Yesterday was the Super Bowl. Which is like the Grand Final for American Football.
If you're interested, Green Bay defeated Pittsburgh.
Now, I enjoy watching gridiron, but my favourite part of the Super Bowl is the ads.
Because the Super Bowl is usually one of the most watched programs of the year (this one actually broke the record for the most watched program of all time in the US), advertising during the Super Bowl is EXPENSIVE. This means, the ads are mostly for big companies, and they spend lots of money on their ads.
Here is a selection of ads (Youtube links):
Personally, my favourite is the VW ad, but the Chevy one's pretty cool too.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Thanks to Chris Higgins for putting me on to this one, I thought it was pretty funny.
What your email address says about your computer skills
What your email address says about your computer skills
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Email is for tomorrow
Came across this article on The Age website the other day - "Ten fascinating facts about email".
Email is something we tend to take for granted these days, it's become fairly ubiquitous, particularly in a business scenario. While Facebook, Twitter and other social media are making their mark on Internet communication, email still holds the reigns as the dominant form.
However, for all its advantages, email does have its flaws. One of my boss's favourite sayings is "Email is for tomorrow". What that means is, not that email is a futuristic form of communication, but that you can ignore or delay responding to an email, as the sender has no idea when you have actually read it. Because of this, email is not ideal for when you need an immediate response from someone.
This can be a particular problem for those of my generation or younger. Because we've grown up with email and text messaging, we tend to favour them as our preferred forms of communication.
This is despite the fact that, sometimes it's far more effective just to pick up the phone and call someone. Even if they don't answer, at least you know they definitely haven't received your message. With email or text, there's still some doubt as to whether they haven't received or read it yet, or if they're just ignoring you.
Email is something we tend to take for granted these days, it's become fairly ubiquitous, particularly in a business scenario. While Facebook, Twitter and other social media are making their mark on Internet communication, email still holds the reigns as the dominant form.
However, for all its advantages, email does have its flaws. One of my boss's favourite sayings is "Email is for tomorrow". What that means is, not that email is a futuristic form of communication, but that you can ignore or delay responding to an email, as the sender has no idea when you have actually read it. Because of this, email is not ideal for when you need an immediate response from someone.
This can be a particular problem for those of my generation or younger. Because we've grown up with email and text messaging, we tend to favour them as our preferred forms of communication.
This is despite the fact that, sometimes it's far more effective just to pick up the phone and call someone. Even if they don't answer, at least you know they definitely haven't received your message. With email or text, there's still some doubt as to whether they haven't received or read it yet, or if they're just ignoring you.
Monday, January 17, 2011
One small step
Cat and I went for a walk tonight.
This might not seem like much to write home about (and, in the grand scheme of things, it isn't) but I've been leading an increasingly sedentary lifestyle lately, so it's a step in the right direction.
I plan to do more of this in the future, and hopefully get out on my bike a bit more often.
I suppose I'm putting all of this up here so there's a written record of it for people to hold me to. So next time you see me, ask me if I've been for a walk!
This might not seem like much to write home about (and, in the grand scheme of things, it isn't) but I've been leading an increasingly sedentary lifestyle lately, so it's a step in the right direction.
I plan to do more of this in the future, and hopefully get out on my bike a bit more often.
I suppose I'm putting all of this up here so there's a written record of it for people to hold me to. So next time you see me, ask me if I've been for a walk!
Saturday, January 1, 2011
I wear the cheese, it does not wear me...
In an awesome confluence of events, if you Google "Existential Cheese", the first 3 results are this blog (yay!), but the fourth result is this Urban Dictionary entry for "cheese slice".
Not only is it awesome because it contains the words "existential" and "cheese" (obviously, for it to come up in a Google search for those words), but also because it references one of my favourite TV shows of all time, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in particular the "Cheese Guy" in the finale of season 4 where Buffy and her friends are having a collective dream.
I always thought the Cheese Guy was hilarious.
Not only is it awesome because it contains the words "existential" and "cheese" (obviously, for it to come up in a Google search for those words), but also because it references one of my favourite TV shows of all time, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in particular the "Cheese Guy" in the finale of season 4 where Buffy and her friends are having a collective dream.
I always thought the Cheese Guy was hilarious.
Random Christmas Facts reprise
As my first post for 2011, in case you missed them as I posted them on Facebook, here are my 10 Random Christmas Facts:
Here's looking forward to an awesome year ahead. I promise I will try and post more regularly this year!
- Santa is licensed to deliver babies
- Rudolph's nose is red due to scarring from a childhood case of chicken pox
- Originally, palm trees were used as Christmas trees. Pine trees came to be used instead because too many children were being injured by falling coconuts
- Due to a transcribing error, what the Three Wise Men actually brought Baby Jesus was poles, canvas tents and shirts. We think they may have actually been Scouts
- This Christmas, instead of Jesus, try praying to Carrus, the Roman god of parking
- On Dec 23, 8 million people will descend on Chadstone. The population of Melbourne is 4 million...
- Carols began to be held by candlelight (a scaled back version of the traditional torch) after Dr. Frankenstein found problems with having large groups of people with flaming torches
- 132 metric tonnes of food will be consumed by Melburnians on Christmas Day. The Melbourne Sewerage Farm spends 6 weeks preparing for this day
- Boxing Day is named for Arthur Boxing, former garbage collector from the town of Bodington, England, who would collect all the discarded wrapping paper from the town on December 26 and use it to make a series of frocks which he wore later in the town's spring fashion parade
- It's famously said that "Christmas comes but once a year", but in 1582, with the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, it actually came twice!
Here's looking forward to an awesome year ahead. I promise I will try and post more regularly this year!
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
A band for all seasons
I was listening to a Red Hot Chili Peppers song on my way home from the beach tonight, and it got me thinking that the Chilis are a particularly "summery" kind of band. By that, I mean when you hear their music, you tend to think of summer (at least I do anyway). Probably has something to do with them being from California.
But I wondered if other bands have a particular season that they make you think of
Here's a band for each season from my music collection that I've come up with:
But, I pose the question to you, what are some of your seasonal bands?
But I wondered if other bands have a particular season that they make you think of
Here's a band for each season from my music collection that I've come up with:
- Summer: Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Autumn: The Music
- Winter: Radiohead
- Spring: Journey
But, I pose the question to you, what are some of your seasonal bands?
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