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That’s gonna be hard. I finished my photobook from our Namibia trip this week. What an amazing time. Amazing people, and landscape. And I’m _very_ happy with the photos!
Casey,
I was musing today about your objections to Paul Burn’s pining after emoticons and your horreur at their possible return. I bet if there were things such as ecursicons you would have their fulminating whip-cracking witchery animating all over your comments. So there.
But ecursicons are coming. In the next version of HEXTML.
Just been to ‘Worn Art’ in Broome to see my daughter perform; a fabulous night of costume and performance.
Lots of creative types in the North west!
That’s right folks two legendary bands in The Melvins & Primus have been named on the bill for next year’s Soundwave festival. Just a little taste:
Primus-Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers (Live at Woodstock ’94)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPaIXfVZjdY&feature=search
Melvins-Civilized Worm (Live at Bonnaroo 2010)
I am having a BBQ at my mother’s place today.
Expect Gillard to declare victory by 8.30 or 9.00 PM.[Mod: election-free, please!]
Don’t mention the war! I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right.
No trains running, so I’ve got no trains to drive today.
It’s a nationwide excuse for the school P&C associations to open up a lamington stall.
So I’ve got to (adj.) well work — “Interview and Training – 8a.m. to 4p.-(adj.)m.
And there are no trains running.
And I’m not going to get any lamingtons, either.
On the bright side, I’ve got a ticket to see the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo in October.
A project that Mark Bahnisch had some connection to around the 2007 Federal election, as well as Axel Bruns, Graham Young, Jason Wilson and myself, has been nominated for a prestigious European prize, theReinhard Mohn Prize, which attracts a 150,000 Euro prize. Others involved in teh You decide 2007 project included the Queensland University of technology, Special Broadcasting Service, Cisco Systems and the Brisbane Institute.
According to the website, the Reinhard Mohn Prize is awarded on this basis.
“The prize will be awarded to a governmental institution – possibly in cooperation with a non-governmental actor – which has initiated successful projects (or programs) to vitalize democracy, to integrate underrepresented citizens and to establish new forms of democratic problem-solving capacities through participation. It is crucial that
the projects and actions can be adapted to the German context, as the
Bertelsmann Stiftung aims to draw on these examples of international
best practice as inspiration for possible future projects.”
There are over 120 entries from around the world, so getting to the next stage of 20 entrants will benefit from whatever support can be provided. If you are interested, you can rate the entry on the Vitalizing Democracy website at http://www.vitalizing-democracy.org/
If you’ve forgotten the YouDecide2007 project it is archived at:
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/76144/20080211-0032/youdecide2007.org/index.html
True. So very true. None of us should underestimate the cunning and inventiveness of P&C associations. All across this wide brown land of ours, having spent the last five weeks conspiring amongst themselves and rehearsing with military precision their dastardly plans, they will be assembling at this very moment at places ordained by law at which we are required to attend on this day in order to perform unspeakable acts (according to tigtog’s diktat for this week’s Saturday Salon) so as to to blitz us with sausage sizzles, titillating us with their irresistible offerings of white bread, a bed of fried onions, a snag and a topping of grated cheese(for 50c extra) and a splurt of tomato sauce, or barbeque sauce if we are gourmet diners.
No doubt the more ruthless of them will be accompanied by shiny faced moppets who will be lined up with strict orders to display winsome smiles in order to beguile us into partaking of more than one of their delectable but chloresterol laden offerings.
Collectively we will each be half a kilo heavier before this day is out.
Dunno about lamingtons and sausages but Chocolate Crackles are definitely not what they used to be. They need at least one more tablespoon of cocoa than it says on the Rice Bubbles box.
Oh the horror, GregM, the horror!
Learnt from Scientific American last night that the universe as a whole is outside the jurisdiction of the law of conservation of energy. Ain’t physics wonderful!
those are very cool photos, patrickg. how did you survive the leopard!?
PC, I seem to be getting a lot of that in recipes recently – I was starting to think that maybe years of tastebud abuse was killing them. Flavourless dishes seem to be in vogue – try this hummus without amping up the garlic, tahini and paprika and you’ll see what I mean.
Not that keen on McCain’s new rissoles or meatloaf.
sg, I was across a channel, a large fence, and a drop-down clanger like at the bank, armed with a 300mm lens!
Though that particular leopard had bitten people in the past, in his defence, it sounds like:
a) they were pissing him off
b) he wasn’t intending to eat them anyway, just a love nip
A guide at a later date did tell me, “I don’t think healthy leopards would ever be interested in eating people, or cattle for that matter. We stink too much for them”.
I have to spend today preparing lecture notes for my second semester courses (unpaid, of course). I’m also trying to manage my cat, who is back from his second operation on his broken leg, and is doing strange kitteny things, like splashing his water instead of drinking it, and sleeping in his litter tray. He’s not allowed to move or jump, so he’s going stir crazy.
This afternoon I prepare for a party I’m holding in honour of a certain arcane ritual occurring in the antipodes. Unfortunately there won’t be many antipodeans there – instead we will have an Iranian, a Japanese-American, 2 Japanese and one Australian. And a cat.
I think they’re interested in comparing sacrificial methods – my Iranian colleague told me a while back that last time he was in Iran his cousin (?) said to him “oooo, I’m exhausted today, I’ve been stuffing ballot papers into ballot boxes all around the province all day long!”
Two more soldiers dead in Afghanistan. Staggering that this issue was not…sorry no election comment.
Moving right along. Apparently Pakistan has only 10 helicopters available for flood relief work. Do we have any chinooks next door that we could divert to some really useful work?
no pablo, the best thing is to let the govt of pakistan fail in its flood relief work, so the Islamists can take over.
I’ve been wondering if the floods in Pakistan are affecting supplies to the forces in Afghanistan. It would be an interesting confluence of the modern world’s ills if Bush’s poorly thought out military expedition were stranded and defeated due to a poorly-handled natural disaster suspiciously related to weather, in a warming world…
Nearly fell asleep during the Fatigue Management training session (staying up late last night to watch Howl’s Moving Castle probably had a bit to do with it).
Now waiting for the interview everyone has to do with the psychiatrist.
Wish I was at a lamington drive in an unspeakable place.
Spending the day not thinking about what we’re not talking about. Preparing tonight’s dinner so I can watch T.V. without jumping up and down. On second thought I may well be jumping up and down while I’m watching T.V. and seeing things I’m not allowed to mention here because of tigtog’s “great big new diktat” (stop behaving like that tigtog, or I’ll have to go to another site before I bite my tongue right through!). My physiotherapist actually has told me that jumping up and down is good for my health as long as I stop screaming swearwords at the same time. I’m seriously hoping I won’t be swearing tonight watching T.V. thinking about tigtog’s “great big new diktat”.
I thought an appropriate dinner tonight was some pork, so I’ll be preparing Neil Perry’s recipe for pork belly with shitake mushrooms and red dates along with white fungus and black cloud ear fungus. This is mostly a braised dish so I’ll serve it in a Bendigo Pottery “barrel-like” container. Thought that ear fungus was also appropriate.
Hope all will be as happy and relieved as I think I’ll be tonight.
Will catch the first A-League home game for the Brisbane Roar tonight. Great to see it’s still ‘kicking along’ into its 6th season now.
Partner off to the dentist so I had been booked to be the replacement internet DJ.
Struggled for an hour and a half pulling together a play-list in a musical genre I don’t normally work with. Logged in online and the venue owner had double booked DJs. Well that freed up a couple of hours and I might burn the play-list off to a couple of CDs for the car.
it’s Fathers Day shortly.
My dear departed papa used to leave hardware catalogs lying around the house before birthday, father’s day and Xmas with items circled ranging in price from $10 to $100 so that his loving wife and children could buy him a present he needed, wanted and would use.
Perhaps fellas despairing of sox, jox and scratchie tickets can adopt the practice.
Made the mistake of going straight from work to catch the last 1/4 of the Hawks-Freo game.
Holy shit, what a shellacking.
kerb side pick up monday…so cleaned out the small shed.. even swept dusty death corner
Bought number 2 son a badly needed new bed (he is 6 feet 2) and then watched him play football against his old club and win 2 nil.
And it’s my mother’s birthday. So a nice day all round!
Warrant for Wikileaks founder dropped
Looks like the warrant for Assange on these rape charges was only active for a few hours before it was dropped. I call shenanigans.
Great article by Richard Flanagan at The Drum on Gunns Tasmania …
Hi, This is a message for media tracker…I have been looking for Neil Perry’s Pork Belly with Shitake Mushrooms and Red Dates everywhere! Could you please tell me where I can find it?
Many thanks,
Pork Belly Fan