Someone was a little excited this morning…
May 19th, 2008 Matt
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There was a pigeon outside the window 
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StuffedOut
April 16th, 2008 Matt
This morning I slept through two hours of clock radio and an alarm going off every 10 minutes. I woke up at 9:45 and managed to get in to work by about 10:10 (the benefits of moving closer to work).
I’m beginning to rethink the drive back from Burning Man to Dallas. We are going to be absolutely stuffed.
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A weekend of busking
March 23rd, 2008 Matt
I’ve spent the last two days wandering around the Fremantle Street Arts Festival, Australia’s largest street art festival. I reckon I would be lucky to have seen half of the acts. Yesterday I went on my own and went back today with Worlynn (a friend of Cat) and Sara (a friend of Worlynn). In Freo we met up with Elissa, Steve and Kurt.
Steve managed to get himself a temporary job restraining one of the performers with a straight jacket and chains.
The highlight for me on both days was aRTyMs (Theaker von Ziarno), an aerials artist who lives up north in the desert. It wasn’t just her skill with the silks and the static trapeze but her attitude and the positive message she was telling. The silly hat was cute too. Check out her promo video.
Part of the act is the construction of her rig, which is extremely light weight. Apparently it was designed with the help of a local boat builder and it certainly has the feel of boat rigging. The construction requires the help of the audience and the rig is anchored to the ground during the performance by four audience members sitting on the legs.
After today’s performance Worlynn and Sara wanted to talk to her and they got photos together. Theaker also got a big hug while Steve and Elissa played with her flag poi
Worlynn and I got lunch from the kebab shop that Gloria works in at Freo markets which was, as promised by Gloria, excellent.
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Do the Test
March 13th, 2008 Matt
Check out this awareness test.
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March 5th, 2008 Matt
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Parking
February 25th, 2008 Matt
I had to get up early this morning to get to work so that I could find somewhere to park. Today is the first day of semester and for some reason all of the students think they have to be here at 9am. Given that the parking office sells three times as many student parking permits as parking spaces this leads to chaos in the car parks.
Add to this the fact that some of the new first years don’t even realise they need a parking permit and that there is a distinction between yellow staff parking bays and green student bays (and a few other colours). Also don’t forget that these new students have probably had their driving licenses for a day or two which leads to crashes in the car parks and on the streets in and around campus. I got here at 8am this morning and there was already a smash in a 1/3 full car park, it will only get worse during the day.
Finally, the University has decided to resurface one of the large temporary parking areas to make it a permanent parking area. However, this seemed to start in the last week of the long summer holiday and obviously isn’t complete yet. This is made worse by the fact that since the beginning of last semester some of the temporary parking areas have become new buildings.
And it’s just occurred to me that I have to get off campus this evening, that will take some time as there will be queues to get on to the main roads around campus. At least I don’t have to go very far since I moved.
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Time for a change!
February 22nd, 2008 Matt
So I thought it was probably about time this web site got a make over. Maybe the home page will get updated more often if it is a blog.
Even if it only gets new content once a year it’ll be an improvement on the old site .
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