Category: Diary

The Melbourne Ice site is now mine – the new coming soon page is up. I’m working away on the site and should hopefully have something within a few weeks.

Apparently it may still be a secret. If you don’t see a goaly standing there then you are still seeing the old page. Just wait a day or so, then you’ll see.

Marita The Evil One just called me to gloat. Instead of working (are you listening Marita’s boss?) she’s just watched the first two episodes of season 7 of Buffy – the one’s we mere mortals don’t get to see until March next year.

She is now on my list. Alone on my list…

The corridor outside Communications was the scene of bitter struggle this week as Mr Anthony Malloy and A Person Unknown wrestled for control of the prime top-left corner pager slot.

Mr Malloy had been racking his pager in this slot for over a year when late last week he arrived at work to find a new pager in the coveted slot and his moved one to the left. Of course he rightly moved the new pager to another position. Upon leaving work that afternoon he found his slot once more taken by The Person Unknown. This game of shuffling pagers continued for five days until Person Unknown gave in and settled for the slot second from the left.

When approached for an interview Mr Malloy only had this to say, “I’m just glad this ended peacefully and we can all get on with our lives. I wish no ill toward Person’s Unknown, however I hope they have learnt one of life’s more valuable lessons.”

Just what this lesson may be Mr Malloy declined to say.

I’ve been a confirmed Pepsi drinker for years but I must admit I have digressed a little from the One True Beverage path.

Coke have finally released Vanilla Coke on the unsuspecting Australian public and this member of the unsuspecting public actually quite likes it. Sure, it’s only creamy soda by another name but it tastes okay – nothing like Coke at all.

But the thing that gets me most of all (even though I know all the economic and business reasons why – it still doesn’t make plain old sense) is that a 600ml bottle will set you back $2.19, a 2 litre bottle will only cost you $1.99.
Continue reading “So Much More For So Much Less (Comparatively)”

While watching the first series of The Sopranos on cable last night I became a little worried when Olivia ordered a hit on her own son.

I hope mum has forgiven me for cutting up two copies of the Return of The Jedi comic and blu tac’ing them to my wall for a six months.

No hard feelings mum?
Continue reading “20 Years Of Festering Anger Leads To Demise Of Melbourne Based Blogger”

a) Walk around to the main IT room.
b) Open the door.
c) If the two or more of the guys are playing Half Life : Opposing Force and it is after 9.00 am the boss is away.

I was looking at the Monash Uni site today to see how they responded to the tragedy (or here if The Age has expired) that unfolded there this morning. Over a decade ago I’d spent many hours wandering those halls avoiding tutorials and lectures. An old friend of mine still teaches there, in that very building. After Bali you have to wonder what’s next for our battered little country.

Moving on a little…

I clicked on other areas of the site and found that something is terribly wrong with one of their teachers. They only have 2,269.4 teaching staff. I wonder where they mispalced the other .6 of Professor Snootles.

I’ve added two more to my worth reading list, but for those who don’t read the small print down the bottom of my front page I’ll let you know here.

Snarfallita’s Blaterhings and Escribtionist are on my daily reading list, although Snarf only updates every few days.

Oh wow. For $5 I’ve been taken back to my teens. This morning a caf? in Yarraville was having a garage sale. Bargain number 1 was a proper footy for $2.00 but the real bargain was a mint condition Donkey Kong for only $5.00.

I am still hopelessly uncoordinated and will never set the high score but for regression value it was $5.00 well spent. Now, if only I could track down an Acorn Electron I’d be in heaven.