Nickelback - worth a dime?

The answer, ladies and gents, is "Fuck Yeah" as vocalised by me and my comrades as we shouted ourselves hoarse at tonight's Nickelback concert.
This was my first real concert actually. I know what you're thinking. "First rock concert? I thought he was fucking metal!".
Well, no not really. Not to that level of status anyway.
Positive experience, I really enjoyed it. Let me give you a short run down.
First there was an opening act in the form of some band nobody had ever heard of that sung for 40 minutes, then there was a 20 minute intermission, and then Nickelback came on and played for about 2 hours.
The opening band was pretty much shouting and metal. It was pretty lame. After about twenty minutes I zoned out, pondering about what I would put in this blog entry, whether it would bode well for Nickelback or not. When Nickelback came on, the screaming started.
In fact, probably the only downside to the night was my friend sitting next to me was screaming like a fucking woman every time they played a song. While the two ladies, that were apart of our troupe, screamed like they were dying, it was tolerable. But my friend's screaming had a certain eerie quality that curdled blood and burst ear drums. It was like dying painfully at the end of each show.
Note to all you fellas out there: Screaming at rock concerts is FOR WOMEN.

Anyway, so they started the rock and we were all singing along. Eventually I plucked up enough courage to make an ass of myself throwing up the horns, which several people behind us followed, decreasing the feeling of isolation. From there proceeded a string of affirmative profanities (such as the aforementioned Fuck Yeah, frequently).
All in all it was a fantastic night that I'll be eager to repeat in the future.


All my tests went alright, got my assignments etc handed in on time so it's all sweet. No stress now for another week or so. Except for the pile of 5 tests that take 2 hours each to do that I have to complete for my "Induction" training so I can start working and get my paycheck.


'Til another night.
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Maths

Let me tell you, at this very moment I am freaking out.
Tomorrow, we have two exams and a maths assignment due. That's okay, I thought to myself blissfully yesterday. I only have two questions left on the maths assignment to do, I'll do it on Thursday night.
However now I find out the questions I have left are infinitely hard! because I can't find the correct formulae needed to reach an accurate conclusion.

Anyway, I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow. I'm supposed to be racking my brains out, not blogging.
Later

Test

Hello readers.
This is a test. I just downloaded a new extension for firefox called Performancing, which lets me blog directly from Firefox. It's pretty cool, got lots of features and stuff.
You can find it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon.php?id=1730
For Firefox bloggers everywhere.

My Sunday

Sunday night.
My friend and I, along with some other friends, were going out to see comedy act, Lano and Woodley, on their Goodbye Tour. After 20 years they were retiring.
Now, don't get me wrong. I've seen the Lano and Woodley TV shows. I've heard their humorous songs. However, if you're going to do a Goodbye Tour, in my opinion you should come up with some fresh material.
Almost every part of the show was old. Some of the humour was from the TV shows, some from previous appearances that I'd seen and heard. But all of their comedy was old.
After 20 years, perhaps to treat their loyal fans they might've wanted to come up with some new stuff to go with. Instead of recycling jokes, they should've made new ones. I spent $40 on going to this thing, when I could've spent half of that seeing Dave Hughes, and gotten more laughs.
Speaking of which, Hughesy (Dave Hughes), is a hilarious guy. Normally I listen to Triple M, because of Spoonman (think I mentioned him in my first post) and some of the other hosts. But whenever I need a laugh in the morning, I just switch on over to Nova 100.3, because Hughesy is a class comedian. He's also on a show on the ABC called The Glass House. It's a panel of three comedians, and each week they have two guests. The regulars are Wil Anderson, Corrine Grant and Dave Hughes. They talk about stuff that has been in the news lately, but they somehow manage to turn boring political crap like the AWB fiasco into comedy. Aussies: Wednesday night, 9:30.

Another thing I want to talk about is something I call electronic seclusion.
What I mean by that is this; Is electronic equipment killing off physical social interaction?
On the drive up to the show, as soon as we got in the car everybody whipped out their phones and iPods and started listening to music etc. Luckily I hadn't brought any electronic distractions, which meant I was able to think for a while.
Is the advancement of technology really such a great thing when it will eventually turn us all into barely social people? One day, we'll be able to talk into a headphone and look into a screen, and 10 minutes later food with appear in our fridges. No human interaction required.
Is that really what we want for the future? Already a lot of things are turning to the Web, because that's the marketing strat at the moment. If you don't have a Web presence, you're going to fall behind. I'll talk more about that later. Anyway, now Universities are offering online courses, so you never have to go to Uni, you can do it from your home. I don't doubt that near in the future, somebody will create a credit card machine compatible with a PC, so with a swipe of the card, you can login to your net bank, and deposit/withdraw money at your own will, like your own personal ATM. Almost said ATM machine, but that' just stupid. Think about it.
Perhaps the advancement of technology should be restrained? Sure it might make us more socially interactive with other humans (physically), but isn't that also restraining our ultimate goal?
Which brings me to yet another point. What is the ultimate goal of the human race? It would seem that our ultimate goal, to me at least, is to advance as far as we can before Greenhouse gases asphyxiate us, and melting ice caps flood our countries. I guess the ultimate goal of humans, essentially, is to survive and evolve. Will that lead to cybernetic enhancements such as those we see on Sci Fi TV? Call me traditionalist, but I'm fine with my flesh thanks. If you've got a different view, feel free to share it in the comments.

Web marketing strategies. It's the theme of the decade. Microsoft put it nicely when they said "If you don't have a Web presence, you have nothing".
Microsoft has finally woken up and realised that they are royally fucked if they don't start directly competing with Google. While they've held the lead in the software market (and still do) for the last decade (or two?), Google is now coming out with things that are web-based, but compete with Microsoft's products, namely Microsoft Outlook.
This has prompted Microsoft into action. Their "Live!" project was sort of something they were working on while they finish of Vista. But now they've realised that Google is going to shite all over them if they don't pick up the slack, they've put Live! into full gear. Now there are many Live! products all available for BETA testing. Just recently I signed up to checkout new Windows Live Mail, which is like an upgraded Hotmail. It looks like a web-based version of Outlook. I'll let you know how that goes when I get my account.
So good luck to Microsoft in their endeavours. Google has been buying up lots of stuff lately, and I think they could crush Microsoft eventually, which is unfortunate. I'm a bit supporter of Microsoft, I think their software is amazing, and is unrivaled, and it would be disappointing if they had to go out of business. Google's products compared to those of Microsoft are sub-par in my opinion (apart from Gmail and Gcal. Gcal is excellent).




That's enough for today. My diggnation podcast just finished downloading.
Out.

White people black?

What is up with all of these white kids wanting to be black?
I don't have anything against black people. In fact, I have quite a few black friends, and they're cool. Just like any other of my friends.
However, I think it's so lame when these skinn white guys walk around trying to rap like 50 cent, and talking all "gangsta". What happened to the age of being yourself?
I hear people all the time saying stuff like "You be tripping, homey". No, I'm not tripping. I'm just making an outlandish suggestion. But I guess that doesn't enter into your "wigga" cerebral database.
Seriously, this has got to stop.
It's actually really hard to write this without seeming racist, but I'm going to write it anyway.
Black people are black people. They have a culture. White people are the same.
I actually think very little of these "You be trippin'" types. Wiggas and black rappers alike. If you were born with the ability to speak English but choose to mutilate the beautiful language into something that makes you sound like a fuckstick, then go right ahead, but don't expect me to listen to you, nor take you seriously.

It's spilling over onto women too. I hear girls talking "gangsta" now, at school. It's degrading society. It's very tempting to drug them, put a white hood over their head and dump them in some ghetto in the US.
I understand that African-Americans may speak differently to me, and that's fine. I don't have to be friends with you. But when it's being forced upon me by the people I am constantly around, I have no choice but to listen to their shit.
True, I do say the occasional "True dat", but that's as far as I take it.
Think of it like this. You can speak English, you're Caucasian, you live in Australia and you choose to speak German to the people around you. Now, why do you do it? Even though the people around you can't understand a word of what you're saying, I'm sure one of your dumbass skate/fashion magazines have told you "It's not officially cool to speak German". Yay for destroying society, you anorexic whores.

Which brings me to another issue. Kids these day put too much faith in what is said by super-models. Okay, we all have somebody we look up to. However, I choose to be inspired by intelligent people, like Jerry Holkins or Kevin Rose. These "Wiggas" look up to pampered pricks to get their inspiration. Like I said, everyone needs inspiration and I don't have a problem with that. But when your source of inspiration is dumb as fried shit, you need to think about maybe choosing another before you end up OD'ing on heroine after being raped. I'm not kidding, this stuff happens.

So clean up your act and start acting like the person you are instead of imitating your MTV shitfaced popstars. You'll end up better off.

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