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Where does the CGI fart-joke sidekick go?

Just got home from editing of a video project for work. Probably about halfway done, at 4 or 5 hours. This for a piece of video that will last about 8 or so minutes. Without the help of _poe_ it would take SO MUCH LONGER. He is a machine! Another

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Science!

My lab coat arrived! Oh yeah! I’m gettin’ ready to lay down some fucking SCIENCE all up ons!

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I had a subject to write here, but I forgot it

I’ve just realised that I _forgot_ that I had a party to go to last night, Morgan’s leaving party in fact. Dammit. What’s sadder is that this is not even the first gig that I have plain forgotten to go recently. I am going to make a

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Unexpectedly Delicious Kool-Aid

I just had the least painful workstation restore process EVAR. I decided to repartition the drive on my mac, and because I had stuff all over the current drive, I figured it’d be a good opportunity to test Time Machine, so I imaged the drive onto a spare disk,

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One of the cool kids

Downloading and installing and patching World of Warcraft and the Burning Crusade upgrade. To a WINE installation on a Linux desktop box. A box at my work. Doing this via remote desktop. From my iPhone. While I’m at a friends housewarming party. I don’t know how many utter

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I think "mon" means "man", but I don't think "Och!" means anything.

After work today, I dropped in on the only local maker of traditional kilt of my people, the Scots. Versions of this garment were often worn while the Scots were fighting their traditional hated enemies[1]. So naturally there’s a lot of history wrapped up in the kilt. For

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Fill 'er up, thanks. With regular unleaded. And with RACISM.

Annette and I went out to get dinner tonight, and on the way I filled up the car at the local petrol station. As I approached the counter, there was a dude (who I shall refer to as “Fuckstick”) already there and in conversation with the attendant. The following conversation

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Mew

When I read about someone killing another person, my reaction is pretty much “That’s terrible.” – I’m slightly saddened for the deceased, for society, and indeed for the killer (in decending order of sadness) and I hope that the family of the deceased can cope, and that humans continue

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Vomercial Sites Only

I spent a little bit of time today wondering why a particular web site of mine couldn’t be browsed to, actually ended up checking my bind config to make sure that the domain was present and resolving, only to realise that “.vom” is not a valid top level domain.

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It's Never Lupus

Me: “What do you want to watch over dinner? The new episode of House, or a CSI?” Annette: “I don’t like House.” Me: “You don’t like House? Who doesn’t like House?” Annette: “I’m already paranoid enough about medical things …” Me: (Interrupting) “It could be lupus!” Annette:

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Mate, we call him The Steeeg.

I’ve just watched a trailer for something called “Top Gear Australia” which shows three Australian gentlemen drivin’ about in cars, crashin’ into things, makin’ sarcastic comments to each other, etc. Towards the end of this trailer, superimposed text says something like “Over 1,000,000 Australians regularly tune in

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Twue Wuv.

So, get married to Annette next Feb, then off to Tokyo for a honeymoon. Wicked awesome.

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Meme Pic

Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with your picture. I kinda wish I had a shirt on when I saw this meme. In the spirit of

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Blu-Rays? DVDs? A Jedi craves not these things.

I shall share the following conversation I had with a friend regarding my new Apple TV: “So .. does it play DVDs? Or does it have a Blu-Ray drive?” “What? Neither. It doesn’t take disks at all.” “Then what the hell does it play?” “It plays stuff. It plays moving

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Hey Mr Bass Man!

So, I’ve just arrived home from my first bass guitar lesson. Things I have learned: – Walking around with a guitar slung across your back makes you feel cooler, even if you can’t play it. – The Ladies take more of an interest as well. I’m just sayin’ is

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Dad, there's someone at the door!

Secret Confessions That Make Me Less Of A Geek: I don’t really understand the appeal of Boba Fett. He just doesn’t have that much impact on me, and never has, even right back when I watched all three[1] Star Wars movies for the first time. I just

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V for Vortigaunt

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That's how I roll, Dr Breen.

I just put a plush headcrab hat on, backwards, then assumed a B-Boy stance and informed Annette that I was a “Hip Hop Crab”. It’s been a long day.

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Bleah.

At home. In bed. Sick as a dog. Eyes swimming. Cough racking. I blame the freemasons and the CIA.

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Where's the corn go?

So, I took delivery of an Apple TV today. I guess, prior to ordering the Apple TV, I should have made sure that it actually had a video output port of sufficiently ancient tech to actually plug into my aging Sony TV. But, it doesn’t. I guess it’ll

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We'll choose the former option, thanks.

Another political post. Sorry. But it is funny. Morning of Thursday the 28th of August, 2008: The Rt Honourable Winston Peters MP, on the subject of allegedly fraudulent activies with regards to donations to the New Zealand First party, says that the Serious Fraud Office should either lay charges against

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[Picture of a sign reading "No" goes here]

I don’t generally post entries here about politics in general, and especially not about NZ politics because (a) apart from some tinkering around the edges, the two main NZ political parties are very similar, and (b) politics and the parliamentary process is generally as pointless, and as childish, as

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Takin' our jerbs.

Outspoken media personality Sir Robert Jones said he believed a “lesbian takeover” was behind a new law requiring a court jury foreman to instead be called a foreperson. That’s interesting. And by “interesting” I mean, “At best misogynistic, and at worst batshit insane.” It’s very obvious that the

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In Miami, the traffic can be ........ Murder.

I just found out from Annette that David Caruso, who plays Horiatio Caine in CSI Miami, also played Kit-Kat in the movie “Hudson Hawk”, a movie which is mostly hated by everyone but is a cult hit and a personal favourite of mine. Totally. Gobsmacked. This makes both CSI Miami

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All aboard the fail train!

So I just got out of a meeting which was an autopsy of the issues and run-on effects of a network fault. Sadly, although I am pretty sure I wasn’t the root cause of the initial fault, stuff that I did during to try to resolve it, stuff that