On Monday night I was lucky enough to go to the dress rehearsal for the Commonwealth Games Open Ceremony thanks to my friend David. Unlike some poor souls who paid over $500 per seat for two tickets*, the tickets were free. David is a really good soul and one of the few friends I made [...]
Ok, I feel like I have had my hand cut off.
No really.
After three years with an iPod suddenly the fraking thing has gone belly up. At least it was in warrantee. So it’s been packed off to Apple for some servicing. Which to be hoenst hardly seems fair. I mean really, if I [...]
Now the common wisdom is that one does not dis-respect either the Australian film industry or ones own minority cinema. But given that the opening night film for this years Melbourne Queer Film Festival, “50 ways of saying fabulous” is both from New Zealand and, well, not very good, I feel vindicated in giving it [...]
clinomania
[fr. Gk klin- : sloping, inclining + -mania]
an overwhelming desire to stay in bed,
esp. on a snowy (or rainy) day
“Clinomania… Not a bad mania, as manias go; and a
reasonably plausible excuse for taking Monday off.”
– Peter Bowler,
What follows is an IM chat between myself and the inestimable Barbie.
Robert says: So do you think that one needs to be dreary to be married? Or at least to stay married
Barbie says: huh?
Robert says: Well I was thinking about Barbie. There are not many boyfriends who would love Barbie as [...]
Negative feedback is the process of feeding back to the input a part of a system's output, so as to reverse the direction of change of the output. This tends to keep the output from changing, so it is stabilizing and attempts to maintain homeostasis.
When a change of variable occurs within a stable [...]
Sorry folks. Its been a busy week and I have not finished any posts for a while. I am working on a couple and I will have them up soon. Promise. Mean time here is a link of interest .
The second day in Cairns started early, and let me tell you that the Frenchman doesn’t rise very gracefully. Not a morning person, but he warms up pretty quickly, and I still have a few tricks up me sleeve to encourage boys in the morning.The trip up the Daintree was with [...]
sipid (SIP-id) adjectiveHaving a pleasing taste or flavor.
[Back formation from insipid, from Late Latin insipidus, from in- (not) + sapidus (savory), from sapere (to taste, to know). Ultimately from Indo-European root sep ep- (to taste or perceive) that is also the source of sage, savant, savvy, savor, sapid, sapient, and insipid.]
-Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org)
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Looking at the trip to Cairns, there were a few things that happened that are of note. A bunch of things went wrong, I missed a flight (which cost me a chunk-o-change), there were abusive cab drivers and the tour operators for the dive tour blamed us for them completely forgetting to pick [...]
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