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Friday, February 16, 2007
Big thanks indeed to those who acknowledged my recent birthday. Much appreciated, I assure you! :)
And a special big thank-you to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lilyeyes for the bunch of balloons on my profile page. :) Thanks for thinking of me, m'dear.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
John Cooper Clarke - well worth the long wait. :)
Ran into so many folkses I didnae even know were going!
Missed ma boy, though... :(
Thank-you very much to the lovely Mr Cameron for the post-gig post-mortem drink and lift home. Everyone else I saw - hope to catch up with you all properly soon. Really must make some decisions about birthday drinks... hrmyes...
Current mood:  bouncy
Monday, January 1, 2007
Happy New Year, everybody. :)
Current mood:  hopeful
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Okay, basically, I'm preparing to head out into the heaving throng to do what amounts to *cough* all my xmas shopping. I was waiting for the cool change, and that's my excuse. :) Wish me luck. Or axes. Either will come in handy, I'm sure.
Und now, gacked from the lovelycaffyolay...
( How Open Minded Are I? )
Current mood:  scared
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
A veryvery Happy Birthday to the beautiful and wonderful drpyrojames! Hope you're having a grouse time, gorgeous. ;)
Current mood:  happy
Thursday, November 30, 2006
adahy, on her Wishlist asked for -
#3. Any kind of art/photos/postcards/clippings of trees. Digital or though the mail.
I went through the various digital folders of all our photos and came up with this lot - http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v482/bar_bar_ella/trees/
28 pictures, all up. All but one taken here in Australia (the other is from my Canadian trip in 2000), mostly here in the state of Victoria. Several are from our Nullarbor crossing in 2002 - well, as the name would suggest, the Null Arbor Plain is a place of no trees, so there aren't any from the actual Nulla itself. :) But there's several from Western Australia and at least one from South Australia. All different sorts of trees, native trees, non-natives, individuals, groups, dead, alive, good photos, strange photos, at least one that's seriously out of focus but its extreme closeup of the colours to be found on a gum tree trunk is rather lovely despite that, I think.
Hope you like something in there, adahy!
Current mood:  relaxed Current music: Died Pretty
Friday, October 27, 2006
'Cos it's the truth...
Current mood:  indescribable Current music: Drowners - Suede
Melbourne people! (also, it belatedly occurs to me, as this will be on the ABC, mayhap other states will have it, too - check yer guides!) Late this Sunday night - or very early this Monday morning, if you prefer - Channel 2 is repeating a wonderful, wonderful movie from 1933 called The Ghoul.
This movie was thought to be completely lost for decades and decades and oh how happy it makes me to say that we can still see it in all its glory!
The imdb.com page for The Ghoul has a very excellent review and tells a bit more about its loss and re-discovery. Well worth a read.
The Ghoul stars Boris Karlof and a fantastic support cast including Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Sir Ralph Richardson. And it's funny. I don't mean the type of funny that old horror movies can so often be, where you're laughing because it's all so hokey and cringeful and all that. I mean this script is sophisticated and genuinely amusing and the actors all pick it up and run with it. :)
One of the writers who worked on the adaptation of the screenplay was Roland Pertwee. Yes - PERTWEE. Father of Jon and Michael, uncle of Bill, grandfather of Sean. Talented bloody family, those Pertwees.
So, yeah - if you're up late on Sunday night, or you've got a spare video to chuck in the VCR before you toddle off to bed, catch up with The Ghoul. A wonderful Thirties movie.
Current mood:  crappy
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
5:27AM
Happy Birthday snogs to the luscious Ms. raven_. :)
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
*cough* This started as a comment on f13tch3r's journal. I got a little carried away. A bit. Maybe. :) I had to re-edit the comment about four times before LJ would let me actually post it there 'cos it was too long! :D Anyway, I thought it might be useful to post it here, just for whatever future reference.
This was all pretty much straight off the top of my head, btw. Given more thought, I might list some slightly different things. The first three books listed, though, are definitely, definitely my favourites of all time...
( Twenty Books. )
Current mood:  nerdy
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Happy Birthday, septembergirl80!!!! :) *huggles*
I thought of it this morning, actually, but I wanted to hold off until I was quite certain it was your birthday where you are and then post while it was still your birthday where I am. :) I think it's worked... Heh.
Have a great one, m'lovely. Hoping your wishes come true. ;D
Current mood: happy
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
About a year or 18 months ago (roughly - it might even have been a little longer ago, I'm really a bit fuzzy on it all), there was a song by a dude...
The video consisted of him as a bicycle courier, weaving and bopping through the streets and eventually delivering a package to some groovy warehouse place. He had dark hair, long, maybe a goatee, but I might just be imagining that bit.
The song was a good disco song. No, really. AND! It incorporated some Beethoven! Either Beethoven's 5th or 9th, I think - may've been something else, but it was definitely Beethoven, from memory.
After this song, he had another one, video of which he was wearing a white suit (from hazy memory) and performing in a studio with a band. (this was also quite good, but not as good as the previous)
Does anybody happen to recall who this dude was or what the Beethoven Bicycle Courier song was? Sorry it's not really all that much to go on...
Current mood: hopeful Current music: KMFDM - Juke Joint Jezebel
Saturday, September 16, 2006
It's a year already.
I still look for him at the window when I walk home. I still remember the smell of his fur when I buried my face in it. I still dream about him. I miss him so much. :(
He's got his headstone now, though! Dad finished it about a month ago. Will post a pic when I get up there to see it.
Current mood:  contemplative
Friday, September 15, 2006
Everybody! I've sung the praises of Joey Comeau (untoward) before, I know, but please - DO be sure to take a quick moment today and read his current entry Mistakes aren't always regrets.
I can't stop giggling... :D
Current mood:  giggly
Monday, September 4, 2006
kits_the_dm has beautifully summed up a good deal of just why Steve Irwin's premature death is sad to us. Some of my own thoughts, too, are in the comments there.
Friday, September 1, 2006
Was just reading this article from Developmental Biology Online because a discussion on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) little_details today mentioned "polar twins" and I couldn't recall what they were so, y'know, Google's my friend.
Polar twins are also known by possibly the stupidest, most oxymoronic term I've come across in a good year or so - "half-identical". *shakes head*
It's an interesting article, but a couple of phrasings really jarred with me and had me telling the laptop, as I'm wont to do when alone, that "They shoulda had a better editor on this paper". And then a funny thing hit me - I actually miss something I used to do at work!
I actually miss proof-reading the science articles and transcribing the researchers' and doctors' letters and reports (well, for some of them, at least - our Head of Oncology, f'instance was always a delight to transcribe for, our Head of Rheumatology, otoh, although a wonderful man and good friend, mumbled so much on tape that we secretaries would practically draw straws for who got to do them). I even miss the "play" of editing a slab of writing down to a proscribed word limit, most commonly done for grant applications ("Explain your research in layman's terms [1000 characters max.]" heh) or conference proposals ("Explain your presentation in geek terms [500 characters max.]" double heh).[1]
When the new "research precinct" was built at our campus and our department basically split down the middle, all the wet labs were moved to the new building, all admin stayed put. The distance between the two places meant that the labbies simply stopped bringing work over for us. The work in that job got a whole lot less enjoyable right about then.
'Twas one of many factors...
[1] Yes, I exaggerate, but not wildly. :)
Current mood:  geeky
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Heeeeeeeeeeeee! The Bonzos in beautiful, living colour in 1968!
Viv picking his nose on television. Ya gotta love it. :D
I always thought I'd done a post of some favourite Bonzo quotes, back in '03 or so, but apparently not. Hrm.
Current mood:  hungry
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