Category — Ponder This!

I’m a fan of the Dead Man Eating blog, which goes into detail the final meal requests of the U.S.’s condemned death row prisoners. It has been on hiatius while the U.S. Supreme Court looks into the legality of the procedures, but some have been contributing their own final meal requests…here’s mine!

• One large thin and crispy pepperoni pizza.
• One large cup of KFC Popcorn Chicken.
• A footlong Subway roasted chicken sub, with bacon, meatballs, lettuce, onion and carrot on Italian herbs and cheese bread.
• A few dollars worth of chips (proper chips, not McDonalds or KFC chips) - with chicken salt.
• Two 1.25L bottles of Coca Cola Zero
• A tub of Peters Light and Creamy Chocolate low fat ice-cream with low-fat chocolate topping.

Now that would be a way to go! Thoughts?

• I’m thinking of moving to a proper host (i.e. one you have to pay for) in order to get proper support and more space. Jumba sounds like a good bet. Thoughts?
• Anything related to the iPhone just shits me. A lot of Apple fanboys (and girls too, I’ve seen those photos) just go nutty whenever Steve Jobs says something. I won’t be buying one, unless they get it to work out here, the phone companies put it on a better plan, and improve the hard disk (i.e. bigger than what it is at the moment).
• And another thing. Someone please kill Ron Paul and his supporters, please? They’ve made the Internet about as enjoyable as shoving a butt-plug embedded with razor blades and nails up your clacker. He has about as much of winning the US presidency as I have of getting into a threesome with Jennifer Hawkins and Scarlett Johansson (or any two attractive starlets). And to the Australians supporting him? Please get out of our country. And don’t come back. You clearly do not have brains.
• Finally….GO NEW SOUTH WALES!!!

I came up with some more ideas that I’d do as a NRL CEO…

24. Any player arrested for conduct considered damaging to the game is suspended for the remainder for the year from all forms of the game and will be doing community service to repair the game’s reputation. If they do it again, they’re banned for life. No ifs, no buts. They’re not above the law.
25. Allow only two more expansion teams - priority given to the Central Coast, Perth, Wellington, maybe another Queensland team and maybe Adelaide. Nowhere else.
26. Four Nations (Australia, New Zealand, France and Great Britain) every two years, World Cup every four years. Have a “rest of the world” tournament alongside the Four Nations to give the other nations something to play for.
27. Once a player has chosen his state and country to represent, that’s it. He cannot go chopping and changing based upon a whim.
28. Tell Nine to fix the NRL Footy Show ASAP. It does put the game in a bad light on occasion. Dumping Fatty is the priority.
29. Create a end-of-season play-off series between all the country league winners (FA Cup style knockout) in NSW, Queensland and other states to determine the best country league team in Australia. I think there may already be one, but this one I’d promote and put on TV/radio/online.

I posted this list of things I’d do to fix the National Rugby League at the Marathon Stadium forums, so I figured I’d post it here.

1. Tell one of the Sydney teams to move to the Central Coast ASAP. Preferably Manly, but if that didn’t work, I’d setup a license there.
2. Move State of Origin to the weekends and postpone club games for a week. No NRL games on a rep weekend.
3. Change the rep schedule back to City vs Country, then SOO, then test matches. That way, the City and Country game REALLY means something both to players and bush fans.
4. Reduce ticket prices across the board and encourage families to get to games. Any way how, just get them there.
5. Improve public transport to and from games. Energy Australia Stadium is a nightmare after a Knights game. (And Jets games too…)
6. Promote the game like it’s never been promoted before. Old, new, transitional media, the streets, EVERYWHERE.
7. Get regional and rural rugby league involved and fix up the game’s troubles in those areas. This is the heartland of the game and they need help badly.
8. Get more kids playing the game, reduce registration prices where possible and make it safer for kids to play.
9. Setup a proper state team qualification method. No more allegiances based on simply where you play your first senior football. My system would be based upon a combination of a player either being born in, or spent a minimum of 10 years living in that state, as well as where you played your first senior football.
10. Setup a proper national team qualification method. Islanders can only play Origin and/or for Australia if they were born in Australia or have resided in Australia for a minimum 10 years as well as the new Origin qualification rules. Islanders who want to play SOO but not Australia would be capped at four per side and subject to Origin qualification requirements.
11. Increase the salary cap by least 10% of what it is at the moment, and allow for salary cap exemptions based upon if the player was developed through the club’s ranks, and for loyalty to the club.
12. One live game on Friday night, and one double header on Sunday afternoon/night on free to air television.
13. Tell Queensland they have to give up a Origin game to Melbourne as well, but only every three years.
14. Merge all existing bodies under one ARL, have NRL has a for-profit entity as it is now. Do not let Murdoch own the game’s main administrative body at all. This works for the English Premier League.
15. All clubs to have PROPER websites and will be monitored as part of franchise requirements. No excuses, and this means you Newcastle.
16. Setup a pay website with nothing but NRL games, streamed live. This will bridge the gap between those who want NRL games, but refuse to pay for Foxtel/Optus/Austar. This will also open it up for international audiences and ex-pats.
17. Improve radio coverage, as one idiot of a radio operator (Bill Caralis, owns 2HD and New FM in Newcastle, along with several radio stations in regional NSW) will not pay 2GB to take their coverage. Offer it free of charge to community stations as a promotional and community service by the NRL.
18. Stop relying on the video referee and put a time limit on how long they can take to review a decision. Two minutes tops.
19. Change the World Cup Challenge so that the games comes out here every second year.
20. Restrict the number of jerseys teams can use to THREE - home, away, and either a historic or clash jumper. Fans are fleeced enough with the cost of jerseys, and when you have the Roosters coming out with five jerseys, you know they’re going way over the top.
21. Allow coaches to come on the field to give instructions ONLY during conversion or penalty kicks for goal, and they can only do it so many times in a game.
22. Get teams AWAY from ANZ Stadium. Only one team can use it for a home ground. Rant and rave to state and federal governments to upgrade suburban grounds. Sure, it’ll become a white elephant, but that’s not rugby league’s fault.
23. Recognise the heritage of all clubs. You cannot erase your past.

Teachers have to LOL — or they’d cry (theage.com.au)

This is why I feel sorry for teachers. And for future employers trying to figure out what the hell they’re banging on about.

Listen up you punks, and listen good. If the Internet is to become the centre of the universe, then your online writing HAS to improve. Otherwise, we’ll end up having to use Orwellian style newspeak-esque language just to communicate.

What is wrong with proper usage of the English language? Can someone explain THAT to me?

I have fears for the English language when I see comments like this:

O RLY? idk. w/e. Every second you spend typing FULL WORDS is a second you’re NOT spending LIVING LIFE! Interweb slang FTW!

This guy is an idiot. Most people who use drivel in everyday use probably aren’t living life, they’re probably sitting on their ever increasing backside, breaking laws at the speed of light and proving that the money taxpayers and (especially so in Australia) their parents spent on educating these dopes was a waste of time and money. I’d hate to be an English teacher these days.

It does not take that much to type a few extra characters and use PROPER English. I use limited slang and extensive use of online dictionaries and spell checking add-ons. I’m an self-confessed dope and even I try to ensure people can understand me clearly.

How would you like if this blog actually turned into nothing but txt speak and Web slang? Think about it…

Oh, and here’s a NetLingo translation for us “normal” people of the afore-mentioned quote:

Oh really? I don’t know, whatever. Every second you spend typing full words is a second you’re not spending living life? Internet slang for the win!

Intelligent life on earth? I don’t think so!

I’m wondering - with so many people calling the music industry “corporate/capitalist pigs” (and all variations of) and calling for people to either steal music or buy music through other independent channels…do they apply this rule to other products in life?

Do they use or buy products from Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonalds, Starbucks, News Corporation, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Sony, Creative, Harvey Norman, Walmart and its ilk? (I could go on…but I haven’t got the time to think of any more).

Because if you do - you’re a hypocrite. They’re no better than your so-called enemy the RIAA and its minions. They all try to maintain their market dominance through many of the same methods the music industry does. If you were really against capitalist pigs, you wouldn’t be using products produced by, or sourced from these outlets. And if you work for them, you’re an even bigger hypocrite.

Think about it.

(Yes, I bet I get told off, but screw them. It’s my blog, and I know I’m in the right)