When I was a child, and even a teenager, I read books. Many of these books came from America, and in many of those the protagonist was a young boy, much like myself. There was a problem that many of them had in common: Lima Beans, or more specifically; getting rid of Lima beans. Their mothers would serve them up and they would have to go through all sorts of hijinks to get rid of the hateful things. If there was anything I learned from all of that reading it was this: Lima beans are no good.
Last week in the supermarket I came across a can of 3 Bean Mix, one of the trio being Lima. My curiosity aroused, I dropped them in the trolley. Tonight, I ate those beans in Kirsten’s famous Chili con Carne, and I have this to say: LIMA BEANS ROCK!!! As beans go, they have rocketed their way in my chart to number one, from number infinity.
I have requested that Kirsten put only Lima Beans in her next CCC. I await it as greedily as ever…
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Written on 01 July 2002
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Kirsten took me to the Opera House to see iOTA in a solo concert. The personal atmosphere of The Studio was just right for the acoustic performance. I went in without expectations as I really didn’t know anything about iOTA, it turns out that I did know at least 4 of the songs he performed. In the words of the artist himself, the show was “amazing”.
Seems I am not feeling all that wordy, so I’ll just end it here.
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Written on 30 June 2002
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watching the ABC News, I was startled to discover that I am the Mayor of Waringah.
The ABC will hear my formal complaint ovr the misspelling of my name.
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Written on 28 June 2002
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I just know it.
Suite 202 at work has to have been built on top of an ancient Indian burial ground. Anytime I have to work in that god-forsaken room I get nothing but problems. Take the last 6 work days for example. That’s 6! All to build 5 computers.
My first hint: don’t listen to them, just stick RIS on the same box as DHCP and DNS and AD, or you will bein a world of hurt.
My second hint: if you want the computernames to be their MAC address, don’t put more than a 2 digit prefix. When they are from the same batch you will get PXE wars. Not a pretty sight. Especially when you are sobbing and pounding the desk.
My third hint: don’t try and include Lotus Notes 5.0.5 in a riprep image. You will just have to reinstall it onto all the new machines anyway.
Enough of the hints, it is after 5:30am and I have not yet slept, preferring instead to spend the night getting things ready so that others might work happier. Oh God, I hope so…
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Written on 25 June 2002
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I remember when Tristan told me about it. He said that it was like Lemsip, but not as good. He implied that it was not at all cokey. He was wrong.
The *new* Diet Coke with Lemon flavour is all that and more. It is my new drug of choice. I want to call CCA and get them to load 3 slots in the vending machine at work, dammit I will call. It is the goodness of Diet Coke, infused with the also goodness of Lemon flavour, resulting in Über Goodness.
OK, I might have gone too far. I blame the additional chemicals (Food Acids 334, 331 are new, and Flavour has moved well up the ranking).
I am going to bed now.
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Written on 18 June 2002
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Tell me. What do we do with witches?
Burn them! Burn, burn, burn!
And what do we burn apart from witches?
More witches!!! Wood!
Good. So why do witches burn?
…uh…*scratches head* *scratches nose* Cause they are made out of wood?
Goooood! So how do we tell wheter she is made of wood?
Build a bridge out of her!
Ahh! But can we not also make bridges out of stone?
oh yeah…
Does wood sink in water?
No! no, it floats! It floats! Throw her into the pond!!! Throw her throw her!! Yeah!!!!
What also floats in water?
Bread. Apples. Uh, very small rocks. Cider. A bowl of gravy. Cherries. Mud. Churches! churches! Lead lead! A duck! Ooooh.
Exactly! So logically…
if she weighs…the same as a duck…shes made of wood.
And therefore…
………a witch!
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Written on 15 June 2002
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Theophilus Thistler the thistle sifter, in sifting a sieveful of unsifted thistles thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. Three thousand thistles.
Robert Rowley rolled a round a rolled round, and if Robert Rowley rolled a round a rolled round, where is the round roll Robert Rowley rolled round?
Dividing and gliding and sliding, and falling and brawling and sprawling, and driving and riving and striving.
Hardly had his hale highness heard the easy hedgehog, when he hit the humming-bee by the hunter, who had horrible beetles in the human hall. I love to hear the horses hard iron hooves, go hammer, hammer hammer, hammer hammer, on the easy highway. I hit my horse hard and hurried him out to hunt up hogs.
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Written on 15 June 2002
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Soldier of Fortune 2 is the Counterstrike of the new millenium.
It would take the lost environment of pinkjoint to match what SOF2 brings to the gamer’s lifestyle. The killing. The leaning. The headless people, on fire, with blood squirting out their necks.
I like the jungle missions. They seem more real, somehow. Until you get too close to a plant.
In case you are worried, this blog entry was not ‘hacked by chinese’, and is not riddled with virii. MIME/x-multipart
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Written on 13 June 2002
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Tabbed Browsing is great - but Lockergnome told me how to do that in IE.
No forward or back mouse button support immediately obvious is bad. Also bad is lack of Google toolbar - but got past that.
and I avoided the abvious pun in the title.
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Written on 09 June 2002
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