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This time for sure!
Tonight we are most definitely going to Jurassic Lounge.
http://www.jurassiclounge.com/
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Someone on the bus had the word "mellifluous" tattooed on their back. I suppose they might just be using the adjective to describe themselves, which would be a teensy bit wanky (sweet sounding? full of honey?). But I assumed at first that it was just there because it was their favourite word. And it would be nice if you could see everyone's ( Read more... ) -
Fun with Computers
Has any one ever encountered a computer that turns itself on whenever a USB device is connected or removed? I think it might be haunted ( Read more... ) -
Ouch.
I am sunburned on my arms.
Or, as my lovely partner put it:
"Yikes. It looks like you were checking to see if a cow was pregnant, but she was on her period."
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nudes, vampires, nude vampires
I saw Exposed: Photography and the Classical Nude at Usyd today (which is free!) and was quite taken by several of the works by Herbert List: plaster statues amongst the ruins of Berlin, that sort of thing. I'm sure people who are more knowledgeable about photography than me know all about him already, but I was excited, and I can't find a decent ( Read more... ) -
Unrelated sentences.
I picked some stuff up from uni and there was a building missing. It's always odd, seeing a patch of sky where you didn't expect it.
Our landlord finally contacted us. So much for living the Australian dream (which is squatting, right? It's even mentioned in Waltzing MatildaTequila has fleas ( Read more... ) -
Some other stuff.
In an effort to be more productive, I am trying out the leech-block plugin for firefox, which lets you block certain sites at certain times of the day.
This would probably be working quite well, if not for the fact that valve's Orange Box was recently on special for $5, so I have been working my way through Half-Life 2, which was the next big thing ( Read more... ) -
Here are some films I have seen recently:
The Social Network
The main thing I took away from this is that everyone that goes to Harvard is a jerk. Everyone male, at least. The women don't get enough screen time to call it. This actually helps make Zuckerberg a marginally sympathetic character, because he is at least the smartest jerk, and also the most sarcastic. Although I agree in part ( Read more... )
