The Art Con

After a bumpy ride, Firefox 3 finally got downloaded by around 8 million people in 24 hours, breaking a world record. Breaking a world record that doesn’t actually exist so they decided to make it up. See, that’s what you do. Invent a new world record, and be the first one to break it. Then you can get a t-shirt that says, ‘I broke a world record!’ on the front, and then on the back it can say ‘So someone better name a sandwich after me.’

I’ve lately become addicted to iSketch. And I’ve tried so hard to like Feedly, but it’s just not quite there yet. It’s a little buggy, and the usability a little low. And the fact that it only works with Firefox 3 is a little pointless. What it’s not little on though is the layout, throw in a couple of themes or some customisation options and I’m there.

I watched The Edge of Love yesterday. With a review of the movie saying ‘Like The Atonement but better’ you’re probably wondering why I saw this movie. Or the fact that I actually paid to see this movie. What can I say, it was that time of the month when there’s nothing good on. And even though I’ve never watched The Atonement, I can bet that it’s probably exactly like The Edge Of Love. Love story during the war. And that’s all there is to it.
But movies that I do want to see that aren’t out yet: Hancock and Wanted.
And movies that I want to see that have been out for ages but haven’t gotten around to seeing them yet: Juno and Shrek 3.

Might as well get the exam mentioning over and done with then. Exams are over! No more earthquake case studies, cloning, genetic stuff, or analysing the book that shall not be named on this blog, ever again. And, most importantly, no more having to refer to myself as a number. Too bad I didn’t get a candidate number like 24601. But I probably would’ve had songs going through my head instead of concentrating on the exam, so maybe that’s a good thing.
There is one thing that’s been bugging me though. And if anyone’s got an answer then please enlighten me. It’s to do with Biology and cloning. Ok, so I was reading about the advantages and disadvantages of cloning. One of the advantages was something about it being used to bring back extinct animals and stuff like that. But what’s got me is why would you want to bring back extinct animals? They’re extinct for a reason. So if you’re going to bring them back to life, they’re just going to die again. And even if they didn’t die, what will happen? If they want to bring back, I don’t know let’s say, dinosaurs, dodo birds, mammoths, or one of those massive, scary extinct fish, then what will they do with them? Keep them in a ‘You thought they were extinct, but now they’re back and ready to kill’ zoo? I’d like to keep my encounters with prehistoric animals to a minimum thank you very much. Preferably just through books and the internet, where the risk of getting my little finger bitten off is not very likely. I like my little finger just the way it is.

Anyway, it’s that time of the month. No, not that time of the month. That would be weird. And I wouldn’t mention it here of all places. No, it’s that other time of the month. The time of the month where I put new music on my iPod. The reason I’m doing it now is because my cousin’s iTunes library is just screaming at me saying, ‘Look! Music! Take!’ So I listen, and proceed to scour through the thousands of songs. After said scouring, I have chosen to take: Death Cab for Cutie, Alex Nackman, Taking Back Sunday, Motion City Soundtrack, Copeland and Starting Line. So that’s that with that iTunes library. What I also need to add is Colbie Caillat, Missy Higgins, KT Tunstall’s new album, One Republic, Boyce Avenue, Jason Mraz’s new album, Marty Casey & The Lovehammers, and P.O.D., some time in the near future. Anything else I should be listening to at the moment? I’m always very behind on these kinds of things.

I accidentally typed in ‘pof’ in Google when I was searching for P.O.D. Do you know what the first result is for ‘pof’? Plenty of Fish. No joke. And what’s weirder, it’s a dating site. I guess they really liked the saying ‘There are plenty of fish in the sea’. Yeh it took me a while to link it up with that. I was just wondering why anyone would go on a dating website called ‘Plenty of Fish’.

The internet now in handy book form! I totally have this book.

Well, that’s it. Holiday’s are officially over for me.

I’m wondering when this Facebook chat thing is going to come my way. Some people already have it, why not me? I’m only curious. It’s not like I’m actually going to use the damn thing. It’s almost as if the internet wants me to re-live my MSN days of pointless conversation. How kind. There better be some way to disable it. At least with the MySpace IM they gave you a choice of downloading a piece of software to put it to work.

I go on random visits to DeviantArt every once in a while. I always like to see art that other people have done. I also came across this website, it’s a ‘Digital Art Community’. The title pretty much speaks for itself.

Jason Mraz has a new video for his song ‘I’m Yours’. It’s from his new album ‘We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things’ out 13th May, which features James Morrison and Colbie Caillat – the girl who sang this nice little song.

I want to get one of those small mp3 players. Like one of those that holds 1000 songs or something. iPods are great and all but going for a run, skating, even cycling, I hate having this huge bulge in my pocket. And I tend to wear slightly baggy trousers, so especially when running, it kinda pulls my trousers down. I know, I know, wear a belt. But my trousers don’t have one of those put-your-belt-through-here places, so it’s not as easy as it seems. Anyway, yeh, so I want one of those small mp3 players. Which means I’ll have to save up some of my non-existent pocket money. I wonder what the cheapest one I can find is…

You wish you could swim in a pool of chocolate, but really, when you think about it…no.

It surprises me how computer illiterate some people can be. Especially when it comes to some of my friends, and that just scares me. For instance, some of them don’t even know what an internet browser is. No joke. And they also didn’t know that you had to pay for software. The only thing my friends use a computer for is for 2 things: Facebook (or MySpace) and one of those annoying celebrity news websites like the one for heat magazine or something (which is not worthy of a link in this post). I..I..I just don’t get it. Why?!
So, here’s the plan. We’re all going to stake out their house for a bit, and wait till no one’s at home. Then we proceed to invade their houses, take their computers (maybe take some bananas from the fruit bowl while we’re at it – espionage/burglary makes you hungry) and get them back to my place ASAP. Then I can have, not only dual monitors, but a hundred million monitors. Then we can all contribute to the ‘two charity fund’ so that she can get new video cards and more RAM. Heck, I think we need just need to get a whole new, more powerful computer to handle this lot.

So since YouTube has taken the liberty to include more statistics about your videos, I’ve taken the liberty to see more statistics about my videos. There seem to be a lot of people in Alaska who watch my videos…probably due to the fact it’s in North America, so really, maybe no one in Alaska watched my videos. But, there are people from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Turkey, Mexico who have watched them. So, in theory, what these ’statistics’ are saying, is that surely there must be some easier way to take over the world. What, so all we need is some brainwashing type video, and it’s in the bag. Never say never guys.

I feel like making another video. I should do some photoshopping but the ideas aren’t really flowing so well with that. Oh and, Adobe Illustrator has/more-like-is-going-to become my new best friend. I might use Word Play by Jason Mraz for that video. Maybe. I need an upbeat song. Valerie seems pretty good. But I don’t think I can stand Amy Winehouse’s voice for the length of editing a video. I might not photoshop something, but I might go and use Illustrator later on. Need to learn how to use that properly as well. Should add it to the To-Do list. But I’m too lazy to find clips for that video. No, I’m not going to tell what the video’s about yet. Because it might not happen, depending on if I can actually get a proper idea going. I’m jumping sentences like crazy. Did you get all of that? Hmm. Well I think I’ll stick with the video idea for now. Might have to go in search of clips from YouTube. I’m beginning to wonder if this idea is actually plausible. What I need is a professional camera crew, some actors, and a couple of nice settings. Yeh, never going to happen. I’ll see what I can do.

Have a nice day people.

Ok, so just so you know. The title of these posts are going to be songs I’m listening to. Just because…just because I can’t think of anything better.

Let’s see, today, went to school, found out some people say that GAP or The GAP (whatever suits you), stands for Gay And Proud. No one ever told me that. So I’ve just been completely oblivious all my life. But it would be funny if it was true though.
What else? Oh, the Oscars were on, what was it, last night? Who knows. To be honest, I struggle sitting through whole movies, so I didn’t see any of the movies that were actually nominated. I’m sure they were good enough to be nominated right? So people won, people lost. It’s funny seeing people’s reactions when they lose though. Some people can look really pissed off.
Jon Stewart hosted. He can be funny sometimes, I have to admit. He played Wii for a bit.
Tina Fey hosted SNL as well last night/weekend, I don’t know when. She’s funny to.
I seem very American right now. Next thing you know I’ll be talking about all the Presidential Candidates.

So how about that Barack Obama vs. Hillary Clinton thing? I don’t have much of an opinion on it/don’t really know anything about it to form a sensible argument for one or the other. I’ll be happy just as long as a democrat wins.
Oh and, is it just me, or whenever you hear the name John McCain you think of John McClane. You know ‘Die Hard’ John McClane. He’d be a funny president.