Er, Where Do I Live Again?

Weird. I was filling in an online form just now. It asked me for my previous address. Do you think I could remember it? Well, I could remember bits of it, like the suburb (Caulfield North) and the street (Orrong Road). And the flat number. But do you think I could remember the street number? I ended up having to peel the new address label off the back of my license, to look at the one underneath it!!!

Of Wasabi Peas and University Open Days

Friday night, saw the Simpsons Movie. Which I think I mentioned before....

Saturday I bought about eight kilos of Meat at the Preston market. My sister came over and I copied about eight gig of MP3s onto her portable hard drive. Then we had... Fish and chips for dinner! Cool.

Sunday, I met more members of evildoom_bunny's family - she neglects to mention how many of them there are! Still, this particular Aunt lives in Queensland, so isn't down here much. We had a rather Ace brunch at Retro. Stewed fruit with yoghurt. Hmmmm... Healthening.

Then we dragged ourselves - in fact, we walked from the top of Brunswick Street - to Melbourne Uni for their open day. I was pleased to see several people out the front protesting the "Melbourne Model". Also noticed that the uni seems to have taken over most of Carlton and is busy expanding towards the CBD as well.

evildoom_bunny wanted to check out the Dip Ed course in the department of education. But of course, they don't have a Dip Ed any more. It's called something else, or indeed, is part of another post grad degree. Me thinks they're going to regret messing with their academic program so comprehensively.

Then we wandered off to the two departments I wanted to visit: the Melbourne Business School and the Comp Sci (sorry, ICT) departments. Both of which turned out to be well south of the "old" Melbourne Uni campus footprint, deep in what must be Carlton. The Business school was being very business-like and not particularly helpful. ICT was amusing. We waited for a free sausage from the barbecue, but quickly got bored. So we wandered inside, looked at some labs full of aging PCs - man, no one has CRT monitors any more - and I asked about doing single subjects. Seems one can, but I probably could have found out more from the friggin' website. Still, we got a balloon :-)

On the way home we popped into an Asian grocery in Melbourne Central. We got some wasabi peas, some prawn crackers, some custard buns (Yum!). Then I said to evildoom_bunny "We have to buy one thing we can't identify." We settled on two fruit-shaped plastic things from the freezer, one orange one green. They turned out to contain ice cream, the orange one had orange (der) and the green one watermelon. I was hoping for something weirder, ah well, next time.

The balloon is still floating around the ceiling of the flat... We'll see where it is by tonight. Hopefully schnitzelrug won't eat it...

Want Mac!!!

My cousin has one of these:

(That's a Apple Mac Cube for those wondering. Possibly the most exotic computer shape you'll see.)

It's currently sitting on my desk, because he wants me to flog it on Ebay for him. But... Having turned it on and played with it for a bit... I want it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's a sweat machine, aside from looking rather cool. The current Mac OS is rather nice...

So, at one point on the weekend, I had two Windows machines, a G4 Mac and a G3 Mac running on my desk. If I'd turned on my Linux box, I'd have had every major operating system :-)

I'll have to make him an offer. I was going to buy it originally, but decided I couldn't afford it - they've held their value rather well. But now... Want............. I went and looked around, there are lots of upgrades one can get for it. And I could get rid of my G3... Hmmmmmmmm...