The Art Con

Do you ever wonder why bird’s poo is black and white? Don’t laugh, I’m being serious. Ok, so this is gross and weird and you’re probably thinking why I’m talking about something like this and how on earth I managed to start thinking about it. But I did. I was just walking back from school and it just pooped popped into my head. Cheap joke I know, so I appreciate anyone who just snickered at that. Anyway, it’s just this kind of thing has never occurred to me before. I mean, why should it? I don’t eat it, I don’t pay attention to it, I don’t..use it in any way. It just doesn’t affect me in my every day life. So why think about it? Why, from the 5 minute walk from the bus stop to my house on the way home from school does this whole thought process occur:
*As I’m walking, looks on ground and sees a big patch of bird poo, or ‘faeces’ if you must be so scientifically correct* Why is it black and white? Or is that grey? I swear animals’ poo is usually brown. Think about it, dogs, elephants, cats. Well, I don’t know about cats. Camels’ is. Or maybe that was slightly green. I can’t remember. They showed it on Spy Kids 2. Why did I watch Spy Kids 2? What about dinosaurs? Did they ever show their poo in Jurassic Park? They probably did. Why do birds have to be so different? Why does it have to be black and white? What, so they eat bread and… I don’t what they eat. I’m no bird. It’s so weird that it’s black and white. *And I arrive home*
Anyway, I was just thinking. That’s what happens when I start thinking.

I once got paid to run around and eat crisps. Quite a good job if you ask me. I was 5, 7, who knows. But the thing is, I got paid. I don’t know how much but it’s certainly more then I’m making now. So I was in Madame Butterfly at the ENO. I used to know every tube stop from my station to Leicester Square. And Mornington Crescent was always closed. Now it’s open and the excitement’s been killed for me. So some casting person came to my little itty bitty junior school and somehow I ended up in a frickin’ opera. They needed kids that looked remotely Asian to come and play the parts, so I was a Chinese kid playing a Japanese wedding child. Let’s face it, it’s not like anyone was going to notice the difference. But no singing, just running around and well, eating crisps. It was fun. I had to wear this 5 million layer dress though. Ok, so in reality it was around 3. But I hate wearing dresses so 1 is more then enough. The funny thing is though, is that, if I were to do that now, I’d be scared shitless to run out to an audience like that. Nerves and all. But, you just don’t get that as a kid. I remember the first night, ran through the door out on to the stage and there were hundreds of little heads all looking at me. Well not me me, but the general stage area. Which included me. But for a split second all I thought was, ‘Oh. Cool’ and then started running around like a headless chicken. Those were the good old days. Life was simple, crisps were good, and I don’t remember a single song in that show.

So we all know abour the Asus Eee PC. If you haven’t then surely you must be living in a bubble (what’s it like?). It’s ridiculously cheap, tiny, with crap memory and other hardware specs all around. You get what you pay for right? Buut, it’s amazing and I want one. I don’t need one. I just want one. Therefore, I’m not getting on.

More to the point though, so with Asus releasing this it means other companies e.g Dell have got to start lowering their prices to. What with competitive markets and all. Enter this little beauty: the Dell’s 9 inch ‘Eee PC killer’ as they like to call it. It’s just wow. Don’t know any info on it whasoever. But it looks pweety and is gonna cost a lot. I want that one to. Mini Windows, mini Linux, it’s all so sweet.

Are all leprechauns gay? I was just wondering. Travelling by rainbow and all.

In to making videos? YouTube’s got a nifty new feature called ‘Video Annotations’. User interaction with videos. Magic tricks, shell games. I can actually seeing this coming in handy for some people who’ll make something creative out of it. And I don’t mean the ‘Pick a card from these six cards. Hide cards, 5 cards reappear. Oh look yours is gone’ trick. Oh, I wonder how you managed to do that. You are a great video magician. Wow, I’m going to buy your t-shirt. Oh. There is no t-shirt. Regardless of played out magic tricks, it’s got potential. And I will probably never bother to try it out. Probably.

So I’m a day late in saying this, I realise, but wasn’t planning on blogging yesterday, so deal with it. YouTube’s recently been slowly developing their layout. Now it was time for one of their more obvious changes. The video pages are a little snazzier with tabs where they make it oh so much more easier to share on websites such as MySpace, Facebook, and Digg. There’s also an extra ‘Statistics & Data’ tab. But it doesn’t display anything new – as in, all the information it says was already there before the makeover.
Active sharing is, I’m guessing, officially out. That is, you don’t have to go to TestTube anymore to get to it. I wonder when all the others will be ‘ready’. They’ve just been sitting there for an awfully long time. ‘Streams’ seem like a cool feature though, and I can see that one working out fairly nicely…if only for popular videos, in order to get some good conversations going.

‘Six Awesome Ways To Learn About Music (While Listening To It)’ (@Mashable)

Clearing some space on your computer (Windows people only. Sorry Macs and Linux people. Especially Macs. Linux people probably couldn’t care less about this though):
Ok, so there’s the usual ‘Disk Cleanup’ and the ‘Disk Defragmenter’, that cleans the computer up a bit. Then you’ve got freeware (yay, freeware) like the CCleaner, aka Crap Cleaner, where that will get rid of even more useless junk. Here’s something else for you to try. Go to your ‘Command Prompt’ (if Vista, right-click and click on ‘Run as Administrator’ type ‘vssadmin List ShadowStorage’. Next to ‘Used Shadow Copy Storage space’ there may or may not be a big number. I had about 25GB. But if there is a big number go ahead and run ‘Disk Cleanup’ go to the ‘More Options’ tab, under ‘System Restore and Shadow Copies’ you can get rid of that 25GB easy as pie by clicking ‘Clean up’. Now I have 25 gigs free again.
(Shadow copies are just old ‘restore points’ so if your computer’s running normally now, then it should be fine to just delete your old restore points up until your most recent one. Besides, they take up a lot of space).

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See the line. Yeh, that one ^ up there. That will from now on signify end of boring internet computer talk. So if you can’t be arsed to ever read that, then you can just skip to down here. Sometimes the line might never appear, which means it will just be me babbling as usual, talking about nothing interesting. Might save you some time. I know how everyone likes to be ‘efficient and productive’ these days.

So it’s the weekend once again. I have a nectarine and a 1/4 filled cup of juice left to finish off.
I wrote out my GCSE timetable with pretty little felt-tip coloured pens. And then after, I saw that my hands ended up getting covered in said pretty little felt-tip coloured pens. I don’t really know how that was possible, but whatever pen I write with, I somehow always get it on my hands. Biros, highlighters, gel pens, fountain pens, even pencils – you name it, it’s been on my hands.

There are times where I wish we could embed pictures on blogs *cough* *hint* *angelic smile* Unless it’s been changed, but last time I checked it was a no go. [Edit: Oh wait, it does work. My bad. Gotta test that out tomorrow then.]
I always wonder who gets to read this before I get a chance to quickly edit it and correct stupid mistakes, in other words links gone wrong. That must be fun for them to read. Oh those lucky few.

I was just looking around my room and my eyes wondered up on to the top bookshelf. Oh look, old Sea Monkeys Container. And if you don’t know what Sea Monkeys are, then…you are crazy mad…I don’t know what you are, but you’ve missed out. I l-o-v’d them when I was a kid. Then 1 or 2 years ago, when a new girl came into my year, we got them again just for fun. They are the coolest thing ever. Fascinating little creatures I tell you. I should get some more when it’s the Summer holidays. Ah, memories.
Gots to go’s now. Dinners times yous sees.

Never leave a chocolate cake unattended in the presence of anyone. You will never see it again. Then, demand that someone buy you another one. With a cookie on the side. Can’t forget the cookie – it’s all about bargaining.

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.

This morning I was HIGH HIGH HIGH. Now I’m feeling the low low low. I think I’m having an endorphin crash. It’s like a sugar low, but no sugar.
So I woke up at 6am this morning. 6. On a Saturday. To go play netball. Sounds fun doesn’t it? And you know how doing sport releases endorphins, well, I was all hyper earlier in the day.
Now. Now I’m just tired. And my brain is mush. So, in theory, I should have posted earlier. But I had to have my lunch, plus 2 sandwiches, a mini box of mangoes, and a KitKat. My hands were full. Then I watched a bit of S.W.A.T and then all of a sudden, it was dinner time. No time I tell you, no time.

But I’m here now, so all is well.
If you ever consider storing your bookmarks online, don’t use del.icio.us or Google Bookmarks. It will just bring you stress and bad layouts. Give Netvouz a try first ok? Pretty please. Your life will be happy and free with that website.

Easiest Another way of getting a video off of YouTube or more or less any video website? Watch the video. Get into your internet cache, order it so the biggest files are at the top. The biggest one will normally be the video you just watched. Drag the file on to your desktop. Stick .flv on to the end of your video title and play the video with the VLC player or The KMPlayer. Simple. If you don’t know how to get into your internet cache folder then google it. You must learn on your own my young pad one.

These people are amazing dancers.

I’ve heard that there will be a season 6 for The L Word. Although, I wouldn’t hold your breath. This is nothing official. But apparently it’s only going to have 8 episodes. Guess we’ll still have to wait until it’s confirmed.
Jennifer Beals is attending the L5 convention.
Sarah Shahi has pulled out of the L4 convention, with Lauren ‘Sous Chef’ Lee Smith replacing her.

Did you know that this is the longest blog I’ve ever kept? Maybe it’s because it’s only my second ever attempt at keeping a blog. Maybe. But still, 11 posts so far compared to 3 on the first one.

I like bananas, but this one scares me a little.

Whether it’s fruit or chocolate that floats your boat, the Geobar has it all. Juicy South African raisins and golden honey kick-start a flavour-burst infused with the smooth taste of sensuous chocolate.
Really? I didn’t really taste that when I ate one. It just tasted like any other cereal bar frankly enough. It’s still nice though. I’ve got a box of Chocolate & Raisin ones. It’s also supposedly ‘fairtrade’. Supposedly. Because no one can really trust them to be telling the truth.

Andy Murray beat Federer at the Dubai Championship, first round. People, we have a decent tennis player.

YouTube’s got a new beta where you can get your own homepage where it’ll show stuff like recommended videos for you, based on your favourites. There’s also stuff like the latest from any subscriptions you have, featured videos etc. It claims that you can ‘customize’ it but I clicked on it, and you can hardly call that customzing. Just a couple of tick boxes with what you want to show up.

So I hurt my finger today. It keeps on clicking whenever I bend it. At least I can still type.
I also always think ’scientifical’ is a real word. I literally use it all the time. But then someone pointed out that it was just ’scientific’. Clearly, they have no imagination.

Contemplating whether or not I should start watching Skins. Feel free to tell me yes or no. Because I have some people telling me it’s really good, and then other people telling me it’s really bad. I’m torn.

I made a wallet out of duct tape. It was … semi-successful. Now I just use it as a door stop – one day my dad oiled my door (can’t really remember why) and now it just shuts all by itself whenever you try and keep it open. So that was handy, even though it’s not being used for its acutal purpose.
You can make anything out of duct tape. Wallets, bags, clothes, hats, bottle holder, elbow rester, pen box, blindfold, blanket, double-side it and stick it on your hands and feet and you can be spiderman, photo frame, pendulum, hammock, just tape. Anything.