Mintialia's Hypercube

mintialia @ 2008-11-13T18:47:00

2008-11-13T08:49:41Z

Maybe I'm a stupid optimist or something, but I never thought our country would deny residence to families because their disabled children are a burden to the country and its taxpayers.

Back to uni

2008-09-01T08:34:44Z

No, I'm not dead. Nor have I eloped with someone fantastic. (or even someone not-so-fantastic)

I'm actually able to come back to uni now; today was my first day back. And I got to see Laura! Yays! :)

I'm pretty worn out right now, but I feel more productive now that I'm back to lectures again.

Wednesday I get the motorised scooter from uni. And no, you can't have a go on it. No, not even if you get me chocolate. :P

I hope this knee clears up soon; sleeping downstairs and not being allowed to go to my room to pick out my own clothes/shoes/cleaning products/teddy bears/anything I need.

Physio thinks that it will take at least twice as long for me to heal this as it would take a normal person, so I've got at least another six weeks to go :(

I've had to drop my maths subject, which I'm really sad about. I know it's the right/practical/necessary thing to do, but it still feels like I've failed a little bit. They've been really helpful with my physics courses, though, so I hope I won't have to drop anything else. So far I've been okay (and even been able to complete one bit of assessment for physics!) but I'm going to take it slow and not push things so I don't get into a big relapse.

I've missed seeing everyone and I'm very glad I'm back at uni because I was starting to turn into a nutty hermit! Going to PAIN on Friday helped too, even if people did keep running off with my walking stick :P

Interesting

2008-08-12T11:21:51Z

I stumbled across this site, compiled by ~~Christian Nutjobs~~ Concerned Christian Experts on Morality.

They provide free assessments and ratings of most movies (well, most movies that kids are likely to encounter and want to watch, apparently), based on their invented "WISDOM" categories. W = Wanton Violence/Crime, I = Impudence/Hate, S = Sexual Immorality/Homesexuality, D = Drug/Alcohol use, O = Offence to God, M = Murder/Suicide. From what I can tell, these are all considered equal in their mathematical assessment of the suitability of the movie. Except that a single sex scene will make the movie lose all its purity points for the S section, while a single murder won't lose many M purity points.

It's insane. I've wasted the best part of an afternoon in horror looking at their assessments of movies I thought were fine. (Apparently The Lion King is evil because the song "The Circle of Life" is promoting reincarnation. Also, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is evil because it promotes Darwinism.)

It's painful, but hilarious. At first, I thought it just *had* to be a joke. But far too much time and effort was put into this (and far too many crazy "offensive" things were discussed) for it to be anything but purely serious.

What gets me is that the person rating all these films as being total filth, sat through and documented every single occurrence of every single sinful word or act throughout the entire film, even with movies so evil as to go below zero with their purity points. You'd think if it was so bad, he'd just leave.

Evil video/DVD machine of doom

2008-06-08T00:24:38Z

Did anyone happen to tape (well, record to video cassette or DVD) the final of House on Wednesday?

Our recording of it failed in the last 10 minutes because our machine is *evil* (come to think of it, I think it missed the first 10 minutes, too).

If anyone taped it, could I please please please please please borrow it? *cries*

*huggles* and good luck for exams

mintialia @ 2008-01-18T12:49:00

2008-01-18T02:49:50Z

We found Jack!

mintialia @ 2008-01-17T10:26:00

2008-01-17T00:28:15Z

Jack's gone missing.

Quote of the day

2008-01-11T10:00:12Z

"You don't have to be gay to be fabulous"

Guess who just said it?
(No cheating)

Cute

2008-01-05T09:11:53Z

I found this over on Cute Overload, and it's absolutely gorgeous:

You can hear him warming up at the start, ready to sing "Body" when it comes on, and when the feet start going it is adorable! He manages to stay in time with his singing and dancing for the whole thing. Very cute, and well worth watching!

Spicks and Specks!

2007-12-09T12:08:01Z

As you can probably guess from the title, I just got back from the live performance of Spicks and Specks! Yay! It was fantastic (and I of course have a T-shirt to celebrate my outing).

Highlights include:
- band playing The Sounds of Silence in the style of Death Metal
- The stagehand was called Hamish! (Unfortunately, he wasn't Hamish Blake)
- The band were dressed like early Beatles
- A guy from the audience yelled to Adam Hills, "My girlfriend wants to know what you're doing after the show" during their "Do You Have Any Questions About Spicks and Specks?" segment
- While looking for contestants: "Stand up if you're here with one or both parents" many people stand up, "Okay, you there young man! What's your name? Cody*!" pause, "Which one of your parents do you want to nominate to be a contestant?"
*I can't remember the actual name of the kid
- Alan did interpretive dance

It was wonderful! *squee* The band was actually good, and the lead singer/guitarist was Myf's brother!

I got to wear my new glitter eyeliner

I ran into Felicity et al.

Yay for procrastination

2007-11-04T03:17:17Z

I have a Quantum Physics Exam Of Impending Doom on Friday, so of course I'm going to be messing about watching videos on YouTube rather than studying.

In my mindless browsing, I have noticed something interesting.

Why do Disney songs sound better in the French version?

Example (from the Little Mermaid):

(My favourite line is "Je ne sais pas/ Pourqoui je t'aime". Hehehe:P)

Thumbelina (okay, so it's not exactly Disney):

Swan Princess:

Aladdin:

Fern Gully:

As you can probably see, I love listening to the songs in other languages. I find it fascinating. and I suppose I like the French versions because I can remember a tiny bit of French.

LJ

2007-10-21T04:46:39Z

For some reason, LJ is being really weird, and is no longer notifying me by email when somebody responds to my journal or to a comment of mine :S

The settings are still all set to notify me, but I get nothing. :'(

So sorry if I don't reply to comments very quickly because of it

PAIN

2007-08-11T09:55:26Z

(This is about the physics club, not some sort of injury. And no, they aren't the same thing!)

The treasure hunt that I was running was on Friday (Yay!) and it seemed to go well :)

People seemed to like it, and are asking me to do another (but really long, this time) one at the end of semester! :D

The only unfortunate thing is that I didn't get to see any of it except for the finish. Ah well, can't be helped if I run it...

(Yes, I know I have 5 assessable items to complete by Monday, but LJ is more fun)