Quote Hungy/Fiber

So anyway, yesterday's failures were mostly offset by today's coolness. I have an official job title now and an official office is but a semester away, or so I'm told. And also if anyone knows anything about marketing and wants a stable, high risk-reward ratio self funded job do contact me. Because I don't know anything about marketing. Don't tell that to my boss(es) though they don't need to know that.

On why he can't be bothered coming on msn.
"Either it's depressing because there's no one to talk to or annoying because there is."-Mel

I'm getting good at these rant things aren't I? I think I could get used to this.

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Okay this is the last rant I'll ever write I promise. Please don't go away D:

No this is a serious post (also known as a rant), and while I will try I'd rather not get hopes up. This is my first attempt at serious analysis (i.e. ad hominem), so bear with me. Or don't its up to you, I realise now this post is pretty, I mean, mindnumbingly long.

Some dude called Edmund Burke said something along the lines of "Evil happens when good men do nothing." Let us just make the convenient assumption that by 'good' Burke actually meant 'smart', because its good to be smart right, I think its not far fetched to extrapolate this idea to "Shit happens when smart people do nothing," which can then be extended to "Shit happens when dumb people do dumb things."

Now while not point the finger at anyone directly because that's politically incorrect, let me just quote those guys over at greenpeace for a bit:
"Even if it were 100% clean, 100% safe, and 100% foolproof, nuclear power can do little or nothing in the fight against climate change."
I mean, Greenpeace is THE internationally renown/recognized/acknowledged blah blah champion of world happiness and good right? I mean heck even the auto correct built into this 2nd rate blogging platform that is blogger won't even let me get away with greenpeace without showing that annoying red squiggly 'hey learn2spell' reminder unless I capitalize the G.

Now obviously the guys at Greenpeace aren't just going to throw out random unsupported catchphrases like our government (I feel bad for dissing the government actually, they get way too much shit for the job they have to do), so evidently they'll have a lot of evidence to back up their statement right? That was a rhetorical question of course they do what do you think Greenpeace is, trying to run a country or something?

I'll summarize their really long argument as impartially as I can (you be the judge): Nuclear energy only accounts for 6% of global energy production at present, and even if you quadruple that by 2050 it will still only count for 10%. And this would require building a new reactor every 10 days (by Greenpeace's reckoning I assume, since they haven't cited anything). But even assuming that you could and would do so, and that they are, I quote:"nuclear reactors are safe AND foolproof AND we've solved the waste problem AND they're not terrorist targets AND that we can build a new reactor every ten days from now." we still don't need them to replace fossil fuels to generate electricity because other renewable are sufficiently capable of generating enough electricity to support the needs of some countries, such as Spain (35%) and Portugal (45%). Germany also has enough solar energy to rival the Fukushima reactors. Thus nuclear power isn't necessary as people make it out to be.

Okay I hope now you're thinking 'hm that sounds good, we might not need nuclear after all, right?' because otherwise then I might be liable for misleading you guys by call my summary impartial. Don't worry if you are though, I'm not about to finish this post with a downer ending.
To begin with lets pick apart the statistics behind Greenpeace argument because thats what good analysis is about: nit picking. Greenpeace says that renewables supply a rather large part of Spain and Portugal's energy, relatively speaking, and thus everyone should be able to do it. A quick search on google netted me some stats here that I have yet to calculate as I type this but pretty sure will let you know why this argument is pure environmentalist fantasy.

Speaking nothing of the fact that the population of Spain and Portugal combined do not even constitute a single percent of the world's total population (0.7%) to be exact, I think you can already see where this is going. The more observant of you will realise this is kind of unfair since all those poor kids in Africa and the DPRK probably don't use any energy at all, lets just compare them to China and the USA, two largest energy consumers:

Portugal and Spain use energy equivalent to about 3.2 tons of oil per capita per year. (actually the Portuguese uses less, at 2.4 tons, but I'm lazy and I doubt it'll make a difference in the big picture.) They have a combined population of about 10.6+46.1~=56.7million. That translates to a gross energy usage of about 181.4 million tons of oil per year.

China has 1.34 billion people (you must be able to see the problem already) and they use 1.4 tons of oil, per capita/year which is about 1876 million tons of oil, or 1.88 billion tons. The USA has 311 million people who use an unsurprisingly high amount of 7.76tons of oil/person/year for a total of 2413.4 million tons. That's a combined of 4.29 BILLION tons of oil. Per year.
So, 181/4290=~0.042 that's 4% of the combined energy needs of the two biggest economies in the world. Now assuming I haven't failed elementary arithmetic somewhere in there I ask you Greenpeace, how do you propose to renewablelize such massive energy needs even if you could do it in such puny and basically insignificant countries (only in terms of energy usage of course, I have nothing against Spaniards/Portuguese)? And if there was a cheap and easy way, why hasn't it been done yet?

Obvious answer is obvious: its not easy. We could argue about the accuracy of the stats I pulled from wiki and google but franky it doesn't matter if its 5% or 8% or 10%. That status quo speaks volumes, and I for one would like to think that governments know what they're doing. Maybe they don't but that'll have to wait in a different story. I don't even need to address that last point that was probably tacked on at the last minute: The solar power of an entire nation, and that's Germany, the world 4th largest economy by GDP, is only equivalent to a single, aging nuclear powerplant. And you know what the biggest irony is? The sun generates power by nuclear fusion. Yes stars are nuclear furnaces I hope that wasn't a surprise to anybody.

Anyway, after all of that you must've forgotten the point of this article which I'll take time to remind you again: That the world is doomed. Why? Because its obvious: the people running greenpeace are all obviously caught up in their own fantasies about a green world where everyone lives happily with mother nature. And me, being reasonably intelligent as I like to fancy myself would want to have nothing to do with people who form arguments based on completely fallacious logic, I can't imagine any one reasonably smart, I mean, 'good' would want to either. Herein lies the heart of the problem: good people probably don't want to do dumb things, but the people trying their best to do 'good' things aren't very good at it. Thus we arrive at the logical conclusion that the world is doomed.

And if you want a scapegoat (I do) blame OJ. This is basically his bastard child.

To find inspiration for continually updating a blog about my everyday life is hard to come by at times. My life just isn't that interesting. Consider if you will, the questions that come up on internship applications at big companies:

"Please demonstrate a recent time when you've shown initiative by applying something you've learned so make a major difference outside your comfort zone. Why did you do it? What did you learn?"

My response:
"While uh, at my sushi job a couple months ago, I decided that using rice to make sushi just wasn't cool enough. I mean, sure its all good and people say if it ain't broke don't fix it, but who's going to change the world, if not us? And if not now, then when? Back to the sushi, I thought to myself, why do people eat sushi? Is it because of the rice? Or is it because of the other stuff? The only reason why rice is there in sushi is to fill up the gap between the seaweed wrapping and the tasty tasty ingredients in the middle (e.g. fresh meat, as in, FRESH meat. Or salmon. Or potatoes. Whatever tickles your fancy). So I thought wow I just came up with a good idea, and this was going to be all the new rage in fine sushi dining and my eyes lit up as I thought that when my boss hears of this I'll finally be promoted from rice chef to sushi chef.

Sadly my boss did not agree. He told me to get back to the kitchen because the rice cookers were already blowing out steam and If I didn't attend to them they'd catch on fire and he'd have to fire me. I learned from this experience that innovative ideas often get buried beneath the impending dangers of a fire and that one should not give ideas to one's boss lest it burn the shop down. In case you were wondering what happened to me and my sushi job and my boss, I was nontheless fired a few weeks afterwards because I was caught eating sushi with three strips of tuna instead of two."

Anyhow, good luck to any of you out there applying for these internships/vacation work or whatever. It seems like too much trouble. If only my life were as interesting as what I claim happened, or if I was like Bill:

Bill is, incidentally, about to turn 18, and here are some of his hobbies as an minor:
Bill:"...yep, like hanging around, smoking, underage sex, etc"
Hungy:"The good stuff."
Bill:"Yes, and I only did one of the above [and] I've only got 10 days to do the rest."

Or if I were like a certain somebody, as Kegs reports:
"Biggest discovery today: Long. Nyugen. can. do. the. splits."-Kegs

Compared to some people, my life is positively boring. Oh noes this blog is turning into a emo rant blog whatever shall we do.

Okay guys, I must confess, I don't actually go to Monash University, despite what the people over at Monash Uni Anime Club (MCAC) might think. Even though I trolled them, or well badly attempted to, for an entire night and they fed me (as a troll) over their IRC and we were all getting along just fine. Hmmm the power of anonymity.

Speaking of anonymity I read today that if facebook was a country, It'd be the 3rd largest in the world and have more info on its citizens than any country currently in existence. Things you'd never notice and would hopefully never need to know.

But that's okay I plan to actually go and join them if i ever do actually rock up to Monash. No one needs to know. After all I signed up with my Melb email and they accepted it without question.

Also, I got a new phone! Since lost my old one and broke the one before that (in the span of about a week), which means I don't have anyone's numbers and yes this is a cheap way of saying gimme all your numbers! Mine hasn't changed, so gimme a call/text/find and remind me in person to get it off you and we can all be happy again!

One last thing, pop over to OJ's blog and check out the Les Mis song being done right (stupid mhs butchering masterpieces). Apparently someone uploaded the whole 2hr thing onto youtube as well so I think that might be worth the effort too!