Archive for the ‘Sarcasm’ Category
Superbowl Thoughts.
As you all know, I’m not a yank (thank heavens!). But I’ll just say, I enjoyed the superbowl for what is was. As someone who is more used to the constant non-stop play of AFL Football, it was a little boring stop startish for me, but that last exciting play certainly made the long sit worthwhile. It certainly was an entertainment specticle though with a ripper ending, but still reeked of style over substance. I also find it a bit arrogant to call a team the World Champions when your about the only bloody country that plays the sport professionally, but I digress.
As for those superbowl spots didn’t last long did they? No matter, here are some direct QT links in 1080p HD, they look stunning on a HD display, so long as your PC has the grunt.
Living In The Nanny State.
Kevin Stalin????
Here in Australia we’ve had a new government for just over 12 months. Typically for a labor government they’ve done a rubbish job. They’ve taken a 20 billion plus budget surplus and put it into the red. Rudd has also fallen for what I call the “chicken little” trick. It’s the alarmist condition that the hippies of the World use to trick us into believing that the World is coming to an end. So now they are going to propose a carbon trading scheme. (Even though as a country we don’t pollute half as much as countries like China or America). And now the do-gooder state is going to place taxes on what they would class as “unhealthy foods”. These do-gooders won’t be happy until we’re all living in plastic bubbles locked away from the world. What a fun bunch…
Really they’ve got to be kidding. Some of these “unhealthy foods” include Vegemite, Blue Cheese and Jams because of there high salt & sugar levels. Talk about a nanny state. They want to control what we eat due to high salt and sugar contents, but things like McDonalds, KFC and Hungry Jacks are exempt. There’s something a bit wrong there isn’t it. Sounds like yet another dumb idea just like the proposed Internet filter.
Obviously Kevin Rudd loves the works of George Orwell. I remember what it was like living in a free an democratic country. Now the hippy communists and there politically correct agendas are filtering through into mainstream politics which means that for us, our lives are becoming controlled more and more. Gone are the days when Australia was a free country, where adults were allowed to make their own decisions about their lives. First there was the Internet filter, now they’re telling us what we can and can’t eat? Next you’ll find that Rudd will be monitoring all of our activities, institute a blanket curfew and execute dissidents. Looks like I’m in trouble. And you thought communism was dead!
New Layout.
Considering it’s been six months since I started this thing, I figured that a bit of a change would be as good as a holiday. So I’ve changed the layout, hopefully you find it an improvement. I like it personally. It’s very minimalist and clean while still looking classy.
I’ve also added in my twitters to the blog as well, just in case you like punishing yourself more than once a day! 
Also, I’ve found a nice online diversion. World Golf Tour. Best way I can describe it is a browser version of the classic Links series of golf games. It’s really fun for what it is. I’ve added it to the links section.
Lewis Hamilton Is Champ…..maybe.
It’s early in the morning here and the F1 championship has been decided in quite exciting and controversial circumstances. I mentioned a while ago how I’m sick of committees deciding the results of races. Committees along with political correctness have made the world a worse place, not a better one. Considering how this race finished, it may happen again!
As F1 fans would know, Lewis only needed a fifth place to win it should Massa finish in first. That happened, but not without some scares. With about 6 laps to go, the rain came down, Lewis went in for rain tyres and then the rain stopped. Uh oh. Thanks to mother natures fickleness, Lewis was out of sorts as his tyres weren’t gripping. Vettel went past, Lewis went into sixth, a championship losing position.
This is where is gets interesting. With the championship lost, Lewis got fifth back when Jarno Trulli’s Timo Glocks car went 17 seconds slower on the last lap thanks to his not changing tyres, so a screw up on Toyota’s part handed the championship back to Hamilton as he passed Trulli Glock on the last turn!
So the question will most likely be asked, did the Toyota slow down deliberately or was it bad tyre choices? Methinks that a committee may have something to do in deciding this championship. I hope not, but they do have to justify themselves don’t they?
Oh, by the way. Channel 10. SCREW YOU! Why do you even deserve the rights to show F1 when you cut the telecast short to go to your rubbish 6am news service which no one watches, hosted by two muppets who have no personality, HUH?
Presidential Election Advertising.
Obama NBA09 In Game Advertising
It’s a funny World we live in these days. Gone are the days of regular newspaper, radio or TV advertising. We live in a connected world and now we find real World advertising jumping into a virtual world. Players in certain American states will find billboard’s within the game Burnout Paradise & NBA09 for Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign. This I find quite ironic considering Obama blames video games amongst other things as the cause of underachievement amongst the younger generation. Personally I disagree. Lack of discipline is the issue in my books but that’s for another story.
This in game advertising gets me thinking though. Here I am sitting in Australia and I’m bombarded left and right with news about the upcoming American election between and old geriatric and a black man with the middle name of “Hussain”. The question I’ve got to ask is why? Why do we get bombarded by news of the US election when it is of no concern to someone in Australia. Or is it? Many consider the office of the President Of The United States, leader of the free world. If this is the case, does he become my leader too?
Apparently, yes! While the President doesn’t have any effect on us Australians in a governance sense, the decisions made by the President and his administration do have an effect on us indirectly. After all, look at the problems the World is having economically and militarily today! The world is effectively stuffed! So, seeing that this “leader of the free world” does indeed have an effect on my way of life, why don’t we get a vote too? Why do we leave the job to a bunch of loud, obnoxius, arrogant, gun toting, gum chewing yanks who’s IQ levels have to be questioned considering the choices they have made the last eight years. If they best they’ve been able to come up with is a C grade student with awful verbal skills, were in trouble!
Halo Recon Teaser?
Bungie software has presented the World with several new teaser images from there new game. Most likely this is for the new game “Halo Recon” which was originally supposed to be announced at E3 earlier in the year but was at the last minute pulled from announcement.
If this image is from a new Halo game as is expected, the only question I have to ask is: Will the new Halo game be something original and exciting, or will it be a turgid piece of derivative unoriginal shit like the previous two Halo games or will they take a risk and create something different?
Somehow I think not.
Hadron Collider Status!
Want to know find out the status of the Hadron Collider in a humourous way? Well then just pop on over to:
www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com
and have a look to see if the World is destroyed. Although technically, if it was, you wouldn’t be reading this!
Pirate Encyclopedia.
Today is International talk like a pirate day. Yar! So to help out all you wannabe pirates, I present to you the Pirate Dictionary.
The Easy To Learn Pirate Encylopedia!
Quiet Time.
My World has been a bit quiet these last few days, which is good as quiet means no problems in my World too. Went out to play a little golf today, (played excellently for those keeping score) and noticed a boat had docked down at Cunningham Pier. With only the camera phone on my person I thought I’d go for a look see. Who’d have the thought the GOD botherers had a ship!
Collider Starts Up / Everyone Survives!
That's A Big Magnet
In a completely unsurprising development, the World didn’t get sucked into a black hole tonight when the Hadron Collider switch was turned on. Why is it that religeous people are always crowing about the end of the World when scientists make large technological advances. If we listened to them all the time, i’d still be scrawling this entry on a cave wall in chalk!
