Recently my friends back in Australia, Kynan and Debbie, had their first child Cooper, a healthy looking baby boy. Congratulations Kynan and Debbie! K-9, someday you’ll have to teach your son to do this. None of us standing there could believe you did it:
Oh, this is great. A recent episode of ‘Scrubs’ had Colin Hay, of ‘Men at work’ fame, singing ‘Overkill’. Outstanding!
I had many good plans for this year’s thanksgiving, even backup plans. Over the last few days I’ve watched each plan get struck down. Now I just don’t know what to do at all. I certainly don’t want to go somewhere I’ve already been, I really hate travelling by myself, and I sure as hell don’t want to stay in Florida. (puts thinking cap on) hmmm . . .
“THE United States has slapped a ban on Vegemite, outraging Australian expatriates there” Link to news story If I needed an excuse to leave this country, this is it. I HAVE TWO LARGE JARS OF VEGEMITE, BITCHES!!!! COME AND GET ME!!!!
I took this HDR picture of Miami the other night. It’s a few pictures taken at different exposures slapped together with photoshop. I ended up forgetting that each photo taken for a HDR really should be one-stop different from its ’neighbour’, and the highest exposure photo wasn’t nearly enough to bring out the reflection in the water. Also, I was in the sort of spot where I didn’t feel completely safe, so I didn’t hang around for too long. ...
I am a massive, massive fan of the BBC car show “Top Gear”. The trio of presenters work just so well together and make it absolutely hilarious to watch. Frosty (who at one time maintained his blog!) used to have screenings during work back in Adelaide, something I always looked forward to. Richard Hammond, one of the presenters, was recently in a car crash while trying to beat the British land speed record. I’m not surprised at that, I’m surprised he actually got injured (and pretty badly too). Here’s hoping he recovers soon! ...
I’ve really, really been getting into the Spanish/hispanic thing lately. I’ve started listening to a lot of the music, local bands like Minimal and now branching out to some other groups like the superstar Mexican group Cafe Tacuba. My fav song from them so far: Eres. Even if you don’t know a lick of Spanish, it still sounds damn good.
Wow. One of my best friends over here in the US, Omar, and his wife, Jessie (who is also a best friend), just informed me that they are six weeks pregnant. I was informed of this via a text message today that said: (news)We’re pregnant, talk soon!" It took me a little while to recover from falling off the floor. Awesome, awesome news. Congratulations again Omar and Jessie! I know you never read my blog but what the hell I just had to write this down anyway! ...
Americans like having discussions while occupying the toilet. It’s a fascinating if slightly disturbing habit. Americans also like guns. Also fascinating, also slightly disturbing. Now that I’ve got those major generalisations out of the way, let’s combine them: talking about guns while in the toilet. Today there was a three way conversation about guns going on. One guy was talking to a fellow gun-toting dude over his phone, some other guy recognised his voice and love of guns and decided to join in. “have you bought your gun yet? … all I need is a .45 and my collection will be filled out…” ...
Time has been… interesting, lately. So I went to Nicaragua, again, “to see what I missed out on last time”. The photo set I recently uploaded to Flickr is here. The set consists more of people shots than anything else. It’s not complete (the sets never are, it seems. There are many pictures where I think “hmmm, that needs to be edited a bit…” or “ok, I have to turn this into a panorama”), but it’s a start. ...