Random piece of news trivia this.
Blizzard released an expansion pack for World of Warcraft late last week – which would explain why my development and infrastructure teams areshy about 75%of their staff Friday last week through to tomorrow. I didnt correlate it until I saw the release annoucement this morning.
This means that it [...]
Its week 46 of the year – and I am sure I only remember 43 of them.
Although I do remember billing for all 46 so I guess thats right. My capacity to get myself paid is legendary, almost as legendary as my capacity to spend.
As my grandmother said, if you are going to [...]
So here I am sidling up on 40.
Its only 2 months away now, and I am still not particularly scared by it. It feels like a reasonable place to call the half way point of my life. Given my family history, I think making it to 80, baring accidents, is probably reasonable.
So whats [...]
My creative output is significantly better, higher and more consistent when I am miserable. My sex drive is also lower and higher – which is both confusing (for everyone involved) and frustratingly pointless.
Isn't that wizard
I seem to have an endless capacity for finding music to be miserable to, along with music to lip sync to. I suspect part of the attraction is David Archuleta's resemblance to the Dropbear. Tiny, darkhaired, beautiful lips and perfect. Actually DB is better looking (of course I think this).
Shai LeBoeuf is [...]
There will be Blue Birds over the White Cliffs of Dover? The bluebird isn't native to Europe or the UK. Some stupid american songwriter came up with that one. An early example of the US foisting there culture (and animals) on the rest of the world.
In Australia, any bird stupid enough to sing just [...]
Yo pron. He or she. First heard in Baltimore schools (“Yo is a clown”), this gender-neutral pronoun has piqued the interest of linguists, whose widely publicized observations are edging the word into general usage.
Thanks to the folks at Wired for this
At the end of 2005 I started this blog for two reasons. Today it seems those reasons are freshly relevent.
The first was as a way to practice writing. I had been at film school for 9 months, and according to my lecturers I didn’t completely suck at it and perhaps working on [...]
Absense doesn't always make the heart grow fonder.
Sometimes it just makes it cold and sad.
Fuck it.
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