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Hecticness

I’ve got a list of things as long as my arm to do and only so much time to do it in; when you’re at work, it’s hard to find the time to call up the motor registry and the car insurance company and the post office and the health insurance company. Why are these things only open during business hours? everyone’s working at that time!

I for one love Indian call centres. They’re open outside our business hours, and the people get my name right. If all call centres were in India, I could do the calls I need to when I had time, and I’d never get a parcel sent to Karen again. (“Yes, that parcel’s for me… No, I’m Karan, not Karen… I’m sorry, do you want a statutory declaration or something?” sheeze).

i.e. on a hectic roundabout of things to do and much too little time to find something interesting to blog about. Will put something down about E3 and the Playboxstation Wii60 circus on the weekend. In the meantime, bananas. or possibly grapefruit.

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Playstation 3 at E3

Engadget reports from Sony’s PlayStation infosession at E3

– They’ve reverted to the current controller body, but added motion detection like Nintendo. Microsoft have now committed to non-motion detection controller. Curiouser and Curiouser.
– Games look good. Hell, games look fan-bloody-tastic.
– Worldwide simultaneous launch! Region free! Backward compatible as always! :glee:
– US$499 – US$599 at launch… meaning probably $650 – $800 Aussie. :cries:

*starts saving*

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Movie Review: Crash

Crash is a movie that can’t accurately be described. There is no start-middle-end like most movies. It’s an ensemble peice, and while this usually conjures up images of movies like Love Actually, where there’s a connection, however tenuous, between all the characters, in Crash there isn’t. Or, well, there is, but it’s a lot more co-incidental and in the moment.

Crash was the winner of the Best Picture Oscar this year, and despite all the claims that it wasn’t deserving of it, I’d say it ranks right up there. I haven’t seen any of the other movies that were nominated, but they’d have to do a hell of a job topping it. Go watch it, it’s on DVD right now. ★★★★☆

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Evil Twins!

Occasionally, you’ll run into people who look like someone else you know, but it passes in a moment as they turn their head, or you do a double-take and realise they actually look nothing like your friend, you’re just projecting and you probably need to get a tad more sleep.

On the other hand, some days you’ll be sitting on the train/in the park/in a restaurant, and you keep looking at this stranger who’s stolen the face, body, hair, actions, etc., of your friend. (That or it actually is your friend, and they’re ignoring you, and you’re probably not in their definition of a friend.) If you look closely enough though, you’ll realise this evil twin has something subtly different about them, but you can’t shake the feeling…

So far, in the last 3 months, I have spotted evil twins for Fiona (different because she was too grumpy), Fay (too Honky), Chicky (too skinny), Kirsty (too lanky, if you’d believe it :P) and today, Esther (too frumpy). My conclusions are a) I’m spotting the closest female friends I have for some unknown reason, and b) the differences rhyme. sorta. not really.

egads, I really have nothing whatsoever to write about.

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Three Months a Workin’

Friday will mark 3 months of me being a working man, and today marks 3 months having moved out of home. Not sure how I feel about these things, but – wait for it – I’m gonna let you know. (gee, did you see that coming? not me, coz, totally…)

*ahem* Let’s structure this. And let you in on what I’m doing – no deletes in this post, just restatements. You get to see my thought process. Which obviously isn’t as structured as this, because I added this after writing some lines below. That are after the cut.

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