Category: Consciousness

Unmitigated soppiness

This post should potentially come with some sort of gag warning. But I’m sure all my female readers will appreciate it – and single guys can probably learn something from it…

We watched the Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo + Juliette this afternoon.

Now that I’m married I enjoy romantic tragedies even less than before.

Speaking of which, we had our two year anniversary this week (on the 22nd). And my wife is still wonderful. I don’t normally go for soppiness online – it falls into the category of sharing information people don’t really want to read (oversharing).

I do love my wife very much though, and I’m happy for this fact to be published.

September 27, 2009

Holiday snaps

I took lots of photos during our holidays – most were at a wedding and will be boring to all of you. Some were at the beach. Like these (and whatever else I eventually upload to this album).

I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with aperture and exposure settings.

And here’s the dust storm on the Sunshine Coast.

September 27, 2009

Back

Holidays are almost over. We’re back in civilisation today. We had lunch with Andrew and Simone.

Which reminds me of the news of some import that is worthy of note.

Last Monday we had our interview regarding candidacy with the Presbyterian Church of Queensland – we passed. We’ll, if all goes according to plan, be studying at QTC and working at Clayfield (with Andrew and Simone) next year.

September 27, 2009

Holidays and weddings

Were still on holidays, but Ive got a blogging itch, which Im scratching using my iPhone while I sit in a church waiting for a wedding to start.

Were early because Robyn is an usher.

Ill return to normal posting over the weekend.

September 25, 2009

Have your sweets, and eat it two

Oh, The Temptation from Steve V on Vimeo.

When I have children this is going to be part of the daily dining ritual. This is an apparently famous little social experiment. The kids get two marshmallows if they can not eat the first one for a few minutes.

I reckon the game would be more fun if you didn’t let the kid have the first marshmallow after they waited. That would be a life lesson.

I also want to teach my children that red is blue – like one of my friends did to her little brother (I can’t remember the colours she used).

September 19, 2009

Nice spam

Some commenters around the interwebs should take a note out of this spammer’s book…

“This blog rocks! I gotta say, that I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,

A definite great read…:)”

Thanks Bill Bartman. I appreciate your candor and kindness.

September 18, 2009

Reverse charged prank calls

I have a friend who keeps giving telemarketers my number. His name is Joe. He thinks it’s funny when they call me, expecting an easy sale, and I run my standard anti-telemarketer ritual of talking for a minute and then just staying silent.

I decided it was about time I got him back.

My problem with prank calls is that I always laugh in the middle of them. I needed someone else to do my dirty work. So, like every other Australian male who needs a little bit of spring in his step, I turned to the Australian Medical Institute. And they called him for me. You can click the image for a larger version.

I highly recommend this course of action, partly because I’m sick of being inundated with AMI ads, and because it’s free.

September 17, 2009

5 things I’m going to do on holidays

Robyn and I are on holiday for a week next week. We’re going to the Sunshine Coast. In the spirit of Ben’s listmania here are the five activities I’m looking forward to (the fact that I’m spending time with my wife is implied):

1. Sleeping In
2. Going to the beach (a real one, with waves)
3. Reading books
4. Searching for coffee
5. Taking photos

September 17, 2009

Status Synchronicity: Sultanas

I have this weird fixation with Facebook Status synchronicity occurring between non-mutual friends. I’ve decided I’m going to post them as they occur (sans names because I respect privacy). If a random Facebook friends stumbles here and identifies themself I will give them a prize of the value of a Freddo Frog.

 

Here are the first two, from within 15 minutes of each other today.

Friend 1: just received a cheque for $3 because my sultanas tasted minty.
Friend 2: Just found a grape seed in a sultana. Wow, this is the best day eva…

Was this you? Claim your prize…

September 16, 2009

New scambaiting post

I know most of you don’t care – but there’s an incredibly long scambaiting post here, with pictures.

September 15, 2009

Star status

Simone has demanded (and installed) a “like function” to operate as a middle ground between casually enjoyment and making a comment.

I like it. I found a “star rating” plug-in for WordPress. I installed it. Now it’s your turn. You need to rate my posts (1 star to 5 stars) as you see fit. Otherwise I’ll just rate them myself and I’ll turn into a five star blogger.

This also meets Simone’s need for a “dislike” option. Because lets face it. Nobody wants one star.

September 15, 2009

Sleep tight

It’s almost summer. Which presents a number of uniquely tropical problems in Townsville – when do you turn the aircon on? How cold do you set it? How do you keep mozzies out?

There’s a cool little collection of sleep related cartoons over here. Like this one:

All credit to Mikey for the link…

September 15, 2009

Passive resistance

I get a little bit sick of people (particularly colleagues) asking questions that a little bit of googling will help with.

Seriously. Who doesn’t ask google first?

If you’re in this boat, then here’s a little passive aggressive tool I’ve been using lately – let me google that for you.

September 15, 2009

Feeding on ourselves

I’ve been playing around with my RSS settings. I broke a couple of things. But now they’re fixed. I think.

If you’d like to subscribe and you’ve been having issues recently with the “RSS” link on the site – now’s the time. It works. Hooray. Click here to update your feed.

Also, if you subscribe to any old versions of the feed you should probably change – the nathanintownsville domain expires in a month.

September 13, 2009

I lost a friend today

I occasionally notice the number of friends I have on Facebook reducing. It hurts. Well, not really.

Today was one such occasion. I looked at the number and thought “I’m sure I had one more than that yesterday, which one of my casual acquaintances or school friends could possibly have unfriended me this time?”

I got offended for a millisecond, and then I remembered I unfriended someone yesterday who posted the same status over and over and over again for the last three weeks. It was someone I didn’t really know all that well. I met them once. I think. I feel no regret. Or grief.

That is all.

September 11, 2009