Smoke in my face & I’ll pee on your leg

Smoking indoors in a Sydney bar is not allowed; presumably this is for the sake of the abundance of non-smokers—myself included—that also frequent these establishments. Understandably this annoys those smokers that are forced outside to feed their habit. I overheard one remark – “why can’t we just have a smoking area?” to which I keenly offer this analogy:

If we instate smoking areas in bars we might as well do the same for peeing areas in public swimming pools.

Art critics are stupid

The recent announcement of the winner of the Archibald Prize only acted to cement my dislike for art. An exclusive alliance of critics and appreciators that are able to discern inspirations and meanings unapparent to the rest of us should leave their “analyses” to themselves.

A simple comparison of the Archibald winner and the Packing Room Prize winner (as decided by the gallery staff or “packers”) quite effectively sums up my argument—appreciate art for what you see, and not for unverifiable meanings you think the artist intended to portray.

The gallery’s head storeman chose the packing room winner because ‘it was a good picture’.

Announcing: MacBook Air II

Fitting inside an envelope at the expense of otherwise standard hardware and tech specs is an interesting approach. It is so successful that development has started on the Air II.

It effortlessly fits inside your pocket and doesn’t have a monitor, keyboard, hard drive nor processor; however the specially developed Remote Computer lets you wirelessly use or “borrow” the hardware of a Mac or PC in the vicinity.

Entry-level models are expected to ship for as low as $1499.

Intelligent design vs. Monotheism

Put simply the intelligent design argument states that everything in existence is too complex to have come about by “random chance” and therefore must have been created by some greater being. Conveniently this entity came into existence by its own means.

If we were to adhere to the same argument then this greater being would require its own creator which in turn would require its own…

Thus we are left with the only other viable solutions—a hierarchical polytheism with an infinite lineage of creators or atheism with evolution through natural selection (not random chance).

Bring out the pitchforks!

Kill an English teacher and burn a dictionary

Seeing as you are already slaughtering the English language:

• For all intensive purposes—live life to the extreme dude!
• Your stupid—what about my stupid?
• I could care less—neither could I.