You're Amelia!
You're late!
Amelia Pond! You're the little girl!
I'm Amelia, and you're late.
You're late!
Amelia Pond! You're the little girl!
I'm Amelia, and you're late.
Monday, November 18
I Missed All The Fun!
I was in the office in the city today, and missed all the fun at home.
I was in the office in the city today, and missed all the fun at home.
Fortunately, the tornado* missed my house completely and clobbered the shopping district.
I didn't know about it until I got back to Hornsby station this evening and tried to go to the shops to pick up some groceries, only to find the whole shopping centre taped off with police and emergency services in attendance.
No-one killed, though six people were inside a portable building at the railway station that flipped over, and they must have had a hell of a fright.
My train home was a just few minutes late. Awesome work by NSWGR and the SES, given that there was a tree on the tracks this afternoon.
Update: Found another picture of that portable building from a different angle, which allowed me to identify it. Two observations: First, it didn't just tip over, it travelled a good twenty feet and landed completely upside down. Second, I was standing right next to it three hours earlier.
It wasn't just my suburb that caught it today, either; this view from the Manly ferry looks more like a fishing trawler in a storm in the North Atlantic.
On the other hand, at least the fires are out.
Update Two: From the sound of things, the mini-tornado/storm cell took a path right through the centre of town. It hit the big Westfield shopping centre, blowing out the roof of the cinema multiplex (and trashing the cinemas pretty badly), took part of the roof off the hotel across the mall, crossed over the public library (no reports of damage there), hit the railway station where it flipped that portable building and at least one car, then hit the local technical college, the police station, and the council offices.
The small number of injuries can probably be attributed to two things: First, it was a miserable day here and few people were standing around outside to get hit by debris, and second, where the glass roof blew off in two places in the shopping centre, it sounds like the wind came in through the doors and blew the panes of glass up and out rather than inwards. In some pictures some of the misplaced panes are visible, resting on the intact ones.
Update Three: News report. Apparently the library was damaged, possibly badly.
* Possibly;** witnesses have described a funnel and a debris vortex. Whatever it was, it was highly localised and strong enough to flip cars over. Possibly an earth elemental. Or a really cranky stick insect.
** Now confirmed. Not a stick insect.
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Tuesday, November 12
Speaking Of When I Were A Lad...
The tracks below date to my late teens (or thereabouts); I won't assault you right now with the music I liked in my early teens, when I had no taste at all.*
The tracks below date to my late teens (or thereabouts); I won't assault you right now with the music I liked in my early teens, when I had no taste at all.*
Anyway, poking around Youtube I found a playlist of obscure 80's songs.
Obscure?
Nik Kershaw's Wouldn't It Be Good? (Or as I called it at the time, the be kind to aliens song.) Blancmange's Living on the Ceiling? Howard Jones? Depeche Mode? Spandau Ballet? Icehouse? INXS? Oh, hey, Swing Out Sister, cool. But really, the Pet Shop Boys? Cheap Trick? Men at Work?
Looking at the list, though, it's really heavy in Brit and Aussie bands, so maybe those songs are obscure elsewhere in the world, and your formative years weren't saturation-bombed with Electric Blue and Original Sin.
Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing...
* Toto Coelo? Haysi Fantayzee? Seriously, early-teenage me? But then, I suppose, points for The Stranglers and Altered Images.
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Thursday, October 31
Trickle Treat
Only one group so far this Halloween. At this rate I'm going to be left to eat four pounds of chocolate by myself.
Only one group so far this Halloween. At this rate I'm going to be left to eat four pounds of chocolate by myself.
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Thursday, October 10
Where Oh Where Has My Screwdriver Gone?
So, one of the teeny-tiny screws on my distance pair of glasses has a habit of working loose over time, and I keep a teeny-tiny screwdriver to tighten it up again.
So, one of the teeny-tiny screws on my distance pair of glasses has a habit of working loose over time, and I keep a teeny-tiny screwdriver to tighten it up again.
The problem with teeny-tiny things, of course, is that you can't find the bastards when your glasses are broken.
Turns out that a steak knife serves the purpose nearly as well, and is a heck of a lot easier to find. (Just fumble around in the cutlery drawer until you start bleeding; that's the one you want.)
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Thursday, June 20
Thursday: Outlook Improving
It seems someone got hold of my credit card details and went on a short-lived spending spree, before my bank caught it and cut them off. Not sure how, because I'm pretty careful with it, but all it takes is one website that isn't careful and splat.
It seems someone got hold of my credit card details and went on a short-lived spending spree, before my bank caught it and cut them off. Not sure how, because I'm pretty careful with it, but all it takes is one website that isn't careful and splat.
I wouldn't be too surprised if we hear in the next few days that some internet company or other got compromised.
Anyway, that's one of the things that messed up my Monday and Tuesday this week, though I only found out the cause of the mess today. New card is on the way now.
Of course, this happened right when I needed that card to pay important bills, but there's not much of the month when I don't need that card. So, ugh.
Also need to check that AVG and Ad-Aware are up to date and scan the hell out of my computer, in case I picked up a nasty. Just did a full AVG scan on the weekend, though (it runs Sunday night), and it came up clean.
My day job really came through for me here, letting me put some urgent bills on a company credit card. So I don't need to worry about the lights going out either virtually (one of them was for server hosting) or literally (the other was my electricity bill).
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Wednesday, June 19
Commentary Part 2
Tuesdays ain't much better.
Tuesdays ain't much better.
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Tuesday, June 18
Commentary
Monday, you suck.
Monday, you suck.
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Thursday, April 25
Honi Soit Qui Salle Blanche
Just dropped a jar of honey-soy sauce on the kitchen floor.
Just dropped a jar of honey-soy sauce on the kitchen floor.
Observations:
- Honey-soy sauce is as sticky as honey and as apt to stain everything within 20 feet as soy sauce.
- Cutting your foot on a stray shard of glass and bleeding all over the place doesn't help.
- Bleach does.
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Thursday, March 07
Coincidence
The Nexus 10 is in stock and I can afford it this week. Those two circumstances have never previously coincided.
The Nexus 10 is in stock and I can afford it this week. Those two circumstances have never previously coincided.
Now I'll be able to play my Kairosoft games scaled up 8x instead of just 4x!*
* As near as I can tell, the pixel art for all Kairosoft games is done at a basic resolution of 320x200. The Nexus 7 is 1280x800, precisely 4x that; the Nexus 10 is 2560x1600, so exactly 8x Kairo-res. The text, menus and so on are all rendered at device resolution, so the games are eminently playable, just retro-stylish.
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Sunday, February 17
Oh Look, Three Failed Drives
One RAID-5 array rebuilding, the other one possibly toast. Charming.
One RAID-5 array rebuilding, the other one possibly toast. Charming.
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