Our living room currently looks like a cardboard factory exploded in it. How can you cover an entire living room with the packaging for one little computer? Everything came packaged in a bag, within a box, within a box. Why does everything have to be double boxed? Is that really necessary? Especially when at least one of each set of boxes is made from some pretty solid material. So solid in fact, that the box our Corsair 620w power supply came in has now become my footrest. Its the perfect height and can’t possibly crumple under my weight unless I stomped on it or something.

Guess what?! When Jad told his bosses at work that he needs a computer to be able to properly function at his job, they handed him a laptop. Now he’s asked them if he can bring it home with him after work and they agreed, so I get to use it while he’s playing Team Fortress on our computer. Yay! I can’t install and play games or anything, so I’ll only get to play civ and stuff like that when I’m home and he’s not, but at least I can blog and surf the interweb on it. It’s certainly better than nothing. Of course this means that my reading will probably drop off a bit, ’cause that’s what I used to do when the Jad man hogged our ‘puter, but maybe I’ll be able to blog more often without having to use the office computers.
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This from The Courier Mail:
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The Herald Sun has an interesting article about climate change and how governments are reacting to it (ours, India and China in particular). Right now, Labor and KRudd’s plans scare me more than anything about the supposed “climate change problem” does. Don’t get me wrong, I do think we should all try to do our bit to recycle and find ways to use cleaner energy, etc. But I DO NOT subscribe to Al Gore and Labor’s doom-and-gloom view on climate change. I don’t think we’re affecting our climate quite as badly as they make out, and I don’t think that individual efforts (even if you refer to a country as said “individual”) can make much of a difference without a global consensus to work together. It’s a good starting point I guess, but ultimately the smaller countries are not really going to be able to do much unless the larger, and developing, countries jump onto the “Save the planet” band wagon as well.
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From news.com.au last week:
A DEER with a single horn in the centre of its head has been born in an Italian nature reserve, sparking talk of unicorns.
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God-damn hypocritical bastards that live in this state with me. The government asks us to vote on whether we want the shops open for Sunday trading and the “no” vote wins by a landslide. Then the shops are open for trading on a Sunday (for fundraising or around Christmas time) and everyone rushes to the shops in droves. I visited mum yesterday and she lives just behind one of those shopping centers that ocasionally opens on Sunday for Telethon fundraising. It took us 10 minutes to drive about 2 kilometers up the road to her house because of all the cars lining up to get into the shopping center. The shopping center car park was so full there were cars parked on the verges and down the side streets around the shopping center. Where were all these bastards when the vote was called for? What are they doing at the shops on a Sunday when they claimed to not want Sunday trading? Lying bastards. The next time this issue comes up for a vote they should just open the shopping centers on a Sunday, and anyone that walks through the doors puts in an automatic “yes” vote. Damn stodgy, backwater state. They just resist anything that has to do with change. If it’s a different way of doing things from the way we’ve done it in the past, it’s gotta be bad apparently. Stupidity.

I don’t normally take much of an interest in politics, but there are a handful of issues that I do have an interest in. One of them is the whole fuel/energy issue. It really pisses me off that our government flatly refuses to even consider putting in nuclear power plants.
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Yeah, I’m sure this would NEVER have happened if they hadn’t been listed on Facebook. I don’t mean to sound heartless, and my condolences go out to Martine’s family, but unless these two met through facebook and it was their main form of contact, how is it really at fault? I can see how chat rooms and social networking sites that allow people to meet over the internet can be blamed for things like this, but Facebook (generally) tends to help connect people who already know each other. So it might help bring us closer to the sickoes and crazies out there, but not very much more so than attending parties and socialising in the real world would. Since murderers (excluding serial killers) and their victims often know each other, I guess Facebook is going to get blamed for a lot of murders from now on.
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Pete organised a movie marathon at ECU last night. First movie on the list was Fight Club. Today I find that Tyler’s little speach about consumerism is being brought to the forefront of my mind everywhere I turn. Vallentine’s Day is a completely fictional creation of an English poet, that has become vaguely dedicated to one of 3 even more vague characters from the Christian church. And everybody seams to celebrate it with an almost religious dedication; paying exhorbitant prices for cut flowers, restaurant dinners and silly gifts with love hearts on them. Why do we do this? Christmas, Easter, Chinese New Year, etc do have commercial sides to them, but they have at least some sort of understandable reason behind them. Why Vallentine’s Day? Why are we, not just eager but hell bent, on throwing our money at commercial industries just because THEY tell us that we’re supposed to celebrate our love for that someone special, by buying their products for said someone, on this particular day? I’ve never understood the fanaticism over Valentine’s Day. Somewhere in the back of my mind I’ve always wondered if my pessimism over Valentines Day might be due more to the lack of someone special to share it with than anything else. But now I do have someone special in my life, and I STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND all the fuss over vallentines day.

Driving to mom’s the other day I saw a Corolla with not one, but TWO “baby on board” signs on display in it’s back windscreen. Now, this sign has never really made sense to me. What do these parents think? That there are people out there just driving around, looking for cars to run into, and this sign is going to make them choose not to run into said baby-taxi? “Hmmm, you know what I really, really feel like doing today? I just have to crash my car into sombody else’s. Oh, look, theres a car! Awww, carp. Its got a baby inside. Better not run into that one. I’ll run into the car next to it instead. That one doesn’t have a baby inside. I know because it doesn’t have a ‘baby on board’ sign on display.”
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