Total solar eclipse in australia

Well it was waaay up north, the best spot was Cairns to catch it. It seems like a lot of the vision of it was thanks to Panasonic. Despite the cloud, it was still impressive..
here it was:
 
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GIF is the freakin' word of the year!

This is from the MacOS Dictionary
I hope that is pronounced GIF and not Jif

Oh good grief, the folk in the offices of the American Oxford Dictionary really must have been spending too much time on tumblr or something. GIF for freaks sake managed to get an update in their dictionary.  According to Yahoo news:

 "GIF celebrated a lexical milestone in 2012, gaining traction as a verb, not just a noun," said Katherine Martin, head of the U.S. dictionaries program at Oxford.

This is what tumblr user gifhound had to say about it:

Can you GIF that for me please? oh sure:)

Freakin' super 50+ SPF sunscreen!

30+ is soon to be no longer the max.
Hey wait this one keeps away bugs too!

50+ SPF ( or should that be Sun Protection Freakin Factor)  factor sunscreen is soon to be out there protecting us fair skin folk from that giant plasma and fusion reactions some 8 light minutes away from us, oh yeah they call it the sun for short.

It's something we might be seeing in Mid January reports are saying, oh wow, surely that will be too late by then, what SPF 30 is not enough?

The SMH reports tl;dr mostly but this bit on the end was handy...

The last change in standard, from SPF15+ to SPF30+ was in 1997. Professor Diona Damian of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, says the latest change allowed by the TGA is an overdue step "but not a radical one".

Who is this TGA? oh that's just the Theraputic Goods administration, it's kinda like the FDA(Food and Drugs Administration) in the US. Oh dear they combine Food and Drugs. I guess what goes in you might kill you.

Yes Obama wins, we get it

Another hang out for the next 4 years

OK so yeah Obama wins another 4 years hanging and chillin' in the Whitehouse down in the D.C area.  But the overkill of coverage on the TV from about 3pm local australian time seemed to borderline on the extreme. Well I guess it's a kind of spectator sport...of a political kind. Now on with the rest of the news.

Annoying writing styles

Write so we don't have to
 spend so much time reading.
 Get to the point please. Now. Thank you.

Just read an intriguing headline on SMH, actually it's the dailylife.com.au subsection.

The headline reads: The one thing no parent talks about.

OK, so that's a great headline grab. We want to read more to know what that 'one' thing is about.  But oh, no, it's never going to be that simple is it.  The first paragraph goes

 "There is a secret nobody ever tells you about kids. We've all heard the parents of young children protesting about how they never get to go out and have fun anymore, and about how they have to spend every waking moment running around after their children - every moment that the child is awake, that is, which often coincides with moments when the parent would much rather be asleep.

Oh for freak's sake!! still NO indication what this story is about... Even the second paragraph says ZERO about what that "One thing is" . I suppose this is just a form of clever editing. Clearly I have time to even write about this.

Anyway the answer, on the FOURTH Paragraph down, as it turns out, is that parents don't talk about "they actually are having fun with their kids" .... Four paragraphs of rambling??? get to the point please, stop setting the scene!. We are too time poor. We want to know now. Not amble through a whole 4 paragraphs of boring blah blah blah...

Anyway I suppose that's the style of that Magazine website.