Month: January 2003
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Holy crap. Check out my Recent Searches page. I’m the #2 Google result for sightings of the Virgin Mary at Coogee and apparently the faithful are flocking here. Sorry, folks, I haven’t seen it personally. It’s only a short bus ride away though… Perhaps your dutiful blogger will have to do some investigative reporting with…
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Confession: I deleted a couple comments that randoms left today. It’s not that I’m against new people commenting; in fact, I welcome it. (Seriously, you lurkers! Join in!) But folks have to understand that this isn’t Usenet. I like the fact that the usual crew here all respect each other and use readable English. So…
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In the category of “More Good News… Not”, apparently you can get deep vein thrombosis from sitting at a computer for too long. See, I thought the thing about the airplanes was that the pressure had something to do with it. But now they’re saying you can get it just from sitting on your ass…
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Today it was forty-four degrees Celsius outside in Macquarie Park, where I work. That’s one hundred and eleven degrees Fahrenheit. It’s stinkin’ hot.
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Draco is Eminem, and evidently Dobby is Vladimir Putin. Random.
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From my friend Major: “Check this out. People are seeing the Virgin Mary in a frickin’ fence post at Coogee. People are making pilgrimages to see a white fence and are saying its a message from God that women shouldn’t go topless on the beach. Get these morons out of the gene pool. Out I…
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Me: (picking up phone) Hello?Telemarketer; Is this Mrs. Snook?Me: BWAH HA HA HA HA! I never did find out what he was selling.
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Everybody’s linkin’ to this collection of videos of The Price is Right winning moments. I like the first one where the guy wins $20K playing Plinko. That game rocked.
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Wow. Roger Ebert saw Bob Dylan’s new movie and ripped it to shreds. “Masked and Anonymous” is one of the oddest movies I have ever seen. Obviously everyone involved in it was besotted, if not mesmerized, by Dylan. All of those big stars must have agreed to their cameos … It’s a little sad to…
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Dave Barry has a weblog. I’d like to place a bet right now that he’ll sweep the Bloggies next year.