Relying on the 100% Accurate, Exhaustive, Methodical process from Mr. Gerbear, I hereby award this year’s #Eurovision points. Australian Jury, you have your marching orders.
As always, this is based on a listen alone; I haven’t seen or heard the televised performances, so if someone bums a note or has a notable bum, I haven’t been swayed. We’re doing science here, people.
Here’s the full list. I’m as surprised as you are about some of the positions. Especially Spain. Am I a tree*?
But not about The Netherlands. The Netherlands’ entry is bad and they should feel bad. Points négatifs.
Because trees need sap to live.
UPDATE: Moar science – this suggests my controversial pick of Lithuania at #3 has support in the extant literature. Science!
Here, in the lull between #MayTheFourth and #RevengeOfTheSixth, is the one day a year I revisit my list of grievances against the Star Wars universe. In no particular order:
#HanShotFirst, unless you’re in some Disney-fied alternate reality, in which case, sure, self-defense, whatever.
#LetTheWookieeWin… a medal for his part in blowing up the Death Star. R2D2, also.
R2-D2, and most of the SW robo-proletariat are not “droids’, a shortening of ‘android‘, meaning a “robot with a human appearance”. C-3PO, sure. Battle droids, fine. BB-8? Not a ‘droid.
Obi-wan aparrently forgetting his 3-movie relationship with R2-D2: the most loyal, competent and heroic astromech in the galaxy.
“But, but; he actually says: I don’t seem to remember ever owning a droid. so he’s right, from a Certain Point Of View”
Get out.
Many services have come and gone (MySpace deserved to die, Google Wave didn’t ) and these two have become something very different from what they were, but I think this internet fad might stick around for a while longer.
Here it is, the yearly post celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the first post on Bonwag! As always, it’s been superseded by Facebook (and Day One – a personal diary) in recent times, so has been lightly tended, but one day, Facebook will die, taking my posting history with it, and Bonwag will still stand!
Here’s to having survived another year.
A marketing operations expert by day, muso/journo/geekdad by night, who just wants robots and humans to get along