April Fools Day

Just to clear one thing up for those of you that received an SMS from me yesterday just to let you know I was having a bad day, and had quit my job.... It was the 1st of April - and if you believed me "April Fools!".

On that note, thought I would also mention that Google have outdone themselves this year. Each year Google seem to have some really out there April Fools, and this year they went all out.

For their blogger site (blogger.com) they have announced a new blogging service that will order your blog posts not by date, but by what is most interesting. The new service also promised to highlight anything you say that it considers interesting, plus if you don't know what to blog about, there will be a "I'm feeling lucky" button, that will actually write an interesting blog post for you.

Google Calendar announced a new wake up call reminder service that will sms you a wake up call, and if you do not respond to that will use more drastic measure to awaken you.

On the general Google search site, they announced 2 things. First was gDay, which is a new revolutionary search and analysis algorithm that will display web pages and sites 'as they will look tomorrow'. This includes news sites and blogs, so you can see blog posts and news articles before they are even written.

The second major Google April fools, was the announcement that Google and Virgin have partnered to create Virgle... a new initiative that will shortly be setting up the first colony on Mars, which was looking for people to register for their place on the red planet.

With all these great services announced this year, I can't wait to see what Google will do next year!

What are we looking for?

Ok, I'm in a strange D&M kind of mood today... so this post will probably be a little deeper than usual (or more airy fairy). I am sitting here, alone... feeling slightly depressed wondering why do we, as people put ourselves through this? What are we searching for in this world?

Why is it, we devote so much of our energy, thought and emotion into finding a 'perfect person' to share our lives with? We pass hundreds of people in our daily lives when we go to the shops, work, out to a function... hundreds just pass us by and we don't give them a second look... but we all search for just 1 to come home to, or go out for dinner with. Why?

Is it the reason of our being - after all we could say the purpose of being is to reproduce to pass on our genes to the next generation, for this pattern to continue again and again. Why do us humans however look for one person to do that with... other animals seem quite happy to hump what ever comes next to them, then move on... without ever looking back.

With animals it is simply reproduction... (most) seem to have no emotional connection to whoever it is they are doing. Would a lion mate with a lioness, then care if she was later hit by a car, struck by lightning, or given some nasty std by a sleazy meerkat?

What are we looking for? Is it:

• Sex on tap
• Someone to help cook or clean for us
• Someone to look after us physically and financially - so we can lazily go on with our lives without a care.

If it is these simple things why is it the things I miss most are having someone just there, who you can whinge to if you have had a crappy day, or someone to cuddle up to in bed if it gets cold, or just knowing someone is there and that they are in some way your responsibility to provide for, to care for, like a pet for you to love and look after. Does our emotional investment in them somehow make us feel that once we go, we will have in a tiny way left our mark on the world at that at least one person out there will remember us and think of us until they eventually drop off the perch.

In a mind frame of looking at the above reason as an investment - wouldn't we be better trying to make this impact on the lives of everyone we meet... that way we would be remembered by more... so why is it we choose just one. Just one person to let all our feelings be exposed to, to share such a level of intimacy that they can see you and all your vulnerability as a person. Do we realise that by doing this we are making ourselves so venerable to being hurt so much? Are we that stupid... why is it we choose to trust a person so deeply? Should we?

I think it is human stupidity, or maybe even some desperate desire of hope in thinking that maybe our generation has evolved the perfect being, who is perfect, and trustworthy in every way that they will never hurt us.... but how do we know unless we drop all our defences and give them a chance?

Why is it, we can physically cut ourselves, it hurts for a while, but once we distract ourselves with another task we are fine... but we 'break our hearts' which causes no physical harm to us, and no matter what we do, it keeps eating at us inside. Then, being smart as we are supposed to be, you think we would learn from the pain not to try again... but we do.... we seek to take the gamble again.... will it pay off this time?

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- Henry Louis Mencken

Priscilla - Queen of the Desert

Last night I went to see the Priscilla Queen of the Desert musical. Mum and Dad got me tickets for by birthday. It was bloody brilliant. Basically they have taken the movies and worked even more on it, added extra bits and made a few little tweaks.

The music was fantastic and the costumes were just dazzling. I think the soundtrack for the musical is on iTunes so I may have to buy that one. The music just left your feet tapping all the way through the show.

The setup of the stage was really good.... you would not believe that they could fit pretty much a full sized bus on stage, and actually have it move about, while having enough room to do scenes which do not feature the bus.

If your looking for a good night out, filled with laughs and good music, why not go see Mitzi, Felicia, Bernadette, Miss Understanding, and Farah Force-it in Priscilla - Queen of the Desert.