February 2010
9 posts
I’m waiting for the media to dub this recent spate of knife violence “The Cutlery Killings”.
In local news: For a while now, the Australian government has been trying to censor the internet. For reals. Like China. I’ve been ignoring it all, hoping it’ll go away. They plan on using an ISP level filter to block sites - an unknown list of sites on some secret blacklist - that, for all we know, could contain the pirate bay, xkcd and anything to do with unicorns.
If that wasn’t bad enough,...
Note to self: In our booth there’s a couple dressed in black and a couple dressed in white but they’re both as polite as each other.
You take Radiohead for granted after a while. You forget how brilliant they are. Then you go to a show where the performer gives their last encore; climbs up beside statues of angels, up high in the theatre, near the ceiling. Armed with a red ukelele, they sing Creep, and everyone sings along, quietly. Then you remember.
Someone who thinks that my email address is their email address has been signing me up for lots of things this past year. I’ve been receiving lots of “was great to talk with you” emails from real estate agents, so I guess they’re looking for a house. A few signups for kids’ sites, which bothers me. And today, Playboy.
Turns out most sites on the webernet don’t...
In about a week I leave for the USA - SF, Vegas, Austin (SXSW), Boston, NY. If anyone wants to have a drink with me, LMK.
I walk in. “Huh. I thought you guys were at Kent St?” Four friends scramble. “Where’s my phone where’s my phone I haven’t checked in!”
My comfort movies are ones with Drew Barrymore, Meg Ryan, James Bond, among others. I don’t know about the first two, I don’t even like most of their movies.