Monday, 2. October 2006, 21:15:30
It isn't every day that one of your dreams comes true! No, Mr Darcy didn't sweep me into his arms and carry me away. Rather, it was the other dream I've had where my favourite game,
Halo, is made into a film by the gifted,
Peter Jackson. I know I shouldn't mutter the word M!"#(&¤&% in our community, but every child has to have at least one shining moment.
Thursday, 28. September 2006, 08:34:28
Australians taking the law into their own hands!!
Wednesday, 20. September 2006, 19:38:16
Ciao amici. E stato un molto tempo da quando mi sono esercitato nel mio italiano. E tempo di imparare ancora. Desidero che potrei parlare fluente, ma dovrei esercitarmi in. Vivo in Norvegia, ma ho sognato sempre di vivere in Italia. Forse un giorno.
Tuesday, 19. September 2006, 15:18:18
I think we have found our next extreme contact sport! Move over Microsoft, here comes the Wii!
Monday, 21. August 2006, 20:16:15
I CAN love both fair and brown ;
Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays ;
Her who loves loneness best, and her who masks and plays ;
Her whom the country form'd, and whom the town ;
Her who believes, and her who tries ;
Her who still weeps with spongy eyes,
And her who is dry cork, and never cries.
I can love her, and her, and you, and you ;
I can love any, so she be not true.
Will no other vice content you ?
Will it not serve your turn to do as did your mothers ?
Or have you all old vices spent, and now would find out others ?
Or doth a fear that men are true torment you ?
O we are not, be not you so ;
Let me—and do you—twenty know ;
Rob me, but bind me not, and let me go.
Must I, who came to travel thorough you,
Grow your fix'd subject, because you are true ?
Venus heard me sigh this song ;
And by love's sweetest part, variety, she swore,
She heard not this till now ; and that it should be so no more.
She went, examined, and return'd ere long,
And said, "Alas ! some two or three
Poor heretics in love there be,
Which think to stablish dangerous constancy.
But I have told them, 'Since you will be true,
You shall be true to them who're false to you.' "
Sunday, 6. August 2006, 19:53:11
A topic has been bugging me for quite some time. I like to define it as
mateship - the ability to be friends with the opposite sex without any sexual innuendo. Maybe it is the fact that I grew up surrounded by boys, or I just don't have enough progesterone in my body to want to do anything with anyone. I don't agree with the latter - I would gladly take a shower with
Mr Darcy given the chance.
This topic all began after I received a gift from a manly friend. Is giving a gift a sign that you want to bang someone? Well bend over Bill Gates, Donald Trump and Condoleezza Rice. I am pretty sure that they have all received gifts from a friend or two.
I hope that society hasn't come to that, or should I say, I hope society has advanced past the era where men liked beating their chests. Before we know it, smiling, a handshake and a conversation in the hallway will be the first step to marriage.
It doesn't help matters really when you have some men exclaiming that they can't be friends with a woman unless there's a booty call at the end. What ever happened to mateship? Are we just kidding ourselves that men and woman can just be good friends?
I think not! There are many examples of men and woman being great friends. Scientific studies advance my opinion;
"
In Sapadin's study, men rated cross-sex friendships as being much higher in overall quality, enjoyment and nurturance than their same-sex friendships. What they reported liking most was talking and relating to women—something they can't do with their buddies."
So lets please try and emancipate ourselves from the middle ages and all be friends!or if you can't be friends, I suggest you buy yourself a furry stuffed toy and a large paper bag for all your friends.
Friday, 4. August 2006, 13:00:25
Today I read an
interesting article in my favorite paper, The Sydney Morning Herald. It highlighted the apparent effects of technology on our social interactions. Gone are the days where your significant other, could hide out behind their little glaring screens. "Couple- surfing" as it has been termed, is replacing speed dating and opening the gates for the socially inept. This freedom to communicate has bridged the verbal divide between geeks, allowing the gifted data masses to transcribe and output their raw human emotion.
While this may be seen to conquer the past taboo that the Internet was breaking up relationships, there seems to be a lack of caution with this new trend. Is the breaking down of all our inhibitions such a good thing? It is like drinking 14 shots of Sambuca over a two hour period. Before you pass out you become a rambling, over-feeling, sometimes insensitive, emotional train wreck. Is it really such a brilliant idea to couple-surf?
When I am presented with a white blank screen it is amazing what sometimes comes out. Generally most of what I write is sweet and nice...but like most, I have moments of pure unbridled rage. It is so much easier to be angry at the white screen. The threat of confrontation is eliminated with your deepest thoughts sent in a matter of seconds. Is this such a good thing? Shouldn't we have some type of retrieval system?
Our ability to fob off what we said late yesterday will be replaced with threats to print out exactly what you said. No more snide off-hand remarks about your fat brother-in-law, or conversations about your partners choice of a red slutty g-string under the white skirt. In the event of a break up this will now all be used against you, maybe even in a court-of-law. That will be all the evidence Judge Judy needs to tear up those life savings you had stashed in that Geneva account. Our defence of, "I would never have said that" has been blown apart quicker than you can pack your suitcases for that tiny 10x10 studio apartment.
So my dear verbally challenged friends, while you embrace the freedoms of couple-surfing, keep in mind the consequences!!!
Sunday, 30. July 2006, 22:07:04
I am back again! I am still not sure if it is a good or bad thing really. At this point in time, I would say it is a good thing. Any longer away from Norway and I might have tried to slip through U.S customs to work with my other Mexican amigos to harvest corn.
I have visited the US before, but this was the first time I had ventured inland to the sprawling little metropolis they call the twin cities.
Minnesota isn't really on the top of my list of exotic destinations I want to visit before I turn 99..But when Berit broke the news that she wanted to get hitched in her home town I decided it might be a nice little trip, and a nice little trip it was.
The wedding was amazing, it beat watching Reece Witherspoon in
Sweet Home Alabama. Need I mention the
Margaritas. After one the size of a fish bowl I was calling myself Oprah and ready to solve all the world's problems. Well at least for the 20 minutes I could focus. The following day was a sweltering 35 degrees and I was ready to hit the fun park of all fun parks -
Valley Fair. I was rafting a few months earlier, but I have to say there was a water ride at Valley Fair that has given me a whole new business idea. Riding rapids on a tube. I am not sure if anyone has had this idea before, but it is simply clear genius. Jumping in a big rubber tube and letting the river do the rest. It will be the most popular extreme sport yet!
Back to Minnesotans. If I was to rear end someone’s new Hummer, they would come running and ask if I needed assistance to pay for the damages. You could even tell them that you think they are slower than their mother’s cousin, sister’s uncle, sixth brother removed - and they would say you just might be right. The only reasonable explanation being that they have all been brain washed by countless re-run episodes of
the Waltons. Hence the expression - Minnesota nice. So, if you have
Bora Bora as number one bump it down to number two.....Minnesota rocks.
Tuesday, 20. June 2006, 10:31:51
After many months of late nights, coffee, pizza and tweaking Opera 9 has been released with a bang! Many have questioned 9 - with Widgets, BitTorrent and more...Well they can keep on questioning as Opera 9 has taken browsing technology and functionality above and beyond.
Wednesday, 10. May 2006, 15:05:22
I think that everyone has one of those days. Those days where you just want to rest your head against the keyboard and close your eyes. We live in a world that is on constant overdrive, with the endless buzz of information and life's general issues. At times, I sit and wonder just how much our brains and bodies can take. Technology was in a sense developed to make our lives easier, to save time and energy for other pursuits.
Yet, I find that we are increasingly multi-tasking and being absorbed by our own creations. It has to be asked, are we slaves to our own creations? Can we emancipate ourselves and find a unique personal balance in which we filter out 90% of the redundant information we receive?
After building up this speeding momentum in our personal and work lives it isn't so easy too just put our foot on a brake and turn our backs on the lives that we support using technology.
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