The Second Law of Globaldramatics
[Disclaimer: This may be incredibly lame, and only appeal to the engineers out there, but here goes]
Whilst waiting for an interview with a certain zinc, copper, coal and almost-anything mining firm, I was struck by the irony that I was being interviewed in a building made of predominantly glass and steel.
This lead me to think: What if irony were somewhat like entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics. That is to say, globally, the amount of irony around was constantly increasing. Ignore, for the moment, that I’m being a complete nerd; imagine if everything became gradually more ironic.
All BP employees would fill their petrol cars up with Shell diesel by mistake. CFOs of large companies everywhere would go bankrupt. And George Bush would say something witty. Okay that last one is not ironic, but it is just as fictional. I think the theme song for this parallel world (because all cool fictional worlds need their own theme song) would be Alanis Morissette’s Ironic. Because it’s not really ironic. Which is ironic. See?
Okay, that wasn’t as funny as I imagined it, I may revisit this one and make it funnier later. When irony is cool again.
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:18 am
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June 2nd, 2007 at 1:14 pm
See I told you, it was funny when I thought of it, but it may need a bit in the implementation…
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:58 pm
wow… in my absence this site had made the universe decrease in entropy as IT IS SUCKING ALL THE STUPIDITY OUT OF IT… lol
June 2nd, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Hey, you can’t complain, the post has an explicit disclaimer at the top! It turned out to be harder to describe exactly what I was thinking than I originally thought. Consider it a work in progress!
June 2nd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Is it just me or did other people have visions of Colin Burvill while reading this blog?
And Dave….. I think Will deserves the Nobel Prize if in fact you are right and that he, through his nerdy little page is managing to drain the world of stupidity.
Perhaps if/when you get your own little site, you could set it up as a source for stupidity instead of a sink to keep the world in perfect balance
And of course my huge ass website will rule over both of yours and make sure neither steps out of line, else I’ll have someone give you a stern talking to
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:10 pm
don’t bring GeM’s stern talking too’s into this big boy, and lets remember that you site just records all this extra entropy wasted on stupid persuits, thus, your site could be renames the journal of stupidity…
but come on people, i am so smart that while during an job interview i had time to snear down at one of australia’s most successful businesses ever where i am currently begging for a job, and managed to have an epiphany into the entropy of irony, and how it is an ever increasing energy being relaesed into the world and is hence irreversable. seems to me that when in sydney, the rise of entroy increase where entropy is an energy defined by one being a wanker.
fyi, the critisim of the building being built from steel and glass by a company that exports gold, copper and whatever, is actually satire… a common mistake made by people. oh and bhpbilliton do, in fact, mine iron, a very, very large amount, of which 98% is processed as “steel”
ironic?
June 4th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Are you okay will? no broken bones i hope, sounded like a nasty spill…
June 5th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Thanks for your concern Dave. I’m fine after my little bike accident, although the old helmet’s a bit worse for wear…!
June 6th, 2007 at 4:20 am
what the hell happened to you? I’m gone for… four days and all hell breaks loose. well, perhaps not HELL, but you know… a small animal escapes from the zoo sort of thing. a penguin perhaps. seriously though, what happened?
June 6th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Ah, what a way with words you have Sach! What have penguins got to do with anything? I just had a little spill off the old push-bike is all. A couple of cuts and bruises, and a bruised ego, but nothing that won’t heal!
June 6th, 2007 at 11:45 am
a penguin is a small animal… hence, you falling off your bike is comparable to a penguin escaping from the zoo. it happened and some people cared and some other people… didn’t.
seriously though, glad to hear you’re alright. to think I even debated calling you when I was home this weekend (free phone!). in retrospect, it would have been an opportune time, n’est pas? sorry!
June 6th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
I get what your saying Will, don’t let the glass of water types put you down. I mean, it would be ironic if all the stupid people stopped you posting about the ironic intricacies of life because they didn’t understand. Hence they would muddle on towards the impending ironic doom of the world, wondering why their latte’s tasted like chicken.
June 6th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Fair point mac. Well at least they can’t say we didn’t warn them…mmmm, chicken latte.
See Sach, one should always take advantage of free things when they’re around!
Hindsight’s always 20/20 eh?
June 6th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
My latte always tastes like coffee… but I like the reference M. Your site(S) are looking v lovely these days too…
And it was a super-duper spill and you were very brave Will… I would have bawled (and we all know that ain’t pretty)…
June 6th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
not pretty at all, i know…
so the world will end visa vi dogma style where loop holes and stupid reign high?? i like the idea…. maybe the world will end when the hippies have their day and ban all fossil fuels burnt in the name of power, and have all nuclear power abolished… and find out that we cannot simply produce the worlds energy requirements on happy thoughs and big smiles…
just a unrelated note, was fuming today when i actually had to pay more for a connex ticket of death… i didn’t realise that you could simply raise the price of your service when you provide it so poorly as it is never on time, never meets customer comfort and smells like a mix of dirty street bum and unrine? GRINDS MY FREAKIN’ GEARS people…
June 10th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
You reckon nuclear’s the way to go Dave? I’d tend to agree, especially for Australia at the moment, seeing as no-one’s willing to invest heavily in solar power.
As for Connex, I suppose we’re all so used to sub-standard public transport that we just don’t notice it anymore…?