Category: Miscellaneous

(cough)losers(/cough)

From here:

An iPod and two mobile phones are the latest must-have accessories for status-conscious British office workers,… according to a survey released on Wednesday.

(The people who surveyed) branded the people in the survey as GOSSIPS (Gadget Obsessed Status Symbol Infatuated Professionals), a contemporary version of yuppies–the acquisitive young urban professionals of the 1980s.

Ok.

Number 1. When I was in my late 20s (and 30 lbs. lighter), I was corporate, dressed it, went out a lot, and earned well into ‘yuppie’ territory. However, I’d hate anyone calling me one. Why in heavens name would anyone want to be called that? Everyone knows the moment someone niches you, you’re obsolete.

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3rd German Silent Film Festival

What: 3rd German Silent Film Festival
Where: Greenbelt 1 Cinema 1
When: Tuesdays from August 15 to September 5, 2006.
Lineup:

August 15 – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, music by Radioactive Sago Project
Dr Caligari exhibits clairvoyant sleepwalker Cesare at a fair and challenges his audience to ask him anything about the future. When Alan inquires after the date of his own death, he learns that he only has until dawn to live. That very night Alan is murdered. In the meantime, Cesare becomes infatuated with Jane, the daughter of the town doctor, and kidnaps her but is hunted down by the townspeople. Jane’s fiance Francis follows Caligari and discovers his real identity…or does he?

August 22 – Tabu, music by Bo Razon
Filmed entirely in Tahiti, “Tabu” represented an unusual collaboration
between legendary directors F. W. Murnau and Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North). Two lovers are doomed by a tribal edict decreeing that the girl is “tabu” to all men. While the lovers’ flight from judgement and the ultimate power of the tabu are reminiscent of Murnau’s expressionist films, the film is all open air and sunlight. “Tabu” was the 1931 Academy Award winner for Best Cinematography.

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What is wrong with teens these days?

Lone Mage posted this today, where he finds something wrong about this link:

Teenagers who listen to music with explicitly sexual lyrics start having sex sooner than those who prefer other songs, a study found.

Whether it is hip-hop, rap, pop or rock, much of popular music aimed at teens contains sexual overtones. Its influence on their behavior appears to depend on how the sex is portrayed, researchers found.

Songs depicting men as “sex-driven studs” and women as sex objects, and with explicit references to sex acts, are more likely to trigger early sexual behavior than those where sexual references are more veiled and relationships appear more committed, the study found.

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Opening a bottle with another bottle. The latest thing. Not.

From Youtube: How to open a bottle of beer the Scandinavian way

Dang. I’ve been opening bottles that way since HS (and yes, that was a long time ago). Maybe I should make a vid of me opening one with a lighter, and the ‘FPJ’ method, where you slam the cap off the side of a table in one smooth (it better be smooth) downward stroke.

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