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Winter Competition 2008
3 July 2008, 11:28 am. 29 Comments. Filed under Miscellaneous, Site-related.
Oh great. Short holidays. I've studied, I've partied; and as promised, here's the Winter Competition 2008 (Winter where I am; idea from Amanda and Tracy). Make sure you read ALL the information below if you intend to enter!
What's happening?
I'm thinking of a three-digit number. The first person to get the number wins (otherwise the first person to get closest to the number).
Note: close as in numerically close. If the number is 654, person getting 647 wins rather than 645.
Hints
The three individual digits in the number are bolded on random pages of this site. You'll just have to rearrange the numbers to form your guess. Alternatively, you can just guess any three-digit number and ignore the hint.
Note: they are not bolded together with other words e.g. "level 16" is ok, but "level 6" and "2006" are not. They are also not part of headings, links or any of my blog entries.
You'll need to...
- Submit a comment to this post with "Answer: ###" on a new line. You can write other comments but in a separate paragraph. And don't reveal any of the pages with the hint number or you'll be helping those after you!
- Submit the answer before 10 July 2008. No actual time. It'll end whenever I check this post on 11 July 2008 (in NZ).
- Be ready to send me your actual postal address once you're announced as the winner! I'll contact the winner for this privately.
Note: One guess per person only and I advise that you don't base your guess upon guesses in previous comments because of... *cough* obvious reasons (answers are hidden). And if you fail to find all the numbers, hey, it won't hurt to submit a random guess answer anyway! ;)
Prize!
You'll get this little... "thing" sent to your place. I absolutely adore them. They're suitable for both genders and there are many different styles/colours to pick from. If you have a website, I'll be picking one which I think matches you or your website the most. Otherwise I'll just go by intuition based on your name, email and comment.
Alright I think that's all. 3... 2... 1... and the competition starts! 
A gl0bAl fenomenen: dclin3 in IQ
5 May 2008, 11:50 pm. 36 Comments. Filed under Rants.
If tertiary students these days have difficulty not abbreviating every one-and-a-half words they type, what type of people do you suppose will eventually govern our country? Imagine our government authorities doing just that. Imagine legal rules governing our actions sntnsing theifs 2 3 mths imprisenmt.
We don't even have to go that far. Just imagining someone who has 1% text abbreviations in their reports and remaining in a respectable job position is a joke—at least in the current world.
Don't try to argue that (immensely) abbreviated writing is cool, quick, efficient, etc. It simply displays a lower level of your intellectual capacity.
Don't try to argue either, that 1337 and immature tYpInG lYk d1s is oh-so-sexy. They simply are nothing but stupid. I don't need to have to read at three words per minute due to your under-developed brain. And it's not because I'm the one with a low level of reading ability either. If five year old kids are being taught in primary how to spell words the correct way, then surely you need to upgrade your IQ if you tYp3 L1k3 aN iD10t after a whole decade of schooling.
Feel free to use "standard" abbreviations/acronyms such as uni, HTML, Mr, MSN because they are, agreed, consensual and standard.
I also understand how some abbreviations have grown to exist in our mainstream communications as a result of instant messaging e.g. lol, lmao, asl. Fine. They're also standard. (And because I use them too, of course.)
N im nt gona deny d fact tht abbrs sav char usage in txt msgs evn if—I don't personally use them.
Bt u srsly mk urslf luk lyk a dUmBaSs in comparison with someone else who can actually type and spell.
If you actually found the annoying abbreviated writing in this post easier to read than the rest of my writing, you might like to consult a doctor regarding your mental capabilities (or lack thereof). And I may have to finally recognise the fact that this powerful wave of backwardness will no doubt take over the world by 2030 and drown out the bare remnants of human intelligence. In which case, Amen.
New view on beauty
3 May 2008, 11:30 pm. 4 Comments. Filed under Miscellaneous, Rants.
Last year, I looked down on fake cake faces. This year, I have begun to bow to the magnificent powers of professional make-up and Adobe Photoshop.
When you cut off a model/celebrity's access to godly photographing/photo-editing skills and knock off their powders, how many of them still look so stunningly mouth-gapingly attractive?
What's physical beauty nowadays? Fake eyelashes, fake boobs, million-dollar noses and what else? It's because you can't see at first instance into the inner content contained within this outer shell that physical appearances do matter so much to a certain extent. Pretty people do receive extra benefits. People often (at least) begin with treating good-looking people better. And hence, I've changed my views.
With the latest make-up technology, it makes no difference in the end whether the person had natural beauty initially or not. It is time to recognise that superficial beauty prevails over natural beauty at least in the short-term. It is time to succumb to routine face-caking and eye-painting sessions.
You know what? I don't like this world. Because I can't spare enough money for a full set of Chanel and Christian Dior make-up equipment, laser treatments and regular beauty therapy. So I'll just have to live with my flawed shell and get used to unfair treatment. Bottom-line: Money = Beauty. Once again, money makes the world go 'round dammit.
