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Super Life Hacks for the Modern Person 4 Feb 2014 11:26 PM (11 years ago)

If you don’t have a sign, just photograph someone elses sign, print and laminate and bingo, your own sign.

Life Hacks. Everyone loves them. Those simple little ideas that are destined to make your life easier in clever ways that you never imagined.

Every time I see one of those articles, it makes me wish that I’d thought of that simple solution to an everyday problem.

So I did. Here’s the Gorskys list of Life Hacks. Share them if you dare..

• Sauce bottle clogged up? Shatter the end of the bottle over the counter to get to the delicious sauce.
• Avoid spilling red wine on the carpet by putting it all in your mouth.
• A 10 gallon hat can be used as a makeshift toilet.
• Keep a laundry basket in the boot of your car in case you suddenly need to do laundry while out and about.
• Need an answer for a tricky question? Log on to the “internet”.
• Hiccups? Hold your breath until you pass out.
• Stinky shoes? Buy some new ones from the shop, then throw those stinky ones out.
• Got a personal problem? Why not post it on Facebook or Twitter for others to solve.
• If you’re attacked by a shark, punch it in the nose. This won’t stop it attacking you, but it will make you feel more masculine in your final moments.
• Instead of scraping ice off your car windscreen, take the bus.
• Got a problem with a celebrity/politician/scientific theory? Make yourself feel better by trashing their wikipedia entry.
• If you’re about to get hit by a car, stop reading this article and get the hell off the road.

The Anti-Social Network (Short Film) 28 Aug 2013 6:21 AM (12 years ago)

Here’s a little film that Gorskys Chris directed and edited for the Melbourne 48 Hour Film Project.

Two cops stuck in the dead-end ‘Cyber Crimes’ unit stumble across a plot to bring down the internet. Can they prevent the Anti-Social Network from destroying the web as we know it?

A ridiculous cop film written, shot and edited in just 48 hours. Winners of Best Film, Audience Choice, Best Actors, Best Script and Best Director at the 2012 48 Hour Film Project in Melbourne.

Selected for 48 Hour Film Project screening at Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner.

New products from Apple 28 Jun 2011 7:07 PM (14 years ago)

Apple reinvent the apple. Inedible, but nice and shiny.

The Professional video and film production world has been rocked by the introduction of Apple’s latest incarnation of it’s World-class editing software, Final Cut Pro.

Final Cut Pro X (FCPX) has been widely criticised for it’s lack of vital post-production features and backwards compatibility. The criticism is so wide-spread that it lead to Conan O’Brien’s editors making fun of it on national television. (Also see here and here)

Here at GORSKY.COMedy we applaud Apple’s bravery in alienating an entire market sector, and in return, Apple have given us the details of it’s upcoming products.

• The iKeyboard – Apple are about to revolutionise the typing world by introducing a smaller form factor keyboard. “We’ve done this by removing the letters Z, V, Q and J – our research shows that no-one really uses those letters very much. People will get used to it, and they’ll enjoy having less keys to try and find while typing.” said an unidentified Apple source.
• New iPhotoX – The new iPhotoX will be rebuilt from the ground up. Instead of the old system of facial recognition, the new program will give new names to all the people it identifies in the photos. “We think people are often incorrectly named by their parents and our new algorithm looks at facial features and gives them a more appropriate name – a name you cannot change, because humans make bad naming decisions.” Oh, and none of your old photos will work in it either.
• Logic Audio X – The new incarnation of Apple’s award-winning pro recording/mixing app will be released minus the ability to record from a microphone. “Mics are so 1970. We think people will be happy to use our built in samples for most instruments, and if they really need vocals they can use our new computer voice-synthesis technology”. The new Logic will also only output to iTunes and cannot be burnt to any physical media, such as a CD.
• The Apple Apple – Apple designers have for years worried that the delicious fruit known as an “Apple” has a major flaw. “There’s pips on the inside where you bite into it! What the hell? So we’ve reinvented the apple – removed that oily skin, removed the pips, the flesh is now full uni-body titanium. Not really edible anymore, but definitely more pleasing on the eye – and it doesn’t go off… ever.”
• iWheelX – “Everyone drives around on these extremely inefficient things called ‘wheels’. We’ve taken the wheel, and reinvented it! Rather than a full circle, we’ve made it more triangular so stopping is easier. And we’ve painted it blue! Because people like blue. Our research is very thorough.”

Apples stocks are expected to plunge in the next quarter. Unless Apple reinvents the stock market.

* Chris Tomkins is a professional video editor and user of Final Cut Pro who may be more scathing than usual in this article.

Does your Wiki leak? 6 Dec 2010 5:23 AM (14 years ago)

Julian Assange... Public enemy number one? Or ageing member of an 80's pop band? You be the judge!

Wikileaks. It doesn’t sound so scary, but it certainly has US government officials wetting their pants.

The release of these “cablegate” documents has turned many outspoken politicians into cautious diplomats as everyone scrambles to remember what the hell they actually said in those communications.

Some juicy information has already been discovered and what else is yet to be revealed in those secret documents? Have aliens made contact? Could Bill Clinton really play the sax? Was Michael Jackson ever actually black?

So this month The Gorskys will be revealing a series of conspiracies that will make politicians, b-grade celebrities and global brands tremble in their socks.

We present Gorsky-gate (or Leaky.Comedy – whatever)…

• In 2008 it took 3 weeks and 14 economists to explain to George W Bush that you could not actually see a “housing bubble” and the GFC was not caused by “some damn democrat with a pin”.
• Aliens made contact in 2007 but were accidentally put through to an unspecified telecommunications company customer support line, kept on hold for 3 hours and then lost to the accounts department.
• Nickelback were created by the CIA to try to destroy the music industry.
• iPhones were actually developed by large energy companies to keep people using to the power grid regularly.
• James Cameron was witnessed stealing secret documents from the Blue Man group in the time leading up to the production of Avatar.
• Fox news was unbiased for 7 seconds on November 10, 2009. This was quickly rectified with a barrage of hate and misinformation lasting over 12 months until the 2010 midterm elections and beyond.
• North Korea just wants to be loved.

It Sucks To Be A Vampire 1 Oct 2010 2:12 AM (15 years ago)

No matter what you do, your Facebook profile pic is always going to be a little threatening when you're a vampire.

Count Dracula, Nosferatu, Twilights “Edward” or Bill Compton from True Blood – wherever they appear, vampires are insanely popular right now.

Maybe it all started with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the charming Billy Idol wannabe, Spike. Or perhaps we all developed a childhood attachment to Sesame Streets’ obsessive-compulsive, “The Count”.

Whatever it is, these shadow-dwelling, blood-sucking undead creatures of the night have been romanticised to within an inch of their (un)life

Sure, there’s the immortality, the brooding, the hot girls desperate for you to give them the worlds most intense hickey, but is being a vampire all it’s cracked up to be?

We took a look at some of the practical drawbacks of vampirism.

(Thanks to James Hazelden for his additional vampiric suggestions)

• They can only drink blood, and blood tastes like… well… it’s no Krispy Kreme donut.
• Vampires are awake when the only thing on TV is infomercials and reruns of old made-for-tv movies.
• There are so many nasty blood-borne diseases, vampires now have to practice “Safe Sucking” using a heavy duty dental dam.
• Vampires sleep in coffins, which makes vampire slumber parties weird and depressing.
• They’re at risk on the road because other drivers can’t see them in their rearview mirrors.
• If you try to baptize a vampire you just end up melting his face off.
• Vampires live forever, which sounds cool but it means they’ve heard every joke 3465 times at least.
• Vampires are constantly being mistaken for members of bad emo bands.
• If a vampire accidentally bites his tongue, his tongue turns into a tiny vampire.
• Crosses kill vampires, so if a vampire is double-crossed, he dies twice.
• If a vampire is exposed to the sun he turns into dust, which means now none of his clothes fit.
• Vampires receive a lot of spam emails convincing them to buy fake tan pills.

Addicted to Farmville 26 Sep 2010 8:18 PM (15 years ago)

“I am addicted to Farmville.”
Anon.

Chris’ Answer

This is exactly the type of question I would expect from a person addicted to Farmville – too busy to even write your name whilst sowing, growing, plowing, earning coins and pissing off all your Facebook friends with constant updates.

There’s 100 million actual farmers across the planet right now struggling to make ends meet and I’m sure they are really fascinated by how quickly you can grow and sell a digital crop and make enough coin to buy a cow and put food on the table. I’m sure they weep for your addiction.

Clearly you have an addictive personality, and the only recommendation I have for you to wean yourself off Farmville is to try heroin. You’ll love it even more and it doesn’t have automatic status updates.

Superheroes We Want To See 24 Sep 2010 10:44 PM (15 years ago)

Catwoman - every boy's favorite villain.

The world is sadly short of proper superheroes these days.

Batman has gone all weird and teamed up with Catwoman (although the way she’s drawn nowadays, that’s fair enough, frankly).

The world has realised that being bitten by a radio active spider would have given Spiderman cancer, not superpowers.

Superman became a quadriplegic in a horse riding accident.

The Gorskys have turned their mind to this dilemma, and come up with some suggestions for the next wave of comic books.

• Captain Nuclear – uses his amazing fission powers to catch villains by causing a nuclear meltdown in their underpants.
• Nuclear Lass – uses her amazing good looks to catch villains by causing a nuclear meltdown in their underpants.
• The Amazing Expando – that’s not a gun in his pocket.
• The Dynamic Dyslexic – misreading crime by fights.
• Enviroman – uses his hippy powers to fight crime by tying himself to trees until the villains go away.
• Bo, The World’s Tallest Dwarf – Uses his uncanny height to defeat criminals. His battle cry is “I’m not a dwarf, OK. I’m just short!”
• Peter Reith Man – Uses his weird lips to undermine union power at every turn – the world’s evilest hero.
• Mr Millennium – the world’s most overrated superhero.
• The Amazing Flasher – uses his disgusting powers of self-revelation to repulse villains into submission.
• Captain Beans-On-Toast – lights his farts in the name of Justice!
• Mr Muscle – Loves the jobs you hate.
• Beer Gut Man – His aluminium crushing powers scare even the staunchest foe!
• Water Boy – wets himself at the first sign of danger. Young ward of Rubbersheet Man, the world’s kinkiest hero.
• Bureaucracy Man – Will happily save you from a life threatening situation once you’ve filled in the right forms in triplicate. If you’d like this doyen of protocol to save you, call 1-800-bureaucracy and follow the prompts.

I Facebook, Therefore I Am 31 Aug 2010 7:06 PM (15 years ago)

Rene Descartes "likes" this article.

“Brad is eating a donut”.

Those five words have just replaced the part of my brain storing Descartes’ sublime existential observation “I think therefore I am”. The more I use Facebook, the more banal information is replacing the interesting stuff stored in my primitive cortex. “Jenny can’t wait for the weekend”. That’s great – suddenly I understand Jenny much more deeply. I feel closer to her: I also can’t wait for the weekend. If only I could remember where I’d met Jenny. Or indeed if I have ever met her. Who the hell is this Jenny, and why is the rest of her week such a write-off? And why do I need to know that?

Luckily, my friends have sent me some weird virtual plants, want me to take a quiz about 80s sitcom stars, and have voted me ‘#9 Most Likely To Go Crazy With a Gun’. Now I feel much more loved.

I should poke someone and remind them that I exist.

But without the Facebook, I am nothing. No one could invite me to their parties, gigs or bar mitzvahs. Noone could write witty insults on my wall. I would cease to exist. Luckily “I Facebook, Therefore I Am”.

Maybe you work in a call centre, or maybe you’re between lectures and can afford to waste a few hours in the zany world of social networking, but what really spooks me is that somewhere out there, there’s a genius with the potential to find a cure for cancer or reverse global warming who’s going to be discovering that “Kylie is a fan of Sleeping” instead.

So before you head off to update your status, here’s some things you could be doing instead of wasting your life on Facebook.

• Sort your CDs by hue.
• Count to a billion-trillion by threes.
• Learn Klingon and teach it to children in Third World countries.
• Start and maintain an amateur porn website for Mormons.
• Write an iPhone application in binary code.
• See how much water you can drink before you dissolve.
• Reflect on the tragic life of Heath Ledger in real time.
• Research a way to bring peace to the Middle East using puppies.
• Give nicknames to every cell in your body.
• Print the internet.
• Call everyone in the world and see how much they liked Barack Obama’s acceptance speech.
• Take a photo of yourself every day for 18 years and upload it to YouTube.
• Calculate how many breaths you have taken since you were born.
• Translate the Bible (Old and New Testament) into Elvish.
• Find a happy financial advisor on Wall Street.
• Document all the factual errors in Wikipedia.
• Learn the names of everyone in China by heart and recite them back.
• Sing every song ever written in the key of G as a country ballad.
• Build a robot out of butter.

From Russia with Lav 4 Aug 2010 1:15 AM (15 years ago)

“Dear Sir,

Does the story about Neil Armstrong’s alleged famous words spoken on the Moon ‘Good Luck Mr Gorsky!’ have anything to do with the name of your website?

Yours truly,  LAV from Russia”

Chris’ Answer

Mr. Lav, that is a great question.

The Gorskys were named at a special naming ceremony in 1997, in which a captive audience in a little pub in Melbourne was asked to suggest a new name for the then “Toasted Marshmallows”.

There is good reason to believe that the audience member who suggested this name was a fan of internet lore, and may have been influenced by the story you mention.

The truth is none of us can remember how exactly the name came about as we were all too drunk.

Chris.

Life In The Tenties 5 Feb 2010 6:14 PM (15 years ago)

The term 'hybrid car' will take on a new meaning in a fuel-poor decade.

Another decade has begun as we say goodbye to the excitingly-named ‘noughties’ and enter the slightly-more-awkward ‘tenties’.

At the start of the noughties, terrorism was something that only happened in the Middle East, black US presidents existed only in the movies and a 1 gb hard drive was really hard to fill up.

The noughties saw the rise of social networking, reality tv and celebrity deaths, and the fall of financial stability, the environment and privacy.

Good times.

So what will befall us over the next 10 years? The first female US president? World peace? Ten more seasons of ‘LOST’?

Here’s our predictions:

• Apple will copyright and trademark the letter ‘i’ and request royalties every time it is used. Mississippi will go bankrupt.
• Old people will complain about young people. Young people will claim they know better than the old people. There will be a war declared between young people and old people. Young people will win. James Cameron will make the movie.
• There will be flying cars. Then flying traffic jams.
• The 1980s will come back in vogue. Again.
• Aliens will finally make contact, then politely excuse themselves and head home at light speed when they realise humans are all self-absorbed idiots who spend too much time on Facebook hoping their friends are interested in what they ate in the last half-hour.
• Some people will get sick of playing Bejeweled.
• There will be a concerning trend among teens of ‘hexting’ in which they send spells via text message.
• Text messaging and Twitter will become the dominant forms of communication. Anything longer than 320 characters will be considered “too wordy”.
• Movies involving vampires and zombies will be considered “so last decade”.
• Justin Bieber will become the biggest name in music – and then that name you can’t quite recall.
• Oprah Winfrey will become the first female US president. Sarah Palin will have her own TV show.
• Humans will set up a new colony on Mars which will be used to house the detritus of human society – serial killers, pedophiles and reality-tv stars.
• George Lucas will re-master and release the entire Star Wars collection in 3D, then Smell-o-vision, then they will all be remade by Peter Jackson.
• TV will go 3D and be projected into mid-air. The programs will still be crap.
• Science will discover that all fruit and vegetables are linked to cancer. Everyone will start eating dirt.
• Secret CIA documents will be released revealing who killed JFK… It was Elvis.
• Humans will abandon the concept of ‘conversation’ and simply communicate in short, snappy status updates.