The end of the world. And it's not the Vogons this time.

Remember all that jazz about global warming? It's back. And in a big way. Apparently, there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any point during the, ahem, last 650,000 years.

And, another study says that the oceans will rise nearly half a metre by the end of the century, forcing coastlines back by hundreds of metres.

Finally, skeptics are starting to believe that it's actually possible for ice caps to melt, sea levels to rise and drown islands and cities on coasts thanks to the increasing temperatures caused by the carbon dioxide. The idiots took so long to get convinced. Two different studies, one about the carbon dioxide and one about the rising sea levels, changed their minds.

Dear Apple of my eye iPod,

You should've stuck to Macs.

I can't stay dead, can I?

Here I am, back already. Considering that I'm still at home and I'm not exactly studying, I decided there's no point in not blogging. Besides, I've been tagged by Tsunami (he had that nick long before last year's tsunami). So, in lieu of a post, here's the 7 things meme... Don't fret.

7 Things I plan to do:
1. Kill myself
2. Drink every kind of Pepsi there is before killing myself
3. Make George Lucas and Lucas Arts re-hire Ron Gilbert for the fifth Monkey Island game
4. Convince people that I really am from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse
5. Laugh at the devil when I meet him, if the devil exists
6. Give Michael Jordan his jersey back
7. Answer those extremely frequent phone calls from the local mental institution

7 Things I can do:
1. Make you wish you were never born
2. Make you wish I was never born
3. Stare at a wall for hours
4. Play Max Payne for 18 continuous hours
5. Be very, very quiet even if I don't hunt wabbits.
6. Burp till you go mad
7. Come up with an insanely complicated joke that will cause 1 and 2

7 Things I can't do:
1. Convince people that there's nothing I can't do
2. Drink Coca-Cola and feel happy about it
3. Sing underwater
4. Find a place to hide when I need one
5. Dance underwater
6. Blog underwater
7. Make you think I've already come up with 7 things I can't do.

Now, I'm a bit late on this tag, so nearly everyone I would have liked to tag have already been tagged. And most of the others don't like memes like these. So I can't tag seven people. Maybe a few:

People(untagged) I would like to tag:
Entropy, Max (Voyager XIV)
Sandeep (Spicy Mix)
JJ (The Churning)
The Fifth of a Quack a.k.a Nikhil (Maybe It's Me)

As to how this works, here's what Tsunami had to say "To the best of my knowledge the tagging game works as such.. Now the seven people I've tagged have to put up similar posts on their blog where in they tag seven more people.. So on and so forth..."

That's it. That's all there is to it.

Bye, for now. And this time, it's for real.

I should have stopped writing here after this post. But for some reason, I didn't. This time, I hope to have more control over myself, and start studying. I've less than a week for my theory exams. Since I'll be gone for a while, here are a few things to keep you occupied:

1.

Here's picture of... Er... Of... Frankly, I'm not quite sure what. Take a wild guess. And look at the full size version of the picture before you do. If you do.

2. Forty Faces. A fantastic idea, from Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped. You have to see it to understand.

3. After some interesting words thrown here, I think this site requires a disclaimer. I came up with one in about a minute. Here it is.

4. Archives, archives, archives. Browse through the archives.

5. If you're still bored, try refreshing this page. You'll notice something about the tagline.

That's it, then. I'll probably be going through the phases of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication whilst studying for my exams. On second thought, I'll probably go only through the phase of Inquiry.

The horrifying power of MMORPGs.

For the uninitiated: MMORPG is short for Massively (or massive) Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. They're basically multiplayer role-playing games. Tens of thousands of people (hence "massive") get to play in a virtual world at the same time over the Internet in MMORPGs. And I hate them. The MMORPGs, not the people.

Ragnarok was the first MMORPG I ever played. I hated it for the same reason most people hate something new - I couldn't understand a damn thing. From what I could make of it, I was a dwarf (not the mythological kind) who suffered from malnutrition. And I had to kill creatures of different species. How entertaining.

But that was many moons ago, and that game isn't the reason for writing this. This week, I happened to land myself in the fantasy world of an MMORPG again. Only this time, it was text-based, and addictive. I haven't the slightest idea why, though.

Achaea - Dreams of Divine Lands is the game. I've lived a major part of this week in it. I don't stop to think why I'm playing it. I just do. Even though I hate it. I've completely forgotten the art of bathing. The last time that happened was when I played Max Payne. But that was good. This is bad. Baaaad.

I've killed wildcats, bats, rats, earned lots of gold, learnt martial arts and tried living like a monk in the game. What I haven't done is check to see if I can still move my legs out here.

Luckily, there's a "suicide" option. BAM! I'm dead. I was dead. I created a new character and have started all over. Sigh...

Update: And here, yet again, is a spanking new template, created entirely by yours truly. Well, almost entirely. Best viewed in Firefox.

Why you shouldn't give me a camera

I'm enjoying my new Cyber-shot T7. I really am. Really.

Good luck will come to you if you can figure out what's in this picture.