The Voice Australia ‘Drinking’ Game

Although there’s a perfectly good Voice Drinking Game out there – I thought I should share our household’s ‘Buzzword Bingo’ version.

Take a chocolate honeycomb any time someone:

  • …says something about a contestant ‘owning’ a song, or something about a contestant making a song their own
  • …advises other contestants in the competition to learn something from the most recent performance
  • …observes that they could see what a lacklustre contestant was ‘trying to do’
  • …a judge throws in a random word they found on a ‘word of the day’ website a few minutes earlier
  • …any judge estimates the quantity of ‘respect’ they have – extra points for ‘massive’

CSI: The Fourth Wall

An actual quote from my CSI-Inspired crime-solving dream last night

You know, I hate to break the fourth wall, here, but it really gets on my nerves the way we’re using all sorts of forensic technology that may or may not actually exist. Does this bother anyone else?

And, later

Hold on, I’m wrong – that wasn’t the fourth wall. Probably more like wall 3.5.

(Waving hands around in the air) Hello, Audience!

Now that’s how you break the fourth wall, bitches.

(More info about The Fourth Wall, here)

New Twitter For Tech

If you’re following along on Twitter, you’ll have noticed a fairly wide-ranging tone – from silliness to seriousness, from Kids Television to Cloud Computing.

It’s a bit hard on the eyes – let’s fix that. I’ve started up a new twitter account which I’ll be using for more informative, tech focused tweets, while the old account will keep the same old collection of tired dad-jokes and reviews of Sesame Street.

Please subscribe to the new account if you’re into tech and my professional side (@clatterbrain), otherwise, here, have a picture of Bioshock Infinite – one of the most gorgeous games I’ve ever played on a computer thingy. You should play it too.

BioShock Infinite

Happy Birthday, BONWAG

Hey, it’s that time of year again, when we cut the virtual cake for BONWAG’s 18th birthday!I first started keeping tracks of Bits Of Net What Are Good back on November 5, 1994, and although Twitter and Facebook have taken the lion’s share of my attention in recent years, there’s still a place for opinionated rants and random thingery here.

Be sure that Facebook and Twitter will disappear, probably sooner than you’d think/like. I highly recommend establishing yourself with more open, more ownable properties like blogs, which were around before MySpace and Yahoo, and will be here long after the latest fad has passed.

And, as a special birthday treat, I’ve switched off the ads, permanently. How annoying were they?

How To Be Human

A guide for robots and aliens

Greetings!

Greetings! (Photo credit: JD Hancock)

Greetings, fellow sentient being. All too often, we humans are so quick to drag you before our leaders that we forget to school you in the fundamental activities all humans share. Here are some examples of the simple, straightforward activities you need to understand before attempting to exterminate and/or probe us.

How to wash your hands

How to tie your shoes

How to fold a t-shirt

How to fold a fitted sheet

How to open a door