Meant to blog on this yesterday but got distracted by Daniel Vettori.

This story confused me slightly.  Perhaps Invercargill City councillors need a reminder on what ‘in committee’ means.  It means it’s held outside the public domain for a reason – in this case, probably commercial sensitivity.  While one of the staff knows what ‘in committee’ means,

“City council finance director Dean Johnston declined to comment yesterday, saying the matter was being dealt with “in committee”.”

perhaps it’s time for the councillors to be given a refresher course.

Funny how they won’t talk about the CEO’s credit card bill (which should be in the public domain anyway), but are happy to talk to the media about items like the one above.  One would have expected a commercial lawyer to have a passing acquaintance with governance rules, surely?

One good reason why you should never ever have a pizza delivered ….

Here are the three most important and critical moments in the whole wedding process. If just one of them happens to fail….you are off the friggin hook!!!!!

The proposal

Lordie, lordie, the wedding ceremony.

And wait, there’s more, the wedding reception

Get it together. The hell you’d even play yourself like this. We can’t even tell what the hell you are. On a serious note, we sure you are a nice person, please take this down & better yourself. Yu Zeet??

As anyone who knows me or follows my twitter or has read any of my previous blog posts knows, I began the mainly hideous process of auditioning for drama schools last week. I have learnt a lot, and surprisingly, there have been minimal tears thus far. But at the end of the day it is hard.
I started with NIDA last week, and the phrase “epic fail” immediately springs to mind. I was just was too nervous. Everyone was a lot older than me, which is daunting, and many of them had auditioned multiple times before and were very confident. From the instant I stepped in the room I knew I didn’t have a hope. However, I continued and am proud to say i got through it. Most people would baulk at the though of performing Shakespeare in front of Tony Knight, but i did it.
I had Flinders today and found the whole process much less pressure than NIDA. Which actually makes perfect sense, due to the number of applications they have for NIDA nation wide, and the lower number of locals for flinders. I got through a few rounds and felt really good about my audition. I feel I did justice to myself and my abilities, unlike NIDA. I didn’t get called back, but that is probably a very big blessing in disguise as now I don’t have to sing!
I have found with auditions that the people who go through are never the ones you expect. I have seen some truly talented performers. Some are polished perfectly, some are raw, some show potential and some are just downright horrible. But somehow, it’s never the ones you think that do well. I have no idea what they are looking for, but it’s never quite what you think it is. Obviously they saw something in me which got me through some of Flinders, which makes me happy.
You don’t get any feedback which is annoying, but I know deep down inside it’s my age. Most people I am up against are anything from 3 to 10 years older than me and that makes it hard. Unfortunately I cannot change my age.
I’m not overly worried- if I go straight into an acting course I know I will just be stifled by what they think is the “right” way to act and probably just need a year off to go out and form my own opinions and style. I’ve had people like Geordie Brookman tell me I have something and I don’t see why I should be discouraged just because it doesn’t fit into the idea one particular school has. You can’t put talent into a mould. One thing I learnt whilst constantly evaluating and criticising all aspects of theatre and sitting through auditions- ability comes from the most unlikely sources.

Either way, I have learnt a lot about myself in the last few weeks through auditions (and being default emergency hospital driver on schoolies due to solitary sobriety- character building for sure!), and at the end of the day, I can’t really ask for much more.

Which part of bad taste did you miss?

Oi, Oi, Oi EasyJet, you obviously weren’t born when the Nazi’s exterminated millions of Jews or you would have thought twice about having a friggin fashion shoot for your inflight magazine at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial. What were you thinking epic fail people? Hold up the outrage placards Israel and British press.Despite the airline recalling all of it’s 280,000 copies and apologizing, they still have a bit of explaining to do because they didn’t get permission to photograph at the site. Seems commercial activities are strictly forbidden.

Hola ~

Ah, that takes me back to two years ago.  Good old CP days =]

Before I continue the three-part series on failure, I need to address a few issues;

~I know some have suggested just leaving the blog review page always open to nominations and getting them done as time goes by.  The problem with that is if I have a long list of people to review, I’ll get bored and won’t end up doing any of them.

~I know 98% is a great mark, but I’m just using that as an example.  My feelings then (“Ach!  I cannot believe I got THE EASIEST question wrong!!!”) would match failure-like emotions.

Anyways, on with the show.

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Part 1: Your Failure

Part 2: Dealing with Failure

Part 3: Dealing with Other People’s Failure

Part 2: Dealing with Failure

Instead of letting failure eat away at you, you should take action and kill the failure weed from destroying your crops.

But, what should you do?

One of the biggest issues with failure is that of misconception.  Overreacting, exaggeration, so on.

You make out the mistake as more than it really is, as you can see I did with my 98% “failure” in part one.

Instead of blasting the thing out of proportion, look at the mistake carefully and realistically.  Sure, 98% is an annoying score to get, especially when the one mistake you made was so simple, but 98% is still a phenomenal score.

Sure, I broke that promise, but instead of destroying the trust between myself and Bob, it brought us even closer together and helped us learn lessons.

Lessons.

That’s another thing you can learn from failure.

You know that saying…”Learn from your mistakes”?

It is one of the truest things you can ever live by.

Now you know why you made that mistake on that exam, and if it ever pops up again in later years, hopefully you’ll not make the same mistake twice. [Myself, on the other hand, made a similar mistake three times throughout the year; on a test and two exams]

Oh, I see where I went wrong.  I should stick by my words and treat my friends with more respect.  If I keep my promises, perhaps I can be a better friend.

And I might never face failure again.

But what about the failure of others…?

To be continued

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By the by, festive changes will be attacking the blog on December 1st.

Josh

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Because the idiocy involved in this is beyond epic, I figure we’ll just have a little fun here and play a guessing game.  The game is this:

GUESS WHICH MEMBER OF AMPUTEE_MILFS THIS IS:

Your hints are:

1. Her first name is Deven (which anyone who’s browsed her Flickr or Facebook could tell you)
2. She was smart enough to LEAVE amputee_milfs and the GOMS communities (well, except for that sock in goms_sux, but I’m not picky) and so, had me completely off her back, quits, done, kaput.
3. She was then stupid enough (and the word “stupid” really falls short here, it needs some serious modifiers) to not only return to amputee_milfs (which, you might imagine, I frown upon) but also made the above pictures available at the same time.  Really?  That’s even worse than what iiinterstate did.
4. Last hint: Those are about to become insanely famous boobies.  Ok, that’s not a hint.  That’s kind of just a promise.  Because, believe me, Deven, if you think someone being a milf bugs me… well, that’s nothing compared to how much leaving and then returning bugs me.  Especially when said returning milf is the artist behind this.

“catastrophically” stupid, maybe…?

ETA: So, wicked _queen rejoined milfs and GOMS.  I made this post to my blog here, then posted the following comment on her journal:

Just after posting it, I went out for a smoke break.  By the time I got back, wicked_queen was no longer in milfs or GOMS.  Epically fast flounce (and didn’t even have to waste a sock puppet).  That was ALMOST as satisfying as discovering that my LAST trolling got rawr_its_roonie to flounce.  The GOMS communities, without rawr_its_roonie?  If THAT doesn’t change the face of things, I don’t know what does.  That’s a MASSIVE win right there.

Oh, and aujsayshi also flounced.  Whatever.

Oh really!?, en serio no se quien este a cargo de hacer los conteos en la revista People, porque año con año eligen a los candidatos menos pensados, por ejemplo Matt Damon ocupo el lugar de honor y este se lo dieron a Jhonny Deep… claro el tipo es un gran actor y muchas mujeres estan tras de el, pero no entiendo porque esa mania de buscar al mas sexy solo en estados unidos, digo en el resto del mundo no hay mas hombres que se lo merezcan, la cereza en el pastel es esa fotografia espantosa de la portada, fue lo mejor que pudieron hacer??!! EPIC FAIL!

click  para agrandar

Niezłe zaplecze reżyserskie, co nie?

Dzisiaj wyjątkowo post o filmie z prawdziwymi aktorami, etc, a to tylko dlatego, że to “coś” powstało na podstawie serii anime.

Po obejrzeniu trailera, od razu nastawiałem się, że ten film będzie bardzo słaby. Głównie dlatego, że zwykle jak robią film na podstawie mangi/gry/komiksu/serialu animowanego, to zwykle jest to bullcrap. Owszem, może i to jest szpan, że film powstał dzięki twórcom takich hitów jak “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” oraz mojego ukochanego “Hero”, ale realia zawsze są inne. “Hero” było genialnym filmem, wręcz epickim, więc tym bardziej boli fakt, że twórcy tego cuda, zrobili coś tak ch******o. To się w pale nie mieści ==’!

Ale zanim się przejadę po tym filmie, zacznijmy od wykonania, które ssie … i to ostro. Mamy rok A.D. 2009 i technologia pozwala tak hardcore efekty specjalne, że głowa mała. Prosty przykład? “District 9″. No i mamy dzisiaj opisywane film … efekty specjalne niczym sprzed 10 laty! Żal!

Przejdźmy do audio. Tutaj o dziwo nic spieprzyli. Ale muzyka ssie. No i ten fake angielski …

A teraz wisienka na torcie, czyli fabuła. Long story, short ssie. I to grubo. Końcówka serii “Blood+” to był uber crap. Ale ten film? Mój boże … no i musieli dodać jakąś młodą amerykankę, po to by było coś asystowało głównej bohaterce …. No i końcówka filmu … nagle się okazuje, że Saia ma mob-control skill. Sorry, ale wytłukła tyle tych “złych” i nagle ma taki skill? I mean … trzeba sobie ułatwiać życie, a nie utrudniać!

Podsumowując i to bardzo krótko: gówniany film, oglądacie tylko na własną odpowiedzialność.

Boom!

You know what I friggin hate? When you rob a bank and then while you are making your escape on public transport ie a bus, the friggin dye pack explodes! I really friggin hate that! Worse still, I hate it when you finally get to your seedy hotel room, covered in friggin red dye and someone knocks on the door! Damn straight I hate that, especially when it’s the cops and I am holding a bag of crack cocaine!
Take a bow Thomas John Castro that was one epic fail!

The Vaquero is not happy about this.  Feel good law gone bad, no harm here, move along people.

Sioux Falls Police Officer Sam Clemens sounds really bad here though.  How exactly would another student have “found it” and “had other plans” with it when the shotgun was UNLOADED and LOCKED IN THE TRUNK OF A CAR.

-DCVaqero

KELOLAND.COM – WHS Student Faces Expulsion For Having Gun In Car.

11/20/2009 11:51 AM

WHS Student Faces Expulsion For Having Gun In Car

Jon Wilson
© 2009 KELOLAND TV. All Rights Reserved.

“Finally, as for the issue of whether the image is sexist, a source at Newsweek relays that the art and photo directors responsible for the cover (which was decided upon last Thursday) are both women.”

Dear Newsweek:
Just because the people responsible for your cover are women doesn’t mean it’s not sexist. Women are not immune to being sexist toward other women (or men), and that excuse is the equivalent of qualifying a racist statement by saying “Some of my best friends are black!” Should I really be surprised that you’ve stooped to one of the most ridiculous and most overused excuses ever? Probably not, but I am completely disgusted. What’s next—a statement whining about censorship? Or maybe, “If you don’t like it, shut up and write your own!”

You see, in 2006, Marvel had a comic book called Heroes for Hire. It featured Misty Knight and Colleen Wing as leaders of a team of superhero mercenaries. The team was co-ed, and the book was known for its cheesecake-style art, especially for characters like Black Cat from Spiderman.

When Marvel released the cover for HFH #13, it upset some readers, particularly female ones. They complained that it looked like tentacle porn and that the women looked defeated and submissive, and they wondered why none of the male characters were included except for one guy’s hand. (After all, the team was co-ed.) And well, they were pretty much right. For reference, this is what the cover looked like:

Not all that pretty, right? Kinda gross, maybe? Not according to Marvel Moron Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada. He commented on the complaints, saying that he didn’t see how it could be offensive to women because a woman drew the cover.

You see what he did there, Newsweek? He made the same argument that you did—that there’s no way a woman could create something offensive to other women because… well, we all have ovaries or something. And that argument was as full of as much BS when he said it as it does when you say it.

It’s no surprise that you and the vast majority of your colleagues hate Sarah Palin—the text on the cover, “How do you solve a problem like Sarah?” spells it out for readers even without the picture. But that’s not the real issue here. The real issue is that you deliberately printed something tacky and degrading and then made ridiculous excuses about it after someone called you out for what you were doing.

Compositions like that aren’t accidental—your photo directors didn’t accidentally pick that photo, just as your copy editors didn’t just stumble upon that headline. If you’re going to be blatantly sexist—and you are—at least have the balls to own up to it instead of hiding behind your photo directors’ skirts, pointing fingers and blaming them for something that the Editor himself could have easily changed. (Fun Fact: the editors in charge of both publications—Quesada and Jon Meacham—are both male!)

But it’s too late for that, I guess. Congrats, Newsweek—you’re now the mainstream media-equivalent of Joe Quesada, the tentacle-rape peddling, marrige-ending, totally clueless Editor-in-Chief at Marvel. Enjoy!

Edit: Doctor Zero has a less nerdier take on this (and the larger issue of the upcoming election cycle) over at HA.

Internet dating is just something I will never do… (Never say never right?) But my greatest fear is how do you know that the person you are talking to is really who they say they are?

Or remotely look like their supposed profile picture?

But one little man in Taiwan took his deception a step further, as told by the Metro.co.uk.

I did look like my picture - in 1959

Women tricked into sex by ‘medical condition’ man

A middle-aged Taiwanese man tricked up to 20 women into sleeping with him by claiming he had a rare medical condition.

Hsu Shian-ming allegedly posted photos of a handsome young man on dating sites and received a string of romantic inquiries.

He would then tell the women on the phone he had a father who had a medical condition which meant he had to have constant sex to stay alive.

The women would then meet up with the ‘father’ at various hotels in the capital Taipei.

One of his victims became suspicious after constant attempts to see the son were unsuccessful.

Really, that was when they became suspicious?

Don't mess with me!

Ewh, ouch. A wannabe drunk ninja man accidentally impaled himself through the butt on a metal spike after failing to jump a 5ft fence. The man is believed to have got into an altercation with another ninja man before he attempted his daring jump. While doctors attended his butt wound he told  police he believed he was a ninja. Metal spike 1, ex-ninja 0.

We all know what happened. President Obama bowed. Again.

The first time was with for the Saudi King, although he still denies it was a bow:

"Oops. Lost my contact. Nobody move."

The second bow, and most recent, was to the Japanese Emperor:

Terrific.

So what does this even mean? What is its significance? Well, let’s scadoodle back on over to the President’s apology tour. You remember when he went around apologizing for America’s absolutely horrific actions, right? You probably thought to yourself, “Now why in the world would he do that?” Some would say he was trying to repair the image of America in the eyes of other nations. I think there is more to it.

When is it appropriate for a country to apologize? I mean, if America accidently nuked a country, sure, apologize. But when he starts calling us “arrogant”, “disengaged”, “dismissive” and “derisive”, THAT ladies and gentlemen is just a bit uncalled for. Who is the first one on the scene when a freak tsunami hits a foreign country? We are. Who is the first one to get in the fight for another country’s rights? We are. Awfully “dismissive”, no?

I can tell you from personal experience that “humbling” yourself to that extent in NOT the best way to deal with enemies. I remember my first, oh, 2 and ½ years of middle school. They were the crappiest years of my life, and the bullying did not make it better. I was always told to just ignore him, and he would go away. But, surprise, being submissive did not help my situation. You know what did help my situation? Swick-kicking his sorry butt to the floor. Then, he left me alone. The lesson? Being submissive is generally not the best way to deal with people, especially when your enemies are keeping close tabs on you.

Now, let’s connect this with the bowing incidents. When Mister Obama bowed to the Japanese, he seemed weak. He really did. If he gave a slight bow, I can see how that would be an innocent sign of respect. But when he bows that low, I believe, it is in fact, submissive. It is the significance of the 90 degree angle.The bottom line is that we cannot have the leader of the free world showing weakness and/or submissiveness to others, for in effect, we are displaying that to our enemies as well, and in the dangerous world that we live in, this kind of behavior could have horrific consequences.

The irony of the situation is that, in every place but America, President Obama tries to display us as submissive. He. Is. Arrogant. Need some examples?

How about when he flew over to Copenhagen, confident that he could  bring the Olympics to Chicago? All while spending  over 3 million dollars. And guess what his speech focused on? Him.

Or maybe when he replaced the Presidential Seal? That was just so clever.

Or how about when he set that excellent photo-op up for Air Force One causing panic all over New York City as well as taxpayers about 330,000 dollars?

Or when he told us that we needed to keep our heat low in our houses, while keeping the Oval Office so hot that even Axelrod said “You could grow orchids in there“

The list, ladies and gentlemen, goes on and on. So this brings us to the question, “Why?” “Why is he portraying the U.S. in this manner, all while being arrogant at home?”

Personally, I think it is because he does not see America as great, yet he sees himself that way. When he is out representing America, he is submissive. When he is representing himself, he, needless to say, is not.

Oh, Lord...

And what does the Bible say about this matter?

Matthew 23:12: Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

You might be asking yourself why it is such a bad thing that Mister Obama has been “humbling” America, because, hey, what about Matthew 23:12? In the Bible, when you humble yourself, you recognize that, compared to God and His works, you are not great. You do not boast, you do not take pride in your accomplishments, for without God, your accomplishments would be nil.

What Mister Obama is doing is quite different then humbling, which would be a different story, so long as he gives the credit to God. He is creating a picture of a weak America. And that is the last thing we need.

WOW THEY REALLY EXIST!!!!

WELL 7,870,000 – need to GET IT TOGETHER.

What the hell. Yes we also GOOGLED this & it did come up as an auto suggestion.  (Oh the answer is NO lol – DNA fail)

One of the benefits from the RaF program was the ability to grant levels to some of my lower level alts. My mage/bank alt was taken from 14 to 31 and my druid from 46 to 58. I’m not quite sure why I granted so many levels to my mage, but should I ever dust him off, he’ll at least be more fun to play. As for my druid, I respec’d him moonkin and bought about 200g of gear to kit him out for Outlands and then gave it go.

Epic fail. Well, I never did die, but killing took almost all of his mana bar. It only took about 20 minutes of killing one monster, healing up, drinking and repeating it all over again before I gave up. Clearly I’m doing something wrong. Either my rotation is backwards, or picking up cloth pieces over leather was a mistake.

I’m trying to find some good advice on how to level as a boomkin, but right now I’m really thinking about respec’ng back to feral. Now don’t get me wrong, I know how to level as a spell-caster as I do have a draenei mage sitting at level 66, but obviously boomkin plays a lot differently. I was expecting starfire to deal significantly more damage than it was for its cost.

I attempted a few different rotations but the one I stuck with was to root the enemy first, toss a starfire and clip it with insect swarm, drop a moonfire and then spam wrath, typhooning if the monster wasn’t dead (which was 98% of the time) and then attempting another root. This worked, but would leave my mana bar drained, and I’d generally take more damage than I would like and would have to heal myself up draining the remainder of my bar.

Anyone have any advice? Or could point me in the right direction? I want to pew pew with my laser druid.

EA:

            Cand a pomenit-o pe cealalta mi-a dat foc. El a zambit. Stiu ca ii place sa ma vada geloasa. Sa ard, sa imi vina sa musc pe oricine se apropie de el. Desi nimanui nu i-ar placea sa aiba o prietena atat de geloasa, lui ii place. Nici mie nu-mi place cum a incoltit sentimentul asta in mine…dar lui ii place. Mi-a zis ca ma vrea. Pe mine!

-         Dar nu te-am enervat destul? Nu ti-am mancat zilele si noptile atata vreme?

-         Ba da! Dar pe tine te vreau.

-         De ce?

-         Pentru ca esti tu.

Unul dintre momentele in care am ramas fara cuvinte. Cateva secunde pana mi-a venit alta idée nebuna. Rezista 30 de zile fara femei! Haha, nu! (ceva de genu a fost prima lui reactie). El nu poate sta singur atat.

“Esti dependent de femei. Esti un copil slab care nu poate supravietui fara atentia femeilor. Ti-e frica de momentul in care prietena ta o sa te paraseasca si n-o sa mai ai brate si picioare in mijlocul carora sa fugi si sa te ascunzi. Te-ai obisnuit cu caldura lor, a curvelor dornice de iubire neimpartasita si de atentia unui copil indragostit. Tot in afara de inima mea imi spune sa nu fiu cu tine!”

Atunci nu putem fi impreuna, mi-a raspuns el.

Da, asa e. Eu vreau mai mult. Nu pot zice “da, sunt a ta!” dupa ce ti-am zis pa! pentru totdeauna! Nu ma lasa orgoliul de femeie ce ma trag din Elena din Troia!  Te iubesc dar nu pot sa fiu cu tine. Pana la urma niciun defect nu ma mai deranjeaza. Mai ales cand el nu poate sa-mi sarute buzele pentru ca Insemni prea mult pentru mine sa fac asta! si ii dau lacrimile inainte sa zica pa si sa iasa pe usa aia nenorocita. Ultima lui imbratisare m-a facut sa il strang mai tare ca niciodata. Ultimul lui sarut pe obraz o sa ma faca sa plang o viata intreaga…si tot in mine urla: staaai si nu pleca!

            Si lacrimile-mi curg si acum cand imi amintesc cum cerul s-a prabusit inainte de apocalipsa (aia din 2012). Niciun regizor n-a visat sfarsitul din 2009. Niciunul nu ne-a zis ca o sa murim amandoi acum.

            Dar viata bate filmul iar regizorul suprem inca nu ne-a ucis. Stam fiecare in patul lui de o persoana in care cu siguranta ar incapea doua – ca asa e cu jumatatile – in colturi diferite ale orasului. Si ne gandim la ce ne-am zis si ce ne-am facut. Ce nu am facut si ce am fi putut face. Si poate dam fiecare unul vina pe celalalt si asteptam un semn. Un fulger sa ne intepe inima din nou. Un zambet la doi pasi care ne-a adus impreuna. O rabdare dulce si o nebunie calda. Imaginatie si dorinta. Dar stim ca toate au fost si s-au dus. Acum sa revina ar fi ciudat…am rade la fel de tare ca atunci cand auzi un banc pe care il stiai.

            Nu cunosc nivelul urmator. Stiu ce se intampla in filme, aici e imposibil. Noi doi nu putem fi impreuna, noi facem parte din lumi diferite. Unul e alb. Celalalt e negru, unul e calm, celalalt agitat. Noi suntem insa acei doi oameni care incap intr-un pat de o persoana. Noi suntem aceia care vor sa vorbeasca in acelasi timp si tac tocmai cand nu trebuie. Noi doi ne iubim, noi doi ne iubim degeaba.

EL: …

 (el a plecat)

Well, looks like April Swift (she was so kind to leave us email on her blog profile) april@aprilswift.com decided to kill all posts I wrote about yesterday, and leave her blog empty. EPIC isnt it ? Run away like all newbs do hon, problem is that you left too much info here and there so if you plan to do more of that shit try doing it more anonymously. After all, you are living in country that can slap you with fucking big lawsuit…