Category: Consciousness

Tickle me Elmo?

I don’t normally get excited about Chinglish. It seems vaguely racist to laugh at another country’s attempts to come to grips with a literally foreign language.

But I couldn’t resist this

Seeing a cute furry thing with that written on the box reminds me a little bit of our family’s pet kitten – Cadbury. I was a cat person for about four months*. Until Cadbury met an untimely demise due to a windblown pot plant… to cut a long story short it crapped all over little sister number 2’s arm.

Just one of those stories I’ve always wanted to put on my blog but never had a pretext for… until now.

* I have no real recollection of how long we had the cat for – but it was most traumatic when he/she/it died. We even had a day off school.

Bleeching

That’s right – we’ve finally got a spot for some quality blogs on this blog. Actually, thats unfair, i find Nath’s blog is quite entertaining and good for procrastinating (case in point – i have a law exam tomorrow). I fully support the promotion of baconny goodness (however, i’m sure bacon lip smakers are going down in sales since swine flu), all things ninja, and food, and nerdy nintendo stuff. Nath has that pretty well coverered. I intend to use my bleeching (blog leeching) for the greater goood. Exactly what that means will have to wait for another bleech as i need to go and do something more productive with my life. Anyway,
I’ll keep you posted…

Retail therapy

I’m back at work. I’m still a bit sick. With my camp induced man flu. And I’m feeling a bit of “cold induced blues”. The best treatment for this condition is to buy something stupid. Like a novelty shirt. Or an oversized coffee machine.

I’m open to suggestions.

Polar expedition


Last weekend Hilton and Justina (Robyn’s sister and her husband) came up to visit. It was a surprise (for Robyn).

We went to Magnetic Island for a day.

Stopping at the region’s best restaurant – the Barefoot Art Food Wine, and getting all tropical with a coconut… Here are some photos – and here is a photo summary of the day.

How to eat a coconut

Step 1. Find a coconut

Step 2. Find a big stick and whack the coconut to remove the outer shell

Step 3. Remove the husk – this is a three person job

Step 4. Retrieve your big stick and split the coconut. 

Step 5. Eat the coconut

OCC Episode 2

I was asked in the last post whether I was aware the audio was so out of sync – no, I wasn’t. But I don’t think it makes much difference given the production values are what they are…

Also, I make no apologies for the terrible voice overs – we were on a budget.

YouTube Twosday: Turtle power

Little sister number 2 is 21 today. It’s her actual birthday. She is contemplating a pet turtle as a present from the parentals – here’s a little bit of persuasive multimedia propaganda… featuring our crazy ninja turtle Frankie.

Camp photos

It seems I can’t go anywhere without my camera these days.

I’ve decided I’m far too excited by sillhouette photos and photos with the sun in shot. And clouds. Clouds are fun too.

I also, strangely, find this picture of shoes compelling enough to make it the “album cover” for my Picasa album.

Block party

It seems my blog-off rival, the dazzlingly insightful Ben McLaughlin knows which side his blog traffic is buttered on – he’s joined the Tetris loving fun – pointing to Google’s 25th birthday tribute… which looked a little like this

Higher heights

Well, I was expecting to see a spike in visits thanks to that bookofjoe linkage so I checked my stats. And there was a spike – though not from bookofjoe – instead it comes from this German? site (translated). 777 visitors. From an article about Tetris featuring this translated passage:

“Even a Tetris Olympics is on the way.Real Tetris fans will Gesumse not all that upset. They sing the song to the peddlers.And wait for the next block. (Detlef Borchers) / (It / c’t) “

I’m the “Real Tetris Fan” linked there. Bookofjoe has so far produced nine hits.

New heights

I feel like I’ve hit blogging gold. After all these years of meaningless toil it appears that the “World’s most popular blogging anesthesiologist” over at bookofjoe has visited my site – because I’ve scored a link.

Awesomeness.

Check it out.

Blog Off: Update

Simone now has 19 posts (including a post that essentially amounted to her reposting my Sizzler toast recipe…)
Ben has 26 posts. All of them original.
I have 50. I’m going away for the long weekend though – so I suspect the others to put on a bit of a lead (remembering that I’m now on 0 after knocking over the 50 post handicap).

Stylised Sarcasm

Interesting idea. I’m going to recode my website so that when I am being sarcastic I can use HTML and CSS to indicate it. Sarcasm will, when I’m ready to launch it, come out in blue. Or something.

Someone suggested that a Sarcasm tag be included in the next HTML standard.

Big red A

This symbol is not an indication of quality on the blogosphere but a declaration of atheism.

Just so you know. I found out because “The Barefoot Bum” deemed my propositions on atheism worthy of his attention. And ridicule. His link to my post read “another mole to be whacked”…

Another Something…

Is it cheating/not in the spirit of things/unethical to flag your opponent’s blogger blogs as having inappropriate content? 

The joys of self hosting…

Vanishing Vanishing Point

Some blogs rise to the occasion – some fall apart at the first sign of pressure…