Second Life

Straight up I just don't understand Second Life. It doesn't make sense to me what the attraction is, except maybe the flying because that kicks arse, but aside from this it's just pretending to live. I could be wrong, and from the amount who use it this is highly likely, but still not a fan. Either way I was able to bring it down to some extent.

Firstly, the uni's IP wouldn't let me make an account so there was sharing. Then we got logged out for no reason. Then we somehow got stuck underground, so much for the solid walls and Earth. Then we got stuck in a morgue's cooler. Second Life sucks.

After all these eventful happenings we found ourselves at a strip joint where a guy gave us $50 to help us out. That was a little freaky, so we left. This is how we got to the morgue. There we performed a semi-autopsy and met an EMT. That was even weirder so we flew away. The only good thing about the whole place. That and the pirate ship. Thats just cool.


This is one of the tamer images in the autopsy room.

In summation; Second Life sucks and it freaks me out, but I'm weird like that.

Torture Torquemada Style

This is a video from Mel Brooks' film History of the World: Part I, and is essentially the entire Spanish Inquisition condensed into an 8-minute song and dance. Quite possibly Mel Brooks' best musical number (I know it's a big call, but this shit's funny), the water torture in particular and that there is no warning that a song is going to start is pretty damn funny.

The pokie machines are pretty awesome and Orson Welles adds a touch of class with the voice-over.

Mobile Production

This is just a brief description of the processes involved in creating content on a mobile phone. Producing something completely from a mobile phone and transfering it to the internet can be more troublesome than many would believe, though not really difficult there is a lot of problems which can arise.

The first of these is an idea, crucial but not always easy to come by. The next is putting the idea into practice, can also be more difficult than anticipated, but the real problem came with getting a photo online. I know it sounds simple but when the cord your phone uses is nowhere to be found it gets hard. I tried bluetoothing it to Vincent who has a cool phone that automatically transfers photos to the net, but no that wouldn't work either. How can bluetooth not work? Well it happens and it blows. After that things got considerably easier, deciding to simply do it at home and email the photo.

As for economic issues, not so important for this kind of content except in terms of ease. It would be much easier for Vincent with his superior phone, but the prescence of a camera is about it, and everyone has them anyway. Personalisation of your phone can also be important in content production, just for ease again. The better knowledge of your phone, the better the content you will produce.

Vote or Die!

The foundation of democracy as expressed through Puff Daddy's South Park doppleganger.

At the very least he stays on topic.

Commando: The 80's at its Best

What do you think of when 80's action films come up? Most likely a cheesy soundtrack, bulging muscles, armies of enemies, bad one-liners and dogy bad guys, and the movie which most perfectly encapsulates all these things is Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commando.

The soundtrack for Commando was created specifically and sounds like a dodgy porno, but hey, it's the 80's! It also includes an epic 14 minute track called Infiltration, Showdown and Finale. Brilliant. Then for the bulging muscles, Schwarzenegger throwing a phone booth. Need I say more.

Now when most movies boast an 'army of enemies', they don't really mean it, there's just a lot of bad guys (see Cobra). Not Commando, the titular character, boasting the greatest character name of all time: Col. John Matrix, literally takes on an army. The private army with which the head honcho is planning to overthrow the President of the fictional South American country, Val Verde, is dispatched with ease by Matrix who uses 7 types of guns, grenades, kinives, machetes, axes, pitchforks, a steel pipe, furnace door, circular saw blades and the coup de gras of a multi-shot rocket launcher. The extensive arsenal is yet another feature of the 80's action film.


Bad one-liners doesn't take too much explaining, so I'll give you examples:
After killing a guy on a plane he puts a blanket and hat on him and warns the stewardess "Don't wake my friend, he's dead tired."
After impaling his arch nemesis with a pipe which releases steam, "Let off some steam, Bennett."
There's a hell of a lot more too.

Now I mentioned him a little earlier, but the main bad guy, no not the Presedential hopeful, but Bennett is one dodgy dirtbag. All you need to see is his manic expression when facing off with Matrix and his gisgraceful outfit, now I don't pretend to know anything about fashion but it is simply ludicrous.

There's a lot more 80's cliches like some obligatory nudity, baddies that can't aim a gun, a ridiculously outlandish sequence of events leading to the climax and a feisty love-interest. I must also point out the rampant homo-eroticism (I'm looking at you speedo scene), which is as much a part of the 80's as shoulder pads (really, think about Top Gun). All this amounts to a big ball of cheese, but damn is it fun. Whether or not you like it, there is no doubting that Commando epitomises the 'genre' of the 80's action film.

Running Man Quotes

If you have seen The Running Man then you will remember it for having some of Arnold Schwarzenegger's funniest one liners. The following video has a couple of his best, though it is not an exhaustive list, so if your yet to see it there is plenty more. Don't be put off by the start of the video, it's just to set the scene.

The spine bit kills me.

The Wisdom of Steven Seagal

I know, it sounds weird right? But in his 1994 movie On Deadly Ground, Seagal makes a pretty convicing speech against oil and pro Earth well before it became such a widely debated issue, or Al Gore got in on it.

Yeah, you got a different opinion about the 'Mercenary for Justice' now don't you.