January 2012
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Stuff I Got with $100 worth of JB Hi-Fi Vouchers
Thanks to my brothers, this is what I got with my birthday vouchers:
Randy Newman 5 album CD pack. Where has Randy Newman been all my life?
Six Feet Under Season 1 DVD. I watched a few episodes a few years ago, loved them, wanted more.
DVD movie double pack: Sanctum and Cliffhanger. Sanctum was one of my favourite movies from last year - a thrilling underwater adventure-drama. And how could I...
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poor, obscure, plain and little: Reasons Why I... →
Now it can be told: Raffy and his wedgies from the great sans-pants:
He’s wearing the wrong shaped pad and it bunches up.
There’s a tiny musical instrument down there, the music of which is only audible to Nadal. Every pluck is a sweet, beautiful note.
An entire civilisation exists between his cheeks. Nadal is their angry and vengeful god. Every time he plucks,…
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Obama Wants Mission to Asteroid by 2025 →
It goes without saying - The Asteroid Project gives this notion the big thumbs up!
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sans-pants asked: Dear Mr Daimo, Do you think it's a bad thing that I'm thinking about watching Remains of the Day again so soon after I just watched it?
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Coffee and Me
Coffee is not something I love. Coffee is really bad in school staffrooms. Coffee is good when it is mixed with some kind of frothy flavouring, such as mocha or vanilla latte. Once there was no Milo so I made myself some cheap instant coffee and it tasted very poor but it made my brain buzz - and then I finally understood why people drank coffee. But it didn’t change my attitude. The best...
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So how am I supposed to explain to my 3 year old that it’s not Sam his...
– Nene, Herald Sun reader, upon learning that Greg the Yellow Wiggle is re-joining the band
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100 years ago today, on January 16th 1912, Scott and his men discovered that Roald Amundsen’s team had beaten them to the South Pole. From Wilson’s diary:
January 16. We got away at 8 a.m. and made 7.5 miles by 1.15, lunched, and then in 5.3 miles came on a black flag and the Norwegians’ sledge, ski, and dog tracks running about N.E. and S.W. both ways. The flag was of black...
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