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Bike-vertising

This was stuck onto my bike today. Yesterday there was a photo stuck in the wheels of someone’s stolen bike and the day before that there was some religious propaganda lodged in my helmet…

Goodbye St. Jerome’s

Walking past St. Jerome’s a week or so ago, I noticed that someone had kicked in the door, so I decided to go in and pay my last respects before the Myer wrecking ball destroys it for good.

The baking meme is spreading

My friend James sent me this a few days ago, after he baked a loaf of bread using the instructions in my last post:

So I used normal organic flour (bwa bwa) and ended up using 1kg of it. Then I ran out so I broke out some self raising flour which I found in the [...]

How to bake your own bread

One of my greatest discoveries of the last few months has been learning how to bake my own bread. It’s not necessarily cheaper than buying it (although it is, slightly) but it’s infinitely more satisfying and there’s the potential to make all kinds of great different variations on this ancient theme.
Inspired by Justin Ouellette’s “How [...]

With a sheet around his neck…

Yothu Yindi, “Jailbreak”.

A few days with my Dad and my Aunt


Skatepark with an iPod Dock

(Photos and quote stolen from Max’s blog)
One of the best features of the park is piped music coming out of speakers all over the place. When we first arrived, the Velvet Underground was playing and I thought, that’s pretty good. Turns out you can just plug an ipod in and broadcast it. Genius! The park’s [...]

R.I.P. iPhone

In a few short hours, I have an appointment with one of Apple’s so-called Geniuses in which I am told they will replace my iPhone. Apart from the fact that it’s pretty heavily scratched, there’s nothing much the matter with it. The volume button on the side fell off over the weekend, and as I [...]

Flimsy Internet research and the Temper Trap

Apparently the Temper Trap juggernaut keeps rolling along; funny to see that this Guardian article appears to owe a certain debt to my post here after seeing the band play in London in October.
“These hopefuls are being talked up as the best band to come out of Australia in 10 years”
Which seems to rather miss [...]

While the passenger areas and external part of the tube looks very contemporary (for 1963 or whenever it was the current trains were introduced) the drivers’ compartment looks utterly Cold War!


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