Monthly Archives: June 2008

I’d rant… but that smacks of effort.

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I should be venting about an appointment that I went to today… but I honestly haven’t the energy available to do justice to my topic.   Instead… I’m going to participate in some drivel to soothe my addlepated brain before bedtime.  Several people have emailed me this meme



Four (obscure) jobs I have had in my life
Dish pig in a Chinese restaurant
‘Cast Member’ at a Disney Store
Wireless Broadband Consultant for Goliath
Santa Photographer

Four movies I’ve watched more than once:
Grosse Point Blank
The Importance of Being Ernest
Dazed and Confused
Much Ado About Nothing

4 places I have lived:
Birkdale
Hervey Bay
London
Downstairs

Four places I have been:
Isle of Skye, Scotland
Meteora, Greece
Bruny Island, Tasmania
Islamabad, Pakistan

People who e-mail me regularly:
Mr K
Yale
MD
Equinom

Four of my favourite foods:
Guacamole
Fruit TIngles
Sweet corn
Anzac biscuits (chewy ones)

Four places I would rather be right now:
Stradbroke Island, Qld
Cluny Museum Paris
An Isotank
Touring wineries in the Barossa

Things I am looking forward to in the next 12 months:
Another trip to Canberra (prob August)
and….
hmmm –  I got nothin’ – Tried the Magic 8 Ball : “Outlook does not look good.”
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Frosty’s Joke

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I caught up with an old friend of my Dad’s on the weekend and told him that we’d recently switched the Small Child to the local Catholic school and we chatted about some of the positive changes we had noticed over the last six months.  My Dad and Frosty are products of a Christian Brothers style of education which means they got the ‘cuts’ for so much as farting out of turn.  They’d get the cuts for not doing their homework, they’d get cuts for not knowing the answers in class,  they’d get the cuts for being too noisy in the playground… hell they got the cuts for just about everything,  In fact I remember my Dad once telling me a story that one of their teachers (all of whom were Catholic priests/brothers) lined his whole class up outside the classroom on a cold Toowoomba morning and gave each and every child in the line the cuts on the way into class for ‘the things they were going to do wrong that day’.

Can you imagine educators getting away with that crap now?  And we thought we had it bad with Sr Mary Gabriel.  I’ve lost the plot again….  anyway back to Frosty’s joke:

Little Johnny was doing rather poorly at the local State School, in particular his Maths skills were atrocious and his concerned parents decided to enroll their little pride and joy in the local Catholic school in the hope that they might have more success.  After a term Little Johnny got his first report card and his Maths grades had improved dramatically.  His parents asked him “What’s the difference?  How come you can do Maths now but couldn’t get it at your old school?”

Little Johnny replied “I saw that guy that was nailed to the plus sign … and I knew these guys were serious!”  🙂
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Mumble fuck… mumble fuck

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I’ve been catching up on episodes of ‘The Unit’ which is a gung-ho bit of Sepo bullshit sort of show but entertaining enough for all that.  What I want to know is – Why on earth do the ‘powers that be’ insist of fucking with something when it’s obviously working for them.  I am of course referring to the introduction music/sequence. 

They had this edgy military cadence thing going on with soldiers jumping out of helicopters, climbing trees, shooting bad guys looking all  intense while they did it bit… and for some reason – here comes season three of the show and they swap it for some soppy piece of shit that doesn’t have the same feel at all. 

I don’t know if I’m alone here, but I tend to associate different bits of music with various emotions and memories and when they do shit like this to me in mid-stream it just pisses me off.  Mr K and others hate it when we’re watching a TV series one episode after another and I tend to let the intro music run as the theme songs tend to be immediately recognizable and evocative of the sort of content you’re about to view.  Now I admit by the time I’ve watched about 7 West Wings in a row that the intro can get a little old but some of them never do.

Veronica Mars – love that intro… it’s cute, it’s perky it’s teen America in the ’00s – or at least we love that intro until they pfaffed with it in the third season (Hmmm are we detecting a trend here?).  The Firefly them intro – now why would anyone want to skip through that?  Battlestar Galactica – the intro for that is about the only thing on the idiot box guaranteed to make me look up from my needlework to see the 30sec prelude that shows all the action that’s about to unfold.  There’s really too many of them to go through but I really want to know what is the value in changing the damn song when they’ve already trained their audience into making an association with a certain tune and their content?

Stoopid eejits.
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