I'm 29, and I only got my driver's license 4 months ago*, so it's not hard to guess that for most of my life, I haven't been that interested in cars. So it's a bit strange that I've developed such a passion for Top Gear, the BBC series about motor vehicles. I started watching it because it replaced Mythbusters over the summer hiatus, and I've ( Read more... )

German Daleks!!!

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In other news, live blogging TV is much less exciting if you have recorded it and are watching a day later than everyone else.

But still....Daleks...speaking GERMAN!!!

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OK, so it breaks down like this:

I love rice pudding.

I love tiramisu even more...it's my favourite dessert ever.

And yet, Tiramisu flavoured Le Rice® - beyond ordinary. Pleh. I'd rather have mashed banana.

I wonder if there's any other situation where adding two good things together results in a product that is inferior to either of its

Last night I had a dream. I was involved in some kind of church fete. There were a lot of cakes and biscuits involved. Afterwards, I went over to a friend's apartment, by myself. While there, I didn't have much to do, so I ate a model train that I saw on a shelf. Of course I couldn't eat the wheels, so I disposed of them carefully in the bin ( Read more... )

Linked from Ship of Fools, I came across this article...

Thou shalt not beg
Charity certainly doesn't begin at home at a cathedral where priests have banned beggars from their grounds.

Clerics put a sign saying "No Begging" on the door of the church in Sfantul Gheorghe, central Romania, after claiming they had been swamped by spongers. Read More ( Read more... )

Who the hell are you? Eh, whatever.
Today, there are local council elections around my state. I must admit that I am utterly ignorant and mostly apathetic about the outcome.

Strangely for a country of only 19 million people, Australia has three levels of government - Federal, State, and Local. The fuzzy picture in my mind says that the Federal ( Read more... )

I've been getting an increasing number of phone calls from telemarketers lately, and have taken to screening calls just about all the time at home. Harder to avoid are phone calls to my mobile, or even more rudely, to my work number ( Read more... )

Hello everyone! Craig and I are at an internet cafe in Hong Kong. The place is in the bowels of a nondescript building near Causeway Bay - but we don't mind that there are no windows, because internet access is only HK$13 per hour (AU$1.78, 0.82GBP, US$1.68). There are teenagers playing shoot-em-up games across the way, and both they and the ( Read more... )

OK, I expected today to be a crap lesson. I had a big scare last week, and much as you might exhort me to "forget about it" (and much as I might try not to think about it), it's sitting there in the back of my head.

Obviously I'm learning to drive, so it's par for the course for you to micro-manage my driving and remind me when I've done things ( Read more... )

This morning, Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister of Australia, addressed parliament and the country with an apology to the Stolen Generations, a group of Aboriginal people who were forcibly removed from their families up to the 1970's.

It's a historic day.

I first encountered the idea of an apology to the Stolen Generations with Sorry Day in 1998. I ( Read more... )