Crumpet and I saw Pan’s Labyrinth last night, and it’s hard to describe why I was so impressed with the film without giving too much away. Suffice it to say that this is the film that I wish Terry Gilliam was capable of making – it’s a wonderful combination of sweet fantasy and dark, gritty [...]
Archive for January, 2007
More Ebert-lite
Posted in Film on January 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I cry
Posted in Macs on January 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Today I dropped my PowerBook for the first time. The tiny latch that holds the screen shut snapped (no other damage that I can see so far), but the latch seems to be integral to the bottom of the case. Replacing it (which I really need to do if I’m to continue taking this laptop [...]
Stuff about today
Posted in General on January 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Today was ludicrously hot. So hot that half the state is apparently blacked out. I know that Mopsy’s ambient temperature sensor reached 44ºC and the air conditioning was only really able to fight the heat when the car was in motion. Not that easy to do when you consider that about half the traffic lights [...]
Service…
Posted in Zoom-zoom on January 10, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Mopsy had her 10,000km service today, and I had the greasemonkeys tighten a few screws inside the cockpit – some rattles seemed to appear around the time Steve and I headed down to the Great Ocean Road. A coincidence I’m sure. Anyhow, the seat no longer squeaks (seat rails were greased), the B-pillar (right next [...]
It's just like starting over
Posted in Geekery on January 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Pants in Motion has been GOOGLIFIED! Ahhh, the joy of crawling through logs to find which search engine loves my posts more… I’m already at the top of a search for “pants in motion”, but let’s see if I can get some other hits too. Boobs. Lesbians. Um…. knitted pie.
