Monthly Archives: June 2008
Finding a pub that costs you nothing
As a very last minute activity, I met Wayne (the brother) and a couple of his mates to watch the football tonight. I wasn’t planning on doing anything, mostly because I have almost no money to my name until Tuesday … Continue reading
A quickly noticed blog record
Coming into this too late as usual, but on my Dashboard screen in WordPress, I believe I just worked out that this is my 200th post this year, which amounts to almost a doubling of the size of my overall … Continue reading
Mid week (in)action
Is not usually very much. It’s actually amazing just how tired I can feel by mid week, and see that tiredness echoed in the rest of the family. It’s probably not the best lifestyle — of course we go to … Continue reading
Watch out for that–
Now this is on the spot journalism … from an amateur, of course: From the New York Times blog and repeated at a few other sources. Guaranteed to get quite a lot of play … lucky she took cover right … Continue reading
Net censorshop in China
A message from Amnesty International (a great organisation that I belong to):
Sundays …
For some reason we didn’t go to bed until 3am this morning … Sallie’s been on a real productivity bender with her new Pressure Canner, though I have a feeling it’s not quite as easy as she’d hoped it would … Continue reading
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Happily easily pleased
Will is really taken with Cars at the moment — the most recent Pixar movie we own. He particularly likes the very end credits, where the injokes go as far as having Car versions of all the Pixar movies, with … Continue reading
Fox News surprises no one
Scalzi has another great post commenting on the latest “unbelievable but really not unbelievable at all” idiocy from Fox News about Barack Obama. It’s all about race of course, but what’s important really, is that the specifics don’t matter at … Continue reading
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Nintendo did not create the semi-naked dancing girl
According to an article on Reuters, Nintendo would like the world to know they are NOT responsible for a poular viral video that shows a cute girl gyrating on a Wii Fit board in her underwear. Well, glad they cleared … Continue reading
Clearly I sucked in the State of Origin
Well, the second State of Origin was on tonight, and NSW lost big time, going down 30-0 to Queeensland, who seemed like a completely different team to game one (and in a lot of ways were). Of course, the cryptic … Continue reading