"What did you say?" I asked my sister when she mentioned the word I have used for todays blog.
"Warm ups," she repeated more slowly.
This is what happens when you're distracted and your sub conscience goes wandering through the halls of entertainment memories. See, although I've done enough "warm ups" in my time to know exactly what they tend to consist of (strange games, physicality and peculiar phrases among other things), when I heard "warmups" I instantly thought Sister Dear had said War Mups. And I was thinking: what on earth is a War Mup? The famous Miss Piggy dressed up in camouflage? Kermit planning strategic moves against some unknown Entertainment Enemy? Possibly the most interesting thing is that both my sister and I can imagine it.
Then again, we both have rather interesting imaginations.
No comments for yesterdays blog, so I'm trying hard not to feel dejected. Or perhaps my target audience is not available in this time slot and I should try my own strategic moves to an earlier time. It could also be an advertising issue, so maybe I should also try posting promotional tag-lines all over the web.
Then again, it's all good in the land of warmups.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Law ya?
The law is a very tricksy thing. Not only can it be dry and difficult for the unsuspecting student (or citizen) to understand but, once you get past all the jargon, it can still seem alien. After spending the majority of my day looking at defamation, I now have two-thirds of an essay done and feel safe in posting social commentary online because I can talk the talk.I've also spent a good few hours reading over defamation cases in Australia and separating the relevant rulings from the irrelevant ones.
Until 2006, each state and territory in Australia had different defamation laws. People could actually go from state to state with their defamation cases to get the best deal (a technique known as forum shopping). The new laws promote settling defamation outside court, and while this is great legally, academically it can be a pain. Sifting through previous cases, trying to find relevant proceedings is rather tiresome when you have to check what state you're dealing with and whether the ruling would be applicable under the new laws. Still, at least I know I'm safer with the new Defamation Act 2005, right?
I'd like to thank Josie and Sam for being fantastic people...and for commenting on my first blog post.
"Now does your pineapple have anything to do with Will Warring? cos seriously its funny."
Actually my pineapple originated from a classroom back in high school. We were studying this great film, and we had to perform monologues from one of three characters. One of my friends, incredibly organised as he was, got up and did his whole performance about the punchline of a joke in the film. To this day I don't know what the whole joke was, but his performance struck me as amusing and it's stayed with me ever since. Then I found out from Sister Dear that William Waring (a Vancouver-based director and camera operator) tried to get pineapples into the background of Stargate SG-1. So now pineapples have become an ongoing theme of mine. Plus they look cool.
Until tomorrow, fare ye well.
Until 2006, each state and territory in Australia had different defamation laws. People could actually go from state to state with their defamation cases to get the best deal (a technique known as forum shopping). The new laws promote settling defamation outside court, and while this is great legally, academically it can be a pain. Sifting through previous cases, trying to find relevant proceedings is rather tiresome when you have to check what state you're dealing with and whether the ruling would be applicable under the new laws. Still, at least I know I'm safer with the new Defamation Act 2005, right?
I'd like to thank Josie and Sam for being fantastic people...and for commenting on my first blog post.
"Now does your pineapple have anything to do with Will Warring? cos seriously its funny."
Actually my pineapple originated from a classroom back in high school. We were studying this great film, and we had to perform monologues from one of three characters. One of my friends, incredibly organised as he was, got up and did his whole performance about the punchline of a joke in the film. To this day I don't know what the whole joke was, but his performance struck me as amusing and it's stayed with me ever since. Then I found out from Sister Dear that William Waring (a Vancouver-based director and camera operator) tried to get pineapples into the background of Stargate SG-1. So now pineapples have become an ongoing theme of mine. Plus they look cool.
Until tomorrow, fare ye well.
Friday, September 28, 2007
My first post.
The impact the internet has on people's lifestyles has become even more interesting to me after three days without wireless internet access.
The first day mildly annoyed me, but by last night I was going slightly crazy from trying to multi-task on dial up internet. Not exactly the best thing to do. But now, thanks to The Tall House Mate Who Knows Stuff About the Internet, we are back in broadband business.
Still, the fact that three days made such a difference surprised me. Before we were on wireless today, I felt as though doing my assignment without having online references (and procrastination devices) at the tips of my fingers would be like working in an unknown age with far less technology. I didn't even realise how dependent on online news, discussion boards, databases, academic sites and blogs I had become. It seems strange.
And the irony of this lack of realisation is that I have done a number of different university assignments relating to new technology, the majority of which dealt with the internet in some form. And I tend to do well on those assignments. Indeed, my major investigation this semester is about online forms of entertainment. But none of this added up to the realisation of society's reliance on the web.
It took an absence of easy internet access to point out the obvious. And on top of the irony of all this, the fact that it was a lack of something which helped me define the importance of the internet in communication on a personal level proves postmodernism really does have some sort of place in contemporary society.
An apt way to start this blog, I suppose.
The first day mildly annoyed me, but by last night I was going slightly crazy from trying to multi-task on dial up internet. Not exactly the best thing to do. But now, thanks to The Tall House Mate Who Knows Stuff About the Internet, we are back in broadband business.
Still, the fact that three days made such a difference surprised me. Before we were on wireless today, I felt as though doing my assignment without having online references (and procrastination devices) at the tips of my fingers would be like working in an unknown age with far less technology. I didn't even realise how dependent on online news, discussion boards, databases, academic sites and blogs I had become. It seems strange.
And the irony of this lack of realisation is that I have done a number of different university assignments relating to new technology, the majority of which dealt with the internet in some form. And I tend to do well on those assignments. Indeed, my major investigation this semester is about online forms of entertainment. But none of this added up to the realisation of society's reliance on the web.
It took an absence of easy internet access to point out the obvious. And on top of the irony of all this, the fact that it was a lack of something which helped me define the importance of the internet in communication on a personal level proves postmodernism really does have some sort of place in contemporary society.
An apt way to start this blog, I suppose.
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