Category: Life

David and Ainslie have been on a honeymoon for 8 years today!

Here’s a nice simulation of a truly organic clock. Great eye candy :-) link

If you’ve ever wanted to get a global audience for your worthwhile cause, you can create a petition online here. Some of the causes we humans pursue are amazing.

I know it’s not really been on Australian TV for a while, but once again, it seems the good TV series have to be cancelled in the US before they are cheap enough to be shown in Australia. (Refer ‘Now and Then’) Now, it seems that after months of white-anting the Futurama schedules (changing its spots, leaving it out altogether some weeks) Fox has chosen not to pick up a new season, which effectively kills the production. If you’ve been watching it – or downloading episodes over the net, like me – you won’t need convincing of the need to save it from the axe. Please sign here and make your vote count. (Just as a side note, I’d make sure you don’t make your email address viewable publicly; avoid spam!)
For other Futurama and Animation links, see here.

I’m in the U.S. again, for the first time since September, and things are only marginally different. Security was still tight on the way in (“green marines and their submachines” sounds like a great title for an album), and the whole concept of ‘tipping’ people still spooks me a little.
But today; snow! I’d only ever seen snow once before today, but that was all lying around not doing much. I saw my first snowflakes, and everyone here seems to think I’m a little mad, trying to compare whether two flakes are really as different as they say.
Coming from the other end of the world, where it’s pushing 100 degrees Farenheit, it’s a weird experience. I’ve had to completely reverse my wardrobe as well as my sleeping patterns.
I noticed that on the way into the US, I had to certify on the customs form that I had never been guilty of moral turpitude. I guessed I hadn’t.
US TV consists mainly of advertisments (at least, what’s on the channels I can access from my hotel), and most of those are to do with health, dieting, cars and suing people. The remaining bits are political discussions on why the US allies aren’t as happy about the war on terrorism as the US is (they’re pussies, apparently), the Winter Olympics in Utah, Britney Spears and sitcoms.
If you want to keep up with what it’s like in NY at the moment, visit NY at a Glance

Sometimes, when the weight of the world has ground you down, you need time to reflect on baby cats. link

Having now completed reading all the Harry Potter books, two observations and one wild prediction.

• One; I – strangely – do not have a desire to cast spells on anyone. Not even the programmers of Free-To-Air TV during January.
• Two: ‘Ron Weasley is to Hermione Granger is to Harry Potter’ is as ‘Han Solo is to Princess Leia is to Luke Skywalker’.
• Three: Neville Longbottom is Voldemort.

Normally, falling off a horse would severely dent a jockey’s chances. It ain’t necessarily so: link

Would You Sue Too? link

This goes to show that resettling refugees doesn’t have to be all that hard : link