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Billy @ Founders
A very Blessed day! My dw and I have managed to procure the penultimate two tickets for the Billy Connelly show in town later this month!
Woo - I've seen several of his televised concerts, some movies and a few tv specials but seeing him live will be an experience to remember :)
*bounce*bounce*
PB -
Movie meme - erm because I can
snarfed from invisiblemoose
(X) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(X) Grease
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
( ) Boondock Saints
(X) Fight Club
(X) Starsky and Hutch
(X) Neverending Story
(X) Blazing Saddles
(X) Universal Soldier
(X) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
( ) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
(X) KingPin
(X) Never ( Read more... ) -
A breadmaker is you... Addendum
Success! Twice even ( Read more... ) -
A breadmaker is you!
I've just put my first ever mix into the new breadmaker. I've never done used it before. DW has made a couple of loaves of herb-bread that came out really yummy but this is my first try of using the machine. In the past I've tried to make my own bread old-school (read: manually) but it turned out VERY heavy and doughy.
I've been boring and just ( Read more... ) -
Ginger Beer - Attempt the second
Finally - new beer bug created. In 10 days time I will be able to bottle batch number two of Ursine Ginger Beer.
In case anyone is interested... I have utilised This recipe to create the bug.
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Abiotic Petroleum
This article describing some of the history of the oil industry and espousing an alternative theorem for the origin of oil made for interesting reading. Whether it is true or not is still a matter for debate, but I found it fascinating.
Russian-Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum
And the author is a kiwi apparently!
Russian-Ukrainian theory ( Read more... ) -
News of the pointlless and banal.
I just learned that I share my birthday with the late Gary Gygax. No wonder I like RPGs :)
(we now return you to your regularly scheduled normality and banality)
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Additional: I also share my birthday with Cliff Curtis (NZ Actor) and apparently Bob Hope died on my birthday whilst in Finland they celebrate National Sleepy-head Day on my -
...in which the Bear gets warm fuzzies.
I just called DW who is home today watching the Weeman (who is under the weather at the moment) to ask how he was feeling. She said he was playing happily and then put him on the phone. I had the following conversation from him ( Read more... ) -
CGI and Special Effects Pioneer dies.
Farewell Stan Winston. Your work brought much entertainment to many.
Stan Winston, the Oscar-winning special effects maestro responsible for bringing the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park and other famous movie creatures to life, has died. He was 62.
He helped bring the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park, the extraterrestrials from Aliens, the robots from ( Read more... )