Goody! New laptop! Don't have to post on that damn school PC anymore, thank god. You know it used to take a full half hour just to upload the post, and that it took three seconds before the key typed on the keyboard would actually appear on the screen?
Lag-gy.
Soo...spent WAY too much on it. Walked into the mad throng of Boxing Day sales expecting to pay $750 for a decent laptop, but of course the old "I'm sorry mister, but we're sold out. Buy this one." trick worked and now I'm stuck with a $1400 high-performance gaming laptop and $47 to my name.
But I love it.
For those tech-savvy people (geeks and nerds is the common term), its an (huge breath for excessively long name) HP Envy DV6-7215TX. I just call it a HP Envy. Works for me. Has 8GB of memory, 1TB drive, 2GB dedicated graphics, i7 quad core processor, 15.6 inch screen, and....dammit, that's all I can see on the little label thingy.
In other news, Christmas was fun. Insulted all the cousins, threw a couple in the pool, and parents bought the family a kayak. Sweet as. And my brother bought me a sort of decent game for my laptop. Well, its a good game, but I think Need for Speed is a little insulting to my maturity. I think my present was much nicer. A ticket to the next Disney movie. Not sure why he was glowering, he's sixteen for heaven's sake. Be happy! I might see if I can get my...friend....to take my money and buy Black Ops 2. Or something fun with lots of zombies.
Sooooo.....thats all for today folks. Grandparents decided to hang around 'til Sunday (god help us all) but most others have vacated, so plowing through....yes, Need for Speed, and eating WAY too much chocolate.
And here's a video that Cousin #7 thought was funny.
Does anybody at all find that more than half-vaguely amusing?
Okay...just two days to go of school. Well, one and a half. Tomorrow, which we'll do essentially nothing in, and Wednesday, where its first period, prizegiving, then gone. Stuff first period. I'm not spending my last period at school for 2012 in P.E. But otherwise it'll be French. Bugger.
So, Thursday...Friday...then gone for a week. Gliding in Omarama. Should be good fun, I spent ages saving up and gliding is a hell of a lot of fun. Apart from when there's turbulence. That's hell. And after that, four weeks, then Tauranga for a week at the beach with glorious sunshine, 6am surfing and overall fun. Gotta love it.
My story for today, however, is completely disrelated. Yesterday, I noticed an article on the local news website that had a brief overview of Best and Worst Politicians. So, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to do my own! These may be slightly biased towards NZ's politicians but I'll try to keep others in thought.
1. The Queen. This year she has done exceptionally well at looking old and being a rich snob. A well-deserved 10/10 on that front. Foreign relations are a little on the downside as she hasn't done a whirlwind tour of the world like her much more bright-smile grandson with his beloved wife Kate Middleton. However, she makes up for it in the street rep and automobile department with the below picture captured earlier this year. Hell's Angels are impressed.
2. Barack Obama. Has perhaps slightly overspent on his election campaign with the most expensive one in all of history, but as long as he is safely earning his half a million per year, and has his finger resting permanently on "the button", we'll be fine. One super-terrorist down in the first term Obama, we're expecting big things this term! Maybe he'll order is recently-made-redundant dolphins to attack other foreign threats, maybe One Direction. Otherwise he'll have to put those dolphins on his unemployment benefit! Wait, what? Unemployment benefit? Hmm.
3. Julia Gillard. This woman is a bit of a try-hard these days. Remember when John Key, like, in the first month of his election, tripped up and broke his arm? Yeah. Well, Gillard has gone and fallen flat on her face during a visit to, uh, I've forgotten where. It was funny though. But she didn't break her arm, so that makes her an even worse try-hard. I can't fathom a redeeming factor for her, so I'll embed this video and move on.
4. John Key. He's been keeping a good operation running this year, with not too many huge events. Well, there was the Hobbit, which he walked down the red carpet and admitted (I will never forgive him) that he was going to the world premiere without reading the book. On the other hand, he has had some good ideas. Such as replacing the 160-odd year old Christchurch Cathedral which was the international symbol of Christchurch, with one made of cardboard. Not joking. Oh well, at least it will set some more taxpayer money aside for MPs to travel with their families overseas for "business trips". Goodness knows we couldn't have Gerry Brownlee staying in a Hilton. Silly me, the Ritz is the only way to go, huh? Then gain, he attended the Bear Grylls thingy a couple nights ago and ate huhu grubs and stuff, so at least he's slightly tougher than Gillard.
5. Kim Jong Un. Well, this guy inspired the Kim Jong Style parody of Gangnam Style (which is freaking awesome), and has done very well in the Chinese newspapers, being labelled sexiest man alive. Uhhhhh? Well, this particular nuke-happy Asian has done very well as keeping the dictatorship of North Korea alive, and certainly is capable of running a country. Although I think that when you look closely at a side-on shot of him you can see straight through one ear and out the other...
Oh, and he's going to launch a rocket. Cos, you know, you're just not a real leader if you haven't launched a rocket. Maybe he'll team up with China to send a man to the moon. Gawd, imagine those idiots on the moon. They'd probably go to eat their noodles and take their helmet off in the middle of 1/6th gravity and no atmosphere. Maybe that'd be the next viral Korean video. Vacuum Style!
So, thats the list. Well done, politicians of 2012! You have successfully managed to keep to the Politician Code of Conduct completely (which is simply 1.Lie, 2. Be bossy. 3. Do nothing) as well as standing out as the best of your categories. Which should be easy for Kimmy as he's the only dictator in the world. Of course, this just means he's the more future-toting country in the world! Certainly not the most redundant. No, no. Well, thats it for today.
Wednesday 28 November 2012
Two subjects to cover today.
1. I have a friend called Oscar, and he's freaking ADDICTED to energy drinks. He gets depressed when he doesn't have one per day. We're talking 1.5 litre Monsters here. So when his 18 year old sister (or 19. I can't remember), made a deal with him involving a month-long ban on energy drinks for him, and alcohol for her, I thought he was stuffed. But after several Powerades per day, and lots of raw sugar, he made it. But his sister didn't! So next time an adult says "Stop drinking that crap, its bad for you!", just throw this in their face. Because we are more adaptable than them. Suckers. Anyway, the 2nd subject sort of ties in with this one. Because today his bet finished, and coincidentally we were doing a whatever-you-want-as-long-as-its measurable science experiment in which we made people try blank-labelled energy drinks and they had to try and guess them. And so every time we weren't looking, Oscar would slug back as much Mother/Monster/Demon/Red Bull/V that he could. We ran out pretty quickly, its fair to say. He simply couldn't stop (you should have seen him in P.E).
So that's my weird story for the day. I'll finish with a picture.
Saturday 24 November 2012
You know Spongebob Squarepants? That yellow sponge that works at a fast-food restaurant and has that annoying high-pitched laugh? Yeah, that one. Well, I was flicking through channels the other day and some standing-up whale was crying and saying "Daddy!" to a crab. And I thought what the hell? I mean, I know its a children's show and all, but how the hell does a crab have a whale for a daughter? It's just stupidity!
So if anybody has any idea of how the hell a crab could give birth to a whale, post a comment and tell me. I've got a feeling that this one will be completely empty, though...
I've gotta go. Working today. Not nice work. Will be inside a smelly chicken shed in total darkness for three hours. Not fun.
Leaving you with stupid picture. Laugh and leave.
Thursday 22 November 2012
Was watching a YouTube video before in music class (our teachers a lazy ass who can't be stuffed to prepare lessons) and it was about Will we ever run out of new music? This is some crazy shit, listen to these numbers: if you listened to all the songs in the GraceNote database, it would take 1200 years to go through them all. That'd take you back to before America was even colonised. For five minutes of music, there are so many possibilities that I'd need 63 million digits on this page just to show you the whole number of possibilities. Crazy, right? And there are even more possibilities, because (for instance) Baa baa Black Sheep, the alphabet song, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star are all the exact same melody. Check out the video here.
So thats my crazy story for today. In other news, there was an eruption at Mount Tongariro yesterday. So add that one to the 2012 conspiracy file, because apparently (quote) its not over yet.. Dum dum dum!!!
And just to finish of this blog post, I'm going to have a go at Apple because they are stupid. So if you buy an Android phone, you pay anything between $70 and $1050. For an iPhone, its $1100 OR DEATH. The Samsung Galaxy S3 has come down $500 in price since it's launch. The iPhone only goes on sale ONCE per year, and even then only $50. The iPhone hates you when you connect to a Windows PC, and does it's utmost to piss you off. So all in all, I hate Apple.
Today we had a talk on Bio-Ethics. Now before you go oh, those people. Hippies, let me tell you; we had a physics master, two, uh, geniuses, and a brain surgeon. But now lets go back to the hippies thing. Two were gay and one was a nutter. So, maybe the whole Big Bang theory stuff isn't that wrong. Genii are actually kind of hopeless. So, uh, Bio-Ethics. Basically its about what right and wrong. An example they gave is you're stuck in an underground cavern and it's filling up with water. You're probably going to drown unless you can fit through that narrow opening at the top. The first person to try to go through is real fat, and gets stuck. Should you just pull him down and let the other five through so they can survive, or should you all drown?. Well, pun to the brain surgeon, but what a NO BRAINER. Kill tha fat guy. Its not like he helps the overall picture of our country anyway. But apparently you shouldn't do that. So, um, I won't comment on that but, hey, Bio-Ethics! Sweet. Just count me out.
