As a result of a particularly heavy helium tank on a particularly awkward angle, my back hurts.
Now, I miss everything. Walking, running, jumping, hopping, skipping… All the things I took for granted during those joyful moments before I foolishly tried to lift a cylinder full of a gas that is lighter than both air and hydrogen. It's an interesting relation between how much back pain you have and how much you miss the simple things that working anatomy has to offer, how a small back ache doesn't make a big difference, but as soon as you pass that point and suddenly the pain accompanies all the little things, suddenly those little things are a great deal more important.
And what is even more interesting? How, as soon as that pain goes away, as soon as you are perfectly capable of walking, running, jumping, hopping and skipping, you go completely back to taking them for granted.
This is nothing drastically out of the ordinary, 'tax', in one form or another, has existed worldwide for at least the past five thousand years (the earliest recorded case being in Egypt between 3,000 BC and 2,800 BC) and I am happy to live with that.
However, what does make me not quite so happy is when I see the Government that I (and the 21 million other residents here on this Island) support using it stupidly.
For those of you unfamiliar on the current condition of Australian Politics, here is the situation in a five point nutshell.
1. Two major parties- Labor and Liberal.
2. Labor party leader, Kevin Rudd, is ousted as Australia's Prime Minister by his own party. If Kevin Rudd was Blackbeard and the Australia Labor Party was a pirate ship, we would happily call this mutiny.
3. Julia Gillard, the second in command, takes control over Labor Party and as a result, the rest of Australia.
4. Outcry from the Australian public forces an election (nobody wants someone in charge who wasn't voted into office by the people) and Labor wins on the merit of promises such as 'No Carbon Tax'.
5. Julia Gillard, Australia's first female Prime Minister, announces a Carbon Tax, effectively backflipping on one of her most important policy's during election time.
There are more details, but I don't care to write them and (as this IS a political post) you no doubt don't care to read them. Basically, you are now caught up on the situation.
Which brings us to now... The leader of the Liberal Party, Tony Abbott has been giving ol' Prime Minister Julia Gillard grief about lying to the Australian public. Julia Gillard fires back with this:
That's right, don't use my money for healthcare, the schooling system, safer roads or even working on better Government policies! Use it to make a crappy cartoon that has no political value at all.
Because when all is said and done, I just want to fund a personal attack and a Government employed animator.
As of June 28, the newest buzz on the social networking horizon is Google+, the latest venture of the $46 billion internet giant by the same name (minus the '+'). Facebook, eat your heart out, after only a single day, Google+ beta-user invites were disabled due to sheer demand alone. Now, the closest thing you can get to an invite is an email waiting list, available for sign-up here.
So now, the interest is alight with the question "what happens next?". Like all social networking sites, Google+ will not become a viable source of 'social networking' until enough people are online to make updating worthwhile. Basically, Facebook would be useless if none of your friends had it and Google+ will be useless until it reaches a tipping point. Keep in mind this is less a matter of 'if' and more a matter of 'when', but what I'm interested in is Facebook. Specifically, will it be capable of living harmony with this new addition to Interweb, or will it do what Facebook did to Myspace?
Note: The video below has issues with being embedded... Enjoy the content at YouTube by following the videos suggestion =)
Sheldon Cooper (or perhaps more accurately, Doctor Sheldon Cooper) is the theoretical physicist and general genius within the nerd-speckled comedy 'The Big Bang Theory'. Which, over the last few weeks, I have grown to enjoy.
However, last night, during a brief and hilarious moment, I discovered something…
I am smarter than Sheldon Cooper, if only for a moment.
Observe the following clip, specifically from 0.18 onwards.
"Prevening", you heard it, definition and all. Now, observe this set of entries taken from UrbanDictionary*:
Note the authors and the dates of each entry?
My entry, dated Feb 26, 2008 was a solid two years (two years and one month, to be precise) before The Big Bang Theory's entry which was posted on UrbanDictionary shortly after airing on television.
Verdict? Suck it Sheldon, I am clearly two years (and one month) ahead of you!
*Or for those who don't believe the accuracy of this image, visit this link.
A while ago, before my unexplained disappearance, I had the idea to recreate certain emoticons without using any facial expressions whatsoever. So I did it, and this is the end result:
In other news, I don't care what the haters say, iPhone 4 is awesome. Procrastination for my generation!
As you've probably noticed (or are only just noticing now as you read this), I have been neglecting my creative duties as a blogger. This isn't because I have grown weary of drawing tiny web cartoons or have run out of hilarious wit, but mainly because Life is happening. I'm employed, at University learning about fun things like Biological Chemistry and Cell Biology and spending a lot more time than I would like to driving.
However, rest assured, as much as it seems like it, I'm not on a permanent hiatus, just looking for more hours in the day...
Today at work, while doing nothing particularly important I overheard a heated discussion between some fellow employees about the correct title of the game 'Rock-Paper-Scissor' (or scissor-paper-rock, or paper-rock-scissor- which is pretty much how their argument went).
It was pointless, but it was interesting- especially when you note the arguments each one used to back up their logic (Paper-Scissor-Rock is alphabetised, after all). However, the argument ended when somebody whipped out their smartphone and googled it, finding the wiki article entitled Rock-Paper-Scissors.
End of story, right?
Well, not quite. You see, when I got home I was thinking about this, and instead of doing Uni work I decided to quickly google every possible combination of the phrases 'rock', 'paper' and 'scissors'- all six of them!
Now you would assume that, if the correct title of the game is Rock-Paper-Scissor than the amount of articles coming up with this combination of words would demolish all other combinations- but this surprisingly turned out not to be the case.
You see, of the 45,477,000 combined articles in my search, over 22 million of those were attached the relatively unsaid 'Scissor Rock Paper'.
Because pictures are pretty, I illustrated them in a pie graph here:
