City Shootout 2009

2 01 2009

I had a brilliant idea this morning. You may not think so, but I have a gut feeling this could be a huge event for everyone involved and for Brisbane itself, with the potential to spread worldwide. The concept is as follows: I want to organise as many people as I possibly can to spread out around the city, all over, and then at the pre-arranged time, take a photo of whatever interests them at the time. Once this is done, everyone will upload the photo they just took, including a geographical location (GPS Co-ordinates) and the photos will be compiled into a massive virtual montage of the city. A snapshot in time of Brisbane.

Screenshot of Google Earth's 3D View of Brisbane

Screenshot of Google Earth's 3D View of Brisbane

I am recruiting a small army of people to help me do this, so if you’re at all interested, please go to my fan page on Facebook and register your interest. I want at least 100 people doing this, and the more we can gather the better. If this works, it could be the start of a major world-wide event. A true snapshot in time of the entire planet! How amazing would that be? ttfn


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XKCD

31 12 2008
Useless

Useless

I am a happy chappy today. Although the morning started out pretty average, due mostly to my underlying issues which I will delve into in a later post, I managed to cheer myself up by downloading ALL of the XKCD comics. They are all high-quality PNG files, and when I have time I will compile them into a book that I can keep close by when I need a pick-me-up. For those of you that are unawares, XKCD.com is a comic strip written by Randall Munroe, a physics major, from Massachusetts. He worked for NASA in the Langley Research Center doing robotics of all things. He is a very switched on guy, and from what I’ve seen, a very talented artist. His take on the world really makes me think he understands the what average geek is thinking, and the ordeals of day-to-day life. He has a very surreal take on love and romance, which I find I connect with. One of my favourites, ‘Useless‘ depicts him trying to apply mathematical principles to the problem of love. The first time I saw that it really made me think that there are people out there that think like I do; that it’s possible to be romantic while till maintaining your scientific integrity. 

It is the mind of an engineer that tries to rationalise the world in terms of engineering, I am guilty of this, and there is no logical reason not to apply this approach. However, in terms of love, this doesn’t apply. I am already confused by my own ramblings, but one thing is clear, I identify with this cartoon. Randall explores many different aspects of his life, some of which is clearly more fanciful than others. Then

Do Not Erase

Do Not Erase

there’s just the outright amusing one-liners that he comes out with in his cartoons, the fanciful man in the hat. ‘DNE‘ or Do Not Erase is a classic example of this. It’s funny, because we’ve all been in a situation where we’ve seen something written on the board with the all too familiar DNE written next to it. I don’t now about you but I’ve always been tempted to just make minor alterations to equations, just to see if anyone notices. Of course the tremendous guilt I felt prevented me doing this as I always imagined someone using an altered formula and blowing up a building with it or something. Of course, as in this cartoon, sheer frustration can lead one to just lash out! I love it. 

If you’re at all interested by this style of comic, check out www. xkcd.com and see for yourself. And Randall, if you ever see this, forgive my most likely totally off the mark analysis of your work. Please don’t mock me. ttfn


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Israel you f**k-tards. Stop blowing up Lebanon!

25 07 2006

From the people that brought you the Irish Potato Famine, American taxation without representation, and the Boxer Rebellion, Great Brittan is now proud to present… ISRAEL! Global politics 101; Great Brittan formed Israel shortly after World War 2, during its time the demilitarization of the middle east. They took it upon themselves to decide the Jewish people had been persecuted to such an extent, that they need their own country again to restore their identity as a people. Which is all well and good, until they decided to reform the original Israel of biblical times, right smack-bang in the middle of the middle east, taking over much of what was the original Palastine. And how does a new country defend itself? Well they certainly aren’t short of a penny or two, so money is no real object, and where is the greatest number of Jewish people outside Jerusalem?? The good old US of A. Thats right, the US took it upon themselves not only to arm Israel with all the weapons it would need to defend itself, they made them a NUCLEAR POWER! Yeah good call, US!.

So now, the people of the middle east are in a never-ending struggle to regain their land from Israel, and with an absence of funds, they have resorted to terrorism to meet their goals. So what does a military power like Israel do? Bombs the sh*t out of a neighbouring country. Lebanon! Because this is where the rockets are coming from.

And it’s not that i condone terrorism.. Far from it.. But when you essentially occupy another country, under the rouse of forming a newly independent state, and the masses disagree with it, they’re gonna fight back.

In the words of the well known, Kamahl… “Why are people so unkind?” I dont know what Im trying to say at the moment, but I really dont have a lot of time for Israel as a country. And i know a lot about Lebanon. Beirut was once the jewel of the middle east. One of the nicest, most beautiful cities on the Mediterranean. Now thanks to war and conflict, there’s virtually nothing left.

Seriously. Just stop the fighting and relinquish Israel. All the conflict in the middle-east will come to an end. And STOP MAKING NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST! You dumb leaders over there! Dont you realise if you do anything even remotely nuclear, America is just gonna pummel your ass! Get with the programme! Stop buying uranium, and buy food for your people!

 Ugh the world is run by dumbasses!


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