Just been trying to hunt down some of my William Gibson books today (while the temperature was a nice 30+C). Only have two of them now, not sure where I left Neuromancer or Mona Lisa Overdrive. Ah well, have to go into the City tomorrow (forecast is 40C), and will buy both of them again ( Read more... )

Been thinking a lot recently about doing a sort of video blog about topics that I find interesting and possibly controversial (surprise). I will admit it (the thought about the concept) started recently after watching a few on Youtube, and intrigued me due to the fact that people outside of my usual circle would be able to watch and this would ( Read more... )

If some of the stuff I talk about here is doubled up, I apologise. I am typing it in as I think of it, so my brain may jump around a bit and repeat itself ( Read more... )

Just a meme type thing sent to me from a friend (yet the title sounds so ominous), so I thought I would put it here ( Read more... )

Finally getting back in the swing of reading a few books on the American War of Independence, namely Founding Brothers, a book on Thomas Jefferson and once I am done with that a book on Benjamin Franklin. Wishing I had pay tv so I could watch the series on John Adams. Tempted to deal with the legends that have sprung up with the intervening time ( Read more... )

Just a quick one. Finally the ideals set forth by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence start to really take shape after the election of Barrack Obama to the office of the President of the United States of America. Way too much blood has been spilt, too many rights oppressed. Hopefully the 4th of November, 2008 will go down in history ( Read more... )

Getting things clean up around the house. Moving furniture around the place. Weeding the front and back yards. All this and hunting for a new job too. No wonder I feel like an Orc Peon...

The past month or so has been a pain. Too much pain both emotionally and physically for me. Things have seemingly been going in a huge downward spiral and don't seem to be able to pull out of the gorramed thing. Between deaths/illnesses in the family, cars, work, and other things, I really wish that I had the ability to control or fix things ( Read more... )

My Uncle Dennis died last night just after 6pm. He had been battling cancer for a long while and it finally got him. While he may not have know I respected him a lot for his attitude. He gave some words of advice to my sister late last year which were "Live your life for yourself, don't do it for anyone else." I remember these words and will take ( Read more... )

I am back from Brisbane. Gen Con Oz was a lot of fun, interesting cosplay around the place. I did okay in the back up storyline event, going 3 for 6. The Main event I went 2 for 6, but in the LARP, I helped Lion get second place trying to forge an alliance with the Crab and got tricked into giving the Scorpion a favor. Was incredibly tired ( Read more... )