For the past few years I have been lucky enough to do a fair amount of work-related travel. Some of it has taken me near (Gladstone) and some of it has taken me far (Manchester, UK). All of it has been interesting and a fair bit of it paid for by you and I, the generous taxpayers of Australia.

it is for the latter reason I have always maintained an ( Read more... )

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Top ten places to learn to surf...


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From the fab folks at the Beat Museum, which I happily visited in San Francisco, paying my respects to the Beats and their ilk, comes this missive and opportunity:

1). BE A FIRE WATCHER IN THE CASCADES - JUST LIKE OLD JACK
In 1956, at the behest of Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac spent a summer as a fire Watcher up on Desolation Peak in the Cascades at ( Read more... )

After only a very vague consultative process, which largely consisted of a committee of one deciding it was cold and something needed to be done about it, the following item has been added to the warmth-making appliances in my abode:


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A list of songs found in the show Treme.

And here's the theme song:

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Happy US of A day y'all.

Now, this would be good for the laffs.


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It may just be my not-so latent OCD, but I feel the need to organise some things in my life. First on the list: computer files. Stupid little documents all strewn about the hard drive higgedly-piggedly. This will not be as big a task as organising my photograph files, which are not only skewiff but also duplicated all over the place, so I will ( Read more... )

What the hell is up with Livejournal these days? It just took me the better part of ten minutes to upload an image off of my hard drive - and that's after giving up this time yesterday because it just wouldn't work. All I got was a bizarre error message which may or may not have been in Russian. What gives, Livejournal?

I have been contemplating ( Read more... )

Far out this is good beer:


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