One of my students today told me she had seen a poster for a band named after me. I did a little research (they played at Flinders Uni last Friday), and came up with this poster:
As you can see, it’s pretty close.
You can read about this band over on Music SA’s Schickel page, or the Official Schickel Website, and even listen to a track. It’s not too bad, actually.
Beedogs.com is the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes.
Sort of implies there are several repositories, doesn’t it?
Sun 27th Nov 2005
I spent the last three days (or a fair chunk of them, at any rate), down in the lovely seaside town of Robe, located about 3½ hours drive south of Adelaide. Around this time every year, and instigated originally by my good friend Hugh Koch, Robe hosts the annual Village Fair: a showcase of local food and wine, with internationally reknowned musical entertainment.
This year saw the inclusion of Jimmy Barnes, the former front man of 80s Rock Band Cold Chisel, as the lead act, with (Johnny) Diesel (formerly of Johnny Diesel and the Injectors), supporting him on Saturday night. (Which reminds me, he didn’t do the song Saturday Night!) Vanessa Amorosi played on Friday evening, and Kate Ceberano was the Sunday afternoon act.
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Top 20 geek novels — the results! from Guardian Unlimited: Technology
Ones in green are those I’ve read:
More than halfway!
I’ve been uploading my weekly favourite PostSecrets - the cream of the crop, if you like.
This weeks were great, again:
I hope she succeeded! (Man, her legs are skinny!)
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I have a Google Alert for the string “NSLU2″. Just now, I had a new alert, and my NSLU2 category has just made it into the top 20…
Yay!
I usually try to refrain from commenting on what is happening at my work, but I really need to get this off my chest.
The school I work for is currently going through an accreditation process, known as CIASa. Now, I have nothing against the noble ideals of meeting some international standards, but I think that either this system, or how we have interpreted it, has totally missed the point.
I have, for example, just spent the last hour printing out edits to documents. Now, these edits are things as simple as adding a full stop to one sentence. And I have had to print out the whole page again. I have a personal objection to this purely on environmental grounds.
And it gets worse. Within my faculty, there are four staff, who by and large all teach the same material at Year 8 and 9. Our course outlines are the same, and apart from rare cases of ‘interesting’ classes, the cohort is pretty much standard. We have built into the course the ability for students with aptitude and ability to extend themselves, and for students with various difficulties to do simpler or less work.
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Why is it that girls in underwear ads always hug each other?
Is that what girls do? Get together in their underwear, and hug?
Donald Rumsfelf is in town. You wouldn’t know it, not by the number of police floating around the Central Business District. Motorcycle cops on the corner near Adelaide High School. Other cars driving around the streets. And I haven’t even been down North Terrace yet…
I am more than a little annoyed that we have been forced to virtually shut down the hub of our city, for a man that has been involved in several of the evil regimes that have run the USA in recent decades. Clearly, Bumsford is a smarter man than his current boss (but I can’t think of too many people who aren’t, just quietly), but he has had his fingers in some pretty seriously smelly pies.
In 1976, Ruttfield was instrumental in ensuring the US was safe from swine flu. He urged the president at the time to instigate a vaccination process. The US was safe from swine flu - but 52 people died from contaminated vaccine. Unfortunately, now the US is governed by swine. It’s a shame the vaccine didn’t work against Bush. Oh well.
The biggest irony of Roomseld’s career is that he was a significant contributor to Saddam Hussein’s build of military might. During the Iran-Iraq war, Rumbleford was, according to Wikipedia, “the main conduit for crucial American military intelligence, hardware and strategic advice to Saddam Hussein.” So Rimspot was at least in part responsible for helping to create the regime he and his mate’s son have now worked so hard to bring down. Or rather, try to bring down. (Chop off the head and the serpent falls? Doesn’t seem like it to me.)
I think the scariest thing about Roamstick is that he seriously believes that he, a member of Team America, really is part of the World Police. Now, it scares the heck out of me that those guys from Southpark are just right on the money.
America! Fuck Yeah!
Update: My sub-editor tells me his name is Donald Rumsfeld. Sorry for any inconvenience or misunderstanding caused.
P.S. The whole idea for the spelling games was a typo the first time I wrote his name. Not that funny, I know…
