Hey everyone!
A friend of mine found these two pics… apparently it’s meant to be very adept depictions of Adam and myself…
I’ve found myself enjoying a lot of Yoai manga lately (not necessarily the porn versions!)… YouTube has heaps of it! It’s great 
Here are the two pics… everyone says they suit us down to a “T”, but let’s get your opinions…
Manga Gus
Manga Adam
Waddaya think?
Hello everyone!
Yes… am still alive and although it seems like I’m in a pressure cooker at the moment, I’m still upright and putting one foot after the other.
I finished off my thesis on Wednesday, after one hell of an all-nighter. Yes.. in true “Gus” style, I wrote almost half of my thesis, as well as proofing and final formatting / printing… the night before. 12,500 words by the end (not including appendicies), and 60 pages. Add on another 20 pages for the appendix, and it turned into quite a hefty document that my poor little bubblejet printed out quite proudly.
So yes.. it’s now handed in! I even enetered the thesis in a competition for presentation towards industry last Friday… which was more for show than me actually winning anything. I came second in my category, and my thesis supervisor was fairly happy with it all. So as long as I don’t fail, I’m quite happy!
I have been lately commended a few times on my bullshit skills, and ability to spin facts together to make a decent presentation. My (new) boss at work recently said “Gus… you have nothing to worry about. You’re an excellent bullshitter”, to which I was very proud The next instance came from a recent presentation of a satellite engineering assignment that I didn’t finish in time for the presentation. My lecturer commented that it was a great presentation even though I modelled some form of space-based weapons system instead of a communications downlink (I was receiving 500dB on the ground), and offered me an extension. Go Gus!
Adam and I are still well… he’s enjoying his stressful time at the moment, with his thesis due date ominously close and still a few thousand words to go, not including revisions and formatting etc. I always knew this time of year would most likely be the most stressful in our life so far, and the most testing on our relationship. So far so well, I must say!
With that, I must go and do some more work, write another presentation and have a coffee.
Ciao all!
I’m really starting to feel it now. It seems like everyone at work has been talking all week about Slease Ball (yes, Foxtel crawls with queens, if you didn’t figure that out already), and everyone on my LJ list seeem to be talking about all the fabulous times out they’ve been having lately.
I wanna go toooooooooooo!!!!
*curls up in a ball and whimpers*.
I’ve been really punishing myself this year, taking on far too much and forgoing any social contact in some forlorn hope to finish uni and earn a dollar or two at the same time. The last time I had a good time out and body-grinded with a boy on the dancefloor was New Year’s Day. Yeah… how sad is that!
So keep me in mind, my friends. November 14th this year, it’s finally over and I intend to catch up with all of you (and in particular other Sydney ppl, and maybe a car-trip to Bris and Melb).
We’re gunna plan a huuuuuuuge housewarming party end of this year, both as a celebration of this crap finally being over, and Adam’s graduation and imminent birthday. It’s going to be far bigger than previous parties we’ve had, and we even have an internationally-known DJ and lighting (proper stuff too… maybe even a laser or two!). Gus n’ Adz don’t do things by halves!
Hiya pplz!
Long time since updates, I know. This year is flying past at an alarming rate, and I can’t believe it’s spring already and I feel like going to the beach!
The news from up here is that Shelton is growing like a weed, getting a lot bigger, and a lot naughtier! He’s doing well… he responds to his name, will sit on command and is even toilet trained to a basic degree (not perfect yet though, unfortunately!). He may be naughty, but still so adorable!!! He still retains some of his puppy clumsiness, often getting over-excited and then running down the stairs and face-planting onto the deck. Doesn’t phaze him though… a shake of the head, wag of the tail and he’s forgotten all about it. Cuteness overload…
< Geek >
Well… thesis due date is getting closer and closer. 3.5 weeks until it’s due! If I haven’t mentioned what I’m doing, it’s a project to port Avaya‘s VoIP softphone into Vista. It’s been a lot of research and work so far, and in particular i’m concentrating on Quality of Service and IPv6. I’m now running Vista RC-1 on my laptop, and I have to say I’m relatively impressed that Micro$oft have picked up their game, because with Beta 2 I thought we would see Macs running the world! I decided to run Vista Longhorn Server Beta 2 on my server as a Virtual Server, and I’m glad I bought an extra gig of memory and 250GB HDD because most of it was in use by the virtual machine! I worked all night last night trying to get Active Directory working on Longhorn Server until I had a breakthrough at about 7am in the morning, when I made the new enterprise-level features of Vista work without actually running Longhorn Server at all!. That was definately cause for celebration, so I whipped out the Johnny Black and the Dunhill Whites and went out and talked to the puppy.
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So, if you’re still reading after getting through that geeky bit, I’m impressed! < rant >I’m always amazed by the apathy of so many people when it comes to learning about technology. Sure, you might not have the passion of some or want to know it in implicit detail, but considering how technology-based our lives and workplaces are becoming, I think it’s very unwise to be completely ignorant of how these things basically work. Hence I often have very little time for those that expect the technologically-literate to just “fix things” without actually caring how it works. It’s the same with cars… I may not be a mechanic or be able to fix it myself, but I’m interested in how it all goes together and basically works. < /rant >
This year has been quite trying for me, and I have to say that the next 6 weeks are going to be some of the most difficult in my life in terms of how much i need to get done. Apart from the thesis, I also have major assignments for my Satellite Communications subject, and a full-time job to go to. And, of course, I have to console and keep Adam happy as he does his thesis, which is starting to get some good results! His survey managed to pull in 771 results (thanks to those that took part!) and he has seen some very interesting trends when it comes to the frequency that people download, and its impact. The television networks have been contacting him, and his lecturer wants to see it professionally published, so I’m very proud of him! Of course, that means that half the time he is stressed out and frustrated (as one gets with theses), and I think I’ll be doing well to get to the other side without being in a straightjacket.
I’d love to see everyone when this is all over, and I promise to put up some more puppy photos before he gets out of the cute stage!
Hope everyone is well and doing ok… Thankyou if you’ve read this far!
Gus
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Someone commented that they had a new term for people like me — Twink + Geek = Tweek.
After reading the above, do you agree?? LOL
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