The insanely boring life…

This has been a really interesting week. I have been inspired to write many things this week, most of which are published on my blog. I have two poems and a monologue.

The first poem is Love Between Friends, and is a poem about the strong love between two friends. A very moving piece, if I may say so myself. My second poem is Granny Sarah; a hilarious portrayal of how how an old granny perceives the changes of the world. Both of these poems are in Afrikaans, though.

Finally (and the piece I am most proud of) I have written a monologue about a homosexual teenager and his struggles with God and his peers. He shoots himself because of his troubles and trying to escape it all. The monologue is called Look at me now.

I hope you enjoy these poems and the monologue because I sure had fun writing them.

Don’t ask what a Maftoulian Creature is. I don’t know, but if anyone can recall that YouTube was enslaving then you won’t need to ask. This video is an entry into the YouTube Underground competition which is a competition where you write and sing a song, and enter it into the competition. From the 25th onward people will be able to vote for their favorite entries.

Anyway, I just thought that if you are considering to vote, that video should be on your list of videos to vote for. It is a really good song, but I don’t really think there is a point to it. Enjoy!

Have you ever experienced that phenomenon where you start writing on paper and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, you make an error.

Now, for some people, like me, you immediatly start looking for the backspace button. And no, I have actually found myself wishing for a backspace. So, what do you do? You scratch out your word and write it correctly. Either that, or you Tipp-Ex it out. Now you have this ugly blotch on your page, which offends most people’s eyes.
But there are worse things in the world. Like when you write a word, you change your mind, and you scratch it out and you end up writing that exact same word again after more consideration. Pathetic!

So, you may ask, what is my point? My point is that paper and pens should be completely removed from our current schooling system. Now, before you start bashing me because I am endlessly stupid, consider the following:

• When you do not use paper, a tree could be saved. Now doesn’t that mean something?
• Pens and paper have a limit. You have to spend money to purchase them. If you were to use computers, you would eliminate that need. Computers have a endless supply of…virtual paper.
• Teachers will have a much better time marking. Why? How many times to you have trouble reading someone’s handwriting? There you go.
• In an age where computers are the future of our world, knowing them (or at least frequently working on them) is of cardinal importance.

I know that someone, somewhere will say that we will loose our ability to write, but how many of us actually still possess the ability to write neatly? Especially teenagers, these days.

Computers are the future of the world, so why not embrace it. I know that the initial investment will be a little expensive, but why not invest in the future.
Also, I forgot to mention: I type MUCH faster than I write. Even if you type one letter per socond, it is a fact that you will finish faster (and more neatly) than with a hand written product.

I wasn’t sure whether to post this under the ‘Software Reviews’ category or the ‘Blog entries’ category, so I went with the former because this piece of Software really deserves your attention. Why? Because of its sheer openness and the support from Google it receives.

The Gozmo Project is, in short, real competition for Skype. I see a bright future ahead of it. It is a IM and SIP phone system, meaning that you can call to landlines (for the same price you would with Skype) and other people using SIP programs (most do) and Jabber contacts. Most importantly, you can also call contacts from your Google talk account. Now, isn’t that spectacular!

Unlike Spyke, Gizmo is fully supported under all operating systems. So is (theoretically) supported across Linux, Windows and Mac, but development for Linux and Mac are close to extinct. Both are many versions behind the Windows version.

Another feature which will count in Gizmo’s favour, is the fact that it uses Open Standards, even though it is not currently Open Source. Skype currently has the major market share in this sector, but its proprietary system will be its downfall.Watch

Watch out for this app!

If there is one thing that irritates me beyond anything in the world, it would have to be Assembly Period. There are a few things that top my list:

Firstly, there is the fact that the people in the front of the hall speak unbelievably slowly. Even more so if you count the fact that they speak of how other kids excel. Name, after name after name after name after name. Sitting for an hour listening to names is (in a word) boring. I grant them their moment of glory, but it came become a little overwhelming. My rear end started feeling the length of the period.

Secondly would be the boys in the hall. Most of them, anyway. They are complete and utter uneducated vermin to say the least. They are loud, disgusting and intrusive to one’s personal space. But that is minor, when you consider that fact that they feel compelled to put their dirty feet on the chair in front of them, while a one is sitting the aforementioned chair. So, that is probably the most irritating aspect of the entire hour of unbearable doom and torture.

So, after intensive study of those euphemisms, one would have to conclude that assembly period in Durbanville Highschool is probably the most boring (and painful) experience you will ever face.

End of rant.

Why? Why is there even such a thing as Sunday Lunch!?

Can someone with a clear mind tell me why people over eat on a Sunday afternoon. I, personally, hate it. Why? Because you get this rainbow plate of food stacked up the ceiling all mixing (note keyword = mixing) into a huge pile of slushy nonsensical rubbish.

During normal days, one would eat normal foods, such as spaghetti or egg and so forth and so forth. But on Sundays you eat Vegetables (which I usually like, but on a scaled manner) and a large chunk of roasted or stewed meat and a wide array of rice and an extremely exaggerated desert (if you are having desert).

All that rubbish is enough to give you a heart attack. It makes me wonder why there are still people who go through all that trouble to cook on a Sunday.

To be fair, though, Sundays are extremely boring. The poor housewives must have something to do.

I know I didn’t really present a real argument, but my fury towards Sunday Lunches are just so overwhelming, that I am disabled to think clearly.

Personally, I think YouTube is the biggest timewaster in the world. Why? because I just spent the entire day watching YouTube videos. I have no life, I know.

But the question is: Why is YouTube so…captivating. Please tell me! But YouTube being bad for your health is not actually what I want to talk about today. My subject is a particular person on YouTube who has the most hilarious show in the world called The Wine Kone.

Now Tony (the maker and star) talks about…well…everything. I am yet to see a topic which he will not discuss. He is a comical genius! Whether he actually means to be funny or not remains to be seen.

I am not going to review his video blog, but you can check it out for yourself by going to http://thewinekone.wordpress.com/. He already has a very loyal following as it is. All his videos have an average of 3000 + comments. And once you watch one, you will want to watch more.

Remember these words: Restrict yourself to a certain amount of hours of YouTube. You will be tempted to cross over your boundary, but don’t. The people at YouTube will do well starting some or other intervention program, like a YouTube Rehab Centre for instance.

But that is all I want to say today about YouTube. There is much more I can say, for for the sake of the moment, I will just keep quiet.