How's this for pretty freakin' incredible?

I love flying, even just in real time. My favourite place to come down in is Vancouver (from the sea) - the coast there is just amazing to fly over, all blue and green and glittering - but cities without fabulous scenery still make me all gooey. Night or day; both have their perks. It's why when people ( Read more... )

It's Australian Organ Donor Awareness Week. If like me you've been meaning for ages to sign yourself up, here's your prod in the pants. Linkity..

It took ten hours and 300mg of caffeine to wake me up today. I'd say TONIGHT I AM GOING TO GO TO BED ON TIME I FREAKIN' SWEAR, except (assuming a half-life of ~6 hours) I estimate the amount of the good stuff currently swirling about my veins is about 125mg still. Which means by midnight I'll still have 60mg, and in case I didn't report it, I ( Read more... )

A Canadian friend of mine often sends me links intended to redress gaps in cultural knowledge I'll want to have filled if I'm going to move back to Canada. A lot of it's stuff I'm not familiar with; the below song I am, and you will be too, but watching it's fun anyway - the fan who won't let go (about 1:55 in) is just an added bonus - so enjoy:

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I grabbed a copy of City News from the rack near where I work today just to have something to look at while I ate my lunch, and found an interesting article on page 7.

BRISBANE: Controversial priest Fr Peter Kennedy will stage a sit-in at St Mary’s Catholic Church rather than hand over his South Brisbane parish to an administrator after February ( Read more... )

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Oh sweet fuckin' jaysus.

I don't usually spend a lot of time on Cute Overload - hell, I'm trying to cut my internet use down, at least to sites I've prejudged as high quality and bookmarked deciding they're a good use of time - but I'm looking for feel-good stimulus at the moment, so just happened across this series, involving a koala who wandered ( Read more... )