As per previous posts, I like to have a 'focus word' each year that I use as a sort of meta-narrative for my growth. I was changing them at new year's; I seem to have changed that practice ( Read more... )

So I've got a bit of a political party crush in the Greens at the moment - since Labor's divorce with Kev has broken my post-2007 Labor crush. And - prompted by a conversation at work today - I'm wondering: are they a party focussed on a tight and contiguous set of topics, or a full governmental alternative ( Read more... )

Article in the ABC online today starts ( Read more... )

I'd like to say it takes a lot to shock me - but it doesn't, really, I'm a delicate little flower. But what the fuck is up with the t-shirt slogan "It's not rape if you yell 'surprise'"? In a world of seriously off things, that is seriously off ( Read more... )

So I was doing the sleepover shift at a crisis accommodation place for young people the other night, and at about 2am one of the clients (a charming 14y/o sociopath) knocks on the door and says he's having freaky thoughts, and said ( Read more... )

Just reading a The Register article about a gay sex scene (well, boy human on boy elf as near as I can tell) in 'Dragon Age:Origins', and they conclude ( Read more... )

One word: eVGA UV-16 USB to DVI adaptor. Ok that's several words, but the point is I'm on my way home with one to see if it'll work...

Heya crew, I'll be back in Perth from around the 26th of October to the 4th of November - I'm driving over then flying back. Hoping to hang out with everyone :)

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Zomg there's a huge 24hr K-Mart! I love Melbourne :) We don't do things this way back on the farm