I’ve written a guest piece over on Tony’s blog, about the footy tipping trophy.
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Month: September 2005
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Look Both Ways
Look Both Ways: A man walks in front of a train and is killed, an all-too common event these days. The story follows the events in the weekend afterwards, for the victim’s girlfriend, a witness, a journalist, a photographer, their editor, and the train driver. It reminded me a lot of Lantana, seeing that one ... [More]
From cruising through both Safeway and Coles in the past few weeks, it would appear that the Safe and Naturale branded recycled napkins and (facial) tissues are no longer generally available, and the ones I do have are about to run out. This bugs me, as I’ve been using them both for years (switching to ... [More]
Last Saturday morning we did the long-awaited brunch to celebrate the house purchase. The venue? One found during many weeks of Saturday morning searching: Glen Huntly’s Club Cafe. It’s like one of them English caffs, the food loaded up with grease and cholesterol, and proud of it. It was the Champagne Breakfast that we went ... [More]
Yesterday morning. The crowd stood there, in front of the old Treasury building, holding their banners aloft. “Viva the revolution!” the banners proclaimed. I looked closer. Nobody was moving. No shouting. No cops. Just a lone security guard. A boom mic loomed above them. A car was in the middle of the crowd. A shout: ... [More]
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Fight Club
Fight Club — The first rule of Fight Club is don’t talk about Fight Club! But I will. Fight Club has been on my (long) list of “great movies that came out ages ago but for some reason I didn’t see when they were new”. I must have been busy at the time. A colleague ... [More]
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Rain brings on the aliens
I had it all worked out — 15 more minutes mucking about, then we’d go outside. I’d bring my laundry in off the line — it would be about dry — the kids could jump on the trampoline, or get their bikes out, whatever. 15 minutes later I glanced outside. It was pouring with rain. ... [More]
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Hurricane red tape
The following is from a friend who has a relative who is a firefighter helping in the hurricane zone. Re-posted with permission. FEMA is the US Federal Emergency Management Agency. I find it rather frightening that they should be showing such obvious ineptitude dealing with the disaster. I just got off the phone with ****. ... [More]
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At home today
At home for the second time this week. On Tuesday I worked from home on purpose, as things in the office were quiet and I needed to do some stuff on a side-project web site. Today however, Isaac woke up with a whopping 39.5 temperature. This managed to coincide with the work computer system being ... [More]
(Outgoing Yarra Trams CEO) Hubert Guyot criticised “so-called advocates of public transport”, saying he had found road lobbyists at the RACV more supportive than the Public Transport Users Association. — The Age, 6/9/2005 Hmm. Well PTUA represents passengers, whereas Yarra Trams is an operator, which while it is providing customer service, is also trying to ... [More]
A few weeks ago I bought a new peeler. Yesterday I found out how sharp it is, when it left the carrot I was peeling, and had a go at my finger instead. Ouch. A wash and several bandaids later, the blood had stopped soaking through.
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At the park
On Sunday I took the kids for a walk to the park. When we got there, there were the white families, an African family, an orthodox Jewish family, one or two Asian families and a kid in a wheelchair. It was like somebody had gathered people for a photo promoting community diversity. And we all ... [More]