Tue 20th Jun 2006
Posted late evening, filed under
Humour.
Boing Boing: China Olympic stadium design entry resembles giant snatch?
This is kind of amusing, but even more so when I think back to a furore that erupted in my early days of University, shortly after the State Bank of South Australia fiasco that resulted in the bank being rebranded as BankSA.
Along with the name change came a new logo:
Some wags from one of the student newspapers - it may have been on dit, the Adelaide Uni newspaper, but I seem to recall it being entropy, the UniSA paper - decided that it looked decidedly snatch-like, and called it CuntSA.
Needless to say, it didn’t go down too well.
Tue 20th Jun 2006
Posted in the evening, filed under
Psychology.
I can’t remember when I first heard of Freud. I think I didn’t really know enough about him while at school to make any decisions, other than the term Freudian Slip. It wasn’t until I was at Uni, and studying some Psychology that I came across him in any context. I read a couple of fairly biting criticisms of his work by people like Stephen Jay Gould, and haven’t really had any respect for him since then. There’s one quote I really enjoy, particularly since it nicely complements the Freud/Fraud similarity:
Everything Freud did that was new was not true,
and everything Freud did that was true was not new.
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Tue 20th Jun 2006
Posted in the evening, filed under
Asides ,
World of Warcraft.
Finally, the 1.11 World of Warcraft update is being applied. Which means all of those things I mentioned a fortnight ago are finally happening.
Tue 20th Jun 2006
Posted in the evening, filed under
Touch Football.
Well, it hardly seems like a year since the last 15s trials, but it must be. Last weekend was the date, and over the Saturday and Sunday, we had a total of 33 girls trial. What was excellent again this year was the general standard of the girls. Virtually all of them had very good ball skills, and most were quite athletic.
It was, as I always seem to be saying in my letters out to candidates, very hard to select a team from a pool of talent like this. Having said that, we’ve selected what we deemed to be the 21 best girls from the weekend, and in about a month I’ll be holding further trials, over a couple of weekends.
Following that, there will be a selection of 14 girls to be in the final team, and then training begins in earnest. And then, at the end of October, it’s off to Perth for a week.
