Month: October 2004
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The Vending Machine Prizes Spectacular! The biggest highlight for me in the whole (pretty hilarious) article was reading the guy’s ode to the Chicken Machine. You know, the one with the brown chicken that turned around and clucked and dropped you an egg. I loved the Chicken Machine.
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Kevin’s posted an excellent review of REM’s new album. He makes it sound pretty downbeat. Crud. My fandom has really never recovered from shelling out for the “deluxe” CD edition of Up only to discover that I couldn’t tell when one depressing song ended and another depressing song began. (Not to mention the fact that…
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Richard Stallman’s over here bitching about Linux again. How can a guy that claims not to have had a job in decades afford to fly to Australia?
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It’s on, folks! I decided to keep the invitation stylistically similar to last year’s. Thanks to Matt for pointing me to the gallery of makeup kits. The e-mails are still going out so if you’re in Sydney and you haven’t gotten one, just hold tight. If you don’t have one in a next few days…
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Crap. As expected, Apple just e-mailed me to say my G5 iMac will arrive “7-10 business days” later than expected. Does anybody know if they’re shipping in the US or UK yet?
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Australians all, let us rejoice!So, Amy and Rob are citizens of Australia now! Actually they’re dual American-Australians, which is what I hope to be in about eighteen months. Their ceremony was held in Mosman and I went along to celebrate with them. They basically just had to pledge allegiance and then they got a certificate…
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Congratulations to Amy and her husband Rob, both of whom are becoming official Australian citizens tonight. I’m counting on them for lots of helpful tips about this whole dual-citizenship thingy.
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Real Embarrassing Photos: The Man Who Stole Jimi Hendrix’s HairI was going through some old pictures the other day when I came across this absolute gem. Yes, folks, that is the Snook. In college he had big hair, a dodgy goatee, and – what’s more amazing to me – he actually wore blue jeans! Who…
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AskMetaFilter tackles the questions enquiring minds want to know: Why, evolution-wise, do the testes hang outside a human body? Come on, you wondered that too…
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Come-come-commala.It’s been over ten years… but I’ve finally come to the clearing at the end of the path. I have finished Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. In fact, I read over six hundred pages today; I couldn’t put it down. You remember how I thought the sixth book kinda sucked? Well, this one didn’t. It…