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The Pot Spot

It’s going to be an interesting weekend. Because on Sunday the 26th of January, Australia Day, according to the notices in the window, the Pot Spot will finally close down. The Pot Spot is a shop down on the corner of our street. They sell plant pots and other assorted garden objects. Gnomes, dragons, frogs,  ... [More]

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Heat

Today I would have loved to arrive at work soaking wet. In fact, given all of the 41.2 degrees of heat we got (more coming up tomorrow), I’d have appreciated a sprinkler system in the office (though lighting a fire probably isn’t such a good idea). Quite frankly, I don’t think the air-conditioning was up  ... [More]

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Critique

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]

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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]

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General

Pub

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]

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General

Shop

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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Film

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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Travel

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]

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Travel

We’re off

Tomorrow morning we’re off for a short Christmassy holiday down the coast somewhere to somewhere sandy, beachy, and hopefully very very relaxing.

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music

Music

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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Consumerism

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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News and events

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]