Yay! Am on holiday.

Am glad for change of government. The pass the Prime Minister parcel thing was embarrassing, and it will be hard for Abbott & co. to do a worse job than the previous government did.

My 5 year old niece, looking at a picture of a unicorn:
"That's a unicorn, it's a horsie with a big pointy horn on its head, so it can kill you!" (All said very cheerfully).

Abbott: You can't measure carbon dioxide because it doesn't weigh anything!
Turnbull: Drop a block of dry ice on your foot and tell me how much it weighs.

I want Turnbull for Prime Minister.

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Flash flooding, a ship run aground, roads collapsing, people swept away. My area was in a drought last week.
There isn't supposed to be a lake there.

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I really should update this more often. I have a new job and I've moved, so it's not as if nothing has happened since March. I really am bad at keeping a journal!

Yesterday morning, a dove flew into my window and cracked its skull open. I had to pick it up and throw it in the bin before the garbage collectors arrived (a matter of minutes, while wearing pajamas). It was disgusting, as the inside of its skull was oozing out of its eye. It says much about my life that this was the highlight of my day. It also ( Read more... )

I've been thinking (way too hard) about why Cagalli was left as a natural. I think that the general consensus is that it was at the request of Mrs Hibiki, who was getting cold feet over the project? Dr Hibiki seemed to me to be completely obsessed with his project by then, so I wonder if he might have had an additional motive. Could Cagalli have ( Read more... )

I haven't been watching GSD lately. I think I'll stock up on episodes and then marathon it. I think they've gone overboard with the melodrama, and my inner engineer cries over what I hear about the nuclear explosion. Thought: I wonder if being inside a gundam would be anything like being inside the control room of a dragline ( Read more... )