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Today, I start my flights to the USA for reIMAGINE 2015 in Fargo, ND and GPUG Summit 2015 in Reno, NV. By the time this article posts I will have already left Perth and be coming in to land in Sydney.
As is customary when I visit the US, I will be bringing some of Australia with me (usually in the form of edible treats). In this article, I thought I would bring some Australian sports knowledge to my overseas readers.
I feel a great disturbance in the Thumb. You might remember the movie Kung Pow! Enter The Fist by Steve Oedekek, a parody of B grade martial movies that is funny in its absurdity.
Well, I recently came across an article which highlighted some of Steve’s previous work with his series of thumb parodies of well known movies.
Today’s Friday Funny is something to see if you can remember your high school algebra.
The following mathematical proof suggests that 2 = 1, which would definitely cause some issues with the accounting type people out there.
So the question is:
“What’s wrong with this mathematical proof?”
There have been some amazing marriage proposals posted via social media and YouTube over the last few years, but this has got to be one of the coolest one yet.
Maybe that’s just because it is from an Australian guy ….
If haven’t been hiding under a rock or burying your head in the sand for the last few years, you would have heard of that small show on HBO called Game of Thrones. Based on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series, the show has a reputation for frequent use of nudity, violence, sex and for killing off lead characters in many varied ways.
You have enjoyed the books and TV show and now thanks to Chris Martin and his British band Coldplay, you should soon be able to enjoy Game of Thrones: The Musical.
In recent years when I have come to conferences in the US, I have been bringing a stash of goodies with me.
Usually, this includes Arnott’s Tim Tams and Allen’s Chicos*, which are liked by almost everyone who tries them. And then there is the Aussie Icon, Vegemite.
Last year I posted on my previous blog a funny video article which rang true for me. Well now there is a sequel video which warrants a revisit of the video series.
As someone who has worked in the IT industry for many years with a significant amount of the recent years with a reasonable large corporation that you might have heard of, the videos from Tripp and Tyler are “spot on”.
See both videos below:
While I was originally born in London, England (yep, I’m a Pom*), everyone knows that I come from Australia. My family emigrated to Perth when I was 13 and I have had the operation to naturalise me as an Australian.
Probably due to my English background and the fact that accents in Perth are not strong, I don’t have a strong Australian accent (Not like Paul Hogan’s Crocodile Dundee character – watch trailer or Steve Irwin real character – watch trailer). However, I do use some different words and sometimes use Australian slang or abbreviations.
After last week’s puzzle, I came across something a little harder that has been keeping people awake at night.
Singaporean high-school students were presented with this logic problem in the Singapore and Asian Schools Math Olympiad test paper last week. The test is aimed at the top 40 per cent of students in one of the most mathematically gifted countries in the world.
Recently a puzzle has been doing the rounds on the Book of Face and I thought it would be good to test how quickly my readers could solve it. It is probably an oldie, but it is a goodie.
The puzzle is the Car Park Puzzle where you have to work out the missing number for the bay where the car is.