1. Condom trees in Fitzroy Crossing.

2. Deaf karaoke (YouTube).

That is all. :)

So. Am I the only person around here who got freaked out by the robots in Test Chamber 16 in Portal? The ones which have children's voices and fricking laser beams?

I'm not sure I'm going to be able to move past this level...

On a night when I'm feeling crappy for a couple of reasons, I definitely think picking up some Pratchett was a good idea. To wit:

a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders
with greased rungs.For a long time I thought nothing could top Rincewind, but I think I'm going to like the Witch books ( Read more... )

I spent five days in Sydney last week. It started out with two days at a major conference -- most of which was spent freaking out that I'd have to give my boss' speech, with all of two days to prepare. For me, preparation means memorising the whole speech. There's no way I can hope to read fluently and keep my place without having a sheet of paper ( Read more... )

I don't usually post links to YouTube fan videos because of the access issues, but this clip of women from some of my favourite shows is too good to pass up. For the interested, they are: Alias, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Firefly and Veronica Mars.

I really only have two complaints: No Kaylee, and NO AERYN SUN. I mean, how could you do something ( Read more... )

I have to confess that I'm back on the crack. Yep, that's right, I'm watching Australian Idol again this year. I'm doing that with blarglefiend because (a) I don't have a television, (b) it's a good way for us to catch up regularly and (c) the show is no fun watched alone without the snark. My reasons for watching are a little different to most; Idol started ( Read more... )