That’s OK, B2. He can swim. It’s probably a damning indictment of my state of mind that I found that incredibly funny when I heard it this afternoon. It’s nice when children’s TV creeps up on you like that. I’m working hard at the moment. How hard, I hear you ask? (or perhaps it’s just […]
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People in glass houses can't afford bricks
Another day, another couple of CNET.com.au articles: Epson EMP-TW20: The TW-20 isn’t a high end projector, and it doesn’t pretend to be. — apparently, if you get it drunk on a Friday night, it sometimes does pretend to be Frank Sinatra… HP Compaq Presario V4114AP: If there’s one thing that the V4114AP was never going […]
Continue readingMmm.. shiny new (old) games
Those who know me well know that I’m something of a games collector, and that sometimes it can take me quite some time to track down a specific title. As an example, it took me about three years to track down a copy of The Raiden Project (PSOne), a somewhat uncommon title that I eventually […]
Continue readingFEAR and trepidation…
An interesting night last night; I went to Vivendi Universal’s launch of F.E.A.R, which for reasons of providing a spooky atmosphere, was held at the Quarantine Station at Manly. This entailed getting in to Circular Quay and getting on a bus for an hour or so through rush hour traffic, during which time I kept […]
Continue readingOne step forwards, three weeks back
I perhaps overdid it yesterday — I cleaned and swept the verandah and driveway, washed the front windows and cleaned the car — with help from a little suds-soaked girl, naturally. Of course, it’s raining this morning. The overdid it part didn’t become evident until later in the afternoon, when my appendix scar started hurting, […]
Continue readingThe king of no pants is trying to walk out of the building…
Well, half a dozen steps, anyway. It’s a start.
Continue readingCharlie don't Smurf…
I thought that the Hip-Hop Smurf that K-Mart sells was pretty poor, and an indication that perhaps things had gone too far. I thought that the Pimp Smurf that my wife purchased for me was kind of funny, but still not in the spirit of the Smurfs. Even I would never have advocated bombing the […]
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