So the new facebook stalking app. If you don't know what it is you load it up, it scans though your page views and somehow works out who has been looking at your page. At first I must admit I was slightly concerned that a bunch of people would jump to the conclusion that, because I am on facebook A LOT and on top of that I seem to click to the page of anyone who has done anything on my feed or has even been tagged in the photo album of anyone else on my feed, I would probably be near the top of a lot of peoples stalker rankings. I mean the concerns are obvious, people are going to jump to a lot of wrong conclusions upon being told you are stalking them. I don't think someone being under the impression you are stalking them is a situation anyone wants.
As it turns out I need not have worried because once I found out who my stalker were I suddenly realised I could find out who everyone else's stalkers were and, with the exception of a couple of people, everyone else seems to be stalking me far more than I'm stalking them! What a fantastic situation to be in. I mean what can be better than finding out that scientifically people care about you way more than you care about them? Not a lot!
On the other hand it could just be that other people are having way more page views than I am...
Seriously though check it out: http://apps.facebook.com/stalkercheck/ and a big up to my top 10 stalkers: Jenny, Robert, Jack, Vanessa, Chris, Dylan, Lisa, Alex, Amy and Hazel. If you're not on the list you obviously just aren't paying enough attention to my thrilling life!
Friday, 31 July 2009
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
Kangarat Murder Society
Two post in less than a week! I know it's whack! Buy also funky fresh. Do you remember when people used to say stuff like that on TV and things? I'm pretty sure they did anyway, back when you used to get the internet on free AOL CDs. I really do think the internet on CDs is the defining part of the generation that grew up in the 90s. That and Kenan and Kel.
First off: liking things for no real good reason. This follows on from the cricket things before, no reason to like it but apparently I do? I then realised on Sunday evening that there was another similar one. Why do I like Top Gear? I can't drive so really there isn't anything in it that should appeal to me all that much. And that goes for the Formula 1 too, for basically the same reason. Not that I'm going to change anything just because I don't know why I like things, if I like stuff I guess that's a good enough reason yeah? Maybe I'm just being overly analytical.
THE NEXT PARAGRAPH GETS PRETTY NERDY SO YOU CAN SKIP IT IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT MY OPINIONS ON VIDEOGAMES (though I talk about other stuff too)
Following on from another previous post (the one about piracy and how much society sucks), I have finally bought Alpha Centuri. Yes despite what I said I didn't get it illegally but bought it in an actual shop instead. The way the problem was solved was to split the £10 for 3 games deal between me and Greg, and for two of these actually buy collections of games in one box. Including the Alpha Centuri expansion pack we got like 8 games cheap and terrible for a tenner! Also although it is a pretty great game I kind of feel I might have been looking at it through rose tinted glasses as I have got bored of it pretty quickly. On the other hand this seems to happen for most of the hundreds of games I have bought over the years. Which kind of suggest Capitalism may have won again. But one of these days Capitalism, one of these days!
OKAY VIDEOGAME CHAT IS OVER NEXT I TALK ABOUT MUSIC (but I get pretty grumpy)
On the radio recently they have been playing Simian Mobile Discos new single. A lot. I don't have a problem with them, they have a cool name, but their new single is atrocious. It is a song which contains such awe inspiring lyrics as "I got that grape kool-aid filled swimming pool", "I got that Tammy Faye milk money butterscotch" and "I got that honey-dipped tennis wear just for play" amongst many more. I will be honest I don't know what any of that means and I don't give a flying fuck what ridiculous shit this man has. I hope it is funny and he is taking the piss out of rap or something (I like rap though, don't assume I don't like rap), but guessing by the way he is singing it he is serious about this shit. If you do know what any of that stuff he sings about means, keeps it to yourself and feel ashamed.
Right okay I am calm now and so it's time for good music talk. I have been listening to this song a lot: which is apparently over a year old but I missed somehow? I just really like it though I'm not too keen on much of the other stuff by the band. I think I've been listening to quite a lot of music a bit like this recently though. I've got no real idea what the genre is. I heard indie folk rock suggested somewhere but I don't think that works and really I just thought I'd mention it because it sounds hilarious and takes the squashing two genres together to make a new one to a fantastic new level. If you have any idea of the genre or other music I might like based on that tell me about it!
Also I am thinking about starting a petition to replace Ode to Joy with Europe Endless by Kraftwerk as the EU anthem.
Okay well I'm tired now and I've sort of lost my train of thought as to where I was going next with this (and it's probably long enough already), no doubt you will see whatever I was thinking of next time I post something.
First off: liking things for no real good reason. This follows on from the cricket things before, no reason to like it but apparently I do? I then realised on Sunday evening that there was another similar one. Why do I like Top Gear? I can't drive so really there isn't anything in it that should appeal to me all that much. And that goes for the Formula 1 too, for basically the same reason. Not that I'm going to change anything just because I don't know why I like things, if I like stuff I guess that's a good enough reason yeah? Maybe I'm just being overly analytical.
THE NEXT PARAGRAPH GETS PRETTY NERDY SO YOU CAN SKIP IT IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT MY OPINIONS ON VIDEOGAMES (though I talk about other stuff too)
Following on from another previous post (the one about piracy and how much society sucks), I have finally bought Alpha Centuri. Yes despite what I said I didn't get it illegally but bought it in an actual shop instead. The way the problem was solved was to split the £10 for 3 games deal between me and Greg, and for two of these actually buy collections of games in one box. Including the Alpha Centuri expansion pack we got like 8 games cheap and terrible for a tenner! Also although it is a pretty great game I kind of feel I might have been looking at it through rose tinted glasses as I have got bored of it pretty quickly. On the other hand this seems to happen for most of the hundreds of games I have bought over the years. Which kind of suggest Capitalism may have won again. But one of these days Capitalism, one of these days!
OKAY VIDEOGAME CHAT IS OVER NEXT I TALK ABOUT MUSIC (but I get pretty grumpy)
On the radio recently they have been playing Simian Mobile Discos new single. A lot. I don't have a problem with them, they have a cool name, but their new single is atrocious. It is a song which contains such awe inspiring lyrics as "I got that grape kool-aid filled swimming pool", "I got that Tammy Faye milk money butterscotch" and "I got that honey-dipped tennis wear just for play" amongst many more. I will be honest I don't know what any of that means and I don't give a flying fuck what ridiculous shit this man has. I hope it is funny and he is taking the piss out of rap or something (I like rap though, don't assume I don't like rap), but guessing by the way he is singing it he is serious about this shit. If you do know what any of that stuff he sings about means, keeps it to yourself and feel ashamed.
Right okay I am calm now and so it's time for good music talk. I have been listening to this song a lot: which is apparently over a year old but I missed somehow? I just really like it though I'm not too keen on much of the other stuff by the band. I think I've been listening to quite a lot of music a bit like this recently though. I've got no real idea what the genre is. I heard indie folk rock suggested somewhere but I don't think that works and really I just thought I'd mention it because it sounds hilarious and takes the squashing two genres together to make a new one to a fantastic new level. If you have any idea of the genre or other music I might like based on that tell me about it!
Also I am thinking about starting a petition to replace Ode to Joy with Europe Endless by Kraftwerk as the EU anthem.
Okay well I'm tired now and I've sort of lost my train of thought as to where I was going next with this (and it's probably long enough already), no doubt you will see whatever I was thinking of next time I post something.
Sunday, 19 July 2009
My Mind is a Tapestry of Filth
Wow I haven't made a post in ages but I figure enough time has passed to have built up some major material, also I did think up a load of topics between then (the Special K one) and now but they are now totally lost to the mists of time.
Yesterday I saw a Falcon and a Hawk. Bird's of prey are pretty badass and though I kind of worry that for thinking that thinking this brings me dangerously close to the demographic who would wear wolfshirts this it is a risk I am willing to take. I also figure thinking they are are cool might be in the genetics, because I do have a relative who paints brilliant pictures of birds and who keeps a bunch of birds of prey too (my sort of cousin who goes to oxford actually has a pet falcon which I think makes him like some sort of awesome Harry Potter). But yeah anyway my awesome falconry experience was at the village carnival which was pretty much the same as every village fair ever (old ladies selling cake, old ladies selling arts and crafts, old men running crooked coconut shys) apart from it had some birds of prey flying round terrify children and eating bits of mice. One dissapointing moment was when it attacked a toy rabbit instead of child who was dragging it or the chihuahua which was yapping behind me.
Another majorly dissapointing thing that happened recently was that my good friend Greg beat me to the the block on two awesome t-shirts. I can honestly not express the disgust this has caused. One t-shirt is bad enough but two is too far, so I now don't have a t-shirt with a robot or a t-shirt with a dude riding a dinosaur. I find it difficult to see how our friendship can survive such dreadful events and I mourn the t-shirts lost.
Some great stuff has been happening though, Me and Thuy have booked our flights for Croatia which I am really looking forward to and a country I have wanted to visit for ages, though I still have to wait 2 months before it happens! It also means I've given up on attempting to learn dutch and witched my focus to croatian for a while, which is hard as it seems like a cross between welsh, russian and klingon. Other stuff I have been up to is trying to remember how to play the keyboard (harder that I remember) and also kind of bizarely, watching cricket. It may be just because we are winning for once but I like to think I'm not that fickle but I guess we'll see when I change to thinking that it's a really boring sport again once Australia wins.
Oh yeah and once again I promise to update more in the future.
Yesterday I saw a Falcon and a Hawk. Bird's of prey are pretty badass and though I kind of worry that for thinking that thinking this brings me dangerously close to the demographic who would wear wolfshirts this it is a risk I am willing to take. I also figure thinking they are are cool might be in the genetics, because I do have a relative who paints brilliant pictures of birds and who keeps a bunch of birds of prey too (my sort of cousin who goes to oxford actually has a pet falcon which I think makes him like some sort of awesome Harry Potter). But yeah anyway my awesome falconry experience was at the village carnival which was pretty much the same as every village fair ever (old ladies selling cake, old ladies selling arts and crafts, old men running crooked coconut shys) apart from it had some birds of prey flying round terrify children and eating bits of mice. One dissapointing moment was when it attacked a toy rabbit instead of child who was dragging it or the chihuahua which was yapping behind me.
Another majorly dissapointing thing that happened recently was that my good friend Greg beat me to the the block on two awesome t-shirts. I can honestly not express the disgust this has caused. One t-shirt is bad enough but two is too far, so I now don't have a t-shirt with a robot or a t-shirt with a dude riding a dinosaur. I find it difficult to see how our friendship can survive such dreadful events and I mourn the t-shirts lost.
Some great stuff has been happening though, Me and Thuy have booked our flights for Croatia which I am really looking forward to and a country I have wanted to visit for ages, though I still have to wait 2 months before it happens! It also means I've given up on attempting to learn dutch and witched my focus to croatian for a while, which is hard as it seems like a cross between welsh, russian and klingon. Other stuff I have been up to is trying to remember how to play the keyboard (harder that I remember) and also kind of bizarely, watching cricket. It may be just because we are winning for once but I like to think I'm not that fickle but I guess we'll see when I change to thinking that it's a really boring sport again once Australia wins.
Oh yeah and once again I promise to update more in the future.
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