the fountain of youth

i'm a young looking guy. i've been mistaken for looking 5-6 years younger than i actually am.
i know a lot of women would find this a blessing. quite a few guys would as well.
in the future i will join them in this opinion but for now it's a little annoying.

i fear that i'm getting closer and closer to the day that i will be refused entry to a licensed establishment because the bouncer thinks i'm using a fake id even though i am providing my own.

this is going to be especially problematic in a couple of weeks because i'm going to america.

for those of you who don't know, the legal drinking age in australia is 18. in america it's 21.
if i'm still getting asked for id in australia, i'm definitely going to be asked for id in the states. i don't know what the bouncers over there are like but i doubt that they see many australian driver's licences...
let's hope that i have a trustworthy face.

it has made me think a little about how there would be advantages and disadvantages of living forever...

maybe another time...

I haven't forgotten you're here

i'm sorry i haven't posted for a while.

exams



ARGH!!!!

Shoes

i am lucky enough to be heading to america for a holiday in a couple of weeks

what does this have to do with shoes?

i've had these shoes for ages

they've been overseas with me before

but they are about to fall apart

the problem is, i have needed new shoes for quite a while but i can't justify buying new ones now when they will be SOOOO much cheaper when i get to america

i can make it another couple of weeks

Photos

a couple of days ago i received a delivery that i was incredibly excited about.

it came in a small package from hong kong

it was an adaptor that allows me to use my parent's magnificent supply of old, olympus, manual focus lenses.

this is the result:

i have to admit there has been some retouching for contrast and saturation etc.

i'm really happy with the results though.

by the way, they probably look a little better if you click on the pictures and see them full size...

the "chernobyls" of the internet

in the side bar on some people's blogs they have links to their friends blogs. it also says how long ago the blog was updated. there were some there that haven't been updated for over a year and it got me to thinking.

these things we write are going to be here for a long time. they will be here until blogger goes under or they have to cull old blogs (if they ever do).
i'm guessing that people will continue to look at them. one blog will still link to another and on and on until you can find any of the blogs on blogger. i think it would be really cool to be the writer of one of these blogs and have a look back at it. to be reminded of what you thought, what was important, how you wrote, etc.
it's not just blogs either. myspace pages, twitter accounts, youtube accounts, anything that gives an indication of your personality would be amazing to look back on.


maybe it's a bad thing i deleted my myspace....




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nah

why #twitter scares me

ok so that title is a bit over-dramatic for what i'm gonna say in this blog but i'm just taking a leaf out of the mainstream media's book and using misleading titles to grab people's attention.

i'd like to think that i'm fairly up to date with most of the stuff on the net. i have facebook, i have twitter, i blog and next week i'll hopefully start uploading to youtube as well. i also feel quite safe when using these incredibly accessible "web 2.0" sites.
i keep seeing things in the media, both offline and online, about how we need to be mindful about our internet security. in no way am i saying this is not true. i am definitely not going to be telling people my passwords or bank details! what i'm saying is that i like to have an optimistic view of the world.
i like to think that i am not interesting enough to be targeted by stalkers and not wealthy enough to be targeted by nigerian princes.
...
does that make me average enough to be targeted by identity thieves?
maybe i should think a little more about my security.

I'M GETTING DISTRACTED THOUGH!

i did put twitter in the title of my post for a reason.
i just find it quite funny that facebook has all of these privacy issues and people want to hide all their information whereas the entire basis of twitter's existence is to be able to get your opinion as far and wide as possible. this leads me to the reason that i am "scared" of twitter or more accurately: confused by my involvement with twitter.
i really don't think that anyone wants to hear my thoughts.
i definitely don't do enough interesting things to be followed either.
i'm not particularly funny or witty.
yet people who i don't know want to follow me.

this makes me a little intimidated but that is outweighed by the disproportionate amount of self-worth it provides me.

i get the same feeling when looking at the 'stats' of my blog.
yes, most of my pageviews are from completely unabashed self-promotion, but some of them are from poor, bored people from russia, slovenia or latvia who have stumbled upon my thoughts. i'm sure that as soon as they see that there are no pretty pictures and instead way too many words they disappear but that's not the point! my thoughts are projected all the way around the world to people i will never know and i can't help but feel amazed and humbled to be living in the time and place that i do now.



where in the world was this blog going?

where did it get lost?

i have no idea. i'm sorry that it is such a stream of consciousness, i could probably go back and condense it but i think in exchange for its additional impact, it may lose some of its character.


thank you to the people who read this. you're clearly as bored as i am.

DAM YOU INTERNETS!!! - shake harder boy

why does twitter redirect me to some stupid skootle thing?

it annoys me a lot.

zzzzz (who snores like that?)

you could say that i am a night person.

i would probably say i'm a night person.

with that being said i want to be one of those people who wakes up with the sun and is immediately out of bed.

at the moment i'm not.

i procrastinate from sleeping. i know that sounds ridiculous, why would i procrastinate from doing nothing. i thought it sounded ridiculous as well but i just recently stumbled upon an hypothesis that i quite like.

before i tell you what it is, i'll give you a little bit more background. it is almost every night that i will think "i'm tired, i should go to bed" only to stay up for hours more. most of that time is used browsing the net. i'm a big youtube junkie. i also follow a couple of blogs. if not those then it's generally tv shows or movies that i use to pass the time. through these methods i can do nothing productive for hours on end.

i'm not proud of this, even though it may seem that way. i want to be doing productive things with all of my time but instead i waste it. i really wish that i didn't. i'd much prefer to be able to accept that it was time to sleep and follow through with it. i'd get so much more done.

the realisation i came to was that i procrastinate from sleeping, not because i don't want to sleep, but because i want to extend the period between now and tomorrow. of course i can't actually do this but in my reality i can.

it's all about relativity.

i don't remember my dreams all that often and if i do then they usually disappear from my memory fairly quickly. no matter how much i dream or how much of that dream i remember, the time between me going to sleep and my waking up passes without any passage of time from my perspective.

this is why i procrastinate from sleeping. i don't want to have to face tomorrow because it's a job i don't enjoy or study that i can't be bothered doing.

this will change soon. not only will i be finishing exams in a matter of weeks but i will also hopefully be changing my perspective just ever so slightly.

a more positive outlook

more short term goals

all that other stuff that i keep on telling myself will happen.

i'll get there.

News

For a long time I'd never had much of an interest in the news. I don't know why but I just didn't care enough.

That changed just recently for unknown reasons.

Now that I am slightly more interested in the goings on of the world, I have been able to reach a startling(ly naive?) conclusion.

I think that the news should not have a set time slot. Yes, it should start at the same time every day and things like the weather should have a definite time slot but I think that on slow news days they should finish the show when they have nothing else interesting to say.

It's not just network news either. In fact I find that it's more unpalatable when an entertainment news show (7PM Project in Australia or even my much beloved Colbert Report and The Daily Show for the US) will try to fill their half an hour when there really is nothing news-worthy to talk about.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is great but i really didn't need to see ten minutes worth of penis jokes because all that had happened that weekend was the tweeting of Weiner's weiner.

I had never watched the 7PM Project before tonight but decided to turn it on to aid in my procrastination. I turned it off after 10 minutes because it seemed just a little thrown together and wasn't really taking aim at anything in particular which frustrated me for some reason. I wouldn't have minded if they had some sort of theme flowing through their stories but it really did seem as if they would introduce a topic, throw a handful of comments at it and then move on and that was it. It has been a fairly slow news day though and so I don't blame them for their lack of interesting content, I just think that they should have cut it short and made a punchier, more engaging product.

Unfortunately, I realise that it is just not that easy. TV doesn't work that way. The news doesn't work that way.

To tell you the truth it's probably mostly my fault. I get most of my entertainment from the internet and so I'm used to being entertained 24/7 which is a terrible burden to the entertainment business and especially the advertising companies that fund them.

Nick! You are offering only problems and no solutions! Who do you think you are to stand on your soap box and tear down everyone else's hard work!? Could you produce consistently entertaining content 5 days a week!?

No.

Clearly.

Well I guess I have given something resembling a solution. It's really not great though.

Maybe I can think about it for a bit and get back to you.

I apologise so much for making this post so long. If you read this far I am AMAZED and I would love to give you a present. Let me know if you did and I will try to make it happen :-P