But I’m so good at it… so… I just saw a newspaper from the 25th of March where a family got hit by a train in country Victoria. They were driving a large 4WD (a Nissan Navara), didn’t see the train and the driver tried to stop, left a 40m skidmark and hit the side [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Not wanting to be cruel…
Posted in General on March 31, 2008 | Comments Off
Saturday. Raining.
Posted in General on March 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Ahhhh, I’ve missed the rain so much. I’ve missed the weather where it’s not so horrible outside that you can’t go out of the house if you need to, but just wet and windy enough to encourage you to curl up on the couch under a throw rug and get some reading/film watching/relaxing done. I [...]
A cunning strategy
Posted in General on March 28, 2008 | Comments Off
Chatting with Giz, I think I managed to work out the US government strategy to combat terrorism: Simply make the public too poor to be able to afford a plane trip – if you can’t fly to another country, you can’t fly back, meaning that a terrorist would have to use a plane filled entirely [...]
Back to School
Posted in General on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I finished my ITIL training today and did my first exam in (I’m fairly sure) 17 years. I actually got nervous – the reason being that I really couldn’t identify with the material. Plus, the lecturer was using new slides and misjudged the time required to teach the subject, leaving us short on time to [...]
A disconnect
Posted in Film on March 26, 2008 | Comments Off
Wow. I seem to have enjoyed Flightplan a lot more than most people did. After it was done I suggested that Jodie Foster did a good job, and that I couldn’t think of many who could have substituted for her. “Sigourney could have handled it,” I suggested, “except that she’s too old for the part.” [...]
