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By sien (Sun Jul 04, 2004 at 03:28:42 AM EST) (all tags)
Are you slacking at work. Are you pretending to talk to your wife while typing to Rogerborg? Are you denying the TV your full attention? Or are you stealing from your employers. Or all of the above.
Well, join with our Blogmunity and steal, steal, steal.


And Gohn Berry is really good and Jeorge Kush is such a bastard. Those Depublicans are not going to get my vote. Remocrats all the way. With LBJ. Or something.


Oh, and enjoy the joy of my weekend. Or a few mentions of the less dull bits anyway. And lots of steamy elephant sex discussions.


I'm not paying attention to a show about great engineering feats which is about building the cross American railway. Invention of dynamite, bravery of the Chinese, stirring music, Miss Alabama giving the workers a helping hand, oh, wait, that's the other site I'm browsing.
Pretty amazing really. Makes me proud to be a pretend (software) engineer. Actually, the last time I said I was a software engineer my friends jupmed down my through for being pretentious.


Yet again I was playing Alpha Centuri, which totally captures my obsessive compulsiveness. I have no idea why the hell I can concentrate on moving stupid little units around for 6 hours straight without thinking while doing anything that requires more though burns me up. Silly. Stupid even. I wish I had some way I could get better concentration for useful stuff.


Sat night I went out to a pretty damn cool bar near Brunswick St. Jazzy stuff. It had all the Australian alternative crew listening to jazz. Nice and hip. Then went and ate a pretty nifty pub. And speculated about elephant sex. I mean, think about it, those trunks. There must be heaps of lesbian elephants, I mean, why would they need guys with a prehensile nose extension.


MMMmm, and I'm meeting this girl/bird/chick I've been chatting to for a while on Wednesday night. Somehow I've been witty and erudite on IM ( must surprise those who read my diary ) and must now live up to it. And I hate to say it, but she sounds hot, I know that sounds daft, but well, we'll see. And her old man is Maths proff, which for some pathetic sad reason is a plus in my book. I've dated 3 women with PhDs and one who will have one in two years. I'm a sucker for a hot gown.


And I went to this computery market thingy. Which isn't bad. I think I'll get a chipped X-Box, mainly to play music, it pisses me off not to have my mp3 collection easily available. The other thing about the market was the amount of illegal DVD selling. Amazing. Attention movie studios, the technology for worldwide distribution is out, deal with it or let the market fuck you. I was really surprised too see that if I'd be 5 minutes earlier I could have got Fahrenheit 9/11 and Spiderman II was out in the law abiding underworld 2 days after it was out in the US.


Oh, and John Howard, Australia's PM, is a swine. This week in Oz politics they are running a pathetic smear campaign against Mark Latham that accuses him of hitting some guy. After running a $AU200M ad campaign with taxpayer money they are now running the equivalent of an inquiry into Whitewater. Australia's politicians show themselves not only to be pathetic, but also to steal horrid ideas from the US. Then again the ALP has stolen American speeches and decided that we need a department of homeland security, so they are just as pathetic in some ways. The good thing is that it probably won't stick and that this kind of thing will hopefully backfire. It's abundantly clear that the libs have run out of ideas. It happens, it's time for them to go.


My cat eats cat food.

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Frst Post by sien (3.00 / 0) #1 Sun Jul 04, 2004 at 04:27:02 AM EST
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Nobody knows anything - William Goldman.


Dude by sien (3.00 / 0) #2 Sun Jul 04, 2004 at 04:28:03 AM EST
Getting first post in your diary is just so lame.
Nobody knows anything - William Goldman.
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Games, Girls and Oz Politics by cam (3.00 / 0) #3 Sun Jul 04, 2004 at 07:00:07 AM EST
Actually, the last time I said I was a software engineer my friends jupmed down my through for being pretentious.

Yes got to make sure we are all the last ship in the convoy at the same time. Yay for the moors of Australian society.

Yet again I was playing Alpha Centuri, which totally captures my obsessive compulsiveness.

That is a dangerous game. When we lived in a condo in Ashburn, I would play that on the laptop out on the balcony. Bad. No clock out there, so I would play obliviously until 4am in the morning and then have to get up a couple of hours later for work.

So who do you play most? I always pick the Gaia lady. I like their tree like cities. I hate that orange fundamentalist chick. Because of her I always had to build a military complex that dominated the globe. In the end it is a combat game with some resource management. The pressures from the other players ensure that the dominant military wins.

And I hate to say it, but she sounds hot, I know that sounds daft, but well, we'll see. And her old man is Maths proff, which for some pathetic sad reason is a plus in my book.

Good luck with the date. I am a sucker for a woman in a suit. Powerful, intelligent women are super-sexy in my book.

Oh, and John Howard, Australia's PM, is a swine. This week in Oz politics they are running a pathetic smear campaign against Mark Latham that accuses him of hitting some guy.

I saw that on the SMH. None of the wedge politics issues stuck, so they are getting personal. Grey Davis lost when he got personal as well. I hope this spells the end for the Howard government. Costello should have challenged Howard after Tampa, it was obvious Howard was running on fumes when he had to fabricate an issue to get re-elected.

Then again the ALP has stolen American speeches and decided that we need a department of homeland security, so they are just as pathetic in some ways.

Both major parties are pathetic. Keeping up with the Joneses as to Homeland Security. In the US that is a codename for the aggregation of a very powerful para-military. If the US becomes a dictatorship it will be through the para-military groups that the Dept of Homeland Security controls. Similar to the way KOPASSUS was used by the Indonesian Government to ensure the population remained in fear.

That is one reason why I dont think the Federal Government should have an Australian Federal Police dept, that is the States domain. It is bad enough the Federal Government controls the SAS.

What did you think of the story that came out about ASIO spies trying to scuttle Beazley?

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic


Hmm by sien (6.00 / 1) #4 Sun Jul 04, 2004 at 03:55:49 PM EST
Like that bit about being the last ship in the convoy.


I tend to play University in Alpha Centauri, go for broke expanding and getting air units and then pummel everyone else. The air units are a bit too strong, as is often the case, if you get them first and run a sort of blitzkreig you are very tough to beat. The setting for Alpha Centauri is kinda cool though, it has advantages over the Civ games in that it doesn't seem quite so crazy.


It's time for a change again in Australia. Then Costello can come back and win in 6-10 years. That creep Abbot is scary though, he is surely Howard's pick for successor.


I hadn't heard about the Beazley/Indonesia/ASIO thing. Weird story. Intelligence people are really odd.

Nobody knows anything - William Goldman.
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Games by cam (3.00 / 0) #5 Sun Jul 04, 2004 at 10:18:28 PM EST
I tend to play University in Alpha Centauri, go for broke expanding and getting air units and then pummel everyone else.

I do the expansion thing and then rely on worms and a navy, the AI is a bit dumb and will waste dollars on reconstructing cities if you bombard them from the water. I end up with a bunch of ships bombarding the water cities on the ones that declare war on me. I dont like paying tribute either so end up with all of them fighting me sooner or later. The worms grow good with experience so they conduct my land campaigns.

It's time for a change again in Australia. Then Costello can come back and win in 6-10 years. That creep Abbot is scary though, he is surely Howard's pick for successor.

You are a fan of Costello, more so than others anyway. He at least came out pro-republican in the days of the referendum. Though that was before Howard consolidated his power. I agree Abbot is scary. He has that mix of christian outrageousness, moral ambiguouness and political ambition that doesnt bode well.

I hadn't heard about the Beazley/Indonesia/ASIO thing. Weird story. Intelligence people are really odd.

I havent read/heard the whole story yet, the Bulletin is subscription only.

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic
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Interesting by sien (6.00 / 1) #6 Sun Jul 04, 2004 at 11:54:50 PM EST
Interesting tactics. I've always ignored the worms and found them largely annoying. It's cool to hear how other people play the game.


There is some googleable stuff about Beazley and alleged links to him from Indonesia. Curious. Perhaps it's just more of a Liberal smear job.


Costello is a good guy. He's done some really stupid stuff, like tell the world's press after Greenspan had talked to him what Greenspan had said, but nonetheless he has been a decent treasurer and that's a good route to becoming PM. He's also from the Victorian Liberal party, and indeed the Victorian Liberal party wing that is socially tolerant and fairly centrist. Libs from NSW are too conservative. The ALP from NSW is also more right wing than their Victorian counterparts so ALP people from NSW make a better run of things on the whole as they are more centrist. It's a pity Carr won't get to make a run for PM. That's somewhere where the Australian system falls down, has there ever been a premier who became leader of a major party?

Nobody knows anything - William Goldman.
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None I can recall by cam (6.00 / 1) #7 Mon Jul 05, 2004 at 06:34:09 AM EST
It's cool to hear how other people play the game.

Those tactics beat an AI. When I used to play games like C&C, Red Alert or Dark Reign at LAN parties I would get monstered. I wasnt much chop against other players.

In Alpha Centauri I always found the air force stuff too difficult to manage. I stranded them too often and would lose them. They required too much attention. Putting a battleship off the coast of a city and telling it to attack required far less micro management.

There is some googleable stuff about Beazley and alleged links to him from Indonesia. Curious. Perhaps it's just more of a Liberal smear job.

Labor of that period were very interested in including Indonesia in the South Pacific and Australian economy. Keating had a close relationship with Sueharto. I guess Anglospheric spies thought it was a bad move. Then again parties have misued the intelligence service in the past for their own political ends and Howard has politicized the military, AFP and ASIO - so I wouldnt put it past him to use ASIO for his re-election purposes.

It's a pity Carr won't get to make a run for PM. That's somewhere where the Australian system falls down, has there ever been a premier who became leader of a major party?

Carr is the managerial style. NSW went for a period there alternating between the Griener like managerial style and the Hawke good ol' boy style of Faye.

I recall Joh having a run at federal politics lol. IIRC Wran made overtures that he wanted to get involved in federal politics but nothing came of it. I think Faye went to federal politics and got a shadow ministerial job. But I dont recall him hanging around.

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic
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Oh yeah by sien (6.00 / 1) #8 Mon Jul 05, 2004 at 04:35:11 PM EST
Faye, I remember that. And Joh too actually. I had a RamJoh tee-shirt at one point.


Carmen Lawrence was another. And if Howard had lost the 96 election there was talk that Geoff Kennet might have had a swing at the leadership.


It's something where Australian politics differs considerably from US politics. The advantages of the Australian system are that you couldn't get GW elected as he'd get murdered in parliamentary debate but you don't get people with leadership experience.  Being a senator is one thing, being a person for whom the buck stops at your desk is another.

Nobody knows anything - William Goldman.
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