Law Of Sods

Broken Promises ...

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:23:21 +0100

I made a promise to myself that I would attempt to post at least once a week and for the most part I have managed to do so but recently I feel like I have been slipping. So here is an attempt to get back on track. Most recently I have been really getting into my American Football, I have always been interested but I have been thinking of taking it up as a sport not just a hobby, more to follow …

Under the Sea ...

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:54:35 +0000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-12820354

A man who owns what is thought to be the UK’s biggest privately-owned aquarium, in the basement of his Nottinghamshire home, said he dreams of building something much bigger and turning his hobby into a job.

The 4,500-gallon freshwater fish tank is 7ft (2.1m) deep and 13ft (4m) wide.

It cost Jack Heathcote from Carlton £5,000 to create and is home to several stingrays, two turtles, a catfish and a 4ft (1.2m) alligator gar fish.

Mr Heathcote said he had had a passion for fish since childhood and dreamt of building a 50,000 gallon tank and breaking the world record for a private aquarium, currently held by an American.

I want one …

Trading at the Speed of Light ...

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:44:54 +0000

I found this article the other day and found the concept really interesting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12827752

Basically the concept is that stocks and shares trading happens so fast that it is affected by the constraints of the speed of light. The idea is that by mapping the fibre optic network you can locate where lag occurs and therefore position yourself to take advantage on the market before they become visible in another geographical location. I also like the idea presented in the article, of our future financial centres being floating stock exchanges in the middle of the sea. This is mainly because if all our money is at sea then being a pirate will become a viable career option and I have always wanted a parrot.

Children Are Stupid ...

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:44:56 +0000

I happened to catch some early morning children’s television this morning and it struck me that children are essentially stupid. Let me explain …

If children find kids TV shows entertaining then there is definitely no hope for them, they should just give up now and know that kids TV will never be as good as it was back in my day, and that is a fact. But then I thought about it, most of the shows that I hold dear to my childhood like Thomas The Tank Engine (the real Ringo Starr Thomas the Tank Engine not the horrible abortion that is the CGI version offered to kids these days), Thunderbirds (and all the other puppet shows Stingray etc), Transformers and the list goes on; aren’t my generation at all. Thunderbirds and Stingray were from the 60’s and Transformers and Thomas the Tank Engine although from the 80’s, the decade I was born in, actually stopped producing episodes years before I was even born. The conclusion I have come to is, if children are stupid enough to except what is currently offered to them as entertainment then why not just show all the shows that I grew up with, they will never know the difference. Why? Because they are stupid.

Imagine I am Saying Something Profound ...

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:58:24 +0000

I don’t claim to be a philosopher … far from it in fact. I also don’t claim to be a social commentator, but I do intend to try and write about things happening in the real world but from my own perspective. Which actually come to think of it, is probably almost a dictionary definition of a ‘Social Commentator’. By doing this I hope to give this blog a sense of a place in time. Dates are all well and good but it is the events in that that year that stick with us. I suppose the event occurring at the moment which will be remembered for a long time to come is the recent natural disasters in Japan.

Basically to put it bluntly the whole of the eastern coast of Japan is fucked.

Not only has the country suffered an earthquake and a tsunami but there is also a possibility of radiation leaks from the 2 Fukushima Nuclear Plants. Out of all the countries in the world Japan probably has the worst luck when it comes to disasters of the nuclear variety.

How long will it take to recover god knows. Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, over 5 1/2 years ago and New Orleans still looks terrible. And that was mostly flood damage. Japan has that plus earthquake damage, plus the ever growing possibility that a lizard will be exposed to ever increasing radiation thus resulting in some sort of Godzilla like creature. Good luck with that Japan.

My rant on the Oscars ...

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:55:34 +0000

I suppose I should be happy that British cinema dominated at the Oscars with the success of ‘The Kings Speech’. And don’t get me wrong I am … to a point. I’m sick of how Hollywood perceives what is a good film. If there is one film that was terribly over looked it was definitely Christopher Nolan’s ’Inception’. Inception was a rare commodity last year in the fact that it was a blockbuster film raking in millions and millions of dollars yet had a cerebral quality, often absent from the likes of transformers 5 - Superman VS the generic summer blockbuster. Yet it appears that if your film is successful and does blockbuster numbers it is deemed too mainstream and is therefore not artistic enough to receive recognition from it’s peers. This is not to undersell The Kings Speech at all, I enjoyed it on every level and can see why it has gained all of the recognition it has received. I guess my main gripe is the Nolan was completely overlooked and not even nominated for Best Director, for fuck sake the guy directed The Dark Night, what does a guy need to do to win a bloody gold bald statue. In conclusion I think Hollywood needs to stop being so pretentious and stop over looking films just because they are popular. P.s I Love Christopher Nolan, bring On the Dark Night Rises.

First Post...

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:16:12 +0000

Not exactly the most eventful of events, but this is my first post on this blog. I’m not really sure how I intend to use this blog, or whether it will even serve a purpose. The chances are that it will just evolve into a platform for my ramblings most of which will be pointless and as a result this blog may end up becoming a sort of black hole in which I throw a little time and effort until it implodes … either that or I will get bored.