Guest Post Tuesday: Lee

Everyone in this world needs an Australian pop culture guru, and Lee is mine. I’d advise you to go and check out his excellent blog, Quit Your Day Job, but I don’t want you stealing him from me.

I really should sing Lee’s praises a bit more, after all he is a talented and entertaining writer and artist who’s blog entries I always look forward to reading. However I’ve had a hard 24 hours (check my twitter) and I just want to blast some aliens on my Wii and then go to bed.

So put down your swag bag by the bilabong, draw up a jumbuck, watch out for bunyips, and enjoy what Lee has to say.

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1995 is already here man!

I was going to write about something pithy and full of wit for my guest post here at Dan’s place.  Instead I’ll go with talking about junk food and old Sandra Bullock films.

I remember when the 1995 film The Net came out, computers were scary because for years we had seen Matthew Broderick.  Ummm oh yeah there was more to that sentence, we had seen Matthew Broderick in War Games and saw the stupid ‘net’ almost blowing the world up.

Stupid net.

But then Sandra came along and while Sandy from the OC was sleeping she was making the world fall in love with her!  Well some of us did, well some of you did, hey we’re not talking Demolition Man here.

Then something bad happened.

The stupid net took on Sandra!

But before that Sandra was using the net the way that we all expected it to work, she ordered pizzas online.  She went to the pizza site (that I can only imagine was called orderpizzasonlinethirteenyearsearly.com), picked out her toppings, used her credit card and then some dude brought the pizza to her door.

Yes I remember when The Net came out and none of that was bloody well possible at the time.  We were watching the movie one night and all drunkenly stumbled down to the computer room at uni and logged on to this so called net in order to do some cool net stuff like order pizzas or demand NORAD blow up some goat herder.

Nothing.

Some weird search engine that pretty much brought nothing up except some text sites talking about I don’t know what, nor did I care as it didn’t look like anything in The Net.

Flash forward thirteen years (well not exactly flash forward as it has taken me thirteen years to get here) and guess what I did tonight?

I ordered pizza, I picked my toppings and paid by credit card and a surly man brought it to my door, yes he forgot the garlic bread, but he always does that even when we order in store.  The point is I didn’t have to get out of my chair and walk over to the phone, dial some number and use my voice to order!!!

Now I have some error to check on one of my websites it has the Pi symbol in the corner and when I hit CTRL and SHIFT at the same time it does something funny…

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