here. and here.
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last.fm records
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Yearly Archives for 2002
Bigpond FuX0rs
I have not been disconnected from Bigpond Broadband yet. I am used to being disconnected 2-3 times per year when they ‘forget’ to send bills for months at a time, then disconnect me for non payment. Plus the $55 reconnection fee, of course. Good for the share price, you know. In an attempt to thwart their billing incompetence, I conceived of a fiendish plan that would ensure that I never ‘forgot’ to pay a bill again. I organised direct debit from my credit card. Foolproof.
Until today.
Imagine my surprise when I opened my mail to find a letter from Tel$tra (don’t you love that?). This was a proper, formal, ‘pay or else’ type letter, not even a bill with red writing. Not that I even get bills. In summary: Telstra are threatening to disconnect me because they forgot to charge me.
By the way, the billing amount is $22 more than what I am supposed to be charged per month. Seems like some company never reversed those two additional accounts that I cancelled 4 months ago. Sigh.
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Allez-vien mon coo-coo!
prove that I didn’t make it up.
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BF1942: Spong is right
in the wild.
I still like the game, and I hope that a patch fixes up the netcode. I would hate for Spong to stay right. I mean, he loves Op Flaspoint for God’s sake. Geez. The boringest game in the world. Plus it has washed out gamma issues.
Dice, I know that you are reading this. Please fix it.
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Congratulations Ray and Judi
gotten married in Vegas. Click the link for the streaming video (Windows Media). Highlights include Ray dancing with Elvis, and Phil Smart laughing at him.
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Above and beyond
One thing stood out though, and it is the reason that I wrote this blog. It is this site. Some bloke has strapped a video camera and RF transmitter onto a model rocket and launched the thing. Watch the videos. They will amuse you for a few minutes. Reminds me of when I was a teenager, and used to make “special effects” videos starring bombs I had made from ground up rocket engines.
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Jean-Claude Van Darryn
train in the gym, which is not like me. I am not exactly at the stage where I can start fights at the pub, but when I am it will be OK, as kickboxing doesn’t seem to subscribe to the “only for defence” ideology of some of the less ruthless martial arts. I think this is some time away.
It is a long time since I have participated in a sport, but I am loving it. To be honest, the last time I felt like this was Tweekin, early 1997. I guess dancing is a sport also. Except in dancing people don’t consent to you hitting them. Or kicking them. I have very bruised shins from blocking roundhouse kicks all morning - my partner was not there so I trained with the teacher, in a way the pain made it more enjoyable becaue I felt more tough or something. This could be because as a teenager I watched Kickboxer, starring Jean-Claude, and learned that kickboxing is all about sharpening your shins by kicking trees until they fall over. I can understand that scene a lot more now. Will have to rent it again. Tom Po! Tom Po! I guess now I have two things in common with Jean-Claude.
Why do they never seem to have kickboxing on FOX Sports anymore? It used to always be on, but as soon as they found out that I was interested they axed it. I sent them an email about this. I await their response.
I definitely want to continue with kickboxing. I feel so calm afterwards, others have noticed the change. I have also noticed a change in my body, not much, but it is there. I am glad that Kirsten talked me into it.
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My next purchase : Battlefield 1942
is like Tobruk. Wake Island is like Wake Island. Kirsten will probably have nightmares after seeing a German corpse loll back with fixed dead gaze towards me. Corpses are like corpses (except the IRL corpses don’t sort of fade away a few seconds later).
I like the terrain, I like using vehicles. I like parachuting out of planes because I can’t bloody fly the things. Tanks are fun. Deck Guns are fun. I had to turn the antialiasing up to “11″ though, as the textures tended to be a bit flickery. If you get in a jeep, you are a sucker, and deserve to die by hand grenade. Softcock.
Stupid gamearena was password protected, so I had to pay for the bandwidth. It was worth it though. I was a real soldier, in a real war. I got a medal for ass-kickingness. It said so at the end.
This game is everything that Operaton:Flashpoint could have been. No gamma problems. Just radness.
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Danger Coffee
really made of plastique? Am I in danger? Why didn’t they put one of those retun air holes on the other side of the lid? Why am I compelled to blog every little thing that happens to me?
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Angry Anderson
- BBQs
- Open Bars
- Actors wearing (presumably) X-Box character costumes
- 4 Bevan bikies, with Molls, riding through the crowd
- A tattoo booth (I got 2)
- A confusing Stomp/metalhead/b-boy crew
- Fire Twirlers
- MC Angry Anderson
- Pool Tables
- Quite a few X-Boxes
I left early, for fear of getting too drunk (I know, how un-Australian). A lot of people will have hangovers tomorrow.
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