This week’s Friday Funny is a great moment where the boys take on pop-sensation Rihanna, whose recent song includes potentially infringing material. Hilarious stuff!

Anyway, the world love’s Gotye, including these absolutely adorable kids who have made their own video clip! I might have watched this seventy-three times today already.

I recently discovered another example of superb parenting in the form of kids miming in the car, this time to Queen:

And finally, I just have to post these two awesome covers of “Somebody I Used to Know”. Firstly the incredible acapella version by Pentatonix and the amazingly popular cover by Walk off the Earth:

So here’s a quick wrap up of what we’ve been up to while I get myself together.

I have been out playing a lot of music over the last month. There was ANZAC Day (see a panorama of the room I played in) and most recently a production of Thoroughly Modern Millie, complete with some usual shenanigans:

Alice started discussing global issues with us. Well, not quite, but check this out at week seven:

We kept up our usual social engagements; breakfasts, birthdays and even a fancy dress party!

Jess’ dad turned 64, so I just had to do this for him:

All in all it has been an incredibly hectic but thoroughly enjoyable two months with Alice!

I particularly like that this video is made from other short video clips rather than photographs, which often make up traditional timelapse videos.

Enjoy!

P.S. I promise to finish a couple of posts I am currently working on very soon, including our first month wrap up. And yes, I totally realise by the time it arrives we’ll be due for month number two! Can you believe it?!

This song is a little more cheeky and fun than my other two. I was inspired to write this it as I battled yet another telecommunications provider who suddenly referred me to a debt collection agency for an account that had been closed months earlier. So much energy, so much wasted time, all for nothing!

LYRICS

[Verse 1]
I’ve got no reception, building lots of tension,
Companies are dealing with lots of dissension,
I’m thinking of staging a customer defection, but there are
People out there dying of untreatable infection.

[Chorus]
We’ve got to make a difference but it’s hard to shift our focus,
If we let these insignificances provoke us,
What’s it going to take to find something to invoke us?

Change!
I’ll make a change for the good,
I’ll change the things that I should
And not let these first world problems
Be all that I fight
I’ll keep the passion alight
Well I might, BUT…

[Verse 2]
The internet’s down, I can’t check my emails,
I can’t update my status or Google gorgeous females,
Going to fail my course ’cause Wikipedia’s got the details, but there are
People in our oceans killing off endangered whales.

[Verse 3]
Walking through the shopping centre, coming from the station,
The local gym is hiring without an obligation,
A pair of happy hippies bails me up for a donation, for some
Undernourished kids from an undernourished nation.

[Verse 4]
The TV’s on the fritz, I can’t increase the brightness,
I can’t find the chargers for my iDevices,
I’ve written to the government about the petrol prices, but there are
Countries out there crumbling through economic crises.

[Verse 5]
Australia is struggling to bring home the ashes,
They’re losing all their local games and exhibition clashes,
They’ve even lost their international twenty twenty bashes, but there are
Millions of us killed and injured in horrific crashes.

One of the songs Yakko performed was the Nations of the World. In this video Rob Paulsen, the voice of Yakko sings the song during some sort of presentation.

I have also added the original version below as well. Enjoy!

This morning my passion for technology and how it influences and affects our lives has been reinvigorated. Google has revealed some information about its Project Glass in which “technology should work for you—to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don’t”.

I know we are already so reliant on technology (I’d be stuffed without my iPhone for example). Project Glass has the potentially to overwhelm us with news and updates and posts and tweets and calls and messages and photos and recommendations and… Phew! You get the idea. But the possibilities are incredibly for simply augmenting our reality, or something.

Check out this great video for an example of where the technology could take us.