So, I was just speaking to Crumpet on the phone (she was at the school in the Northern Territory) when suddenly a rat started running around in the school. Then, another one! Then, they ran into the room that Crumpet was in! While she was wearing thongs instead of shoes! Naturally, I’m crying laughing as [...]
Archive for June, 2005
Eek!
Posted in General on June 30, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Podcasting
Posted in Geekery on June 29, 2005 | 8 Comments »
Finally I get around to talking about podcasting, and it took the latest version of iTunes (4.9) to make me do it. Previously you had to use a separate client (I use PodcastTuner) to download files and import them to iTunes, but now iTunes does a reasonable job of doing everything itself. So, what is [...]
Inherited Darwinism
Posted in Gaming on June 27, 2005 | Comments Off
So, some Korean morons (by that I mean morons that happen to live in Korea) left their 4-month-old child alone for several hours while they went to the internet cafe to play World of Warcraft. Kid suffocates and dies. Press goes nuts. A post on FoH seemed appropriate: With 2 million people playing the game, [...]
I fear Pepsi
Posted in General on June 27, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Am I alone in thinking that the new Pepsi ads on tramstops look an awful lot like people fending off a tide of pig’s blood from a distance? Or have I just watched Carrie too often?
Curse you, Giz
Posted in Music on June 24, 2005 | 3 Comments »
Gizzy (posting on AppleTalk under his spooky alias of Gringo), alerted me to the re-release of Cardinal’s lovely album (short writeup and interview here). I’ve been after this album for several years now so I visited Amazon to place my order. Naturally it’s not cost-effective to only buy the one CD… soooooo… Third/Sister Lovers – [...]
And for a change, something I like
Posted in Music on June 23, 2005 | Comments Off
Gorgeous. Band is Trespassers William, one of my South by Southwest finds. Also, this is clever, and is performed by a goddamn TWO-PIECE, just to make me feel inadequate. Check them out here. Honourable mention.
Another crappy night
Posted in General on June 23, 2005 | Comments Off
Seriously messed up sleep last night. I tried recording some bass and got a couple of ideas, but nothing really stunning. Had some rum & coke, staggered about, watched some Invader Zim commentary and went to bed. Spent the rest of the night dreaming that I couldn’t find a plane ticket for a flight I [...]
The Happies
Posted in Music on June 22, 2005 | Comments Off
It’s lucky I’m not manic-depressive, or The Happies’ song Ginger & Lime would have me slashing my wrists, wrapped in the ecstacy of spending three-and-a-half minutes in Tragedy Valley. Oh, wait… I kinda am manic-depressive. Oops. They’ll heal, right?
Random childhood memory #1
Posted in General on June 21, 2005 | 1 Comment »
When we were kids we thought our mother was telling us to shut the bathroom door when we were having a bath ‘or giraffes will get in’.
Not so rosy
Posted in Gaming on June 21, 2005 | Comments Off
A Slashdot post from a Blizzard employee: A lot of people are leaving, mainly because they feel their hands were tied over WoW. Corporate refuses to put much money into the WoW project, and it frustrates us as much as the customers. When Vivendi forced the game out in November, we literally spent weeks stuck [...]
