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.
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.
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).
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.
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…
I know most of you don’t care – but there’s an incredibly long scambaiting post here, with pictures.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Just for the record – I agree with Amy – I’m glad the young Australian sailing girl seeking to break the world record didn’t tragically drown… but really, crashing your boat on the first day of a significant attempt to prove your sailing mettle? Better stick to, well, anything else really.
Also, does anyone else remember the show Ship to Shore? With Hermes the bald bad guy, and the red headed protagonist? Kelvin? It was funny. I laughed. I can still remember the theme song.
I was going to do nine lists today. But I give up. Work got in the way.
Nice spam
Some commenters around the interwebs should take a note out of this spammer’s book…
Thanks Bill Bartman. I appreciate your candor and kindness.
September 18, 2009