Thursday, October 13, 2005

Get out of here, you disgust me.



Due to popular demand and also nagging, I return. Coo-ee, what to report to the discerning purveyors of words on the internets? Contact me via PO box 99 in your capital city.

I flew down from BrisVegas to Sydney on the weakend, completing what shall be known in future generations as one of the most successful visit to a domestic university undertaken by me, simply by elimination. I had a brillo time, and met a smashing bunch of chaps. We quaffed lashings of ginger beer, and ate great hunks of fresh bread. I leart a lot of things, some of which were about QIT (as us in the "BIZ" call it). It's hard knowing a fat lot of nothing about a topic, especially after being top dog in another area (mostly due to a lack of other dogs). Nevertheless, I shall pursue it with a youthful vigour, until I am withered like the coherence of this paragraph, and indeed myself at this point in time and juncture.

Touched down in Syd, was graciously picked up by Mike, and headed down to Gold's gym off Oxford St to pump that which is lesser pumped in that vicinity. Had a lovely dinner with the Uni crew in Glebe, and was serenaded indirectly by Belly Dancers. I was sure they'd do it for free in my case, but I slipped a twenty into one fine lass' pants elastic just to be sure, and topped it off with a reassuring wink slash leer. However, as we reclined and indulged in the delights of the navel, mere decimeters away my dear Pommy friend Pete was hosting a bbq. The bold amongst us headed up to Pete's at a later hour, to find Pete both drunk and hilarious. Two things of note occured on this fateful eve:

  • Dan, an aggressive drunk, decided to try and break my finger off, and damn near succeeded. He severely sprained my finger, and it's only just become usable now. I am going to use this as majority factor for the lack of an update, although this grants me but a short reprieve, being the kind of excuse that only works once.
  • Pete got his end wet. He rang me several times the following day to discuss this, and wanted to get drunk again to celebrate it. He kept saying "I AM AWESOME". Though I would've loved to celebrate such an auspicious event, I didn't feel like getting blotto on Sunday evening.


Anyway, I'm back in Sydney on a mysterious mission for an unspecified amount of time. Such a simple lack of organization gives me an air of intrigue that sends Jimmy Bond green with envy and also scurvy. Au revoir, suckers!

11 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Serbians and Bosnians = scary motherfuckers. Croatians seem nice enough. Glad to hear you are living it up, though i remain unclear exactly what it is you are doing now. What exactly are you doing now homo man?

xo

4:54 AM  
Blogger tangles said...

Broq : He says he is "working". Not sure what this means in Matty's case.

Matty! Nice to read the result of your dulcet keystrokes, my man. Though I must say that the expression "got his end wet" has to be one of the rankest descriptions of the love act ever. Or at least, recently.

All: Pop77 mix 38 is great. I ungrade it from dubious to really quite good. Also, I have started listening to last.fm's "similar artist" radio tuner. I think that I am going to have some fun with it. Puttin in artist like the decemberists and low, and getting back a bunch of fine indie tunes, all at the expence of a shit load of work bandwidth. Ho well. Serves 'em right for being smelly, I say.

9:58 AM  
Blogger tangles said...

Sorry Mat! I guess some of that was "chia news" and should have gone in the appropriately marked Chia section of the internet. Ooops.

10:00 AM  
Blogger dr. cok said...

Broq: I am getting paid by my old Uni to hang out and do stuff, for a maximum of 6 months. This fills in the gap between now and January, after which, I shall be heavens knows where!

Pete: How awesome is that! That dispels all remaining skepticism I had about hypnotism. Bonus: Sleep with ugly people, say they hypnotised you!

1:11 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And where can one learn this ancient art of chatting people up???

1:54 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chris- I can tell you first hand that what gets the lay-dies really hot is correcting their grammar and or punctuation! Ooooh baby!

Mat - your comments are right on the button!!!! Created several enjoyable minutes of diversion from checking my bank accounts, selling matches is now a reality. Anyone want some matches?

Congrats on gainful employment, I am no longer ashamed to call you: 'friend'.

xox

6:16 PM  
Blogger K said...

what's the metric equivalent of a 'lashing'?

I reckon about 2L each?

4:01 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

KT: Suck. My. Balls.

12:22 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

See, Chris? None of those are complete sentences. No lay-dies for you. hey - check it out:

PS: Chris sux!

FROM KT!!!!!!


Sucker!

PS: Sucker!

Kxxx.

7:26 AM  
Blogger I-Rock said...

hey mat, do you know Alan Edelman from MIT? We just had a seminar from him about random matrices, and he mentioned free probability theory.

Interesting stuff! There's all sorts of connections with orthogonal polynomials, graphs, Riemann functions, Lie groups and god knows what else.

9:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmmm - no update. Might be time to nag again. Chia - get to it!*




*Nagging reaches dizzying new heights as one person is nagged to nag another!

2:37 AM  

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