I’ve been meaning to blog this for ages. Have you guys seen the Titanic Super Slide? I first learned about it last year when my Dad reported that they had one at the County Fair back home. It’s an actual giant inflated Titanic ship, half sunk in the “water”, that you climb up in order to slide down the “deck”. Just like when those wacky Irish steerage passengers did it in the movie! Isn’t that fun, kids? I couldn’t believe it. In the end I chalked it up to Indiana bad taste. (Not that we Hoosiers have nothing but bad taste, but hey, we elected Dan Quayle.) But guess what I saw here in Sydney at Fair Day a few weeks ago? The damn Titanic Super Slide! Am I the only one that finds the concept of turning a historical tragedy into a children’s fairground attraction appalling? What’s next, the “Leap from the Hindenburg Bungee Jump”? The “Escape the Black Plague Haunted House”? *shudder*

The Little OS. A charming picture story for children and Mac zealots. (Link courtesy of John.)

Poodoo! I knew I shoulda waited to order my iPod case. Moire just found one in leopard skin!

I bailed on the “quilt” task. Instead I finished the new website for the play I’m helping with. Wow, it was good to work those rusty HTML muscles.

Gah. I finally got on the ‘Net tonight and I was thinking it’d been days since I posted last. Instead it was less than 24 hours. I need to unplug. I’m gonna go work on my quilt for awhile.

Prince Philip did it again. This guy is hilarious. He’s, like, the English version of Dubya… except he was making embarrassing verbal faux pas years before the Bushes took office.

New Poll: Battle of the Discount Chain Stores! Where do you go to buy all the little things that make life livable?

Friday Five:

1. What’s your favorite vacation spot?
I’m a big fan of the theme park vacation. I used to love camping at Cedar Point. I also had a great time in Florida a few years back hitting all the Disney Parks, Islands of Adventure, and the Kennedy Space Center. EuroDisney was pretty fun too. When I go on holiday, I like to do stuff. It’d probably be less stressful to just go somewhere and chill, but I always feel guilty for not seeing everything possible.

2. Where do you consider to be the biggest hell-hole on earth?
Hmmm. I’d probably say Gary, Indiana, but I don’t wanna bring down the wrath of the homeboys again. 🙂

3. What would be your dream vacation?
Snookums and I are actually planning one of my dream vacations right now. We’re thinking of taking the Indian Pacific train from Sydney to Perth. It’s one of the “great” train journeys of the world. You travel pretty much the entire length of Australia, across the bight and through the outback. If we do it, we’re gonna do it first-class so we get the luxury sleeping car and meals in the fancy dining room. It takes three days to get to Perth, and then we’ll hang out there for a few days before flying home. How cool would that be?

4. If you could go on a road-trip with anyone, who would it be and why?
Hmm. Shall I answer with real-life people or blog people? Let’s go with blog people; that’d be more fun. Max would definitely be navigator, because then he could run the stereo and play us all the custom trip mix tapes he’d inevitably have made. Tara D would be in the backseat, cracking my shit up the whole way. Moire would be back there too, ranting about her job and reading us excerpts from the latest Harry Potter slash fiction she’d found. I, of course, would be driving. 🙂

(Not that I wouldn’t take the rest of you, but in general I hate road trips, so I’d need the unique talents of these three individuals to keep me from getting bored and running the car into a bridge embankment.)

5. What are your plans for this weekend?
Not sure. Probably just helping with the play (which starts next week). I need to go get some more fabric for my quilt. And today is the Mardi Gras parade, but I don’t know if I can go. I might give it a try though, since my piercer last week said to look for him on the leather fetishists float. (Hee! This should be fun once Google indexes this page.)

They’re just now broadcasting the Grammy Awards here in Australia. The Snook and I were half-watching the “Lady Marmalade” performance when I asked, “Where the hell is Christina Aguilera? She was billed as performing, and she hasn’t come out yet and the song’s almost over!” And the Snook said, “Isn’t that her over on the far left?” Me: “No, that’s some black chick.” Him: “I think that’s her.” Me (squinting): “Holy crap! That is her! Geez, lay off the self-tanner!” Seriously, she looks scarier every time I see her.

It’s not a particularly fun link or anything, but here’s a site with lots of graph paper that you can print out at home. It came to my rescue today when I was trying to lay out the quilt I’m making. (Yeah, you heard that right.) Anyway, it’s a useful site to have bookmarked.