Month: August 2007

Categories
humour

Carolina bored of education

Maybe it’s something in the water. Maybe too much sun is killing their braincells but recent important news events have called into question the state of education in North Carolina and South Carolina. First there was this fluffy link from Damien Mulley. I know that beauty pageants don’t require mensa-level reasoning skills but listen to the attempts of this beauty pageant winner to answer a simple question a few times to gauge the sheer vacuousness.
Then there’s this link from El Reg.
This North Carolina kid tried to cool down his XBox 360 power supply unit (more on this later) by putting it in a basin of water, while it was plugged in. Luckily enough he’s still alive with only minor burns.

Categories
philosophy

Thought for the day

I started blogging to share some ideas, reach out into the void and perhaps try to fill one. There’s lots more to say but I’ve so little time to say it anymore. That’s not really a complaint, just an observation. I wonder what the blogging demographic is. The characteristics of the most prolific and compelling bloggers. It seems they’re looking for something. Perhaps the classic human “belonging” that drives us all. I wonder if they’re lonely…
One of the things that’s bothered me over the past few months is that I no longer feel free to blog about whatever comes to mind. I think what really bugged me was the call from the local radio station about my pre-election post. It all seemed to miss the point. I felt like I’d strayed from the cosy barnyard of my personal musings into the mass media zoo, all meaning lost in the journey.