The missing secret ingredient
While shopping for wine for Myke & Pam for Christmas (I went with a chardonnay and merlot from Lindeman’s and … some other South Australian winery… anyway), I happened to find myself in the confectionary aisle – I know, truly bizarre ;) – and figured what the hell, I’d indulge myself slightly and go some… Read more
When all you have is a hammer, you can never find a bloody nail
For a while now I’ve been wanting to do some tutorials based around Shark and some other tools my group publishes. Not for work as such, but, obviously I have a bias and stock in the idea. The more I work on & with Shark the more I’m surprised by what it can do. But… Read more
Christmas @ Myke’s
That’s right, I used an arroba in the title, muahahaha. Christmas day, yesterday, I went round to Myke’s place for Christmas dinner. Mainly his family, and a couple of friends such as myself. It was pretty good, actually – I can handle being away from family for Christmas, though I do miss it, and Myke’s… Read more
National Treasure 2
I went and saw National Treasure 2 last… Saturday? I dunno. It was pretty good; much what I expected, and very much in the theme of the first. The way Wilkinson magically turned into the martyrous good guy at the end irked me a bit; I didn’t buy it; I don’t think they conveyed his… Read more
Ants
For a few months now, there’s been a lot of little ants invading my bathroom. Mostly I realised this because they’ve been accumulating, dead, all over the floor. More recently, I also noticed live ones wandering around the basin. Even more recently, in the last week or two, they’ve invade my bedroom as well –… Read more
I Am Legend redux
Also, F1 had already read the book(s) upon which ‘I Am Legend’ is based (called, creatively, ‘I Am Legend’, I believe), so he knew more or less what the deal was. He noted though that in the book(s) the zombie critters were far less zombie and more just like evil, cannibalistic people. And the reason… Read more