Oh, hi there! Glad you could make it. You know, I was just chilling here, enjoying this very refreshing mug of red bush tea (no milk, thank you) and reflecting on this modern world of ours. Yes, things such as jet aviation, instant noodles and satellite navigation (or 'stnv' for short) are everyday miracles and sometimes it's too easy to take them for granted.
I had a vegetable finger and cheese sandwich earlier and I left half of it because I wasn't that hungry. But as soon as I've finished pondering life's imponderables through my keyboard I'm going to pop it into my microwave and 30 seconds later - biff! boom! pow! (or whatever it is Will.i.am says on The Voice (other 'talent' shows are available...)) soggy but warm grub. It's amazing! My only disappointment is that we don't have those pizza rehydration things they promised us in Back to the Future II. I don't give a monkey's about the hoverboards - I could never get the hang of the wheeled variety anyhoo (I had a rubbish rubber-wheeled one that my Mam and Dad bought me when we were on holiday at Butlin's. A redcoat asked to have a go, but mindful of what my parents said about strangers I refused (and just to reiterate what a miraculous wired up world we live in now, five mins googling has found a picture of it:
A bit of an aimless meander, this one. I think what I'm trying to say is that it's brilliant living in the future (although I don't know where my Legion of Super Heroes flight ring is. It was pretty cool - I got it to work once). Although there was that problem with the robotic uprising of the mid nineties.
And now the artificial brain stimulants are wearing off and as a cyborg I must go into sleep mode.
More soonliest.
Pah, 'miracle' technology, most things over the past 100 years have just been the cross application of technology. I find it, not impressive. Case in point, 'aviation', the more you learn, the more it scares you, not to point of being too scared to fly, economy travel though is a cruelty I have to endure due to being too poor to travel by 1st class, which was fantastic on the few occasion I 'got into' it. A few years ago, a relative who's on a 'plane buying team' showed me a phone video of him in a new jet liner with just 6 people on it during final evaluation, and he goes, "oh you hear those alarms, we've put it in a dive, another five minutes and the wings would have come off, but there the points pulls it back up, so that's fine"
ReplyDeleteBrilliant clip! Made me laugh more than this weeks Big Bang Theory, thanks for posting it sir.
That's an awesome mug you've got there. :D
ReplyDeleteHurrah for FotC! I loved that one of their songs featured in the new Aarrrrrdman film, Pirates. :D
What's a vegetable finger? That's not a lead in to a joke, just honest curiosity. :D