2007-02-27 : You never quite know what you could walk into in this city
As the infamous “Snap Your Chap” documentary has recently re-screened in Australia, I thought it might be appropriate to highlight the original post from that evening.
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2007-02-25 : How much more black could it be ? None… none more black.
Doing things outside of your regular comfort zone is absolutely critical, I believe, and when the opportunity comes up to do this on a weeknight over dinner, with no special safety gear or weird rigamarole involved then it is a chance that should be jumped at. On Thursday night, Nicklearse Klau & I took an…
2007-02-24 : What is it with this place ?
Starting a story with “I wanted to apply for a bank account” is hardly riveting stuff, but I realise that some of the dizzying star-quality of many of my other blogs is starting to give people vertigo – time to bring it back a notch. Recently I was alerted to what sounded a reasonable proposition…
2007-02-22 : Thankfully, these don’t go to eleven.
OK, so it's critical for every computer nerd to have access to bitchin' tunes, right ? Having music to thrash about to is a fundamental human necessity, and the ability to be able to crank it up to 11 every so often is a fine and splendid therapeutic option. It is for this reason that…
2007-02-21 : Taste the bovine
Oooh look, a “wacky” photo! Seriously though, though I'd prefer a toe-curlingly strong coffee to a sickly hot chocolate anyway, the mental imagery of a bull being squeezed over marshmallows isn't doing anything to sell it to me. Having said that of course, I'd probably be shocked and aghast to find out what goes into…
2007-02-20 : Don’t go gettin all jealous now…
Ingredients for a classy & memorable weekend: 1 loaf of bread, half a kilo of bacon, a 500g block of cheese, 2 litres of coffee, 6 hours of Monty Python DVDs. Oh yeah. Living the dream.
2007-02-20 : What prat thought that was a good idea?
Much in the UK press recently has been the government's discussion and embryonic pilot program for the “vehicle tracking and road pricing policy“, and the accompanying e-petition on the Number 10 Downing Street website. The concept is that in an effort to reduce traffic congestion and in turn reduce total vehicle emissions, the government are…
2007-02-14 : Hallmark Cynicism 101: Part 2 in a series of bitching
What is it with women and decorative foliage ? Have a huge selection of intensely pigmented pollen stalks sent to a girl and it becomes a Thing That's Talked About Favourably, however should you be more practically-minded and get a couple of dozen heads of iceberg lettuce and a turnip or two sent, and you'll…
2007-02-12 : Dip me in honey and feed me to the Led Zeppelin fans
Every now again I get a weekend that shouts “Aren't you glad you came here ?”, and this weekend was just such an example. After a fairly intense Friday night pub engagement at the Lockside Lounge to farewell Funkdancing Paul Bird from his place of work (and aided by that finest of the Cooper family's…
2007-02-07 : Hey look, someone’s kicked Skippy’s arse right in!
I'll explain later. Life's yet again good: Friday night Malinda took Emzo, HC, Steve & myself to the exhibition at her work, Game On: a history of video games through inception to today. I'd gone along with the noblest of intentions to extend my understanding of the genre by availing myself of the educational material…