Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense - This Must Be The Place
This is a little tame compared witht the high energy of the rest of the movie, but again it's a favourite. The type of mellow, end of an evening wind down song.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Friday, August 18, 2006
Future dilemmas
I was watching an American sitcom tonight and the difficult topic of drug use came up. The eldest boy of the family was sprung with a bag of pot. The boy does the usual, "It's only pot"thing and the usual "I'm invincible" thing. All very predictable and also probably very true. The parents then sat the boy down and talked about the "drug issue" and how one parent never smoked it but the other did. In this case it was the mother who'd had the a pot experience and let her son know that while it may only be pot, she had been given some but it had been laced with something and she ended up in the emergency ward. Moral of the story, blah blah blah...
Good way to deal with it I thought, relate it back to your own experience and hopefully your child will take your advice and not proceed or continue down that path. In my experience, it's always a situation where someone introduces drugs to you and then it's up to you whether you try it or not. All we can do as parents is inform our kids and hopefully they will respect their bodies and give it a miss. It's always a peer group pressure thing. Should I be cool and try it? or should I be cool and not.
In my case, I will have my own story to tell my kids, one that ends in tragedy and it the reason why their mother is no longer alive. It's a story of addiction and I hope it shows them how it can all go terribly wrong. I just hope they don't succumb to "bad friends". I guess I won't know until the teen years come.
The funny thing is that the comedian in the sitcom was Tim Allen, notorious for being caught in possession and for rehab etc...
Good way to deal with it I thought, relate it back to your own experience and hopefully your child will take your advice and not proceed or continue down that path. In my experience, it's always a situation where someone introduces drugs to you and then it's up to you whether you try it or not. All we can do as parents is inform our kids and hopefully they will respect their bodies and give it a miss. It's always a peer group pressure thing. Should I be cool and try it? or should I be cool and not.
In my case, I will have my own story to tell my kids, one that ends in tragedy and it the reason why their mother is no longer alive. It's a story of addiction and I hope it shows them how it can all go terribly wrong. I just hope they don't succumb to "bad friends". I guess I won't know until the teen years come.
The funny thing is that the comedian in the sitcom was Tim Allen, notorious for being caught in possession and for rehab etc...
Monday, July 31, 2006
Podcasts.
Well, I just spent the last hours typing stuff about podcasts and how much I've adopted the technology and I lost it all.
FAAAAARK!!!!!!
Forget it now, it's midnight and I want to get to bed.
Michael Shumacher has won the Germany Grand Prix which puts him 11 points behind Alonso in the race for the championship. It's game on!
OK, my message is, get into podcasts, you don't need an iPod, any old MP3 player will do. If you need help, just ask and I'll try and re-write what I had before (and lost).
Good Night.
FAAAAARK!!!!!!
Forget it now, it's midnight and I want to get to bed.
Michael Shumacher has won the Germany Grand Prix which puts him 11 points behind Alonso in the race for the championship. It's game on!
OK, my message is, get into podcasts, you don't need an iPod, any old MP3 player will do. If you need help, just ask and I'll try and re-write what I had before (and lost).
Good Night.
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Sunday, July 02, 2006
More than a year of Pie-Ranting.
Well, this blog has passed a milestone of sorts. 1 year ago it started and having created two identities, merged them into one and various other secrets exposed, I've managed to keep my interest up for more than a year. Who'd a thunk it.
Now, if only the Pies could play like they did last week against Sydney and not like they did today, grrrrrr!!!
I stayed up to watch England v Portugal this morning, finished at 3:45am after the penalty shoot out. England were a bit unlucky, I think they deserved to win but having played one man down from the 60 minute mark doesn't help.
So it's now a fully European World Cup, as my learned colleague Mr Mondale has already pointed out. History just keeps on repeating, doesn't it? European team win in Europe. South Americans win in South America and Brazil wins everywhere else.
Good night and good luck.
Now, if only the Pies could play like they did last week against Sydney and not like they did today, grrrrrr!!!
I stayed up to watch England v Portugal this morning, finished at 3:45am after the penalty shoot out. England were a bit unlucky, I think they deserved to win but having played one man down from the 60 minute mark doesn't help.
So it's now a fully European World Cup, as my learned colleague Mr Mondale has already pointed out. History just keeps on repeating, doesn't it? European team win in Europe. South Americans win in South America and Brazil wins everywhere else.
Good night and good luck.
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Go Socceroos.
It's 3:30 pm in the afternoon and I'm stuffed. I need more caffeine!!
After nodding off at the 72 minute mark of the game last night, I was awake again in time to see the 3 goals go past the Japanese keeper. They were great goals and well deserved after pretty much owning the ball for most of the game. Great result and puts Australia in the drivers seat for a second round spot. Also awoke early enough this morning to see my other team, Italy, put 2 past the Ghanese keeper. Viva Italia.
It was sad to see the USA lose though. I guess they had their minds eslewhere, like the NBA finals or Baseball or Stanley Cup. I guess that's where they will be focusing now.
Finally, I want to mention the little wave Josh Fraser gave Jeff White after Josh kicked a goal early in the match. Josh, don't be a smarty pants (I'm at work, I wanted to say something else). The gesture reminded me of a little hand puppet, I fI find a picture I'll post it, but it did remind me of a little Kermit.
Off to see my sons teacher soon, parent teacher evening.
After nodding off at the 72 minute mark of the game last night, I was awake again in time to see the 3 goals go past the Japanese keeper. They were great goals and well deserved after pretty much owning the ball for most of the game. Great result and puts Australia in the drivers seat for a second round spot. Also awoke early enough this morning to see my other team, Italy, put 2 past the Ghanese keeper. Viva Italia.
It was sad to see the USA lose though. I guess they had their minds eslewhere, like the NBA finals or Baseball or Stanley Cup. I guess that's where they will be focusing now.
Finally, I want to mention the little wave Josh Fraser gave Jeff White after Josh kicked a goal early in the match. Josh, don't be a smarty pants (I'm at work, I wanted to say something else). The gesture reminded me of a little hand puppet, I fI find a picture I'll post it, but it did remind me of a little Kermit.
Off to see my sons teacher soon, parent teacher evening.
Friday, May 26, 2006
While away time until the footy starts.
Just a quick post to say Hi and to fill in a bit of time until I leave for the footy.
HI.
To business. Remember this post? Well it turns out, as of a couple of weeks ago, my friend has split with the troublesome girl. I believe he finally saw the light and is single again. Onya dude.
To other business. I procured 2 dozen Krispy Kreme Doughnuts during the week. All I can say is "Magnificent". I had been talking them up for about 6 months, ever since one of my colleagues brought some to work, I've been hanging out for a Sydney visitor so I could beg them to Import some.
So on Wednesday, these finally landed on my desk:
Contents:
And a sampler box:
HI.
To business. Remember this post? Well it turns out, as of a couple of weeks ago, my friend has split with the troublesome girl. I believe he finally saw the light and is single again. Onya dude.
To other business. I procured 2 dozen Krispy Kreme Doughnuts during the week. All I can say is "Magnificent". I had been talking them up for about 6 months, ever since one of my colleagues brought some to work, I've been hanging out for a Sydney visitor so I could beg them to Import some.
So on Wednesday, these finally landed on my desk:
Contents:
And a sampler box:
After our team meeting, this was all that was left:
And within 10 minutes, they were gone too!
The Sampler pack went home and by now will have been completely devoured.
MAGNIFICENT !!!!
Even MG says so. Luckily for us, we won't have the Melbourne store nearby. But that may change in the next couple of years as they expand.
OK, filled in enough time now. Off to the "G" to see the real football.
Go Pies.
Monday, May 01, 2006
Tim Lane - You are a tool.
I read this article with great, well, how can I put it, boredom probably best sums it up. You don't need to go read it, I'll sum it up for you in one word - Jealous. Tim Lane is jealous. In this well thought out article, he states that it is unfair to all the other teams in the competition that Collingwood and Essendon are the only teams allowed to play on Anzac day. What utter crap.
The reason it is Collingwood v Essendon is that 1) They originated the concept, 2) They pull in the crowds & 3) There is no third reason, the other two are enough.
The facts are, that over the 12 years of Collingwood v Essendon Anzac day matches, the average crowd size is just on 80,000. Count them 80,000. That's the average. No other match up comes close to that, those that do will invariably include Collingwood as one of the teams. Tim points this out, that in the 4 highest drawing games during the regular season, Collingwood participated in all of them. I'm pretty sure that of the 7 games he talks about where over 90,000+ turn up, Collingwood was there. As he suggests, lets put St Kilda v Bulldogs on this big stage, how many would turn up? 30,000 - 40,000 maybe. Is it worth having the biggest non-final game of the year ruined by seeing empty grandstands? No I say. Fill them up. The two biggest draw cards play on that day and that's the way it's going to stay.
I heard another brainiac suggest that the previous years grand finalists should have a rematch on Anzac Day. Hmmm... West Coast v Sydney in Melbourne, when no one is getting freebies or corporate packages etc which swell the numbers on Grand Final day. Port Adelaide v Brisbane, how to empty out a stadium in one idiotic step. I don't think so.
They tried to play a game interstate on Anzac Day 2003, Sydney V Melbourne. Surprise. Surprise. Only 24,000 people turned up. Luckily that was at the SCG, so it only looked half full, not 3/4 empty at the Olympic Stadium.
I don't have a problem with games being played interstate at night on Anzac Day, but really, leave it alone. We built it up, all the other clubs get a monetary cut of the equalisation fund so what you'd actually end up doing is robbing the other clubs.
Also, the term blockbuster is used to cover all aspects of the game. Crowd size, quality of game and build up. This usually means putting 100 years of existence into the build up which many clubs can't match.
PS: Tim is a Carlton supporter and an obvious Eddie hater. Get off his back.
The reason it is Collingwood v Essendon is that 1) They originated the concept, 2) They pull in the crowds & 3) There is no third reason, the other two are enough.
The facts are, that over the 12 years of Collingwood v Essendon Anzac day matches, the average crowd size is just on 80,000. Count them 80,000. That's the average. No other match up comes close to that, those that do will invariably include Collingwood as one of the teams. Tim points this out, that in the 4 highest drawing games during the regular season, Collingwood participated in all of them. I'm pretty sure that of the 7 games he talks about where over 90,000+ turn up, Collingwood was there. As he suggests, lets put St Kilda v Bulldogs on this big stage, how many would turn up? 30,000 - 40,000 maybe. Is it worth having the biggest non-final game of the year ruined by seeing empty grandstands? No I say. Fill them up. The two biggest draw cards play on that day and that's the way it's going to stay.
I heard another brainiac suggest that the previous years grand finalists should have a rematch on Anzac Day. Hmmm... West Coast v Sydney in Melbourne, when no one is getting freebies or corporate packages etc which swell the numbers on Grand Final day. Port Adelaide v Brisbane, how to empty out a stadium in one idiotic step. I don't think so.
They tried to play a game interstate on Anzac Day 2003, Sydney V Melbourne. Surprise. Surprise. Only 24,000 people turned up. Luckily that was at the SCG, so it only looked half full, not 3/4 empty at the Olympic Stadium.
I don't have a problem with games being played interstate at night on Anzac Day, but really, leave it alone. We built it up, all the other clubs get a monetary cut of the equalisation fund so what you'd actually end up doing is robbing the other clubs.
Also, the term blockbuster is used to cover all aspects of the game. Crowd size, quality of game and build up. This usually means putting 100 years of existence into the build up which many clubs can't match.
PS: Tim is a Carlton supporter and an obvious Eddie hater. Get off his back.
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