We all did stupid things when we were young. I’m ashamed to admit that one of the sillier things I did in my teenage years was to dispose of my Tintin books. After a while I realised my mistake, and started collecting them again, book by book. (I decided I preferred the full-size versions, not ... [More]
I genuinely hope Graham Polak makes a full recovery, but I can’t help noting that you can’t get much more Melbourne than this newspaper headline: Tigers in shock after AFL star hit by tram As for this one, it sounds like something from that Stan/Loretta scene from The Life Of Brian, about The Right To ... [More]
A few nights ago Marita had an interesting dream… She was walking around in a gallery. The pictures hanging there all had big writing, saying things like “Fail!” and “Failure!” She’s not sure what it refers to. (I could suggest blogging, but why now?) For myself, I haven’t had any interesting dreams lately. Not that ... [More]
Here’s a handy thing Metlink is beta testing at the moment: apart from having online timetable displays that show you the whole day on one page (at last!) you can also get a timetable for your individual stop. To get them, go to the Metlink web site. You can search for the route number, then ... [More]
$270 for the car, to fix the distributor. I swear to you now, that’s the last repair — and hopefully the last money ever on that bloody car. (I filled up on Tuesday.) On the brighter side, did you hear about that car hoon guy, the one who was stupid enough to get his car ... [More]
Another top class bit of parking. Okay, so it doesn’t appear to actually say “No parking”, but it’s not hard to imagine what the intent was. I haven’t seen the Get Smart movie yet, but I’m quite amused by these telephone box adverts for it. In Rippon Street, they’re apparently very proud of that beautification ... [More]
When I bought my car (which seemed good at the time), the bloke I bought it from reckoned when the fuel light went on, you had about another 50K on it. So far it’s never caused me trouble — I’ve never tried to do a Krameresque “how far will it go”, and it’s never actually ... [More]
On Monday I took an early lunch and met my mum and Peter and the kids for a jaunt up onto the Eureka Skydeck. My mum had won tickets for four, but didn’t want to go up herself. The lift had buttons for 1, 2, 86, 87 and 88. Hmm. The automated voice reckoned we ... [More]
Attention: Tracey and Joanna Hoyle, and Tracey Anne Tobias. None of you live at my house. (I checked; these aren’t aliases the kids are using.) So please stop giving my address to people. The mail for you has gone back to the sender. (Unlike last time, I did check the White Pages to see if ... [More]
I do wish the owners of automatic doors would think more of us fast-walkers. Obviously if doors are next to a lot of passing traffic, the sensors can’t look too far for moving people, but if they’re in a corridor, it shouldn’t be too hard to detect oncoming speedsters. As it is, at places like ... [More]
So, Eastlink is open. Whoop-de-do. And even though it was meant to be the solution to eastern Melbourne’s traffic, it’s already clear it’s just moved the problems elsewhere: Opposition leader Ted Baillieu said congestion on Eastlink could cause problems at both ends including at Hoddle Street and at the Frankston end at the Cranbourne Road ... [More]