Finally, some business!

I mentioned recently that I’d finally managed to conduct some online business amid all my school work these days.

Y’all remember the lolcatblog I set up at ShavedLittlePussy.com (also used lolcatblog.com) ?

I had posted on the blog every saturday for about a month, so nothing major, hadn’t even set up a feedburner count for the blog, or monetised it or anything. Well I threw it up for sale and within a few hours had gotten a Buy It Now bid of $100! I was delighted, considered the site had not been too developed. I think the quality of the two domains and the concept gave it the value. The few posts on there were funny enough, but were really nothing special. I was reluctant to sell, because it is a site I wanted to develop, but I needed some moola (I’ve recently gotten addicted to buying on ebay) and once I got the $100 offer there was no refusing it.

I also managed to get rid of an old site that had been cluttering my server and Godaddy account- yourbabies.info sold for the grand price of $10! I mentioned it somewhere on DP and somone PMed me offering to take it off my hands, so I was happy just to be rid of it, since it was completely stagnant under my care.

I’ve also noticed the price of LLLL.com domains is rising already, with $50 being an average price for any crappy one going. Should my ebay addiction get the better of me once more at least I have 3 of those to fall back on for more funds!

Now let’s just hope my new jumper off ebay arrives tomorrow along with the complete works of Oscar Wilde.

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Falling Down

I just watched this film.

It was made back in 1993 and stars Michael Douglas. It’s absolutely hilarious. It’s this guy basically having a shit day and going on a bit of a mad one, doing all the stuff you wish you could do when you’re having one of those days. My favourite bit is when the guy goes into a fast food restaurant for some breakfast. He’s two minutes late for the breakfast menu and they refuse to serve him breakfast, only offering from the lunch menu. Imagine you’re having a shit day and this happens, it’d annoy you. Just watch the film, it’d do no justice for me to write here about what happens.

I’ve also eh, “bought” some new music. The Holloways and The Noisettes (both bands supported Babyshambles when I saw them in 2006, and it’s taken me this long to finally get their stuff!). Both are very good bands, both from Britain I believe. Check ‘em out if you’re a bit of an Indie head.

Also, there’s finally been time for a little business on my part! I’m just waiting to tie up loose ends on the deal, so I’ll post about it when it’s all done. It’s nothing major, but it’s a nice boost considering so little time I’ve had.

Again, apologies posts are so sparse these days.

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A cool Google trick

Almost a week since my last blog, I can’t remember going this long without blogging!

Anyway, I’m really struggling for time lately, so here’s a quick trick for you to try.

This worked for me in Firefox, and I haven’t tried in Internet Explorer (as IE both sucks and blows).

Go to Google Images, and search for anything you want. Then go to the address bar, and type in the following :

javascript:R= 0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24;
x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI= document.images ; DIL=DI.length;
function A(){for(i=0; i<DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style;
DIS.position=’absolute’; DIS.left=Math. sin(R*x1+ i*x2+x3)* x4+x5;
DIS.top=Math. cos(R*y1+ i*y2+y3)* y4+y5}R++ }setInterval(’A()’,5);
void(0)

Make sure you type in all that code. Then hit enter, and marvel at Google’s brilliance! Thanks to Stephen Lynam for showing me this.

Back to the study for me

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My first ebay purchase

That’s right, I’ve joined the world of ebay consumerism.

I’ve been browsing ebay a lot lately, and there’s really some good bargains to be had on there, and the ability to purchase using paypal is a huge advantage for me with my online income coming through there.

So today I saw something I really couldn’t resist, it was pretty pricey and I dismissed purchasing it at first, but the more I looked at it the more I realised I’d regret it if I didn’t go and buy it.

A 24″ x 36″ print, done by some eastern European artist, featuring some of my favourite movie/tv characters. Tony Soprano from the Sopranos (James Gandolfini), Tony Montana from Scarface (Al Pacino), Jimmy Conway from Goodfellas (Robert Deniro) and Don Vito Corleone from The Godfather (Marlon Brando). Behind these guys who are seated at a bar is their respective crews. There was a black and white version of it available too, but I went with the colour, it looked a bit better to me. The overall price incl. delivery was £28.00 which is around €37/$57, but I’m pleased I bought it. I have to consider getting it framed when it arrives.

Another online purchase today may interest some Leaving Cert students who read this blog. Leaving Cert Solutions.com offer books with all the Maths exam questions from previous years and the solutions combined. On one side of the page is the question, and on the other the solution, which is much handier than having to go online and find the solutions and print them off all the time or whatever. It cost €25 to order online, and though this may seem expensive, since you already have the exam papers, and get the solutions for free, I feel it’s a pretty big timesaver, and should come in handy. They do Higher and Ordinary level too, in case you’re wondering!

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Why are hot teachers allowed supervise exams?

This is something I noticed last week when sitting my exams. Obviously there’s teachers supervising us. Then you get the one or two hot female teachers in the school supervising. In an exam hall of teenagers just bursting with hormones, this is not advised.

You hear the familiar sound of her high heels walking up the hall. Oh yeeaaah. That heavenly clip-clop mimicking the rhythmic beat of my heart.

At this point you go into some sort of Scrubs style fantasy, just like in this video.

You have to look up as she reaches your desk and begins conversing with some old hack of a colleague. The sun shines through the window highlighting the radiance of her ravishly refined body. And then, shite. Five minutes to finish this essay.

You bitch.

Also, I wonder if anyone else finds that they get ridiculous songs stuck in their head during exams. I was doing my english paper and in my head I was singing Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. I mean, could there be a more ridiculous and innappropriate (on many levels) song to get into your head during an exam?

We just a-wanna, we just a-wanna-ah-ah-aaah…

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Mock exams - over!

Finally, my mock exams are over. My last exam was yesterday afternoon, and having finished (a day or two before most people I might add) I enjoyed some Sopranos before it reached a somewhat acceptable time to go out to poison my liver.

A lot of my friends are still not finished, with an exam to do tomorrow, so I’ve been lucky in finishing so early.

Overall, the exams were ok. They’re 3 months or so ahead of the real exams, so it’s accepted that you’re not going to do as well as you will in the real leaving cert. Considering how little work I did overall, things went fine. My final exam, Physics was a bit of a nightmare though. I usually get an A grade in physics, and I’ll be relying on it to be a high grade in the leaving cert. The paper has a section A and a section B. Section A was beautiful, and I was cruising. But then Section B was like it was made to cover only the areas I dislike most. I expect a C (or perhaps even a D) grade, which is very disappointing. Thankfully everyone shared the opinion that it was very difficult, and even on forums people were complaining about the paper.

Tonight I’m hoping to clean up my bedroom, because when you’re studying for an intense two weeks of exams, you tend to just find the book you need to study and throw it away as soon as you’re done and begin searching for the next one. Then you have to look for a sheet of notes or something, and you end up just thrashing your room, but you haven’t got time to care for that (several nights I stayed up till 3am or so, with the aid of coffee, and got up again at 7am to study some more before going to the exam - procrastination is a terrible terrible thing!). Two weeks later you’re walking on a carpet of books and sheets. Though in the process of thrashing my room, I think I found my camera charger, so once I check that I actually did, it’ll be well worth it! Perhaps I should take some pictures of the finished product and follow in the footsteps of Jason on TUK?

Tomorrow I’m hoping to do a little work on my websites, or lack thereof. This will involve a timetable to ensure I cover all the things I need to in an organised manner. I’ll post that up here tomorrow.

I’m off to get my clean on anyway, later!

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My favourite ever Youtube video

Today I was on Youtube browsing for footage of the famous tackle that caused a career threatening injury to Arsenal player Eduardo’s career.

I soon got sucked into watching video after video, as youtube tends to end up making you do.

I found a video that I actually watched over and over again, and lol’ed my ass off every freakin’ time!

It’s some sort of news programme showing bits of a fashion show. At the start the presenter is very well spoken, as you would expect and he tells us there was some trouble at the show. Suddenly he kind of changes into having a hilariously casual voice as he says “A model fell’own twice” Then he sees the second fall and starts lol’ing away on the news. There is two male presenters and a female presenter. The two men can’t control their laughter at the replays. The way in which the model falls is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen, and then the laughing of the two men is just hilarious, as the woman disapproves of their immaturity. One of them tried to apologise for their laughing but then the other guy interrupts with “Hold on!” as yet another replay shows and they both crack up laughing again. The more I watch, the funnier it gets.

Here’s the link or just watch below where I’ve embedded the video for you

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Four exams left

I’ve got just four exams left, out of a total of ten.

On Friday I had History and my second English paper. These two exams being on the same day was pretty demanding, since there’s so much material to cover for both. I got on grand, but certainly could have done better in both.

My last exam is this Wednesday, which is the earliest anyone in my year is finishing (a lot of people are in until Friday) so that’s pretty good

I’d like to give a shout out to a new Leaving Cert blog, found at leaving-cert.net. It’s an idea I wanted to do a while ago but could never find people that seemed enthusiastic about helping me with it. It’s the blog of three LC students giving updates on how they’re getting on.

While mentioning new sites, I figured I’d go ahead and show a new site of mine. This is one I’m doing basically for my own pleasure, and not really for business purposes. I love the whole lolcats thing on the internet, so if you’re familiar with it, take a look at ShavedLittlePussy.com (I also bought the domain lolcatblog.com for it).

I’ve gotta go try study, since I haven’t managed to get anything done so far this weekend, as today I’ve had one of those hangovers you just can’t seem to shrug off. This was an excuse for me to watch Ireland in the rugby of course.

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A day off!

Tday, I have a day off from my exams (owing to the fact I don’t do Biology or Art).

Friday I have a tough day, with History and English Paper 2, so unfortunately there won’t be much relaxing going on today.

Today I just had Irish paper 1, which was ok, since it’s not really a difficult paper, but in terms of previous years, it was a difficult exam. Usually the comprehensions on the papers are topical and things teenagers would know about, but the stuff on this was pretty odd.

There was also a little too much time given to this paper, as literally everyone was finished early.

Also, I meant to post this earlier. On the first day of these exams I noticed there was no clock in the exam hall. So I ask one teacher and she tells me she’ll get one soon. A few minutes later I see her leave the hall and come back empty handed. This angered poor Mark who was taking a classy approach to these exams, as one of the main reasons for them is to practice time management, so with no way to tell the time in the fucking exam hall, this becomes unless you have mastered the sun’s progress as a method of telling the time. So I then ask another teacher. He comes back in a few minutes with a clock - and a cup of coffee of course.

The same thing happened in the exams we had in November, and I had to ask a teacher to get a clock then.

It’s not like this sort of thing keeps me up all night (not every night anyway) but jesus, if you teachers are going to rant and rave about preparing for our exams, for christ’s sake, do your end of the deal, and give us the few things we need. My maths test had some of us sharing log tables between two people. Surely it’s not hard to ensure there’s enough to supply us all with one (for the love of God, you’re the Maths department, ‘number of students > number of log tables’ is simply not a good equation!)

Used some variation of God’s name three times in that paragraph.

There was an interesting discussion on the radio this evening about whether or not the Irish language should be a compulsory subject in the Leaving Cert curriculum. Having enjoyed my previous radio experience, I wanted to ring up, since I could give a first hand opinion, and the complete lack of intelligence of the part of most callers was so irritating. Of course in the end I wussed out though and didn’t call, but this did make me want to listen to the radio more, so perhaps I’ll become a caller on there. I can’t decide whether I love or hate the old bags that ring up the stations, throwing out the old clichés in their raspy Dublin accents. You know the ones who counter any argument with, “Well I’ll tell you somethin’ ”

Anyway, I’m off to study.

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Exam time : Two days in

We’re two days into my mock exams ( see previous post for more info)

I’m weary of making predictions on here regarding my results, because there’s always that chance that I’ll do far worse than I thought.

On Monday, it was just English Paper 1. I feel I did well, and usually do in English, but this paper is very subjective, as much of the exam is testing your creativity and essay writing. Paper 2 examines your knowledge of poetry etc, (but that exam isn’t until Friday, so I won’t be worrying about it until much later!)

Today was a pretty tough day, with Geography (not too complicated, but there’s so much to cover) and Maths Paper 1. Geography went fine, and this would be a strong subject for me too, but it can sometimes be hit and miss. We’ve only just completed the course, so a half decent grade at this early stage would satisfy me.

Maths, higher level maths, was a freakin’ disaster! Most people shared this thought though, but a look at this old rant could put these reports into question.

Tomorrow it’s Irish paper 1, so I’m off to try learn a few essays!

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