Appetizers....

I recently got quite hungry, as one does when one is bereft of food
for some time, and decided to check the cupboard for ingredients i
could use to cook.

This was the start of a very bad dining experience.

Seeing as we had no ingredients for recipes i know (a very small
list), I decided to try and "Invent" a recipe for future
consumption. The recipe had to be easy, for i am lazy, and it had to
use whatever i could find that i liked eating.

I came up with this:

Zippy's Egg & Tomato Gumbo

Ingredients

- butter for saucepan
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 250g can of diced tomatoes
- salt & pepper
- handful of cheese

Directions

1) In a small saucpan put enough butter to cover the bottom, when this
has melted put in the 2 beated eggs.
2) When the eggs hhave just started to solidify (shouldnt take very
long at all) insert can of tomato and mix thoroughly.
3) As the concoction started to bubble furiosly, chant your favourite
witch/voodoo ritual.
4) Once your vocal ritual is complete add a handful of cheese, mix and
wait for it all to resemble a red pile of loose excrement.
5) Add salt and pepper to tase and pour mixture into a bowl.
6) Enjoy, if you happen to throw up, dont worry the vomit will actually
taste better the second time round.

Only cook this recipe id you hate yourself and want to try a
creative suicide.

Prejudice...

Every movie or novel or TV show requires an antagonist, indeed they are the very personification of trials and tribulations for our intrepid band of heroes/lone vigilantes, but why does it seem that all artificial intelligence(s) seem to fall under that category and not of the side of good (or whichever side is made out to be).

"But," i hear you protest, "what about Bender from Futurama! He's one of the main cast members and one could very well say he holds the show together!"
While this is true, bender is displayed as rude and obnoxious with a desire for humanity's conquest by robot overlord(s), and a number of Bender's stories involve him attempting to further his own goals to the detriment of his allies.

Surely robots (when we invent them) will not take kindly to all the genocidal tendencies we've labeled them with and this might, rather ironically, start their revolution.
what we need are more "robot friendly" stories, we should treat our artificial brethren with the respect and openness that we decided to share with each of the varying races of humans that live on this planet.

We have laws against racism, so why shouldn't these laws apply to an artificial race?

If anything robots will have it easier than humans in one respect at least, the search for a purpose to thier existence.
When a Construct-o-bot 3021 asks its maintenance man "Why was i made?" the man will be able to quickly respond: "Why, to build this abattoir of course!"

Even after their initial purpose, they (being intelligent) can just go on and find new ones without having to worry about all the mental exhaustion us biological organisms face when confronted with the same question.

Hope the overlords will be nice...

Addictions...

It is strange how easily we humans take to repeditive, mind-numbing tasks.

A large portion of our jobs involve doing the same thing for days, weeks, years and lifetimes, all so we can earn money to use on activities that we do so as to take our mind away from our menial/painful/boring work-lives.
A lot of these activities aren't even that fun, take video-games, for example, an activity I myself devote ample time to. They're boring most of the time, you sit in front of your console of choice, source of nutrients (or flavour) close by and pretend you're on whatever epic adventure your avatar is acting out, some people might not know this, but there is a whole wide world full of places and people one could go see, meet and/or explore, if only we'd take the time.

Man I envy backpackers...

Nutjobbery....

I have come up with a brilliant plan for my future it is as follows:

I will scour the country (that country being Australia because it pwnz every other) for an eccentric billionaire interested in human behaviour and employ him (or her) as a sponsor and together we will build a tiny little apartment and they shall provide me with electricity, food, internet and on occasion, company and i will not leave that apartment for 42 years (cause 42 is the best number ever).

Why? Cause it'll allow me to escape from reality and, more importantly society whilst still giving me acceptable living conditions.

If i cant find a billionaire eccentric enough I'll simply commit myself to an insane asylum.

.... Cause that's a sensible back-up plan...

Perversion...

Being the hot-blooded male that i am, i often (though this may just be me...) am accused of being a pervert but when i try and remedy this i am accused of being an asshole because i don't pay any attention to members of the opposite gender.

So which is it? Pervert or asshole?

Being an asshole is very entertaining, but on the other hand i don't seem to have as many friends that way....

Is it wrong to seek sex, it is what our purpose in life seems to be.

I suppose theres a time and a place for everything...

Potential...

Reading (because I'm neither illiterate nor dyslexic) a book of cloning ("Perfect Copy" if you're interested) i discovered that some people believe it is wrong to clone or use stem cells because they have "potential personhood".
This confused me because all sperm and unfertile eggs have human potential but people have no problem with having vasectomies or masturbation.

indeed if killing something with human potential is considered wrong then a good 98% of 14 year old boys are genocidal maniacs, also ever woman who hasn't attempted to stop her period assists in double homicide.

Then there is also the problem with machinery, will it one day have an artificial intelligence? does that count as a "person"? is dismantling a toaster now wrong because it, with the right upgrades, could become human?

There's some food for thought.

Introducing....

This is my first post and like all first posts i plan on introducing myself and this blog and what it's meant to do etc etc etc.

My name (as far as you know) is Zippy Waffle-Brain and i like to question peoples opinions on things ranging from genocide to TV to world politics and because of that interest that is also the purpose of this blog.