HELLO

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Spider Web

The other day some douchebag spider spun a huge web right outside of my door, like literally 5cm away from the door. I didn't see it in time and my reaction was much like Akmal Saleh's in this YouTube video at 0:24. And then I spent ten to fifteen minutes looking for the spider on me, and when I couldn't find it, I went back into my house to change. Stupid spider.

That is all.

Things I care about

I have just realised that having actual titles for my posts means I don't have as much freedom to go off on tangents if I want to make sense. This sucks because now I have to put more thought into what I will write about. Who knew that blogging needed to be so structured?

Anyway, here are my thoughts on a few things which all fall under the vague title of 'Things I care about.'

Below is an interview of Citizen Kane director Orson Welles, in which he describes a lifetime of trying to prove Hollywood wrong as "an enormous waste of spirit and an enormous waste of energy." According to the uploader, this interview was done 8 days before his death. (He died suddenly from a heart attack.) I find it very tragic that someone could describe their life in such a way. This guy made what is widely considered the greatest movie of all time and in return was hounded by the American film industry.

I want to take advantage of this sudden interest in gender issues at our school to mention my own thoughts on the matter. For a while now, I've kept a mild interest in gender equality (for both women and men). When Treskin made her speech at assembly last week I decided to listen with an open mind and found she raised points worth considering. When we use words like 'man' and 'mankind' to refer to the human race we imply it was men alone who determined the actions of our race and that it will always be this way. Of course, there are downsides to modifying our vocabulary in the name of political correctness. Sometimes, it just isn't worth it. I don't think anyone plans on following guys with gals anytime soon. (I hate that word by the way.) But it is always worth considering.

More importantly, I believe that gender equality is a topic we should treat with thoughtfulness rather than the apathy or even derision it frequently receives.

And now for something completely different, I also care about the upcoming Crysis 2 PC multiplayer demo, which looks awesome. Also, I watched Cinema Paradiso and found it to be my favourite movie I've seen for a while.

This is funny

I just found this on wikipedia and found it really really really funny. This is from the article for The Hottie and the Nottie a film with Paris Hilton in it.

For its release in the United Kingdom, the film was advertised as "The Number One Film", with small print revealing its being number 1 on the IMDb Bottom 100

HAHAHAHAHA

That is all.

A Poorly Spent Friday Night

I was going to make a decent post today but instead I started playing a flash game called Rebuild. Basically it's a strategy kind of game where you try to build a colony amidst a zombie apocalypse. This game is so addictive I nearly spent 2 hours on it.

Also, I've decided to start using proper titles for my posts because I have realised naming them after the day they were posted is not that funny and also kind of lazy. Expect mind-blowing post titles in the future.

MONDAY

Today I put on my cadet KFF and a big black trench coat I found in my closet, then started shooting random objects with my little cousin's Nerf gun while pretending to be Clint Eastwood in some old cowboy movie. It was really fun until I started feeling self-conscious and silly.

Another nice thing that happened to me last week was that I logged into my Neopets account and got a pleasant surprise. I had managed to make a +1066.67% profit on the Neopian stockmarket. 113,250 NP isn't that much, but it was enough for me to start playing Neopets semi-regularly again. I'd stop but it's too hard because now Neopets is on my Google Chrome 'most visited' list and I don't have the heart to remove it.

So the main purpose of this post is that it's well into Year 12 and I'm feeling a bit guilty about wasting my time like this.

THURSDAY

Here's an interesting news article Edwin told me about today:

A Chinese neighbourhood was contaminated with human waste after an explosion caused by sewage-stealing thieves.

The incident began early one morning in China’s Guandong province, when a narrow alleyway in a residential neighbourhood was turned into a river of raw sewage – it transpired that a septic tank truck had arrived to illegally siphon off the neighbourhood’s sewage.

However, the truck’s hose exploded, flinging sewage all over the street. The driver of the truck reportedly fled the scene of the explosion as soon as he could, leaving only his ruined hose and a street full of sewage behind.

Sewage is a valuable commodity in China – not only can it be used as manure and to produce methane, it also has a wide variety of other industrial uses.

Even the garbage collectors were annoyed – one who witnessed the event whilst he was picking up rubbish angrily remarked “All the trash I just collected – ruined! It’s all covered in filth. I had picked up some electronics too, but I can’t sell them now.”

The local fire department was summoned to deal with the mess, and apart from a foul stench it was soon contained.

At this stage, many will doubtless be wondering what it is with China, sewage and things which explode…

Original article here.