Archive for July, 2008
Paydirt!
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008On 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 there was a [...]
Raising Jack: To bully or be bullied? No: to be respected.
Sunday, July 13th, 2008As 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 noticed: [...]
Bionic Woman: Bionically Bad
Sunday, July 13th, 2008A 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 [...]
How do you keep an idiot in suspense?
Friday, July 11th, 2008More provocative images …
Sunday, July 6th, 2008[There is] no evidence that [if] eating beef is the community standard [it] will persuade a vegetarian to approve of it.
Oh the pressure!
Friday, July 4th, 2008Today 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 listened [...]