Ok, so not really, but it's pretty darn close. Look quick: this is the only time I'll ever post a picture of the thing. It's a really damn big rock.
10 July 2008
Ayre's Rock / Uluru
They don't let you out of the country unless you have a stamp on your passport that says "I visited Ayre's Rock".
Ok, so not really, but it's pretty darn close. Look quick: this is the only time I'll ever post a picture of the thing. It's a really damn big rock.
Ok, so not really, but it's pretty darn close. Look quick: this is the only time I'll ever post a picture of the thing. It's a really damn big rock.
Sparkle
Detail from an oversized chandelier sculpture lying across the top of a Melbourne alleyway -
01 July 2008
Territory Day
The natives are setting off fireworks in large, unsupervised numbers. It's been a very, very dry year. If they set my backyard on fire I'm going to be peeved with a chance of irked. I may even get to be wroth.
It also means there's very, very little chance of actually getting any sleep until about 2 am.
Can't deny it's really damn pretty, though.
It also means there's very, very little chance of actually getting any sleep until about 2 am.
Can't deny it's really damn pretty, though.
02 February 2008
28 January 2008
The HPV vaccine
Open note to those parents who think they shouldn't give their kid the vaccine because their kid shouldn't be having sex anyways: given the perfect child who always obeys you and never thinks you're a little slow and has no hormonal impulses whatsoever - "Just Say No to Sex" works great unless your kid gets raped. Or say they make it safely through life but they don't marry a virgin and hey, their spouse picked it up somewhere and they didn't know because, HPV? mostly no symptoms...
...gah. Stupid people piss me off. Get your kids vaccinated, boys and girls both, and you'll be a smart person who will make me very happy.
...gah. Stupid people piss me off. Get your kids vaccinated, boys and girls both, and you'll be a smart person who will make me very happy.
24 January 2008
DVD complaints
moving all DVD's from cases to binders, I have come to 2 conclusions.
1) those little tabs they sometimes have to hold the cases shut suck.
2) I like the thinline cases a lot more than the fancier regular sized or multi-dvd cases.
3) I only hate CSI Miami because of David Caruso aka Horatio Caine; but him I hate enough to make me ditch the whole series.
So it's 3 conclusions... sue me.
1) those little tabs they sometimes have to hold the cases shut suck.
2) I like the thinline cases a lot more than the fancier regular sized or multi-dvd cases.
3) I only hate CSI Miami because of David Caruso aka Horatio Caine; but him I hate enough to make me ditch the whole series.
So it's 3 conclusions... sue me.
15 January 2008
A Reasonable Explanation #2
Continuing with the theme of utter geekiness, I bring you my second TV sci-fi reasonable explanation. This one is a DR Who thing. I've recently become somewhat addicted...
In the TV movie for DR Who back in '96, they said he was half-human. A perceived story continuity flaw has been discussed where said Doctor's ability to regenerate is uncontrolled, whereas when another time lord was shown to regenerate it portrayed her as having full control over her new self. So... if he's only a half Time Lord, couldn't that mean his abilities are somewhat different - even stunted - compared to other Time Lords? Including his ability to regenerate?
Just saying.
In the TV movie for DR Who back in '96, they said he was half-human. A perceived story continuity flaw has been discussed where said Doctor's ability to regenerate is uncontrolled, whereas when another time lord was shown to regenerate it portrayed her as having full control over her new self. So... if he's only a half Time Lord, couldn't that mean his abilities are somewhat different - even stunted - compared to other Time Lords? Including his ability to regenerate?
Just saying.
A Reasonable Explanation
I have, in the past, watched "Angel" - the TV show now canceled. It always struck me that the main character, Angel the two hundred some odd year old vampire, was a little.... thick. Possibly a slow learner. I mean, two hundred, right? You'd expect he'd be perfect at human interaction by now. Or at least vaguely competent. But no- he's a little bit lame. He wears his heart on his sleeve, he's not got the basic social skills of a high school girl. Hence what could have been a deeply unequal relationship - between Buffy and Angel - turned out to be fairly straightforward in more than simple physical terms. I think I know why he's so far behind the learning curve.
It's his soul, and who he was before he turned humanoid mosquito. He has memories stretching over two centuries, but absolutely no experience. Effectively, he began as a person accumulating life experience when he got his soul back - and he didn't try and learn how to actually talk to people again for another century after that. He hadn't started trying to be a good person until he saw Buffy - so his emotional and moral development was deeply stunted. And face it, before he went all "papercuts are yummy!" he was no sweetheart - he was essentially a lazy, selfish slob. His trying to be responsible and heroic was, to him, a new thing - even more so than for most people of his apparent age.
That's all.
It's his soul, and who he was before he turned humanoid mosquito. He has memories stretching over two centuries, but absolutely no experience. Effectively, he began as a person accumulating life experience when he got his soul back - and he didn't try and learn how to actually talk to people again for another century after that. He hadn't started trying to be a good person until he saw Buffy - so his emotional and moral development was deeply stunted. And face it, before he went all "papercuts are yummy!" he was no sweetheart - he was essentially a lazy, selfish slob. His trying to be responsible and heroic was, to him, a new thing - even more so than for most people of his apparent age.
That's all.
The Three Best Viral Videos.
Since I'm not taking pictures (too darn hot, as the song says) I figured I'd best write something.
I will not simply write "something" on a line there, just for giggles. Promise.
No, seriously.
Ok, so instead I decided to put in the three videos I love most. Or the three with the most mind-virus longevity in sticking in my brain unwanted. Or some quality... If there are any of the following three you have not seen, a) you have been living in a cave for the past 6 years and b) you ought to give it a click.
#1: The Badger Song. Very trippy. The longer you listen, the less it sounds like what they're actually saying and the more hypnotic is gets...
www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers
#2: The Internet is for Porn, done in Worlds of Warcraft characters.... Ok, sounds lame but really funny. Don't drink milk and watch this unless you want to wash out the inside of your nose with moo juice.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=nQac90N43WU
#3: Still Alive, from Portal. Oh, dear. This does require a little explanation... See, there's this video game. And the computer in the game is very sweet and helpful and homicidal... and, well, it's you or the computer, and the cake was a lie, so.... Just listen to the song.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RthZgszykL
I will not simply write "something" on a line there, just for giggles. Promise.
No, seriously.
Ok, so instead I decided to put in the three videos I love most. Or the three with the most mind-virus longevity in sticking in my brain unwanted. Or some quality... If there are any of the following three you have not seen, a) you have been living in a cave for the past 6 years and b) you ought to give it a click.
#1: The Badger Song. Very trippy. The longer you listen, the less it sounds like what they're actually saying and the more hypnotic is gets...
www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers
#2: The Internet is for Porn, done in Worlds of Warcraft characters.... Ok, sounds lame but really funny. Don't drink milk and watch this unless you want to wash out the inside of your nose with moo juice.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=nQac90N43WU
#3: Still Alive, from Portal. Oh, dear. This does require a little explanation... See, there's this video game. And the computer in the game is very sweet and helpful and homicidal... and, well, it's you or the computer, and the cake was a lie, so.... Just listen to the song.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RthZgszykL
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