Archive for November, 2007

Video: The Final Exam

Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Computing

A while back I was commissioned to produce an animated short for the start of our school’s Year 12 end-of-year video. After about five months of on-and-off work, I now present The Final Exam, a story of one boy’s struggle with his final hours of school life.
Watch it here!
A big thanks to my friends Sam [...]

Cookin’ MC’s like a pound of BACON!

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Easily the funniest thing I’ve heard today: Sure there are Vanilla Ice mashups around on the Internets, but I didn’t expect one to be Ice Ice … Bacon?
–Ben

It’s Over

Sunday, November 18th, 2007
School

VCE is over. YAY! Now I can get back to my regularly-scheduled life of fun, geeky pursuits.
But before I do, a few thoughts on my exams. I’ve decided to sum up each exam with one word:
English: Ugh.
Methods Exam 1: Good!
Methods Exam 2: Nice!
Specialist Exam 1: Eeek!
Specialist Exam 2: Tough.
Physics: Suspicious.
Monash: Excellent!
Yeah, surprisingly I [...]

Tasmania Jones Rides Again!

Monday, November 12th, 2007
School

For those who did the VCE Maths Methods exam today, you might have noticed that in question 2 in the extended answer, the protagonist was called Tasmania Jones. You know what’s interesting? In last year’s exam, the protagonist was Tasmania Jones as well! It sure shows how creative VCAA are.
While the exam was [...]