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free for all / Re: the book club
« on: October 17, 2010, 02:16:40 AM »
Funny you should mention that. Niels and I are going to a play of The Trial on Friday night. He won free tickets 
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free for all / Re: Help Bini out?
« on: October 17, 2010, 01:56:41 AM »
Thanks guys! I really appreciate the input.
Someone told me that they thought Q4 was confusing - so to clarify - #1 is supposed to be highest influence, #6 lowest influence.
Someone told me that they thought Q4 was confusing - so to clarify - #1 is supposed to be highest influence, #6 lowest influence.
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free for all / Help Bini out?
« on: October 16, 2010, 12:50:10 PM »
I'm wondering if you lovely people of the board would mind taking 5 minutes to fill out a survey I made for a research paper I'm writing on Consumer Law.
It's all about unit pricing on grocery items at the supermarket. It's short, I promise!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/C7R3FLL
*bats lashes*
It's all about unit pricing on grocery items at the supermarket. It's short, I promise!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/C7R3FLL
*bats lashes*
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tomorrow morning / Re: The Official "Tomorrow Morning" Thread
« on: October 15, 2010, 10:49:15 AM »
I'm really loving What I Have to Offer at the moment. It's a very sweet little song.
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free for all / Re: Facebook/Twitter Update of the Day
« on: October 12, 2010, 03:34:28 AM »
Facebook:
Tiny colonising wok people
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Jas X Post-sleeping-pill-taking instructions: Don't put kettle in microwave. Dish-towels don't go inside the oven. If you see the wok don't invert it or you will start hallucinating small people colonising the inverted wok dome.
Just go to sleep I think.
Tiny colonising wok people
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free for all / Re: it was my birthday last friday and nobody noticed WAHHHHHHHHH
« on: October 01, 2010, 05:24:41 AM »
Yes I find it especially strange when people admire a person enough to create a page about them and yet still not know how to spell their name correctly.
It's just a theory but my perception is that older people (in particular) tend to revert to 'Neil' because names with an 's' on the end have a way of sounding like nicknames or a more casual and informal version, at least in English (with obvious exceptions like James). No one would be compelled to say 'Jame', whereas taking the s off Niels sounds similar to the existing name Neil. People who aren't name savvy will ultimately revert to what they are familiar with.
Niles, however, sounds completely different and doesn't really attract any excuses!
It's just a theory but my perception is that older people (in particular) tend to revert to 'Neil' because names with an 's' on the end have a way of sounding like nicknames or a more casual and informal version, at least in English (with obvious exceptions like James). No one would be compelled to say 'Jame', whereas taking the s off Niels sounds similar to the existing name Neil. People who aren't name savvy will ultimately revert to what they are familiar with.
Niles, however, sounds completely different and doesn't really attract any excuses!
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free for all / Re: it was my birthday last friday and nobody noticed WAHHHHHHHHH
« on: September 29, 2010, 10:17:36 AM »
It's Niels.
If you ever want to bug him, spell it Neils, Niles, Miels or other similar variations.
And when I say bug, I mean steam coming out his nose and ears.
If you ever want to bug him, spell it Neils, Niles, Miels or other similar variations.
And when I say bug, I mean steam coming out his nose and ears.
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free for all / Re: Pictures of You/Stuff/Anything...
« on: September 26, 2010, 02:11:04 AM »
Cheesy pizza, or CHEESY PEAS?
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tomorrow morning / Re: Baby Loves Me. Video
« on: September 23, 2010, 09:51:16 AM »
I LOVE IT!
It's really the best video he has released in a long time!! Perfectly suited to the musical style of the song and put together very nicely.
Some of you seem a bit confused about how it was made - it uses a technique called 'tilt shift'.
What is tilt shift:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography
Some tilt shift images:
http://www.google.com.au/images?hl=en&q=tilt+shift&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=kyGbTKe7K8rJcayCsdEJ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDkQsAQwAw&biw=1269&bih=589
It's really the best video he has released in a long time!! Perfectly suited to the musical style of the song and put together very nicely.
I also thought of that, but it seems that the vehicles are models.
I still haven't figured out how people film something in that way that it starts to look like miniatures. I know they're just filming regular stuff.
Some of you seem a bit confused about how it was made - it uses a technique called 'tilt shift'.
What is tilt shift:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography
Some tilt shift images:
http://www.google.com.au/images?hl=en&q=tilt+shift&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=kyGbTKe7K8rJcayCsdEJ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDkQsAQwAw&biw=1269&bih=589
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free for all / Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« on: September 19, 2010, 01:45:29 AM »and what happened to freax?
Freax is still active, he now goes by the name Colin
http://www.estrangedfriends.net/index.php?topic=1566.msg42789#msg42789
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music / Re: The Tallest Man On Earth
« on: September 17, 2010, 01:29:11 PM »
I have to say, as much as I love the EP (and Wild Hunt too!), the chorus in The Dreamer bugs me. I think the guitar is nice and moreish and makes you want to hear it again, but the chorus is so unlike Kristian. It's what I'd expect to hear on the Idol shows (American/Australian/whatever Idol) or some crappy top 40 pop song on commercial radio. The way he sings "and why can't that always be" is so irritating.
Please remember, before biting my head off, I only say this because of what a fan I am of pretty much everything else he sings and his (usually) consistent style.
Please remember, before biting my head off, I only say this because of what a fan I am of pretty much everything else he sings and his (usually) consistent style.
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free for all / Re: What is/was your name?
« on: September 17, 2010, 11:27:14 AM »(to make things somewhat confusing) I am NOT the Edgar with the username Edgar that hangs around on this board as well...
Just to throw in another reference for the sake of confusing everyone, my surname is Edgar.
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free for all / Re: complain about stuff! ho ho.
« on: September 16, 2010, 07:05:45 AM »
I lent one of my novels (The God of Small Things) to my sister and when I asked for it back she said she already gave it back to me. Rubbish. Now I have to go and buy myself a new copy because I want to read it again and own it.
The worst part is that it has all my notes and thoughts written in it from when I studied it at uni, which I would obviously prefer over having a new blank copy.
I know who I'm never lending books to again.
The worst part is that it has all my notes and thoughts written in it from when I studied it at uni, which I would obviously prefer over having a new blank copy.
I know who I'm never lending books to again.
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music / Re: Schlomo's Random Music Thoughts
« on: September 16, 2010, 12:53:22 AM »
Did anyone else hear that last post in their head in Manny's voice (post swallowing The Little Book of Calm)?
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free for all / Re: What is/was your name?
« on: September 16, 2010, 12:50:11 AM »
I have always been Bini.
Except on that old temporary board In The Yard set up (by Tucker?) for use when the main one went down. I could not register successfully for the life of me so I had about 5 names in the end, and was so frustrated by the end of it that I think the last one was along the lines of 'Bininininininininininini'.
It was all an elaborate playground snub, I bet.
Except on that old temporary board In The Yard set up (by Tucker?) for use when the main one went down. I could not register successfully for the life of me so I had about 5 names in the end, and was so frustrated by the end of it that I think the last one was along the lines of 'Bininininininininininini'.
It was all an elaborate playground snub, I bet.