Month: November 2003
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Happy 21st birthday to my brother Anthony! Don’t party too hard, bruder. 🙂
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The Herald published my letter… and the bastards gutted it! That’s literally less than half, and they cut the whole bit about crusty old curmudgeons who pooh-pooh everybody else’s fun. That was the whole damn point!
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The Herald is reporting that Ten will refund the cost of votes for Cosima that came in after they closed the voting. Apparently you have to show them your phone bill to get the cash. That sucks for all the folks (like me) who have pay-as-you-go phones and thus don’t get any friggin’ bill. Not…
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The Guardian lists the 40 Greatest US Bands Today. REM’s in there at #22 and the Flaming Lips top the list at #1. Sounds good to me.
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“Beer mat ‘flipping’ perfected.” The Snook’s gonna love this. He practices flipping every damn time we go to the pub. (Link courtesy of John.)
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It’s Melbourne Cup Day, the day all of Australia stops to watch a horse race. I’m not kidding. (Apparently the whole state of Victoria gets the day off!) From what I gather, it’s all about gambling and big hats. Our office is running a couple “sweeps”, where you bet a certain amount and then pull…
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Nooooooooo! Dear God, say it isn’t so! Millsy and Paris Hilton? I’m going to go retch.
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I am utterly disgusted over tonight’s Australian Idol results. I know, I know… I said I wasn’t going to watch anymore or vote. I got sucked back in. I voted for Guy three times today in the hopes that he’d go through and Celine – I mean, Cosima – would get dropped. It started out…
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It’s bad enough that Americans get blamed for every cultural breakdown in Australia; now we’re responsible for a Halloween house egging. (Letter excerpt follows since that link will break tomorrow.) The gist is that some crotchety old fart put up a sign saying he didn’t want to participate in Halloween so a gang of teenagers…
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Salon examines the “low-carb geek” trend in their article Hackers on Atkins. I agree that it does have a lot appeal for technically-minded folks. Rodd and I have both inspired co-workers to start on it. The ensuing Slashdot discussion has a lot of nerd testimonials. (Unfortunately it also contains all the usual stupid Atkins criticism:…