Rinato

I have a job interview on Thursday for the very glamorous KFC. The funny thing about this, is that about two months ago I was a part of this protest called KFC. It stood for Kentucky Fried Cruelty. Basically, the way that they kill the chickens that are sold at KFC is incredibly cruel, so I went with a bunch of people to hand out fliers that told everyone how awful their killing of chickens was. It was odd, because most of the people I were doing it with were vegetarian when, y’know, I’m not. So I had to fake it for a bit because, while I do love a piece of chicken just as much as the next person, the way they kill those poor chickens is pretty cruel. And, also, I think they would have beaten me up for not being vegetarian while at the same time doing their protest. I had Red Rooster later that day.

I have betrayed the chickens. It is a sad day indeed. But, well, I’m desperate for some cash. I just can’t tell my hippie vegetarian friends…

So, hopefully, all will go well, and I’ll be handling cruelly slaughtered chickens coated in a heart attacks worth of grease for money in my pocket! I’m not much of a KFC eater. That stuff is way too oily!

The manager I talked to seemed like a nice guy. He’s an albino. I did an aptitude test thing. It was pretty easy, but I kept getting distracted because one of the employees had a really cute butt, and he was wearing tight pants.

…

It was a nice butt, okay?!

Uhm, in other news, it is way too hot over here. So while everywhere else everyone will be frolicking about in the snow during the cheery Christmas season, I will be suffering from heatstroke.

And also: The new design is coming along nicely! I had to delve deep into the dark realms of CSS to achieve my result… AKA I had to play with opacity in IE in order to make things disappear, because that browser can be whiny little bitch. It steals peoples souls so that they are tricked into thinking that IE will reign supreme. When, in fact, it is the reliable open-source browsers such as Firefox that are dilligently working away to ensure that using the Internet, whether it be for pr0n or Hello Kitty merchandise, will be a hassle free experience. I want to make sweet love to that browser. Oh yeah! Oh, if only everyone could boycott IE…

Either way, cross browser compatibility will be miiiine!

Seriously, it scares me sometimes how anal I am about cross-browser compatibility. I get nervous when I have to switch browsers. However, thanks to the trusty IE tab, this is much less of a hassle.

I was asked the other day if I would rather be feared or loved. My answer?

That’s easy. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

A bit like the way I am afraid of how much I love John Mayer and his sexy, sexy hair. They are actually two separate entities, did you know that? His hair is so awesome that it is actually considered a different being. Well, not ‘officially’, but… I consider it a different being! And that is enough for me.

And, last but not least, thank you to the pumpkins who said my (very, very short) story was good! ♥! It means a lot, as I am irritatingly insecure about my story writing (or lack thereof) skills.

I finally got to scan my photography folio for this term. So, finally, I get to post a few of my pictures up on the Intarwebz. I couldn’t scan all of them, because there are so many, so I just chose my favourites :). I took them all with my darling SLR, Rufus! (You can see a picture of his model here)

The main theme for these photos was city/urban living. They were all taken in the CBD, and the photos are about half the size of an A4 piece of paper. Rufus is a traditional SLR, I used black and white film, and printed them all on silver gelatin.

(The above was just for my own reference)

I felt slightly nostalgic as I uploaded these. I mean, I won’t be doing photography next year! But I will still have my SLR ♥. There will be no way in Hell for me to photograph and paint at the same time, it would just be too much work. However, on the upside, I really really adore painting. I love it more than photography! I guess I just wanted to try something new this year, and something that was a bit more challenging. Not that painting is easier than photography, it’s just that I’ve been doing painting for a very long time, so I know what looks good and I’ve been taught colour theory. So, with black and white photography, there would be no need to use colour theory, for obvious reasons.

Anyway! Onto the photos. (They are quite large, for those with slower connections)

For the last one, I put a really scuffed up piece of acetate on top of it before I printed it, so that explains the scratches. So, they are intentional! I wanted something sort of dirty looking, with that mood. You know what I mean. Including the person in the shot was entirely intentional, too, as it would have no comparison whatsoever.

You know, sometimes I wonder about some of the keys on a computer keyboard. Scroll lock, for instance. Who would need scroll lock? Has anyone ever actually used scroll lock? I mean, someone must have been scrolling all over the place, and got totally out of control and got scared of their uncontrollable scrolling, so they invented scroll lock. I, for one, have never uttered the phrase “Thank God for scroll lock! Good thing someone invented that key,”.

On the other hand, there are some Internet things that I can’t imagine functioning without: Mozilla Firefox. GMail. Google. Actually, did you know that there is a Church Of Google? Forget agnosticism, I’m a Google Follower now XD!

Found on the arguments page:

So, if Google told you to go jump off a bridge, would you do it?

If someone told you that after you die, you’re going to live ‘forever’ in peace and harmony in the sky, would you believe them?

*cracks up*

I probably found that a bit too gut-bustlingly hilarious for it to be false. “BEHOLD, FOR SHE INDEXES OVER 9.5 BILLION WEB PAGES!”

Ooh, and this is interesting: How many times the terms ‘google’ and ‘god’ are searched in Google in comparison to each other.

What sites/services on the Internet could you not imagine functioning without?