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 – [...]
