Aehso’s Output

I am definately getting old.

Or so it would appear. Three quotes in 9 of 10 teens now using the Internet, a bland piece on teens use of technology, managed to shock me this morning:

“I’ve got my own cell phone, and I’m on it two or three hours a day,” said 12-year-old Omarah Scott of Chicago. “I talk to my friends, mostly about our plans.”

Our plans??? For what exactly, world domination? You’re 12 years old! There are world leaders who don’t spend three hours a day and they still manage!

Then there’s

“My grandmother barely knows how to turn on the computer, and they didn’t have cell phones in her day,” said Dominique Daily, 14…

They didn’t have cell phones when I was in college - well they did, but they had car batteries attached to them. I hope that wasn’t “my day”!?!?

And lastly.

They think e-mail is something used to talk to “old people.”

Man, I have seriously got to get with it. So from now on, I’m going to blog from my cell phone, and have an eighty year old right thumb by the time I’m thirty. Or, maybe not.

House Of C**by’s, Episode 5.

A shot in the dark here, but did anyone manage to get Episode 5 of House Of C**bys before it was pulled? Not that I want a copy or anything <ahem>

The Ultimate War Simulation

Via Kotau - The Ultimate War SIM. Of course no-one would buy this because, well, it just wouldn’t be fun and you couldn’t beat a game like this. In at number 5:

I want that “Public Support” meter to rise and fall according to Troops Lost, Length of Conflict, Innocents Killed and Whether or Not There is Anything Else On TV That Week. I want to lose 200 Public Support points because, in a war where 8,000 units have been lost, one of my Mutalisks happened to be caught on video accidentally eating one clergyman. Then, later, my destruction of an entire enemy city goes unnoticed because the Nude Zero-Gravity Futureball championship went into overtime.

The Onion of the future.

Via BoingBoingOn an alternative note, The Onion have just surpassed themselves again - Leather-Clad nomads seize power in Australia”, Final installment of Frogger Trilogy poised To sweep oscars and SOLOPEC Nations warn suns output may fall short of demand.

LOL!

Human Resources Mumbo-Jumbo vs Reality.

Via Boing Boing, Scott Adams captures the disconnect just about perfectly in Sunday’s Dilbert

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Reminds me of a 11-a-side match I played in years ago in what used to be an inter-company football league. Our team manager (who worked with us, but not in HR!), when faced with his team loosing 0-2 at half time, could only offer the the following gem of instruction -

“Just play better”.

Moving house.

So I’m moving house in a few weeks, a major pain in the ass when it comes to the task of packing up all my stuff transporting and unpacking, only to find I don’t need half of it - why does that always happen?

I feel better about it this morning though - having just stumbled across this mess, I’ve just realised I don’t have much stuff at all!

Who cares that they actually live at opposite ends of the earth!

Wouldn’t it be great if animals and birds had a sense of humour? The world would be a richer place for it!

The National Public Toilet Map of Australia.

There is something fundamentally odd about The National Public Toilet Map of Australia. To be fair, if one is incontintent and has a web ready PDA this is probably useful. But the rest of us can only look and wonder.

Oddly, you can Register and subsequently while browsing you can “Add to my toilets”. The website uses some common icons:

• - Male.
• - Female.
• - Wheelchair acessable.

But what’s this one for?

• My guess is it’s a bush loo!

I’m not intending to poke fun at the incontenent here (God knows it could happen to me someday) so I’m sure those who comissioned the site had good intentions. However, they should stand back and check if the result matches the real requirements of the incontinent, or just gets close because it was implemented on an off the shelf product designed to locate commercial facilities in a, emm, less urgent manner. I mean, c’mon, more than likely someone will need this information when they are not prepared - what are they supposed to do find the nearest access point first? Perhaps a freefone information phone line might have been a better option.

That said, the site is ranked 3rd in Google for the search term “map australia” (the one I was using, I swear!) so someone must be using it!