Young Cons – the Young Conservatives (unless it’s a parody) have some issues separating America from the “Kingdom of God”… but this is pretty funny.
“The more money we spend the more mine is worth jack, the Bible says we’re a nation under God…”
Umm, that’s probably the Pledge of Allegiance you’re confused with…
Giant Pianos are the new black (and white), or at the very least the new Dance, Dance, Revolution.
Sadly, there are heaps more where that came from.
These soaps are obviously designed to lure geeks into the shower. And it just might work… but grapefruit scented? What were they thinking.
Somersaulting on one exercise ball is awesome – but two guys somersaulting on one exercise ball is doubly so. From here.
This SolaPanel post comes at a particularly relevant moment what with all my inner-argumentative-angst navel gazing and debates about what issues are worth fighting for.
- Fight for what is right. (truth)
- Argue for what will work. (tactics)
- And keep quiet about everything else. (preference)
Fight for the God-given Biblical principles, argue for how to put them into practice and just leave all the personality or preference issues up to each person to work out for themselves. I can hesitate on preference, in a meeting I can even back down on my view of tactics, but I must never back down on truth.
Me, I fight on all three, but care about 1 and 2 almost equally (and interchangeably – the media is the message afterall… Or something like that).
Simone, Ben, myself and others have entered into some sort of blog off. The rules have already been rigged so that I can’t win. But I plan to anyway.
Here’s how they’re sticking it to the man (me) with the rules… but feel free to enter…
Thankfully, I can’t see this actually harming the quality of the things I post.
Premier Bligh has decided to scrap the 8c a litre fuel subsidy. I don’t really care. Anything the government is subsidising is being paid for by us (the tax payer) anyway. So it seems that I’ll get taxed less and have more money to spend on the things that go up in price. Balance. Plus, there have been a number of price hikes in recent years to cover increased fuel costs – and I haven’t noticed decreases to cover the drop in fuel prices since. So it should all just work itself out.
That’s what I think anyway. I wonder why all the lobby groups in the world are up in arms about increased costs when we’re still about 22c ahead of where we were six months ago. I tried to make our line on the issue consistent with my thinking – but keeping the customers (the tourism industry wants the subsidy) satisfied won the day. Oh well. More fool them.
One of my favourite things about Lifehacker is that it will often provide a little gem of information amidst a bigger piece of information.
Lifehacker Australia’s editor Angus Kidman has been trying to live out of just one bag for a couple of weeks – because airlines are now taxing checked luggage – which has been an interesting experiment in and of itself. This post is a list of small things he learned on the way…
And this is my favourite…
“Qantas never has enough ginger beer on its domestic flights. If you like ginger beer, you’ll need a seat near the front.”
I’d never considered picking a seat on a plane based on having the full range of menu items available (or in fact being close to the front so that you get off quicker)… I’m much more concerned about trying to snatch an exit row seat.
Any flying tips you’d care to share?
Also, my other favourite tidbit of info that the writer picked up was this one:
Far too many hotels still think it’s acceptable to offer International Roast coffee.
You know what I hate, people who write emails to me an carbon copy (CC) other people in on them. Not group discussions – just emails asking me to do stuff and showing everybody else that they’ve asked. That means when I refuse to do said stuff I need to provide my rationale to a wider range of people than would otherwise be the case.
I particularly hate it when someone CC’s my manager into something as though that is a tacit endorsement from my manager of the task this individual is asking me to do. It’s not. And I won’t do it on principle. Then I have to go to my manager and say – “disregard that email, the person is a twit”, or find out that I should in fact do the task for said twit. It would be easier to just send an email to me asking if I’ll do something, or send an email to my manager asking to get me to do something. It saves us all unwanted hassle and stress.
That is all.
Amy pointed me to this most fantastic site for creating your own lego minifig.
I created me. Welcome back to the comments Amy.
Remember that story about the stupid Australian guys who robbed a bank wearing name tags? It’s only tangentially related to this post. A man in Nebraska held up a convenience store wearing a beer carton on his head… he must be Australian right?
Microsoft wants to kill google. Perhaps. Killing google is the in thing – unless you’re a mobile manufacturer, then it’s killing the iPhone. Anyway, Bing, Microsoft’s “google killer” is in beta. And it’s disappointing. When I bing myself I don’t appear until the second or third page. And my blog doesn’t appear to appear at all…
I wonder if bing was the shortest available combination of letters left for Microsoft to choose from.
I’ve just discovered Surviving the World – it’s a funny photo comic, or web comic, or something. Anyway, check it out. It’s hit and miss, but mostly hit. Here’s one on Miracles…
Convicted
I realise that at times I am stubborn, obstinate even, in discussions on this blog. But I really like to argue.
So this is a bind.
There’s at least one person who has exiled themselves from commenting because I’m arrogant.
And that’s convicting.
I do really like to argue – though I have a habit of divorcing myself from the implications of the argument and just enjoying the progressive development of ideas.
I have, as a way of warning prospective commenters, introduced a disclaimer to this site. You should read it. Though it’s annoyingly written in third person…
If you’d like to suggest anything that should be added – do so in the comments… though I may disagree with you…
You should also check out the discussion I’ve been having with Dave about the ACL, government and all that stuff, for an example of an argument where I don’t really believe exactly what I’m arguing, but also disagree with some of the counter-arguments. Feel free to chime in their too…
June 1, 2009