So it's been rather quiet so far this week in terms of happenings, although the underlying fear of having three assignments due, an RA application, and a mid-semester test in the next three days makes it less pleasant.
Let's get the rest over with: We won Frisbee on Monday (but only just), lost Volleyball again tonight, and the last birthday of birthday season takes place on the 22nd (my sister, she's turing 16).
Enough on the 'interesting' news, it's time for another installment of:
My Thoughts On... Dubbed Advertisements
Something quite trivial this time, although at some stage you should have come across this - when you can tell (or rather have a very good hunch) that one (or more) of the people speaking has had their voice replaced.
Sure this happens in foreign movies so that the audience has a clue about what's happening, but what about a commerical for toothpaste or glass cleaner when you think that whoever did the acting as the housewife obviously didn't have a comprehensible enough voice for the producer's liking so they had to pay someone to carefully copy their voice. Although they didn't get the audio in sync quite enough to fool the general public. Seriously, would it really alter our desicion to buy product X if the female figure's voice was only 'slightly off-timbre'? I'm sure we're not comparing the quality of products with the voice skills of the actors.
And it's happened with children too... remember back to the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics? The organisers decided that the child actually signing some song "wasn't pretty enough" [sic] and so had to find a replacement that could lip-sync to an audience of over 6 billion people. In their defense, I'm sure they were considering image, but about the girl providing audio? 'Cause they can't just say "Oh, sorry, we're letting someone else take the credit for 'signing' the song". Maybe that was a little exaggerated. But hopefully you get my point.
And if that doesn't fill up the post enough, here's another. "Wow! Two rants!" I hear you say. Well...
My Thoughts On... Vuvuzelas
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Facebook Trial Week - Day 5
Done the math... I've so far averaged around 16 new friends per day, and that's great... but if I can reach 100 by Friday 11a.m., I'll definitely be hooked.
I do have one slight annoyance... people liking sentences. Let me clarify. I'm talking about the sentences found on websites that specialise in hosting pages with... well, sentences.
It's receiving news items like "So and so and 759 other friends like [Insert some sort of funny quote that never really happened but would be funny if it did]" that kinda annoys me... sure, they're great... but it just seems like a mechanical process: See a good sentence, "Ooh, I like that, let's tell everyone!", repeat. And because there's so many friends of mine like-ing stuff daily, I have a constant stream of unrelated (but funny, don't get me wrong) posts that some person in a distant country somewhere is made to come up with. I just think that if you really liked it you'd be able to come up with it yourself. Come on people, let's be original!
Sorry for any offense given in the previous section. Perhaps the next section could smooth it over?
The Mid-Week Website
MeetWays - This week we uncover a quirky little website, MeetWays takes two addresses and finds a halfway point, perfect for if you want to meet a friend halfway (literally). Give it a go here.
And that ends the last post for this half of semester. I'm going back home for a bit starting Saturday, and unfortunately it doesn't necessarily mean that the workload decreases. Oh well.
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