Extreme Sheep LED Art

If you haven’t already seen this fabulous co-op of LED and herding genius, take a look at the video below. I can only imagine how much time, money and effort went into this production, and I really hope the sponsorship paid off for these guys.

Where do people come up with these ideas?

Slap Chop

Enjoy coleslaw, but don’t like chopping the vegetables? Hate chopping onions? Can’t do it without crying? You, me and about a million other people …

“as seen on TV”

TV ads are always claiming they have the solution!  A brand new product that they guarantee to be the easiest and quickest way to chop, slice, dice and grate. But I’m confident that the Slap Chop wins “hands down”, after seeing it in action:

Checkout the video below to see why I’m sold:

If you’re as keen as I am, then buy the Slap Chop now from Amazon:

Gossip Girl Season 1

Gossip Girl here….

I’ve been known to appreciate a few TV series that are probably aimed at a younger crowd….Gossip Girl is no exception. I’ve now seen seasons 1 and 2, and am hooked. It’s your usual teen drama, based in Manhattan, and revolving around the lives and dramas of a bunch of rich kids and a couple of not-so-rich kids who are immersed in the elite world of Manhattan’s upper class. With a gorgeous cast, you’ll want to watch even if it’s just for the eye-candy.

Want to know a secret? A really juicy secret?

Look no further than the latest message from Manhattan’s notorious blogger Gossip Girl. She keeps tabs on the city’s most elite teens as they make the rounds from the preppiest school events to the most lavish, decadent parties. And between Serena and Blair’s explosive friendship, Dan and Serena’s budding romance, Nate and Blair’s fairytale relationship (or is it?), Chuck’s escapades and Jenny’s introduction to the glamorous life, there’s a lot to track.

In this 5-disc, 18 episode Season One, friends, lovers, rivals and enemies abound. Even the darkest secrets don’t stay hidden for long. You know you love it.

X O X O

Buy Gossip Girl S1 from only $47.50 from www.fishpond.com.au – search below

 

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WHY GOD MADE MOTHERS

Why God made Mums — BRILLIANT Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions!!

Why did God make mothers?
1. She’s the only one who knows where the sticky tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring
3. God made my Mum just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men’s bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother & not some other Mum?
1. We’re related
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people’s mums like me.

What kind of little girl was your mum?
1. My mum has always been my mum and none of that other stuff.
2. I don’t know because I wasn’t there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

What did mum need to know about dad before she married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?
3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Why did your Mum marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mum eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that Mum didn’t have her thinking cap on.

Who’s the boss at your house?
1. Mum doesn’t want to be boss, but she has to because dad’s such a clot.
2. Mum. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess Mum is, but only because she has a lo t more to do than dad.

What’s the difference between mums & dads?
1. Mums work at work and work at home & dads just go to work at work.
2. Mums know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dad s are taller & stronger, but moms have all the real power ’cause that’s who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend’s.
4. Mums have magic; they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your mum do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don’t do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your mum perfect?
1. On the inside she’s already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know her hair. I’d diet, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your Mum, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I’d get rid of that.
2. I’d make my Mum smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.
3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.

Raincoats

For anyone who has ever wondered why raincoats are yellow….this should explain everthing!!!!

Puddles....yippeee

Gee, it's chilly out here...

Oh, I know why....I forgot my scarf!!!

Oh dear!!!!!

Are you colour blind?

Approx 20% of the white, male population and a tiny fraction of the female population are colour blind (Red-Green Colour Blindness being the most common).   Here’s a quick test to find out where you fit.

Take a look at the coloured circles below and see if you can identify the numbers contained within.  If you can correctly identify the numbers then you are not colour blind, and are considered to have normal colour vision. 

Below are the correct answers to what a person with normal color vision would see – and what most people with Red-Green color blindness see.   This may help you to understand why it’s so tough for colour blind people to find the right socks and why they like bright colors.

Normal Colour Vision

56               8
45               6
29               25

Red-Green Colour Blind

56               Spots
Spots         Spots
Spots         25

Here’s another simple test:

An individual with normal colour vision should see the number 5 emerge from the pattern, whereas an individual with red-green colour blindness should see the number 2.

*Please note that this is by no means a scientific exam and you should not take this information as gospel.  If you think you might be colour blind, you should see your GP and arrange for an eye exam.

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD

I’m not sure who’s the original author of this piece, but I really have to give them credit for a spectacularly hilarious rant, which all rings “oh so familiar” …oh yeah that’s right, this year I turn 30…OMG!!!!!

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When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning…Uphill…barefoot…BOTH ways!!!

Yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they’ve got it!

But now that… I’m over the ripe old age of thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!

And I hate to say it but you kids today you don’t know how good you’ve got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, We had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen!
…Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

There were no MP3’s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ’d usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

We didn’t have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that’s it!

And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn’t have any fancy Sony Playstation video Games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘asteroids’. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or Screens, it was just one screen. Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it Came to channel surfing! You had to get off your arse and walk over to the TV to change the Channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you Hear what I’m saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

And we didn’t have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove …. Imagine that!

That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You’re spoiled. You guys wouldn’t have lasted
five minutes back in 1980!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

Quality of Produce (or lack thereof)

It bugs me when…..

Supermarkets and green grocers advertise “Fresh Produce”….I’m sorry but it’s been many years since I’ve seen “fresh produce” in our local stores…..I remember when I was a wee tacker and I used to go grocery shopping with Mum, the fruit and vegies we’d buy would last in the fridge for anywhere from 2 – 6 weeks.  The only thing I can buy that would last that long now is onions.  Everything else I buy, I’m lucky if it keeps for 1-2 weeks.  It’s been a thorn in my side for years, but what can I do about it?  I’ve tried boycotting certain stores that refuse to sell fresh foods, but that doesn’t work, because we need a great volume of people in the community to do the same to make any sort of difference.

I think I’m going to have to drag my butt out of bed early on Saturday mornings and try out the Saturday Fresh Market at Brisbane Marketplace….hopefully the produce will be fresher, cheaper and more of the profits will go directly to the farmers….

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Fast Food Drive Thru

OK, perhaps I’m being petty here, but it really bugs me when…..

I go to McDonald’s, Hungry Jack’s, KFC or any other fast food outlet, and I’m being particularly lazy and go drive-thru.� The line is really long so I sit there for 5-10 min while all the cars go through before me….then I finally get to the window or speaker box and the drive-thru kid says “Welcome to xxx, please place your order”….I’d love to place my order, but I don’t know what I want�yet because the menu is�RIGHT AT THE SPEAKER BOX.�This means that the last 5-10 min of waiting in the line has been wasted, flicking through shitty radio stations looking for a half decent song,�or sussing out the people that are eating in, whom I can see right through the restaurant window (on that note, why do they call them restaurants – they’re far from what I would consider a restaurant to be – note to self, look up criteria for restaurant).� Anyway, back on topic, that time waiting in the line could have been used more efficiently, looking at the menu and deciding what I wanted BEFORE I got to the speaker box.� Now I just sit there and go “ummm, I’m just looking at the menu at the moment” and hold up everyone else in the line behind me, who in turn will wait their 5-10 min and then do the same thing when they get to the speaker box.�

AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!

And just to add insult to injury, most of the menus don’t list everything they sell and the corresponding prices.� Go to Maccas, for example, walk inside and have a look at their menu boards….you know how they’re all segmented? – usually about 5-8 sections depending on the size of the store.� I can guarantee that there will be only 1-2 segments with small print, listing their menu items….now I have good eyesight, don’t wear glasses or contacts, and don’t usually have trouble reading signs (near or far), but I truly struggle to read their menu.� All the other segments are filled with large pictures of selected menu items, which is all good and well if I want one of those few selected items, I can clearly see what it is, how much it is and what it has on it, but as for anything else, it’s left up to your best guess….you might as well walk up to the counter, wait for the pimply kid to ask you what you would like and say “How about you just surprise me!”

State Election

Don’t know how everyone else feels about the elections, but I’m really glad the latest state election is over.

The constant slagging match between the parties drives me nuts.  There has to be a better way to get your message across rather than Labor saying “the LibNats suck”, and the LibNats saying “Labor sucks”….obviously I’ve paraphrased here, but essentially that’s how the whole campaign goes…..surely you could be more mature and focus on the positive side of your own party’s offerings rather than the negative side of your opposition.

Another element of elections that gets my goat is all the wasted paper at the polling booths.  I’m sorry but if you haven’t made up your mind as to who will get your vote prior to arriving at the polling booth, then I don’t think a pamphlet with the candidate’s face on it is going to make that decision for you.  And if you’re like me, you stride ahead, head down and say boldy “no thanks” when they try to hand you the paper….I’m only going to throw it in the bin as soon as I walk inside anyway, so I’m saving myself a couple of seconds by not having to dispose of the rubbish myself.  What I’d really be interested in finding out, is how many trees are lopped to produce election pamphlets alone, and how much money is spent on campaigning….I don’t expect it would be a small sum, and I’m pretty sure the money could be better spent.

Anyway, I see positive and negative sides to both major candidates so it’s almost a “catch 22″, but that being said, congratulations to Anna Bligh and the ALP.