We may need to find a new Doctor.

Does anyone have anything positive or negative to say about the Florey Medical Centre?

1) Add Cygwin/X to your installation by downloading the latest setup.exe, running setup, and selecting the 'xinit' package from the 'X11' category. Also make sure you include ssh (part of openssl ( Read more... )

I got very excited when I saw that the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie is called "On Stranger Tides", and is actually based on Tim Power's book. It was immediately clear to me that whoever had written the first PotC had been influenced by On Stranger Tides, and now they're going ahead and admitting it! A bit concerned about fitting Jack Sparrow ( Read more... )

I'm in this. Come see:

http://www.stagewhispers.com.au/reviews/manly-mates

(Not mentioned by name! Tragic!)

Went and saw "The Green Hornet" last night.

makoknight and I agreed that it was actually a pretty cool movie, that would have been much better if Seth Rogan would just shut up occasionally ( Read more... )

On hot days, the water in my bike bottle is often quite warm by the time I get through even a shortish ride... after a fairly short time, I'm left with a mouthful of lukewarm water. Yuk ( Read more... )

Got a bit crazy at Cancon, but only a bit. Pretty happy with score ( Read more... )

Thanks to various people's advice, we've settled (and purchased) two Sony ebook readers.
I have the pocket edition (PRS-350), deamondea has the slightly larger touch edition (PRS-650 ( Read more... )

deamondea is looking at getting an eBook reader. What's out there? What's hot, what's not, and what should be avoided at all costs?

Snurched from capnoblivious:
March to Restore Sanity

Some days, the only indication that the US hasn't gone completely bug-f*ck insane are the stand-up comedians.

The turnout (and attitude) displayed here is pleasing, to say the least.

And a lot of the signs are funny AND intelligent.

But I can't work out the many references to tea...?