You’ll know you’re really a parent when you start appraising your offspring’s excrement. Okay, so it’s important to make sure his movements are regular and healthy, but sometimes it goes a little too far. It starts to sound like a couple of art critics… "Mmmm…. beautiful consistency, wouldn’t you say?" "Absolutely. A prime example of ... [More]
Author: Daniel Bowen
Transport blogger / campaigner and spokesperson for the Public Transport Users Association / professional geek.
Bunurong land, Melbourne, Australia.
Opinions on this blog are all mine.
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Super 3D Commute
Today I arrived at work soaking wet. Well okay, not soaking, but certainly, undeniably wet. "Was it raining?", I can hear the Sydneysiders snidely asking, "’cos it always rains in Melbourne". No, actually it’s hardly rained a drop all week. It’s the sprinklers in Fawkner Park. I walk across the park to work, and once ... [More]
Okay, okay, I admit it. I spent the whole of today in the pub. But it was for work – I promise. All eight of us piled into a spare corner of the Devonshire in Brighton to plan, speculate, brainstorm and generally think about what our company is doing, what it needs to be doing, ... [More]
Today walking along Toorak Road to work I came across a new kind of window display. It was a bridal shop, featuring lots of dummies wearing wedding gowns and so on… all perfectly normal, except one. One of the dummies was wearing the full kit, but didn’t have any arms. Sleeveless dress, and no arms. ... [More]
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Eraserhead
Last Saturday night I finally got to see Eraserhead. It was SBS’s cult movie of the week. Ummm… I get the distinct feeling that I may have wasted ninety minutes of my life watching this movie. At the end when the screen went white and the credits rolled, my mind reviewed the plot, and climactic ... [More]
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Christmas in Warrnambool
Hope you all had a good Christmas, or whatever other celebration (if any) you happened to celebrate last week. Oh let’s face it, to avoid any confusion, no matter what your race, colour or creed, I hope you had a good week last week. That is, presuming that you recognised the last seven days as ... [More]
Tomorrow morning we’re off for a short Christmassy holiday down the coast somewhere to somewhere sandy, beachy, and hopefully very very relaxing.
What’s going on in the music industry? No, I’m not talking about Michael Jackson’s skin or Prince/Victor/Love Symbol/TAFKAP’s latest record deal. I’m talking about image. Watching Rage of a Saturday morning (as you do), one could be forgiven for thinking the music industry has turned upside down. Look, if you will, at the evidence: Sheryl ... [More]
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Jackpot!
I think I’ve hit the jackpot. Just about every morning I walk to work from South Yarra Station, a location frequented in the peak hours by the Yuppies who live there and catch trains to the city, hordes of kids heading for a multitude of schools, and people who work nearby, like me. In the ... [More]
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Russian Space Probe
I see the Russian space program has reached new depths. For a while it looked like their rocket was going to crash in Australia. Thanks very bloody much guys, well done! Apparently now the Cold War is over we’re no longer under threat of nuclear annihilation, now it’s rockets falling out of the sky instead. ... [More]
Watching my horse running fourth in The Cup last Tuesday I suddenly wondered… have we always known that putting small people on horses would help them win? Or did someone suddenly realise one day a few centuries ago? And did his competitors work it out? Maybe it was like Australia II’s winged keel? "Gee, Fred’s ... [More]
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Grand Final remainders
A few of weeks ago the AFL "Thump Those Sydneysiders Into The Ground" Grand Final was on, and we decided to have a few people over for the traditional viewing of the game accompanied by Roy & HG’s superlative and entirely piss-taking commentary. A slight over-estimate in the amount of food and drink did, however, ... [More]