Thursday, May 21, 2009

All Kinds Of Awesome

http://www.inbflat.net/

You can play these clips in any order, starting at any time, and they'll sync up perfectly. It makes a really cool ambient piece which is different each time, and i really enjoy the collaborative aspect of it.

Soundtrack Of The Day: This Obviously

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

My Last Post...................For Now

Well unless work REALLY slows down this arvo, this will be my last post for awhile. Tomorrow the bucks drive to Broome begins and I may well turn up looking like the geeza in the picture there. Our wedding is on Wednesday 27th so we're just a week away now!

Quite amazing really, seems like only yesterday we were ringing people telling them we were engaged and that the date was waaaay off. Not so anymore, its well and truly here.

I think everything is sorted but its one of those times when you wont really know until your 3000 kms away. Hopefully we can remember the important stuff like the marriage certificate and the rings, everything else is just added fluff anyway right?

I just have a very short list of things remaining to do and it should be easily done today. Mostly just stuff written down so don't have to remember and just maybe I might be able to untie the memory knot in my brain and start to enjoy myself! Have been a little stressed these last few days/weeks so it will be great to see it fall perfectly into place.....(gulp)

Most of the drive attendees won't be reading this as they have left work and, quite possibly, starting drinking already so for everyone else, bon-voyage and I'll see you on the other side!

Reins over to you brother Wal....

Soundtrack Of The Day: Hoodoo Gurus - Electric Chair (from the iPhone o-yeh)

Monday, May 18, 2009

Heave Ho Freo



Freo cost me $200 by losing to Hawthorn, I had the tipping pool in my grasp, argh!

Soundtrack Of The Day: Champions of Nothing - Matthew Good

Thursday, May 14, 2009

I Have an iPhone

Enough said

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The Bucks Drive

I tried to think of some magical clever name for this posting but what could be better than just 'The Bucks Drive'. For those that don't know, Kylie and I are getting married in Broome in 13 days time (eeeep) and instead of a bucks night, 10 of us are driving up the coast in a dual motorhome convoy.

The idea for the trip was the result of a pissy afternoon in a reputable Sydney alehouse/RSL back in 2002. I am very happy to announce that co-creaters and original bucks drive inspirers James Patterson and Shane Fleming will be making the trek over from Sydney to complete the job they started way back then.

Adventurers are Jimmy, HumpD, Brewser, Tel, Rezman, Tatey, JB, Smads, John and Bucky Phil. The drive will begin from Brewser's house, 1 week from today...........Wednesday 20th May...........D-Day. Our plan is to arrive on Monday evening but we have allowed Tuesday as a buffer just incase an 'incident' arises.

All the stops along the way are circled in the pic and we are spending 2 nights in Exmouth so that we can go on a fishing charter/whale shark expedition. To say I'm giddy in anticipation would be an enormous understatement!

We have booked in for a 3 hour quad biking tour in Kalbarri on the early morning of Day 2 as a little encouragement to get out of bed and see the world. Our fishing charter on Day 4 is a VERY early riser as we need to be en-route around 7am.........all nighter? Who knows.

We have been throwing around numbers to try and calculate the cost and quantity of beer that will be consumed on the trip. Its both shocking and impressive to know that we may consume in excess of 25 cartons over the 6 days which doesn't include any we consume in pubs.

Lots of organising, lots more fun.

GIDDY UP!!!!!

Soundtrack Of The Day: The Bucks Drive 'Not Hungover #7'

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Can I Upsize that to a PhD?

US fast-food giant McDonald's is hoping to offer PhDs after receiving approval to award its own nationally recognised qualifications in Britain, the company's "chief people officer" said.

Speaking to the Financial Times, David Fairhurst said the company's new power to award qualifications made it "a university in its own right", and added that the company wanted to award qualifications equivalent to university degrees.

"One day, I'd love to see us doing a PhD - I definitely think we should go as far as we can," he said.

He cautioned, however, that the company wanted to perfect its current training regimen, which includes courses in shift management that are equivalent in level to A-levels or high school courses, before putting together a post-graduate qualification.

McDonald's was one of nine employers or employer groups last year that received the power to award qualifications, which Britain wants to encourage so that more workers will have recognised certificates to increase their employability.

The company has long sought to challenge the perception that it only creates low-level, poorly-paid "McJobs".


Soundtrack Of The Day: Neon Bible - The Arcade Fire

Monday, May 11, 2009

No Scrubs

Yesterday was a dark day in my TV Town as it saw the end of the show Scrubs. I knew it was on its last season but ending on episode 18 instead of the usual 24, floored me! The little couch potato in my brain screamed out NOOOOOOOOO, take meeeeeeeeeeeee!.

The episode was like any other finale of a long runner of this calibre. Token appearances from all old cast members, closure of any outstanding issues and all cast members with theirs chins held high walking in the opposite direction of each other as they 'move on' with their lives.

The episode follows JD around Sacred Heart on his last day before taking a job at another hospital. One by one he plays out how HE would like it to go, complete with teary goodbyes and heartfelt sentiments. Everyone else has a different idea however and just rides out the day like any other.

As promised by the director and Neil Flynn we did discover the Janitors name....or did we? He tells JD his name is Glenn Matthews and there is a little speech where he claims no one ever asked him so he never told anyone.....but no more than 5 secs later, another Dr walks past and says "Hey Tommy!".

To close, JD does a final walk down the exit hallway where his imagination has created a people pathway. Some of the faces were his brother Dan, The Todd (with a goodbye five), Nurse Roberts, Tasty Coma Wife (TCW), crazy patient Jill, JD's drug-addict girlfriend Alex, Colonel Doctor, soundtrack performer and occasional on-camera presence Colin Hay, Mrs. Tanner, the first person to die while in JD's care, Snoop Dogg Attending, the Worthless Peons (featuring new member Gooch), Leonard the hook-handed security guard and his elderly-intern squeeze, the Dudemeister, and Hooch who is now wearing a straitjacket (because Hooch is crazy!).

To mark the day Turk and JD agree to hug every time they see each other which seems to some up their bromance quite well. Turk also puts up a huge sign with "Goodbye JD' which covers the whole entrance. Later on in the episode, show creator Bill Lawrence is seen pulling the sign down which is his only known appearance in all 8 seasons.

So what now, start watching it all from scratch? Maybe when we get back after the wedding!


....and yes ok the title is a far fetched play on words with the TLC song from 1999 but cmon, it works!

Soundtrack Of The Day: Bush - 6teen Stone

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Kenyan man sues over sex boycott

A Kenyan man is seeking damages for anguish sustained during a week-long sex ban called by women's groups in a bid to force political leaders to put their rivalry aside to work for the common good.

James Kimondo is suing the leaders of G10, a coalition of women's groups that called for a national boycott to push the men into resolving the east African country's political woes.

"Since the women called for the sex boycott, my wife has denied me my conjugal rights. This has caused me anxiety and sleepless night," Kimondo said.

"I have been suffering mental anguish, stress, backaches, lack of concentration," he told reporters outside the Nairobi High Court, where he lodged his petition for damages.

The group even urged prostitutes to join the strike. The strike ended on Wednesday with the organisers claiming it had been a success. They argued that the country's egocentric male leaders should not have time for matters of the flesh when the country is ensnared in economic and political trouble.

Soundtrack of the Day : No Sex For Ben - The Rapture ; how could it be anything else?

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Errr..did you just say??


On the nation wide radio news this morning (ABC Radio) the newsreader had this to say

"The first US resident has reportedly died from swine flu"

but said

"The first US PRESIDENT has reportedly died from swine flu"

This caused mayhem on their switchboard apparently.

Fun On The Big Screen

For those that don't know, I've been working on an old skool arcade cocktail machine for the last couple of weeks and today I finally received a monitor worthy of installing into it. Cocktail machines are the ones that look like flat Pacman arcade tables that you'll remember from the back corner of the local fish and chip shop or similar dodgy establishment.

Ive been waiting and waiting because without the screen I cant cut the hole out and do a final paint on it. Also cutting anything into MDF means sh!t goes everywhere so I'd rather not clean everything over and over again. Basically it means that the ceasefire is over and work can once again proceed!

Today I've discovered that the IDEA of a 21" monitor is much better than the practice of it. Its sitting here next to me at work, literally looming over my shoulder. It is MASSIVE and weighing in at just over 30kgs so its a big big mumma. The desk is bending and everyone walking past gives a look of 'why didn't he just get an LCD?' but hey, surely life would be dull without bizarre projects!

Everyone that's seen the cabinet wants it finished so the push is pretty strong to get it done. Just need to work out the logistics of suspending or supporting this thing inside the cabinet and it will be all systems go! Hopefully by the weekend it will be close to done and I'll have some time to actually start enjoying playing it!

Chug Mug

Become bored with just powering down drinks for the sake of it? Need a more accurate way to measure manliness and therefore increase testosterone to attract the opposite sex?

Well Chug, Chug, Chug, Chug, on the Chug-Mug

This 60 ounce (1.7L) glass will accurately measure your manhood in 10 ounce levels, the idea being, the higher the level the more of a pussy you are. Here are the markers:

50 - You Are A Disgrace To The World
40 - Nice Try, You Suck
30 - What Is Wrong With You?
20 - Good Effort
10 - BADASS!

For a mere $25 you too can dazzle your friends with your latest gimmick only to have it pushed to the back of the glasses shelf in a matter of weeks. WOW. Was that too cynical? :P

Soundtrack Of The Day: Fray - How To Save A Life

Friday, May 1, 2009

Barbie Takes One For The Team

The figurehead of all bimbo women has well and truly sold out to the masses.

You can now purchase a tatt pack for your blemish free Barbie and paint her head to toe in bodyart. She will once again be at the peak of fashion and generations of little girls (and some peculiar men) will no doubt line up to 'beautify' themselves at the nearest underground establishment. Barbie will be all over Ellen and The View in the US about how terrible it is as a role model for tiddly-winks, all the while generating free publicity for Mattel - Up there for thinking in the WFC fellas!

Just spitballing here but whats going to happen when they all realise that THEIR tatt doesn't come off with some warm water and elbow grease or when fashion changes and Barbie loses all self esteem for permanently inking her lower back with a Ken tramp stamp, gets mixed up with the wrong crowd, joins a gang and starts robbing 711s at gunpoint for the $20 in the till to buy smack?

You should all join my facebook group "Help get Barbie off smack!" immediately as facebook groups REALLY do make a difference...........don't they?..........hello?...........why do I hear crickets?

Soundtrack Of The Day: Ash - 1977