September 2011
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Desert Island Discs - in a plastic box
We’ve slowly started the process of boxing up and moving out of this joint. We boxed up our CDs today and I’ve left out just enough that would fit into this plastic box. I’ve got a lot of my music on iTunes but it’s just not the same - I still need to fondle the packaging of an actual, physical Compact Disc and listen to the unbridled, uncompressed sound.
So these are my...
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“Can I at least have my free speech now?”
– Andrew Bolt outside court after being found guilty of racial vilification. Put a sock in it, Bolt.
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60 Minutes: 'The Awakening' →
Watch the 60 Minutes promo video for this week. There’s a story of a bloke who has suffered a brain injury. In its efforts to explain to the masses that they will be showing a story of a bloke who has suffered a brain injury, 60 Minutes has done its utmost to ensure that there is no doubt, no doubt at all that they will be showing a story of a bloke who has suffered a brain injury. And how...
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Caves of Steel adaptation in the works →
Some more Asimov for the big screen - and why not???
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“Part of the reason it is so uncertain is the spacecraft itself is rather...”
– Mark Matney, an orbital debris expert at NASA.
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Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of...
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Suiting Up on the Moon
This is an extract from the Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Journal. Most people don’t know about Apollo 15, and most people don’t know what was involved in getting suited up for a moonwalk, 380,000 kilometres from Earth. Commander Dave Scott and Lunar Module Pilot Jim Irwin are here preparing for their third Moon EVA on August 2nd 1971. They spent close to 20 hours walking on the Moon over...
“Have you ever looked into the eyes of a warrior? Searched his iron gaze? What...”
– Channel 10 AFL promo. It fascinates me how ad people come up with this crap. Have they done market research and found that footy fans actually LIKE this kind of stuff?
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Keith Moon and the Number 32
I’ve been sick and I’ve been taking Panadols every four hours as directed. And because I am sick I haven’t been sleeping well. And when I don’t sleep well I wake up at 3 in the morning and browse facts and details on Wikipedia. An last night I was reading up on Keith Moon as part of my recent ‘rock star research’ phase. And I learned that the poor fella died at...
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Apples dunked for just $1.15 →
I thought I’d generate some of my own FAQs for people who don’t understand this from a Victorian teacher’s point of view.
1. Do teachers need laptops/notebooks?
Yes. The Department of Education, Employment & Early Childhood Development have mandated we use technology for assessment purposes and for teaching and learning. I completely agree with this because, after all, this...
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My most reblogged post ever is a very innocent and ordinary one about finding ‘2001’ on BluRay at Woolworths. Wow, the things that people find amazing.
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“That thing there was unpredictable, unacceptable …”
– Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse describing his team’s loss against Geelong. I’m no Collingwood fan - BUT I LOVE MICK! 