4pm. Officially an hour and a half until the working week is over. Unofficially more like an hour and a quarter. I’m having a strong coffee now to pick myself up, had a couple of pints at lunch and that always makes me feel sleepy in the afternoon. It’s actually pretty difficult to get back to work after that, you just hit the wall. I’m going to go to the gym straight after work though, I like going on Fridays because it’s quiet and you generally don’t have to wait to use the equipment. I’ve stared varying the exercises I do so it all doesn’t become monotonous. I’m also doing my dips unassisted now, which I think is pretty impressive. It’s quite funny that when I look at myself in the mirror, the satisfaction I get from seeing the results I get from the gym, is tinged somewhat by the fact that I am sickeningly pasty and white.
I am appalled but not in the slightest way surprised that the US are going to start drilling for oil in Alaska. They’ll get maybe a six-month supply of oil from the place and despite backer’s claims that modern drilling equipment is far more environmentally friendly, irreparable damage will be caused to the area. Of course we will not stop until we have sucked every last drop of oil from the earth, and the earth will run out of oil within my expected lifetime. At the moment there is little sign of a viable alternative to fossil fuels. Dubya has insisted that drilling there is in the interest of security. This is of course the standard excuse for everything nowadays. Now whenever you are asked to explain pretty much anything, the statement ‘It’s for security purposes,’ seems to be infallible.
All the world’s energy problems could be solved by perpetual motion, then we need not worry about drilling for more oil. To do this I think we need to apply a law previously discussed in this blog; Sod’s Law. For example, if you drop a piece of toast, sod’s law states that it will always land buttered side down. When a cat falls, its body is designed to twist so it will always land on its feet. Now if we can attach a piece of toast to a cat’s back, buttered side up, and drop the cat; the two aforementioned laws will cause the cat to spin endlessly. If we can somehow harness this perpetual motion, we will have little further need for fossil fuels.
The laws of physics do not allow for perpetual motion. However the problem is infinity. The impossibility of perpetual motion and the concept of infinity are mutually exclusive. We cannot create perpetual motion because of entropy, however the concept of entropy must preclude a finite universe. I wrote this second point down a while ago when it came to me, despite the absence of any scientific data, I think it is conceptually a valid idea.
Again we will not see Mat Rogers turning out for the Tahs tomorrow. Perhaps he is at the tattoo parlour getting drawn on again. I noticed in the last game he played, he was sporting a large tat in calligraphic writing along the inside of his right forearm. These are quite popular amongst footballers and other people with absolutely no taste or style. But what does it say? Well Mat has shown again that his sense of originality applies only to his skills with a football by permanently marking the phrase C’est la vie on his arm. I wonder what else he had on the short list before deciding to go with that one. More that likely this phrase means a lot to him, as it’s what he says to himself every time he gets injured. Well done Mat, you have shown us so far this year that you are a great footballer, but you are also a total dickhead. But hey, that’s life.
Right, I’m going home.
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