In transit

Travelling always sounds so exotic, but the fact of the matter is that the actual travelling bit sucks. Blows goats, no less. First, you have to endure check-in.  The airlines and brochures present you with an idyllic view of check in, of smiley gorgeous women on the counter, handsome travellers all with $10,000 watches and smiles to match. or of wonderful machines that take…

A.T.G.A.N.I

All The Gear and No Idea. Its a common problem.  A newbie rocks up with many thousands of dollars of shiny new kit and has not a clue what to do with it. You can find examples of this everywhere and in sports and hobbies of all kinds.  Its an issue where people have lots of disposable income and somebody tells them (or maybe…

Iiiiiiitttttts Christmas

…and I hate it. Well, not the actual Christmas bit, per se, just the commercialisation of it. The bit that screams in big neon writing.. From October, the shops were full of tat, ready for the eager consumer to get into the spirit.  The TV (which we don’t usually watch – so this year I feel somewhat spared from the worst of the misery)…

Internetiquette

Bloody hellfire, the internet harbours the best and worst in people. Forums, facebook and youtube (and I said this before) are traditionally the very worst examples of this, with slanging matches starting within minutes of people posting something.  These arguments are usually childish in nature and often involve a total lack of interpersonal skills or ability to participate in rational argument. When a person…

freak magnet

Mostly, being average looking, average height and average build, I don’t attract any attention wherever I go.  This comes in handy when I want to take photographs, particularly in the street where people are sometimes suspicious of that kind of thing. Recently though, I have been toting my Hasselblad medium format film camera about the place and as it’s pretty unusual looking (compared to…

Late late late

You know the story, when you *have* to be on time and you even leave the house a little early, all the traffic lights are against you and you get red lights all the way, the traffic is somehow slower than usual, costing you precious minutes, the car park is full and then, when you get to the station, there’s an old lady, in…

Oily Obama and the PR spill

Warning – this is a political (well, kinda) opinion, so if you don’t care too much about this kinda stuff, wait till the next update, which will inevitably contain fart jokes and pictures of nipples.  Ok, maybe not the nipples. So, as we’re all well aware, things went a bit tits up in the Gulf of Mexico with BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform and…

Spelling Friday.

I am fed up with adults who can’t fookin’ spell! People on Facebook are the very worst offenders for this and its starting to really get up my nose. So, for those of you who are in any doubt as to which words to use when; here’s a little copy and keep for reference Your = as in it’s something belonging to you (your…

one rule for one…

You know in real life where if you do something illegal, say, get caught snorting cocaine, or an assault, your life generally goes a bit downhill for a while, and deservedly so.  Most employers take a pretty dim view of this kind of thing and would fire you the moment ‘trial’ was mentioned in conversation.  Certainly my employment is on condition of a spotless…

I hate colds

I’m sick again – must have picked something up from Sydney or on the plane, who knows. Its a horrible stinking cold this time, the worst type that gives that tickle and almost sneeze but not quite right behind your eyeball and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.  Helpfully its also giving me a horrible migraine which drugs, sleep, rest,…