… or rather, Google finally indexed it somewhere that I could reach on the first page of results.
This is a Facebook “status thread” that I found a long time ago and thought was great, but then couldn’t find to show others.
Now that I have it, I’m putting it up here so I can always have a chuckle.
This song is not something I usually go for, but it’s very catchy.
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I’m not sure what the style of this clip is called, but it’s becoming more common.
That fact is purely based on the fact that while I don’t go looking for these types of clips, I still end up seeing more and more of them.
The first one I remember seeing is this one, based on a scene from Pulp fiction
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I’m going to get serious about my ambition to be a portrait photographer.
I don’t really know much about it and I don’t know of any photographer famous in this field.
I had thought that not having a long list of photographers I’m aspiring to be like is a bad thing, but I’m not sure it is.
I have no pre-conceived ideas in my head, giving me the freedom to find my own style. This might be my way of justifying my lack of research into what makes a good portrait photographer.
I like taking photos, and I like getting paid, so I’ll start with that.
To get paid, I have to take photos of people that they like, and then they tell their friends and I get more work.
I think that’s as complicated as my “business plan” is going to get for a while.
I’ll let this blog know how it goes. For the moment no one is reading this, except the spammers, and I guess they don’t care about my ambitions. *waves*
Anyway, that is all.
Anyone that knows me in Melbourne, call me up for a free portrait session. I guarantee I’ll take photos of you, but you might not like them.
Now that’s all.
Currently in New Zealand.
It’s great, and also cold.
If you in the sun it’s warm, but once a cloud comes over or you move into the shade, it’s cold.
I think I prefer this weather to that of Melbourne, as it’s too warm there. Although if I give it a few weeks it might be better.
That is all for now, but I do need to get back into this blog thing.
I think I’ll start documenting my attempt to become a real photographer.
See end of article for Ninja update (pre-posting update)
I have no idea about these silly little cards.
What is the benefit of using these cards to the person traveling on the public transport?
Do they stop the crazy drunk person trying to pick a fight with you, do the remove the graffiti from the trains, do they make the a/c run on the trains, do they make all the trains run on time?
I guess not, they why have they even been introduced at a cost of over $850M (with a further $500M running costs to come)?
In spite of all this, I though I’d try to register for one… here is my tale of woe.
I decided to register, so I went to www.myki.com.au and clicked on the giant button.
I then was asked if I wanted a “myki money”, “myki pass” or “no top up” type of pass. This confused me, so I asked for an explanation. By the way, there was no explanation of “no top up” so I assume this is a magic myki that lets you travel for free!
Click here to view that explanation for yourself, if it makes sense to you, please let me know.
I do understand the types of passes to an extent. You can get a money value pass (myki money) from which it deducts your travel costs, but if I opt for the “stored travel pass” (myki pass) option for which you select a pass duration in days anywhere from 28-365 days (akin to a monthly or yearly pass one would assume), how do I know what it’s going to charge me? Ah I hear you say, the charge bust be related to the zones. Quite possibly, but more on that soon.
As I currently travel to and from work daily via the train, I always buy monthly tickets as they are much cheaper.
Using my current example of Full-fare Zone 1+2.
15.9 x Daily Tickets = 3.4 x Weekly Tickets = 1 Monthly Ticket
From that you can see a very clear calculation that buying a monthly ticket is by far the cheapest option if you use the train to travel to and from work everyday. Keep that in mind for this next part of the journey.
I decided to go for a myki pass, as it sounded like a monthly ticket that I currently use.
I had to tell it how may days/weeks I wanted a pass for, so I decided 4 weeks, it was a nice number that fit into my head well.
No comes the confusing bit, I was then asked to “Choose myki pass zone”. I had to select a “Zone from” and a “Zone to” from the following list of options: Zone 1, Zone 2, Zone 3…. Zone 81. That’s right 81 zones! Flabbergasted I clicked on the link which helpfully asked “Which zone do I need“
You with me so far? Good. So the long, long list was loaded and I started looking for my local train station, which was not there.
In fact the list, if you haven’t already had a look, was all street addresses listed as either Zone 4 or Zone 5. I was rightly confused by now.
It then asked me “Did you know you can also add miki monkey?” to which I responded “No, but I’m guessing it is actually possible due to the box awaiting my numerical value below you Mr. question”.
I opted not to give any money to miki, as I figure they have enough.
Clicking next, I was then asked if I want Full far or Concession fare prices. Full fare unfortunately for me.
I then got asked a number of questions sure as personalisation (name printed on the card), PIN, Account Holder Details, Postal Address and Contact Details.
By this point I was very uneasy about the whole process so far and canceled the whole thing.
The two main sticking points were:
1. Why do we need this new system?
2. So far nothing had explained to me how the whole “myki pass” worked other that that it was a pass stored on my mkyi that was value for a number of days. No mention of cost or if it was cheaper that just using myki money. I would make the assumption that it is, much in the same way a monthly is cheaper that buying dailys everyday, but I was yet to be shown this.
I may not be that old, but I can see where the “change is bad mentality” comes from, although in my case it should probably be “change with no obvious benefit, that is confusing and seemingly a waste of money is pointless”
If anyone out there has had similar, or different experience please let me know.
Ninja-update:
I did find the fares on the main myki website, although doing a quick calculation based on 1 month=30.5 days, the cost for a monthy pass is $176.90 which is more than my current monthly pass cost of $169.
This then leads back to point 1. above, why do we need this new system, especially if it’s going to cost me more? WTF Kosky?
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