Convergence…and ENVIRONAZIS

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Convergence and Environazis is the words of the day. First off - CONVERGENCE. I’m doing my Digital media project on it - the one that’s worth 50% of my entire sem mark. I should be drawing the storyboard right now but instead I’m randomly surfing the net….hahah typical. So, what is convergence I hear you ask? I get confused too. From how I understand it its the coming together of different media forms. So for example TV on the internet, or internet on your mobile phone. For our project we’re kind of parodying a Danoz Direct commercial, in which we’re selling ‘convergence’. Hopefully it’ll turn out ok, our pitch is next Wednesday! We had a lot of fun looking at all the home shopping ads though…like the Ab buster and Swivel vacuum….I wonder who actually falls for these ridiculous scams.

I also have to start on my English essay which is also worth 50% of my sem mark….god does it sound like just repeating everything from my previous blogs here?:P I just … haven’t gotten around to starting yet. I still need to read ‘Falling Man’ anyway. It’s about the 9/11 event and I thought it would be at least a bit interesting, but it’s really boring to be honest. I don’t know how these postmodern writers come up with these storylines - its like the purposely set out to confuse the heck out of you while reading. It gets to the point where its like ‘ok I get the point you’re really smart and I’m just the average joe who likes reading stories in linear form’. Its just that everytime I read books like The Following Story or A Wild Sheep Chase I figure all postmodern writers are arrogant too-good-for-anyone-else bastards who read philosophical journals every day.

Anyway I have to rant about this: Environazis. The main reason I blogged today in the first place. You didn’t think I was coming on here just to rant about UNI again didya? Hah. Yeah, yeah I know -the environment is on topic - AGAIN. So I have to warn you now, another rant is coming.

Well, there’s this person/s who walks by our house every so often, and because we have a reticulation system I’m guessing they assume we waste tonnes of water on the grass and so forth(which is totally NOT true. I’d just LOVE to see their water usage bill). While we’ve never actually seen them(I’m guessing they go for walks at around 4/5 in the morning-_-), every so often one or two of the reticulation heads will be broken off or damaged completely - quite obviously by someone who has kicked/purposely broken it. At first we thought it was just an accident or random incident…but then it kept happening and happening and it happened again today.

Now I understand how people can get upset over people using excess water for seemingly unnecessary things - but come on now, there’s a fine line between activism and radicalism. I class this as as TERRORISM. This environaziism has gone on for months now, maybe even since last year(I don’t know, I don’t keep track of these sad people’s lives), but it just really GETS to me that people will resort to these measures to make themselves feel better about ’saving the world’. No wonder some people think environmentalists are a bunch of crackheads.

God I would just love to set up a CCTV out the front and catch those bastards. I really seriously would (but I have no idea how to). I don’t know who it could possibly be, but I can imagine it being some middle aged/80 yr old man who has nothing better to do than to break off people’s sprinklers and buying those $20 dollar buckets at the Post office to save water in the shower(no kidding…I actually saw the post office selling this ‘enviro friendly bucket’ that looked like a regular bucket cept it had a weird lid on it. Well there’s capitalism for you.)

And besides, is this sort of thing not illegal trespassing/vandalism? I mean it’s at the front…but still. My mum’s had to pay for a number of replacement heads at Bunnings because of some lame person’s attempt at doing the world a favour.

Well I know what else they can do to help save the world. Get a life.

~ Jakki posted at 11:31 pm

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3 Responses to “Convergence…and ENVIRONAZIS”

1. Lin Says:
   May 17th, 2008 at 7:59 am

   i love what you said about today’s writers, so true.

   heh, i like reading your blog, it’s always something ridicule & amusing somewhat.

   btw, im sorry you had to deal with the bastard who wont stop messing with your lawn, that’s sad.. but believe in karma.

2. Sara Says:
   May 17th, 2008 at 9:10 pm

   Damn, what a twat.

   Sucks that photographing won’t work cos the authorities might just say an animal or such did it. -_-

3. Teff Says:
   May 18th, 2008 at 11:51 am

   I cannot believe someone is doing that! What sort of crack head goes by and just BREAKS somebody’s sprinklers? Like, seriously, if they wanna do the world a favor, go deal with something else larger than a sprinkler in someone’s yard. I don’t know what I’d do if I had that happen. I would probably stake out my own place just to catch the person doing it. I agree with you - it’s probably some cranky 80 year old who is angry with the world, and decides that he or she will do his part to save the world by kicking over someone’s sprinkler. It’s the one thing I love about my yard. I don’t ever have to water it, it’s green right through summer until fall hits and the seasons changing kills it. Though I do have to water my plants, but we don’t even have a hose hook up outside so we have to use a watering can. We’ve had people do some pretty nasty things to our house and car though. What is this world coming to eh? My goodness. And I agree with Sara, authorities will probably just assume an animal did it. Because they’re cool like that.

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