* All of you at some point or another have received an email or read a blog entry that starts with something like, 'FUCK! I JUST SPENT 20 MINUTES WRITING THE BEST THING EVER AND BLOGGER/HOTMAIL CRASHED!' I find it really hard to care when I read stuff like that. 'So what?' Right? 'Now you're wasting more time complaining. Well done.' So, yeah, Blogger just crashed on me -- possibly it was overloaded by the unprecedented comments explosion. Anyway, who cares? Not you guys. Fuck it.
* That Dr Whatsit-Thingy's Brain Training game on the Nintendo DS is actually quite nifty. I'd argue it's the most fun you can have with your pants on while stimulating your prefrontal cortex. And it turns out I have a secret talent: syllable counting. Who'd have guessed? (3 syllables)
* I've had it for quite some time now, but I've only just realised that my keyboard at home doesn't have a green light to tell me if the Caps Lock key is on or off. IT'S FUCKING ANNOYING. I mean, It's fucking annoying.
* Ah, such power. In last week's magazine I took the piss out of a regular event that happens at the Cross called 'Club Parliament'. I mean, what kind of name is that? So I ran a comp last week and appealed to our entrants to come up with a new name for the event. It so happens that the event organisers got wind of it and are taking my comments on board. In fact I just sent them a list of the best suggestions we received:
the real deal
Club Rep
Champmate
Question Time with the Skid Mark on the bedsheet that is australian polictics!
Schmeewonda's
white knuckles
Fizzy Funkdown
Death To Politicians
Club Politics sucks!
Cross out the obvious.
club audio freaks
Guy Fawkes Day
(I particularly like "Schmeewonda's".) So there you are. I'm not just scamming free stuff here. I actually do occasionally make a difference. And whoever said that satire was the weapon of the powerless against the powerful? ... Mark Twain, it turns out.
* Why release Hey Dad! on DVD? What fan base are you trying to appease? What audience are you trying to reach? The former editor here apparently worked with... what was that boofy-haired typist's name? Elaine? Anyway, it turns out that after the heady days of Hey Dad!, one of its stars ended up making ends meet by working as a telemarketer... A fall from grace, yes? ... Actually, that might be considered a step up.
* Speaking of 'Where Are They Now?'-type stuff, did anybody catch ACA last night? Don't lie. One-time Big Brother winner Trevor is now doing errands as a post boy or something and making $18 an hour. Look up "washed up" in the dictionary and you'll see a picture of Trevor's face. Actually, look up most words in my dictionary and you'll see a picture of Trevor's face. Hmm, need a new dictionary.
* What's the deal with colleagues offering a round of drinks and then running away?
"Can I grab you a drink?"
"... Sure."
"What are you drinking?"
"Coopers Green."
And he walks off, never to be seen again.
* Obviously I can't ignore the comments for my last post, but I actually haven't read the last 10 or so, so forgive me if my two cents' worth is treading old ground: I like the word "random" and the increasingly "incorrect" way it is being used. I like how its meaning has evolved naturally through modern discourse, and I'm happy that the lexicographers now have to accomodate it with a new definition rather than the other way round.
But anyway. Carry on.
Friday, May 11, 2007
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7 comments:
Oh i love that brain game. I'm particularly good at the maths (!)
And I fucking hate Sudoku!
Jackie
Don't think that that brief linguistic sojourn will spare this latest post.
I only glanced over it, but it is already inspiring new levels of loathing!
Unfortunately you're all going to have to remain poised on the edges of your seats until tomorrow or Sunday when I have more time.
-Unbiased Critic
Isn't 'Who'd have guessed' four syllables because the 'ed' at the end requires the speaker to create a new sound?
I've never played Sudoku.. now that the hype has died down a bit I might take a gander.
Also just letting everyone know I finally bought a Peaches album.
hmmm, I just looked it up and supposedly it doesn't count as an extra syllable if 'ed' is chucked on the end.
There was a term that covered the smallest possible unit of sound created while pronouncing a word but I forget what it was. Psychology of Language was years ago.
good on you for drinking coopers green, daz. i'm proud as punch.
astrid.
That sucks you didn't get your beer.
What was it? Coopers Green?
Back in a sec...
"guy Fawkes Day" for sure. Except most kids these days are retards who don't know shit about what happened in the past, so fuck 'em it probably wouldn't work. so go the 'skid marks" one instead.
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