I was listening to a podcast earlier, and it mentioned one of those quiz things, in which you put your music on shuffle and use the song titles to answer questions. There's no real story or rant here, but this did remind me of one of these things I did a couple of years ago and I found some of the answers very funny.
Observe:
Put your iPod (iTunes) on shuffle.
For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Made of Scars
WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Purity
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Punch Me I Bleed
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Silent Night, Bodom Night
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
White and Nerdy
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
None But My Own
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Bed of Razorz
WHAT IS 2+2?
People = Shit
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Trashed, Lost & Strungout
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Rock Your Socks
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
The Heretic Anthem
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Time Bomb
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Wake Up
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Johnny Be Good
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Ace of Spades
WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Duel of the Fates
HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Keep Away
WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Children of Decadence
WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Take a Look Around
WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Eeyore
DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
In Your Face
IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Someone in London
WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Children of Bodom
WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
That Was Just Your Life
I'm aware that some of these are rubbish, and this post is, in itself, a bit shite (pardon my french). But I was so pleased to remember this, simply for the two or three answers that are actually amusing.
Please feel free to try this yourself, and post any particularly good ones as comments.
By the way, if you enjoy my inane ramblings, you will definitely enjoy the podcast I was listening to:
The Yogpod:
http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-yogpod/id304557271
Saturday 23 April 2011
Friday 22 April 2011
Who Exactly Dislikes Turtles?
So is anyone else getting really annoyed with all these bloody 'questions' on Facebook? You all know what I mean (unless you're foreign, in which case... how's it going over there?), those completely banal queries that clog up your news feed, and generally have absolutely no practical application.
Initially of course, they were new and quite novel, and we could see, through the use of 'statistics' whether or not football was better than rugby, or the North was better than the South of Britain. But now! Jesus Christ. People should not be allowed to ask any questions. Ever. It's not even the questions per say, the answers do not help. I remember one question in particular (I say I remember it, but I don't really. I think I must have repressed it) that was a pretty simple question which - to quote the Internet, "IMHO," had a maximum of about five answers. I'm very annoyed with myself that I can't remember the bloody question, oh well. And lo, it had 100 possible answers.
Ugh! One of those horrible flying beetles that look a little bit like a large bee just flew into my laptop screen. Scared the crap out of me. Anyway.
Seriously, 100 answers, and they didn't have any relevance to the question. It's all "I like Turtles" and rubbish like that. It just made me want to go cry in a corner over the state of humanity.
Probably the thing that most annoys me though, is that people will answer them. There was a question I saw the other day, which said something along the lines of "Are you looking forward to the royal wedding?" to which someone had answered "I am completely ambivalent." Then why the hell did you bother answering?!?!
Rant summarised: People annoy me.
Initially of course, they were new and quite novel, and we could see, through the use of 'statistics' whether or not football was better than rugby, or the North was better than the South of Britain. But now! Jesus Christ. People should not be allowed to ask any questions. Ever. It's not even the questions per say, the answers do not help. I remember one question in particular (I say I remember it, but I don't really. I think I must have repressed it) that was a pretty simple question which - to quote the Internet, "IMHO," had a maximum of about five answers. I'm very annoyed with myself that I can't remember the bloody question, oh well. And lo, it had 100 possible answers.
Ugh! One of those horrible flying beetles that look a little bit like a large bee just flew into my laptop screen. Scared the crap out of me. Anyway.
Seriously, 100 answers, and they didn't have any relevance to the question. It's all "I like Turtles" and rubbish like that. It just made me want to go cry in a corner over the state of humanity.
Probably the thing that most annoys me though, is that people will answer them. There was a question I saw the other day, which said something along the lines of "Are you looking forward to the royal wedding?" to which someone had answered "I am completely ambivalent." Then why the hell did you bother answering?!?!
Rant summarised: People annoy me.
Wednesday 13 April 2011
Thoughts from the Gap
Well the weather I so enjoyed the other week has disappeared, I was going to go for a run but the rain shoved a spanner in that. And so I find myself stuck inside, watching my cat show off his ability to sleep whenever he pleases. So I thought I'd write a blog post.
Most of you probably know my drill by now: search through the BBC's website, maybe the guardian or some other papers, and find a couple of stories I can playfully mock. But today, for some reason, I came up empty. Maybe there is simply nothing interesting, maybe the rain has made me apathetic. Either way I'm doing nothing more productive than spinning round on my chair and looking aimlessly around my clutter-ridden room, with the urge to play The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time becoming more pronounced by the second.
Tthis got me to thinking. Not about Zelda, but about my clutter. The vast majority of the mess in my room is made up of DVDs, books, CDs and video games. Not to mention all the controllers and dust jackets that come with them. Now, technology is becoming more and more sophisticated, that's a given, and this essentially means we are needing less "stuff." e.g. Current gen. consoles allow you to download games directly onto their hard drives, you can download or stream movies directly onto your computer without the need of a hard copy, and tablets like the iPad and the Kindle (does the Kindle count as a tablet?) make buying individual books almost obsolete.
The point I am trying to make is that pretty soon, my clutter wont exist in a physical form, it will all be a part of the ether. Think of it like this. it's 100 years from now, there are flying cars, clothes come in pill form, and everyone has been gene-spliced into atanomical perfection (Except for the poor, they will still be smelly and ugly). What is going to be in their houses? digital picture frames maybe, a pair of sunglasses that allow you to play games and watch television on them. Hell maybe they'll wear those things all the time and it'll be like the matrix whilst everyone is really asleep in a pod filled with the liquefied dead!
Perhaps the occasional 'eccentric' will own some of the 'quaint' prehistoric technology like an iPod or a mammogram machine. but otherwise, any music they could want can live in an earpiece, movies can live in specs, and, if games involving the future are anything to go by, everything will be white (I'm not being racist by the way, I'm thinking along the lines of Mirror's Edge). So what will make their homes untidy? NickNacks? Dirty plates won't exist because everyone subsists on that Willy Wonka gum that contains a three course meal. All I can think of is furniture. From the meanest beggar to the grandest monarch, everyone enjoys a good sit.
I've forgotten the point of this post but I think it had something to do with the evolution of technology, and how pretty soon, there'll be much more space for me to spin round on my chair without bashing my knee against my chest-of -drawers.
Most of you probably know my drill by now: search through the BBC's website, maybe the guardian or some other papers, and find a couple of stories I can playfully mock. But today, for some reason, I came up empty. Maybe there is simply nothing interesting, maybe the rain has made me apathetic. Either way I'm doing nothing more productive than spinning round on my chair and looking aimlessly around my clutter-ridden room, with the urge to play The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time becoming more pronounced by the second.
Tthis got me to thinking. Not about Zelda, but about my clutter. The vast majority of the mess in my room is made up of DVDs, books, CDs and video games. Not to mention all the controllers and dust jackets that come with them. Now, technology is becoming more and more sophisticated, that's a given, and this essentially means we are needing less "stuff." e.g. Current gen. consoles allow you to download games directly onto their hard drives, you can download or stream movies directly onto your computer without the need of a hard copy, and tablets like the iPad and the Kindle (does the Kindle count as a tablet?) make buying individual books almost obsolete.
The point I am trying to make is that pretty soon, my clutter wont exist in a physical form, it will all be a part of the ether. Think of it like this. it's 100 years from now, there are flying cars, clothes come in pill form, and everyone has been gene-spliced into atanomical perfection (Except for the poor, they will still be smelly and ugly). What is going to be in their houses? digital picture frames maybe, a pair of sunglasses that allow you to play games and watch television on them. Hell maybe they'll wear those things all the time and it'll be like the matrix whilst everyone is really asleep in a pod filled with the liquefied dead!
Perhaps the occasional 'eccentric' will own some of the 'quaint' prehistoric technology like an iPod or a mammogram machine. but otherwise, any music they could want can live in an earpiece, movies can live in specs, and, if games involving the future are anything to go by, everything will be white (I'm not being racist by the way, I'm thinking along the lines of Mirror's Edge). So what will make their homes untidy? NickNacks? Dirty plates won't exist because everyone subsists on that Willy Wonka gum that contains a three course meal. All I can think of is furniture. From the meanest beggar to the grandest monarch, everyone enjoys a good sit.
I've forgotten the point of this post but I think it had something to do with the evolution of technology, and how pretty soon, there'll be much more space for me to spin round on my chair without bashing my knee against my chest-of -drawers.
Saturday 9 April 2011
Medicinal Cheese, Magic Jeans, and the End of Humanity... Again.
First and foremost I want to make a quick apology for not posting anything in a while - I know you all have nothing better to do than read my ramblings and I'm sorry for causing all this heartache - but It's been such brilliant weather down here, that I just couldn't bring myself to sit indoors in the gloom while there's glorious sunshine to bask in (he said, shifting position and wincing as sunburned skin grated painfully against his chair).
Alrighty then, stories that matter to me today. Well, in life threatening news, seven brands on paneer cheese - from Everest Dairies - have been recalled because of worries that they may contain traces of veterinary medicine. However, there doesn't seem to be much of information about what type of medicine is in the cheese. Surely that is an important point, right? I mean, I wouldn't want to eat cat ear medicine for example (the stuff tastes horrible! nowhere near as good as scented soap*) but if it was say... Worming medicine. Couldn't hurt to have a little extra insurance, am I right? Hmm, I'm seeing a niche in the market.
My next story is a little out of date perhaps (28 March), but I stumbled onto it and thought it was pretty cool. Some of you may have heard of the Young Engineer of Great Britain Competition. I certainly hadn't but then pobody's nerfect are they. Well, a sixth former from Hull won the top prize by making a pair of jeans, that double as a drum kit. That's right. He apparently wove sensors into the fabric, which make the different drum noises when hit. That is a pretty cool invention, and it won him £1000 prize money (personally I think that's a little stingy for a national prize) and a place representing the UK at a science and engineering fair in Los Angeles in May. I can only think that perhaps his legs could get a little raw from all that slapping and patting (this is swiftly turning into a bad joke about masturbation so I'm going to move on now).
Finally, in scientific news (we're finally getting high-brow), scientists have used... science. To create technologies that allow you to move computer cursors, wheelchairs and even play video games through THOUGHT. To quote the Internet: "OMFG." Do they even realise what they've done! this is exactly how Inspector Gadget started, and we all know how that ended: Skynet. I think. Maybe I skipped a few scenes but my point is no less valid for that. The doom of humanity is approaching.
Now, where the hell did I leave my "The End is Near" sandwich board?
Medicinal Cheese Story
One Man Band Trouser-boy
Human Apocalypse Story
*To clarify, scented soap does not taste as good as it smells. Trust me.
Alrighty then, stories that matter to me today. Well, in life threatening news, seven brands on paneer cheese - from Everest Dairies - have been recalled because of worries that they may contain traces of veterinary medicine. However, there doesn't seem to be much of information about what type of medicine is in the cheese. Surely that is an important point, right? I mean, I wouldn't want to eat cat ear medicine for example (the stuff tastes horrible! nowhere near as good as scented soap*) but if it was say... Worming medicine. Couldn't hurt to have a little extra insurance, am I right? Hmm, I'm seeing a niche in the market.
My next story is a little out of date perhaps (28 March), but I stumbled onto it and thought it was pretty cool. Some of you may have heard of the Young Engineer of Great Britain Competition. I certainly hadn't but then pobody's nerfect are they. Well, a sixth former from Hull won the top prize by making a pair of jeans, that double as a drum kit. That's right. He apparently wove sensors into the fabric, which make the different drum noises when hit. That is a pretty cool invention, and it won him £1000 prize money (personally I think that's a little stingy for a national prize) and a place representing the UK at a science and engineering fair in Los Angeles in May. I can only think that perhaps his legs could get a little raw from all that slapping and patting (this is swiftly turning into a bad joke about masturbation so I'm going to move on now).
Finally, in scientific news (we're finally getting high-brow), scientists have used... science. To create technologies that allow you to move computer cursors, wheelchairs and even play video games through THOUGHT. To quote the Internet: "OMFG." Do they even realise what they've done! this is exactly how Inspector Gadget started, and we all know how that ended: Skynet. I think. Maybe I skipped a few scenes but my point is no less valid for that. The doom of humanity is approaching.
Now, where the hell did I leave my "The End is Near" sandwich board?
Medicinal Cheese Story
One Man Band Trouser-boy
Human Apocalypse Story
*To clarify, scented soap does not taste as good as it smells. Trust me.
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