For dinner tonight: 15 fresh clams, 15 fresh tiger prawns and a 750g silver perch, stuffed with spring onions and coriander. All cooked on a disposable charcoal barbeque and eaten with Thai “seafood sauce”, a delicious combination of green chilli, coriander, garlic and palm sugar. Smelled like Bangkok in our tiny back courtyard. Total cost: [...]
Over time our place slowly becomes more and more cluttered. Tonight I had a bit of time to myself, and I went on a packing-up spree; just simple things like sorting through piles of papers, binning what we don’t need, returning books to the bookshelf, putting away toys and clothes and whatnot. And what a [...]
This morning, after breakfasting on crepes with butter and golden syrup, we decided we needed some fresh air, so drove out Guildford way and walked along the swan. Dolphins, pelicans and dogs in the water, and lots of families puttering by in their boats. Decided we’d love to have a small boat to be able [...]
Woke early and drove down to the Westerm Farmers Markets, within the FERN Community Garden, next to Fremantle Golf Course, precisely where a Putt-Putt course that I remember from my childhood used to be. Breakfasted on a bacon, egg and spinach roll, which was spectacular, with smokey bacon, tasty eggs and freshly baked bread. Came [...]
Played Geometry Wars projected onto the side of a building at a party tonight. Nice concept, but a 15m display might annoy the neighbours, doncha think?
It is often contended that no word in the English language rhymes with “Orange”, but few people know the true facts of the matter: Boris Brinkle, a turn-of-the-century copyright lawyer from Hungary, devised this cruel and totally untrue rumour to deter those who seek the truth. My uncle inherited paperwork from the estate of Professor Brinkle when he passed away earlier this week, and he uncovered an explosive documents, the contents of which I’ll transcribe herein.
My parent’s bought themselves a PC. Not terribly successfully. Their brand new HP Pavilion a6130a desktop, with Visa Home pre-installed, came with the default amount of RAM: 512MB. To an old-timer like me, that’s a massive amount of memory, as I got by quite well with 512KB on the old Amiga, thankyou very much, so [...]
This guy at work sprayed some intensely chemical cleaner on his desk about a week ago, and I’ve been smelling it ever since. It’s annoying enough that I googled “Phantom Smell”, but that didn’t help, because smelling something that’s not there is a symptom of all sorts of heavy shit. So I’m kinda ignoring it [...]
Had a good time at the Perth Indie Games Scene Showcase and Mixer, and disappointed I didn’t have anything to showcase. Impressive to see what various peeps have been up to. And now I’m amazingly tired, and still putting off sleep time with another episode of Teh Learning Curve.
How I loved my 1GB shuffle. It was the first generation “stick o’ gum” model. Nothing more than a slickly-designed USB memory stick with playback controls and a headphone jack. But perfect for holding enough podcasts to get me to work and back again, and then some. More recent models have gone down the minituarisation [...]