I'm going to India!

True, the quality is pretty bad. So I'm not a Photoshop expert (also, I stole this from somewhere else). I'll spell it out for you:

Steve Jobs: Remember when we were poor?

Bill Gates: No.

Steve Jobs: Me neither.

Laughter ensues.


(Unrelated?): I'm going to India!

I do it for the lulz

Sometimes I do stupid things on the internet. No, not those kinds of stupid things. That's gross. I'll give you a for instance. For instance, sometimes I go onto Omegle and talk to strangers. For the most part, these strangers are stupid and are asking for things that I am unwilling to give them. That's gross. Sometimes I talk to people who are interesting. Like this 17 year old girl in Pennsylvania who is just starting to question the faith in which she was raised. That's interesting.

If you type "I did it for the lulz" into Google, some ridiculous things come up. Some people can't understand how someone like myself could spend hours on the internet. I don't like to go into details, because it's usually really stupid.

Sometimes they're funny

Facebook Blows

To find out who my real friends are, I don't publish my birthday on Facebook. Turns out I don't have any real friends. (The graph below is not representative of my page).

What now, Harper?

Blogging is hard. Or, taking the time to blog is hard. And yeah, I have ideas about posts, but I feel like many of them deserve some careful crafting, some element of wit and humour. Things that I can't just pull out of my...fingers...in five minutes or less, unless I'm really on the ball. And honestly, how often does that happen?

For written items that don't require lengthy consideration, I turn to the news. I like the news, a lot. I like voting on news items, and I like reading people's comments. I rarely comment myself, but I certainly have thoughts and opinions on many of the articles I read. And if I use this blog to publish fully-legitimate to semi-legitimate to fully-illegitimate thoughts on news items, I will become incredibly popular, and will be able to turn to blogging full time as my livelihood.

News item #1: Gordon Brown (Labour) resigns as British PM, David Cameron (Conservatives) takes over. The best part about this is that Cameron will form a "proper and full coalition" with the third place party, Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats. But wait! Didn't the Liberals, the Bloc and NDP threaten to form a coalition back in the Winter of 2008? Didn't Harper call such an unlikely alliance a deal between separatists and socialists?

If it's one thing Canada's Conservatives do well, it's communicate. Mostly their messages are hate filled and nasty, but are they ever effective. And that, I would argue, is what the bulk of politics is about. Their communications team seems to be immediately all over any problem and always seems to manage to spin it away from Dear Leader. Turning the coalition into a nasty separatist/socialist hybrid beast didn't help it's chances of surviving. It also didn't help of course, that Harper had won the most votes and so really had won the right to govern. With Cameron on top, but not on top enough to form the government alone, he's trying to forge an unlikely alliance. It's nice to see a right of centre leader who is able to contain his propaganda in favour of a potentially effective coalition. Maybe coalitions aren't the devil after all? Time will tell...

News item #2: The Habs play Pittsburgh tomorrow in game 7 of a tight series. Despite my Canadian-ness, I am cheering for the Pens all the way. I will be momentarily upset if they lose tomorrow. Sidney Crosby is amazing. So is Malkin.

News item #3: Helena Guergis is back in the news, and I stopped reading about her/her whining and the Conservatives total dismissal of one of their own. (Again with the communications). What I want to say about this is that the website where I read most of my Canadian news frequently publishes pictures of her that are quite unfavorable. I think it's too bad.

News item #4: Apparently the World Cup is a big deal. Who knew?

Happy Star Wars Day! (apparently)