie shops that charge for sauce. It's just rude. I'd rather the pie was $0.20 more expensive and have the sauce included free. ...
by aspekt
Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:27 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Buying goods over the net: Local or International
Replies: 23
Views: 2130

betson wrote:A pallette of goods, like to see you get that through as a gift!
just get them to put a big mother fuckin bow on it (like on a car).

I'm pretty sure that it's stuff under $1,000 doesn't attract duty...
by aspekt
Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:17 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Gripe thread
Replies: 31832
Views: 2715975

GOTD > dentists. so just becasue you go to school for six years it seems to give you a lisence to lie as well as pretend like the pain you inflict is someone elses fault now i know why some of my friends do the whole 'if it dont hurt, dont go see em" philosophy. My family recently found out th...
by aspekt
Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:51 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: quality food...
Replies: 5852
Views: 589003

freaking sweet. i know where i'm getting lunch from today =D
by aspekt
Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:47 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Just bought a soda siphon....
Replies: 39
Views: 6126

I visited a mate last night who orders bulbs off the net. He and another friend decided to go halves in industrial sized order. I walked into his bedroom and he had about 40 boxes of the things. some friends of mine tell a story of a tank of nitrous (maybe 10,000litres or so) with a rubber glove at...
by aspekt
Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:36 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Miss Libertine is open...
Replies: 42
Views: 4442

Re: Miss Libertine is open...

TheOperatives wrote:Yo People,

come check it when you get the chance, 34 franklin st in the city...

$5 Pizzas, great beers, and for those of you at RMIT it's just a 2 second walk....

:)
you speak my language =D

which section of franklin st is that?
by aspekt
Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:06 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: quality food...
Replies: 5852
Views: 589003

Best recently have been a cafe just off sydney road way up in a pedestrian mall next to a post office and on smith st just around the corner from gertrude. EDIT: Looks like the half moon is opposite the cafe i went to, wonder if they get the felafel from there for this regular cafe? that one in smi...
by aspekt
Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:10 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Buying goods over the net: Local or International
Replies: 23
Views: 2130

i'd prefer to buy local. but some stuff is just so much cheaper overseas. eg i bought some bike stuff such as a computer with heart rate monitor and whatnot. what i paid for it in aussie dollars was less than my mate could get it for here, cost price. That was like a 50% saving on retail. Mind you s...
by aspekt
Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:42 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Gripe thread
Replies: 31832
Views: 2715975

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m70/elflaymo/NewImage2.jpg farken work farken!!!!! tell me this isn't a great waste of time for a fashion designer.....i didn't spend three years at uni and 4 years in the industry to end up a sweatshop iron lady!!! (not theres anything wrong with that mind you).....
by aspekt
Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:37 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: DJ's - do you share needles?
Replies: 64
Views: 7681

jbs wrote:Nothing gets reggae DJs moving faster than the where's that bit that sits over your 7" panic.
what did the rastas say when they ran out of pot?




"what's this shit music?" :teef:
by aspekt
Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:20 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Just bought a soda siphon....
Replies: 39
Views: 6126

So, it turns out I need a CO2 bulb holder that I can put the bulb in and screw onto the siphon... Any tips where I can get one? Tried a few searches and only found the part listed on UK sites. like this. http://www.creamsupplies.co.uk/buyonline/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=112 what happened...
by aspekt
Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:54 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Transit Police
Replies: 157
Views: 14104

...Abolish zone 3? shit Ballieu, we've got more important issues to deal with than a freakin' PT zone. the irony is this is a pretty smart political move given the liberals poll horribly in the outer suburbs and this gives them an issue to ride that speaks to joe average living in zone 3 who doesn'...
by aspekt
Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:50 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: DJ's - do you share needles?
Replies: 64
Views: 7681

Actually the "only coming out one side" is usually because of dirty contacts from the headshell to the tonearm, a good lick will usually fix that... my point being i see it with people who bring thier own needles too! gah! this actually makes the problem worse in the long run as your sali...
by aspekt
Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:08 am
Forum: Production & Technology
Topic: external HDD
Replies: 16
Views: 2182

so it's settled, we should all go back to punch cards.
by aspekt
Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:07 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Transit Police
Replies: 157
Views: 14104

Rob M wrote:I believe this thread highlights the fact that more people need to buy bikes.

:teef:

...Abolish zone 3? shit Ballieu, we've got more important issues to deal with than a freakin' PT zone.
haha werd
by aspekt
Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:45 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Just bought a soda siphon....
Replies: 39
Views: 6126

ArrBee wrote:Thanks for the link Aspekt. That'll be the way.
no worries. the bloke who runs it was in one of my classes at uni last semester.
by aspekt
Sun Oct 29, 2006 5:51 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Just bought a soda siphon....
Replies: 39
Views: 6126

Re: Just bought a soda siphon....

And now I need to know where to buy CO2 bulbs so I can look swish mixing drinks! Anyone know where the bulbs can be bought (apparently the ones used for air guns and tire inflation are not fit for consumption) Chur. pretty sure the tyre inflation ones have a thread as well so they won't fit in your...
by aspekt
Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:12 pm
Forum: Production & Technology
Topic: external HDD
Replies: 16
Views: 2182

Yeah i never really got into burning cds or dvds. not only are they easily scratched, but you end up with boxes and boxes of them, just like you did with floppy disks 5 years earlier. I just kept buying more and bigger harddrives as it was easier to find stuff, more reliable and usually cheaper ($/M...
by aspekt
Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:43 am
Forum: Production & Technology
Topic: external HDD
Replies: 16
Views: 2182

Snowie wrote: I was looking into getting a extrenal Hdd myself, and after abit of research and asking a few network administrators and Pc tech friends of mine, they cautioned me away from them, due to the very common hdd crashing problem.
Can you elaborate on this?
by aspekt
Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:06 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Transit Police
Replies: 157
Views: 14104

Given how much money they spent on the met card infrastucture less than 10 years ago, I'm sure they'll keep trying to make it work. I think the ticketing system is far too complicated for a start. The system in some other countries where you pay a fixed price to ride the system each time seems to b...
by aspekt
Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:03 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Mac Airport Express Users
Replies: 29
Views: 4895

Rob M wrote:ae's are rotten to the core. i'm saving up for an asus wi700gL router with the works. espec now that bittorrent licensing has relaxed and will become integral to new firmware updates.
holy crap, that's crazy.
what's the damage from one of those bad boys?
by aspekt
Sat Oct 28, 2006 1:59 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Transit Police
Replies: 157
Views: 14104

re conductors - i reckon this is now more about IR/HR than anything else. To be a streamlined private concern it's not in the interests of Connex (and whoever had it before them) to have a shitload of conductors on the books that they needed to pay super for, admin fees, sick days etc etc ... I'd a...
by aspekt
Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:34 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Wash day Friday? Nothing clean, right?
Replies: 2463
Views: 283035

Image
it's times like these when you need four pockets.
by aspekt
Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:33 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Transit Police
Replies: 157
Views: 14104

wow wow wow...I hate the bastards as well. I was surrounded by 6 Indian guys in plain clothes on a train last year about 10.30pm, I was the only one on the carriage. I had a ticket. They did not identify themselves but asked to see my ticket, when I refused the smallest guy started to mouth off. So...
by aspekt
Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:51 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Mac Airport Express Users
Replies: 29
Views: 4895

mr lob wrote:cheers aspekt and bammbamm!

I'm sold will be picking one up asap, thanks for all the extra details as well aspekt.

Owe you both beers :wink: have a good weekend :D
no worries mate. glad it helped.
by aspekt
Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:41 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Mac Airport Express Users
Replies: 29
Views: 4895

Yeah Ive got the same as aspekt and it works a treat with my macbook. Only thing to note is that it can in some, like my case it can interfere with your Cordless telephone because they run on the same frequencies sometimes (Although if you have a digital phone I dont think you will have a prob) try...
by aspekt
Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:42 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Transit Police
Replies: 157
Views: 14104

I love the tram stops where they have put in the new screens and taken out the hardcopy timetables. of course the sign stuck to the screen that says "awaiting electricty connection" or something similar. I also love the way they're trying to move accross to these sliding timetables where b...
by aspekt
Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:21 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Mac Airport Express Users
Replies: 29
Views: 4895

NO NO NO NO NO. don't buy any computer gear from officeworks. It is insanely overpriced! I can't help but think that stuff would know fuck all about the gear as well. have noted your advice aspekt, can you recommend a particular model to use with a mac powerbook and adsl modem? DG834G http://netgea...
by aspekt
Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:53 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Transit Police
Replies: 157
Views: 14104

I think they can detain you until they are satisfied that you are who you say you are. I think it would be unreasonable (moreso than the rest of the legislation) to let you go and then send you a fine anyway because you don't have a driver's licence. they should confirm your identity on the spot. th...
by aspekt
Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:27 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Gripe thread
Replies: 31832
Views: 2715975

so...over...uni

If I wasn't doing work placement next semester I'd go insane. Just so freakin over it. In comparrison to everything else in my life it all seems so pointless. I don't feel like i'm actually learning anything.
by aspekt
Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:25 pm
Forum: Production & Technology
Topic: iPod Help please...
Replies: 7
Views: 889

plz.
by aspekt
Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:24 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Mac Airport Express Users
Replies: 29
Views: 4895

NO NO NO NO NO.
don't buy any computer gear from officeworks.
It is insanely overpriced!
I can't help but think that stuff would know fuck all about the gear as well.
by aspekt
Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:48 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Mac Airport Express Users
Replies: 29
Views: 4895

cheers guys very helpful indeed :D so where can I buy a netgear router and how much do you think :?: msy or cpl msy are in pascoe vale and malvern cpl are on dudley st in west melb. (work out what you want first because their customer service isn't great. they deal in low margin, high volume sales)...
by aspekt
Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:10 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Mac Airport Express Users
Replies: 29
Views: 4895

I'm a big fan of netgears. D-Link are freakin shit. Don't touch them.
That said I had some dramas with the Netgear router I bought where I had to update the firmware from a PC before I could configure it with my mac o_0. I don't know how that works given the platform independence of HTML...
by aspekt
Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:38 pm
Forum: Production & Technology
Topic: iPod Help please...
Replies: 7
Views: 889

you'd probably be better off just setting up playlists.
or one big playlist that lasts the entire reception and maybe some smaller genre/style playlists for a change of plan/pace.
by aspekt
Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:22 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Gripe thread
Replies: 31832
Views: 2715975

touche
by aspekt
Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:27 pm
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Topic: Gripe thread
Replies: 31832
Views: 2715975

"your" where it should be "you're"
it drives me insane. I see it everywhere. GAH!
by aspekt
Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:53 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Gripe thread
Replies: 31832
Views: 2715975

gaz wrote:oooo last week and a bit of the uni means lots of work to get done and increased stress levels. Its not that bad tho, once finished everything will be fantastic. Hopefully.
werd. next wednesday night i'm getting legless!
by aspekt
Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:50 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: bikes
Replies: 1399
Views: 493034

What sort of bike did you end up getting Rob? I got a Giant Talon 07' ... pretty much left everything standard but just got the Schwalbe semi slick tires and the obligatory bar ends :) I was recommended to keep them at 65PSI on a weekly basis. They're fairly thin. What a sweet ride though! I gotta ...
by aspekt
Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:26 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: bikes
Replies: 1399
Views: 493034

one of my housemates' friends used to leave his fixedwheel unlocked, leaning against the wall of the pub. he'd come out of the pub to find the bike 20metres down the road with a trail of blood leading away from it. fucking bike thieves. A mate had his $5k mtb that he'd only just bought stolen when t...
by aspekt
Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:12 pm
Forum: Production & Technology
Topic: Widescreen or conventional
Replies: 22
Views: 3866

i have two dell 2405fpws (the 24") and would not go back for anything. never had a problem with them, and 3840x1200 is pretty friggin' sweet. (but then again, i don't have a problem with 1024x768 on my wonderful laptop; go figure.) be kinda wary of the apple 30", driving it at its full re...
by aspekt
Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:04 pm
Forum: Production & Technology
Topic: Widescreen or conventional
Replies: 22
Views: 3866

I can't say for audio stuff but I love using a widescreen and I don't think i'd ever bother with a 4:3 again. I don't think there's all that much point getting a 19" because usually they still have the same native res as a 17" (1280x1024). If you can get a higher res 19" then by all m...
by aspekt
Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:11 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: bikes
Replies: 1399
Views: 493034

actually, funny story about exploding tyres... We were at castlemaine for a weekend of riding and one of my housemates was putting some new tubeless tyres on his wheels. You can get this creamy looking goop stuff that automatically seals up any punctures. You just pour half a bottle into the bottom ...
by aspekt
Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:44 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: bikes
Replies: 1399
Views: 493034

What's the best presta valve air pump on the market that possibly has a PSI gauge that I can buy ASAP? My tyre has gone flat and I can't take it anywhere atm, no car. buy a track pump. i think mine is topeak. my housemate has a specialized which is rubbish, it feels flimsy and the pressure gadge is...