25 May, 2004

You know you’ve hit rock bottom when you’re on TV. I say this as a stupid TV show about Donald Trump appears on TV behind me. It took me 5 minutes of watching to realise it was another load of bollocks dealt out in the name of entertainment – something about young twats getting a job with the old school bastard.Try thinking for yourselves dumb asses.

The 6 o’clock news had two fascinating articles tonight. They follow an interesting trend I’ve noticed and it is kind of like the media has realised they screwed up in a number of areas and are now trying to catch up. The first article was about hybrid cars. Petrol prices are on the increase here, finally, and quite frankly considering the global environment at the moment, that’s not surprising. The media is ‘shocked’ that NZers aren’t taking up hybrid cars (by which we mean hydrogen engines) after two whole months of violent increases in petrol prices. Putting aside the complete disconnection of well known (if constantly ignored) oil depletion issues, the average NZer earns $30k a year. The average Hydrogen car costs around $45k. You do the math. Pay your food and electricity bills or buy a car.

The second article was about the third of it’s kind in a trend of U.S. Bush bashing (that’s the president Bush and not the porn kind). That’s not a big deal really, we know he’s a dick, along with John Howard (to keep it closer to home) but the media seem a bit late off the mark on this. Intelligent people clicked that shit was wrong with our US friends when they declared war on Iraq with dubious connections between the Trade Center attacks and Saddam Hussein. Why has it taken mainstream media two years to figure this out? I’m guessing it’s because it’s now ‘trendy’ which is a disgrace. Politics is never trendy and war is just plain disgusting. I should stop watching the TV news.

With that out of the way, work is busy as hell and has pushed aside the Trouser Project for now. I have some time to spend on it this week and have a new shirt design in mind to try out. It’s a slow process but a good process. I am back in my home office now and thoroughly enjoying it. After we got a chat server running I can now stay in touch with the others I work with and in general life is a little easier. That said I’ve had to bike into town every day for something this week. The exercise is surely good for me. Back to hockey this week after a two week break…I imagine I will feel pain.