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Paydirt!

On April 22 2007 I planted some pumpkin seeds. Before Jack was even conceived! The pumpkin seeds grew into shoots, then into vines then into .. well .. not much. Not a single pumpkin did we reap. In January 2008, Jack was born. In June 2008, the pumpkin vine died .. only to reveal that

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Posted on July 30, 2008 by , 3 comments

Raising Jack: To bully or be bullied? No: to be respected.

As Jack starts at day-care tomorrow, I think about the years and years of education ahead of him and ponder my own time in the education system. I was talking to Fatima of my belief that there are two roles Jack might take at school, and she pointed out a third. My two involve being

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Posted on July 13, 2008 by , 2 comments

Bionic Woman: Bionically Bad

A few weeks back I noticed that Foxtel were showing the new “Bionic Woman” series on their SciFi channel. Finally, as a SciFi fan, I might find something worth watching on the channel. The pilot was great: The cinematography, the direction, the casting and the plot all worked well enough to get me back for

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Posted on July 13, 2008 by , 1 comment

How do you keep an idiot in suspense?

Posted on July 11, 2008 by , Reply

More provocative images …

[There is] no evidence that [if] eating beef is the community standard [it] will persuade a vegetarian to approve of it.

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Posted on July 6, 2008 by , 1 comment

Oh the pressure!

Today I played a CD on my computer. “Wow, big deal”, I hear you say. Everyone does that right? So what made today special? I noticed today that when I play something (anything) in Amarok, it updates my Last.fm account that I listened. So if you go to my last.fm profile, you’ll see what I

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Posted on July 4, 2008 by , 1 comment