Woolies

Just a quick word of warning. This post is very delayed because I forgot it existed, so it really isn’t that relevant anymore. Actually, none of my posts are relevant to anyone. Holy realisations, Batman.

I find it stupid that the government is trying to intervene with how large supermarket chains obtain fresh produce for resale. From what I could see on the Ten news reports, the government’s argument is highly hypocritical by attacking Woolworths with the greed card – that they want more profit by outsourcing their fresh produce. Apparently, Woolworths aren’t supporting local battling farming families, they just want more money. In reality, the government just wants more local trading because they want to sap all the profits from the battling farming families here with taxes, something they just can’t do when a retailer outsources.

I don’t understand why this is such a big deal. Woolworths are clearly doing this for more money, but at the same time they’re passing on savings to the consumer. In this situation, it looks like the only ones who are losing here are those rich enough to even own a farm and the government itself. Sure, the government can’t channel the money into important aspects of our slightly troubled nation such as education or infrastructure (let’s just pretend that they actually make legitimate attempts at this), but at the same time, civilians are allowed to live at least a little more comfortably and healthily and are able to go to work. Considering that the prices of fresh produce are already too high as it is, I just wish the government would leave Brittany alone.

I mean, leave Woolworths alone.

Derp.

Almighty Blank 2

This morning while I was taking a shower, a flood of ideas popped up in my mind’s eye  so I just had to get online and start blogging.

Unfortunately, my computer was on hibernate, so I was welcomed to the remains of my attempt at one out of three of my assignments due within a week.

My memory was instantly wiped.

Engineer’s Hide and Seek (v1.0 Beta)

A week before the holidays started, a bunch of engineering comrades and I set off on an adventure of epic proportions. We would play hide and seek… in the university.

Clearly, this is an awesome feat at any university, and practically impossible without any well-defined rules. So we brainstormed, and eventually came up with a decent few. While it is still a game in the process of being debugged, I guess you could call the following set of rules part of the v1.0 beta stage:

1. There must be at least two teams each containing at least 1 person. Just putting it out there that two teams of many people is probably the best way to play.
2. Each team must have at least one means of instantaneous communication with the other teams, whether this be via SMS, phone call, social networking, etc.
3. One team must be elected or volunteer to be seekers, the other teams are hiders and must get out of sight as soon as the seekers are determined.
4. The seekers must wait at least 5 minutes for the hiders to hide in some area of the university/park/typically huge  (but still familiar) area they are using as a play zone. No one is allowed to breach the boundaries of the play zone, they are only allowed to stay within it. After the 5 minutes are up, the seekers may begin hunting down the hiders.
5. The hiders, upon settling on a location, MUST in some form indicate to the seekers through their means of communication where they are in a cryptic form, most notably a riddle. They must then stay in this location for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, they can go to a different location and repeat this step.
6. The seekers must use the riddle to figure out where the hiders are located, find them, and without their knowing get a clear photograph taken of them in their location. This photograph must be sent to them through the preferred form of communication. The photo must be clear! If it is blurry for some reason (eg, motion blur) or the photo is of the other team running away, then it doesn’t count!
7. If the hiders make eye contact with the seekers, they are permitted to immediately run away and find a different hiding place. The rules then repeat from 5.
8. If a clear photograph is taken and successfully sent to the hiders, the game must immediately end in the case of two teams and restarted from 3, merely swapping roles rather than going through another decision process. If there are multiple teams, the found hiders become the seekers and the seekers that found the hiders that became seekers become hiders. The other hiders must be alerted of the change and the game restarts from 5, and all the other rules before 5 (eg, no breaching of the play-zone boundaries) still apply.
9. The game ends when you get tired of it.
10. Have fun. Don’t cheat.

Enjoy, friends!

The Be All and End All

What if you had only a little time left to live? What would you do? Whenever I think about this, it always takes me back to a documentary I saw where a bunch of teenagers with incurable diseases revealed their thoughts on the issue.

One of them commented on losing their virginity.

This really resonated in my mind a bit before I grasped what he said. He really wanted to have sex before he died, and probably knew that his chances were limited given his vital condition. I just couldn’t believe how we take this for granted every single day, especially the abstinent and sexually active, as I tossed the idea of being in his condition in my mind.

Heck, as a guy, of course I’d want to have sex too!

It didn’t take me long to forget what I saw that day.

That was until I saw a movie today, called The Be All and End All.

In short, it’s about a 15 year old kid with a deadly heart condition that wants to have sex before he dies. As unrealistic as the story unfolded, it really stuck me again how people in this situation react.

It’s unfair, cruel, sad. Whatever you want to say about it, to have to know that you would die soon is a real mindfuck when you’re an adolescent.

Whatever, it was just a thought.

Almighty Blank

Oh blank word document, oh appropriation of blank sheets.