Rees won’t buy ticket for $90m Oz Lotto “Punters will descend on newsagents across NSW and the ACT on Tuesday to stake their claim to the $90 million Oz Lotto jackpot. But an altruistic NSW Premier Nathan Rees will be sitting this one out, saying he doesn’t want…
Geek Confession: I thought the transformers cartoons were shit in the 1980s, and I think the recent live-action transformers movies are DoubleShit. I wasn’t interested in Productbots vs Merchandisacons when I was in my early teens, and I’m definitely not fucking interested when that dead-eyed waste of skin…
Ducked home from work early, because my beloved found out today that her mum was in a car accident yesterday. Looks like an oncoming car in the other lane crossed the line, and hit her head on. She has fairly minor-sounding injuries, luckily. But poor little Silver, the utterly beloved…
I’ve been at home all day, illin’ it up. I have all the symptoms of some kind of flu – headache, upset tum, bad cough. I’m strongly hoping it’s not of the swine variety.…
From Wikipedia, on the entry for my new bike: The pink wire connected to the ECU of some of the later 900 bikes retards the ignition timing in the lower 3 gears to make the bike more user friendly, limiting the ability to spin up the rear wheel out of…
First lengthy ride on new bike (about 20 or 30kms, from previous owners place to Annette’s parents place.) So, the RF is 900cc, and my previous few bikes have all been 750cc. Doesn’t seem that much different, right? Except that the old bikes were all circa mid 80’…
I find that I require some sort of bag in which to transport my accumulated personal stuffs while I’m riding the new bike. And when I say stuffs, I mostly mean “laptop”, these days. Anyone got any reccommendations? Ideally, I think I’d like: – Backpack bag (preferred, though a…
Purchased today: One (1) Suzuki RF900R, Colour Black, For the riding thereof. Also: Shoei helmet about 10x better fitting, lighter, more awesome than the cheap-ass helmets I could afford when I was a student. Also: Clutch-working left hand well out of condition. Sore after short ride. This should self-correct eventually.…