Man I'm tired. Freakin exhausted, but I'm going to quickly jot down a few thoughts. I arrived in Brisbane today, and I'm preparing for the first day at the new job tomorrow. I've had a couple of power naps, made it out to the shops for supplies, and tried to learn to find my way around the area.The flight over was tons of...
Okay I admit it. It was far to late, and I'm working far to frantically to try to get everything done this week. I've been backing up data, consolidating data, and cleaning out my various computers. I guess it was inevitable that i'd fuck up at some point, and I've done it. By golly it wuz a goodin... I accidentally deleted a large...
Well it's out now. Word's getting around the place that I'm leaving. Some of the women decided to organize a party (despite my express wishes that I didn't want a fuss), and started notifying people. So the gossips have kicked into high gear, and now I'm getting people coming to me asking me about the rumors. Annoying! I had just hoped to leave...
Last Monday was heart attack material. My counterpart at work unexpectedly resigned! Fortunately I'd had the meeting and received an offer of employment in Brisbane, but since I was planning to resign the same day, it accelerated the timetable greatly. I had to come in and resign the next day, which came as a shock to my manager. I've been horribly riddled with...
Well surprise today. My sidekick resigned this morning. Slightly disturbing since I'm planning on resigning tomorrow. Talk about a dual kick to the scrotum! I've got a meeting with new employer tonight, contract in hand, plans to start prepping for a new project, so it's all go. I would have preferred though to have been the first resigner rather than the second, since...
Things are finally starting to move along. The bathroom renovations are almost complete. Thank the maker, I'm so tired of being covered in tile dust from the angle grinder. There's nothing quite like blowing your nose and having brown terracotta tile dust come out of it for hours afterwards. It's just gross! The house has been on the market for a couple of...
Haven't written anything in here in awhile. I've been real busy. Rob has finally returned from her traveling, having outrun an exploding volcano and dealt to evil jungle robbers, she has returned recharged and ready to go. Consequently, things have now switched into high gear.The house has gone on the market, after three days of solid puttying and repainting on my part. The...
I've just about had a guts full of this latest project at work. So we find out again today that we're working on the wrong code because this stupid Russian woman left the old code there, but added the new code to a different location. So everyone is working on the old code at the expected location, only to discover they should be...
I hate it when things unravel and you don't know what to do. With Rob away its difficult to know what to do about some of these things, because she's the one who organised them and I just don't know. I've been trying to ring her, but Wayne's going to have to go drag her in from the jungle to somewhere with a...
'Carlisle, I want this case. I like it a lot. I eat bugs for breakfast!'This is another favorite episode. The theme of hypochondria that runs through this has some great opportunities for comedy, and once again the central characters interactions are just great. Ralph obsessing that he's been infected, even though his symptoms are easily explainable, and Bill's invincible immune system (right up...
Plot Synopsis:Kermit introduces the show and announces that Connie Stevens is this weeks guest. He then introduces his friend Lydia. The curtain opens and Kermit sings Lydia the Tattoed Lady, while a female pig with red hair, and covered in tattoos dances. Lydia kisses Kermit repeatedly at the end of the song. When they come off stage, a jealous Miss Piggy is waiting,...
Plot Synopsis:This episode starts with the gong exploding when Gonzo hits it after the theme song. Kermit welcomes the audience to the show and announces tonight's guest star is Juliet Prowse and "we've also got Mahna Mahna, whatever that means."Two cowlike creatures called Snowths sing a song with the words "Du doo du doo du" while a crazy scatting creature, Mahna Mahna, keeps...
"Look at me Ralph, it's your chance to look forward. Remember what you see."Another great episode, this time expanding the mythology of the suit and the green guys with the discovery of a previous owner of the suit. JJ providing a visual lesson of how the suit can be abused for personal gain is also an important item of character development, and part...
"This request is for Ralph, from your Star Admirer... This is all news radio coming to you from Palmdale... Coming to you live from Palmdale..."This episode is one of my all time favourites. Theres some great comedy and interaction between the characters in this one, and best of all, the mysterious green guys make a reappearance. The meeting in the desert with the...
"Well actually, its umm, actually, i umm, think its a little bit faster."Ahh the first episode of Season Two. The first full season starts off with Ralph using the suits powers to win at pro baseball. It's a good episode with the first theme of fulfilling your dreams, but not getting so carried away that the power corrupts you. It would be easy...
This is such a classic cult movie. For anyone that loves the blues, or a huge car chase, this is a great movie. The loose plot threads wind through a collection of great songs, and cameos by blues music greats such as Cab Calloway, John Lee Hooker, Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles.The humor is very dry at times, but I find that quite...
I was overjoyed when the announcement came out that Doctor Who would be making a return to TV. As a long time fan of Who (my favorite doctor is Tom Baker), I was dismayed when the show was originally taken off, and always looked forward when visiting Oz to watching reruns of it on their TV stations. It's been far too long since...
This is a neat little film and marvel of animation. The hours and hours of work that goes into making these little plasticine characters come to life is amazing. From the people that created the wonderful Wallace and Gromit series, comes this tale of rebellious chickens trying to escape from a chicken farm.With multiple homages to WWI prisoner/escape movies, as well as little...
When the new Batman film was announced, I was excited but apprehensive after the two previous films were so disappointing. I can still watch Batman Forever, but I loathe Batman & Robin. I can't stand George Clooney in most things, and the Robin character I've never really liked. Batman is the ultimate hardass, he doesn't need to have a whining kid following him...
Busy like a crazy bee-like insane thing, buzzing furiously about. So much to get done at the moment, I've been so tired the last few days. I'm tearing through the jobs at home trying to get the house sorted for our move, cleaning out piles of paperwork, junk, and media. We just sold a bunch of our stuff on the net, kudos to...
I first saw this film on VHS after my brother rented it. It's a classic film, and certainly one of the best from Ahnuld's action stable. The film starts off as a war film with some suspenseful tones that create tension, the military team start as the predators hunting the missing personnel, and later the rebels. Slowly hinting that something else is out...
This is a really great film. I didn't get to see it until I was into my late teens, since we weren't allowed to see things that were scary, although my grandmother used to watch the sunday night horror movies with me, which is where I first saw Alien. Aliens dispenses with the monster/horror-house feel of the first film, and opts to turn...
Went mountain biking with Robin from work today and some of this friends. Weather was a bit drizzly in the morning, but it wasn't so bad because it helped to pack down the sand base in the forest, so the riding was pretty good. We took it easy because some of the others weren't experienced riders, although from their devil-may-care attitudes to doing...
Yay my little man has finally returned. He's been away staying variously with my parents or my grandmother for the last week. I've missed him heaps. It's just not the same without him. I can't even imagined how I lived before I had my children. Sure they sometimes drive you mad, but you never stop loving them, and you only ever want them...
I can still remember being allowed in my teens to see the first Robocop. It's a brilliant film, sure its graphically violent, but its black comedy themes of corporate enterprise generating profits at the expense of dehumanising and destroying peoples lives is still very much true today.Murphy's journey to regain his humanity is often touching and heartfelt, and in striking contrast to the...
I'm going to break away for a moment from my usual DVD reviews and actually review a movie. We don't often go to the movies, mostly because of the excessive pricing, but we treated our daughter to the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie last night. It had some good bits, but I'll agree with most people that it wasn't as good as...
Things are developing at high-speed as usual. Robyn's got the idea of immigrating into her head, and I've come home to find this, that and the other arranged. We've already got somewhere to live, something to drive, she's found a job, and I've put my feelers out into the job market to see what's available. I have managed to get her to agree...
We've been talking about whether to move overseas or not. There's increasingly becoming less and less to keep us here. Don't get me wrong, we live in a beautiful country and given the choice I'd rather be here, but the money is crap compared to how much its increasingly costing to live here. It's just becoming too hard now, petrol's just gone up...
I have to say, I really really struggled with whether or not to review this episode. I hated this episode with every fibre of my being. Not only does the concept just not sit right with me, but the fact that they selected this woman who is just terminally annoying, I can only wonder what the hell they were thinking?The fact that Ralph...
"Yours truly, Dumbo Maxwell is chugging across the finish line. Folks up in the gallery yelling Go Geezer Go!"This is one of my favorite episodes from Season One. Again it's not the crime story that makes this episode shine, but the character development again. A lot of people criticize the subsequent seasons for overblown plots, and really that's the fault of the networks...
