time's up!

Okay, the day has finally dawned upon us. This is it! No longer will you visit my blog here. No longer will you return here to read. From now on, you will be heading somewhere...else!

So, all you RSS freaks, time up change your feeds! Sure, you can keep the feeds for this one...but it's not going to get you much at all! Update! All of you!

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i've been undone

So this post is supposed to be about my feet. More correctly, this was supposed to be about how Sam has this non-existent mythical power that makes my shoe laces come undone around her. Which is true - I've been wearing the same shoes for 10hrs straight today, and not once have they come undone - not like 5 times in 1.5 hrs.

But this post isn't about Sam. In fact, this post has nothing to do with Sam.

This is a post about dumbasses. The kind of people who do completely dumbass things. Like this guy.



I mean, who really stops four or five metres into the intersection? This is why we have laws against using mobile phones while driving. The guy paid no attention to where he was going, and sailed right on through before realising that yes, (ohcrapohcrapohcrap) that is a red light. I mean, Gosh!

Idiot!

And yes, I know this post really has nothing to do with anything (and yes, I really need to stop accidentally hitting that publish button before I've finished writing my posts). But there were complaints, and those complaints merited some attention. And seeing as I don't have a bunny and a pancake handy, this will just have to do.

i wonder...

How come no one I know calls me chocolate bear?

Seriously, these are the kinds of questions that keep me awake into the wee hours of the morning. I mean, Turk and I have so many similarities! We're both dark skinned; both impeccibly fine specimens of the male species. We both shave our head, both have shiny heads ("hey, you're right, I can see my reflection in it!"), and both keep those wonderful domes well moisturised and looked after.

So if he can have Zach Braff walking up to him on a morning shift, calling him chocolate bear, and asking whether he's waxed his head today so he can steal some wax for his hair, why can't I?!

late night music

I think I've realised that my ears are somehow linked to BoingBoing. Tenuous, but bear with me.

Recently there has been a spate of posts about ear-wax cleaning on BoingBoing - leading to many many people wondering when it is all going to end. Now, I've long been a firm anti-ear-wax person, frequently cleaning them out. My reasoning was that I quite frequently use ear-buds and headphones - making me prone to an increase in ear-wax build up, if my urban mythology serves me correctly.

I wondered whether there was anything to this sudden craze. And so one night, at about 3am, I took off my headphones. And it was then I realised I'd been wearing them for too long.



Yep, that's right. I have custom ear-shape-imprinted headphones.

as the feather falls

The Zero Movement Manifesto certainly got it right: Now you can have real taste with zero sugar. So why can't life be more like Coca-Cola Zero? All the good bits with zero negative stuff.

So how about a pillow fight with zero pillow fighters?

I turned up yesterday at the proper time and place to witness the event that was supposed to be Pillow Fight Melbourne, only to find that no one showed up. I stood around and waited for 15 minutes, and no one showed up. There is nothing wrong with that photo. Besides the fact there should be people hitting each other with pillows in it.

And so, I turned around and went home.

new blog

And so I've finally pulled my finger out, and moved up and beyond Blogger.

Well, the first step has been made.

The sound of green will soon be moving from these humble pages to the freer pages of...well...me. The new blog will soon contain all the past posts and comments from this blog, so in essence it's just moving homes. But that's not happening quite yet. Not until I can work out how to enable the CURL extension for PHP on my webserver.

Anyone want to help?

Roh?

Anyone even got any idea what that means?

From the people who brought you...

Pillow fights in various cities, comes the latest edition:

Pillow Fight Australia.

And while the initial date was set for tomorrow, the 18th March, it has been pushed back for one week due to interest only starting to grow now.

And so, next saturday, come by the city, and swing a pillow. I'll be there, I might even drag some friends with me. However, I'll be holding a camera, not swinging a pillow.

Maybe a camera pillow.