Knee Fail

So back on monday, Day 2 of National Uni Games, game 2, I managed to damage my meniscus (cartilage that supports the joints in your knee) in my left knee. I am now on crutches for an unknown amount of time, with a fat, bruised, and sore knee. I have spent the last 2 days and 1 night at home (after paying $250 for a motel in surfers paradise), feeling terribly sick from the codiene and anti inflammatorys the hospital gave me, a sore throat from one of the girls I have been sharing a room with and sore arm pits from my ever frustrating crutches. But other than that, I have been having a splendid uni break.

Oh, at the opening ceremony at Sea World on sunday night, I saw, among other things, a guy dressed up like the Hitcher from boosh. Awesome. (Yes, I got a photo. Not quite Noel Fielding, but still. Awesome. Oh, Jay and the Doctor from Frenzal Rhomb were there too. Didn't get a pic though. Bummer.)

To Clean Feed, Or Not To Clean Feed

I have been reading up on this 'Clean Feed' business, and found that so far, I am torn about the whole idea. It is a very good thing that the Australian Government are trying to implement ways to protect children from some of the horrors floating around on the internet. This just seems like a very extreme way to do it. And it seems suspiciously on the down low. I can't seem to find any information on things like who will decide which sites are blacklisted. I mean, obviously illegal things will be, but there is the freedom of speech concern. And I'm sure I'm not the only one to come across a funny named site, that doesn't actually have anything to do with it's content. How many of these will be blacklisted accidentally? What about blogs? And is that someones job? To find illegal and inappropriate sites to filter? Like terrorists sites and child pornography? Would that not make someone want to kill themselves? And if this really is a technique to protect kids from laying innocent eyes on something they shouldn't, why is the filter being placed in homes without children? It all seems a little dodge. Plus, I get frustrated with slow internet as is. Apparently, this filter will only make it slower. I see a rise of computer abuse in my future. Not to mention, how much is this going to cost? Surely there is an easy way to do this, without spending millions of tax payers money when it should be spent on better things like the health care system? Those road works in surfers have been going for months now, surely another million dollars would move that along quite nicely. So in conclusion, still torn. It will be interesting to see what happens when it goes ahead though. Another Vegemite 'iSnack 2.0' scenario perhaps?

Best Dance Ever

edward cullen is a boomba clarke

This is my new favourite blog. Suck it, twilight lovers.

http://community.sparknotes.com/2009/05/06/the-twilight-experience

I am Dust Storm... feel my dusty justice!!

Dusty, dusty
Oh such a good time
Dusty dusty
dirt all in my eyes
Dusty dusty, oh, dusty dusty oh!

E-Petition

I totally signed an e-petition today
https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_QLD/Confirmation.aspx?PetNum=1290&lIndex=-1
Hopefully I will get the email soon, further proof.

Movies!!!

Gosh it's taking a lot of frustration and effort to get this post up... is it really necessary, I have to ask? Anyway, sorry it's taken so long to get these films up, but I think you'll agree it was worth the wait... not sure if its worth the anger and content though.

This first one is called "Miniture Earth", if you want more info visit http://www.miniature-earth.com/



"Solve for X" is a 35mm black & white action short that follows the story of a few days in the life of a hitman. This 11 minute film contains adult language, themes and violence (ie, no littlens.) Scott Spears, Emmy award winner, is the director of photography. The piece was written & directed by John Whitney and stars Rafael Rosado, a professional animator, director of several animated shows like Men In Black: The Series & Ghostbusters



"Third Wheel" is an award winning short film that tells the story of Charlie Watts. He is cheating on his supportive wife of seven years. The subject of his affair is the beautiful Lindsey Cavanaugh. He plans to get rid of his wife, but Lindsey has other plans. And so begins an adventuresome round of plot twists that build to a suprise-filled climax.



Little less serious one, an authorized (parody) documentary into the life of criminal minds star Matthew Gray Gubler



These days even some music film clips are considered short films, and are huge online. Examples:
Here It Goes Again by Ok, Go



Don't Shoot Me Santa by The Killers (directed by Matthew Gray Gubler)



Comedy clips from The Lonely Island (you know, the Jizz In My Pants and I'm On A Boat guys) are huge online, and a tv show that they made just for online fans called "The Bu" (Young, sexy people that live in Malibu call it 'The Bu', because when you say the entire word, it takes time, and then you wouldn't be young anymore.)

Episode 1


Speaking comedy, lets not forget those guys at Funny or Die (Will Ferrell being one of them), the same people that bought us The Landlord.




I chose these films because... I like miniture earth because I like the thought that the internet and films can both have an important message (very rare combination as far as I can tell)
I like action films.
I love all of Matthew Gray Gublers stuff, because (in his words) there is no reason not to make movies. I love that just about anyone can make films these days, and it really opens the doors for independent shorts like his. And he is hilarious.
I also love bands that put effort into their film clips. You make them to sell the music, and these songs all prove that.

Thats it for today, enjoy the films.
Strike On!!

Optimus Out.

Hmmm politics

The local member for Mudgeeraba is Ros Bates. Premier for QLD is Anna Bligh. If you want the full list of reps for the states go here... its far to many to list in the blog. For some reason the hansard isn't loading so I will try again later on. According to twitter updates, Barack Obama is trying to get the health reform pass ("You and a few friends can help pass health reform on your lunch break: http://bit.ly/RZN59 #hc09" Via twitter.com)

Cool Site.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php

I think this website is rad. A little frightning, but rad. There is more to do on this than facebook. Not like thats a major feat or anthing. There is an earthquake happening in Peru, and one in Alaska, right now. Amazing. Though it would scare the shit out of me to see something near here, I'm not sure I'd want to know. Kinda like those sites where you can find all the sexual offenders that live in your postcode area. Seems like a fun thing to do until you do it. Until you realise you live in rapeville. But I do like this site, and when you click a specific one, it pops up with all the info on it, like a disaster baseball card. Fantastic.

PortableApps

So... like I said before I have already used portableapps.com, I downloaded openoffice for my laptop and it's pretty awesome... except spell check TOTALLY doesn't work. But I deal. I also have VLC which is the best thing ever. That program will play literally anything. There is nothing it can't do. I would like to download gimp at some stage but my parents computer already has photoshop so... maybe later. But I totally love VLC. It plays all my absolutely legally downloaded videos (supernatural aired in the US last night yahooooooo!), other region dvds (isn't it the most irritating thing when you get this amazing box set of one of your favourite shows from ebay and its only when you try and play it in your 5 year old dvd player that its a different region, one that your dvd player from medieval times can't play?), converted youtube videos and the like. It's the best thing I have ever downloaded for free.

Optimus Out.

The lecture

The lecture this week was really interesting. I use bit torrent but never really understood what it did and how it worked. Now I do. Hooray! I also love portable apps.com, I used it last semester in writing for the web... thanks sonya :)

Today

Today we went out and filmed our news story for CNN. It is about the menace bird that has been attacking people by ramming into their heads. It is a very important news story that should be front page stuff. See how we go.

Optimus Out.

Social networking is for chumps.

Self Portrait

My Very Own Google Map.

View I want to be there, not here in a larger map

Persona

Hmm it's a bit small... that's what she said.