Blood, sweat and tears

Well, the first day we did the work it was fairly hot. Then Dad kept on cutting himself. And there was almost tears when one of the tiles got cracked after being carefully cut out and put in place.

We still need to paint but the kitchen is now basically ready and open for business.

NYE 2007, Balls Head

An almost unimpeded view of the bridge, with a fireworks bardge close by, looking over the water, with almost no one around…

The last dozen years governing the economy

Good summary of Howard's term in office, from one economist's point of view.

Oh, Mr Rudd!

It's nice to see that the PM elect catches public transport. But just because you're trying to get yourself elected doesn't mean that you should go around tagging everything.


Well, he is going to be the PM for all Australians - including graffiti artists …

Trying to cross the highway a couple of days ago …

Yes, the curb is totally under water.

Exam time 2

Part of my (now) ongoing series of exam venue photos, taken on my phone.

More progress on the kitchen

Dad and I laid the tiles and they look great. We also found a dish drawer on Ebay (the photo is of me collecting it). So, all we need now is wall tiles, wall paint (almost chosen) and to drill some holes to connect the dishwasher. Everything else is working.

Today in writing class

Well, I'm doing a course on writing at work and today there was a competition to invent a new word. Mine is meganym.

Meganym - overly positive (or negative) superlative used in place of a more appropriate synonym.

Examples: 'terrible' instead of 'bad'; 'superb' instead of 'good'.

Used in an ironic sentence: 'the overuse of meganyms in contemporary speech exasperates me'.

Feel free to use it :)

Contrecoup

The Else came on the iPod today - this is TMBG's latest album btw - and it's good to listen to it with headphones because different details can be picked up. This time I noticed the song Contrecoup has some intersting words in it. So, when I got home (after playing frisbee in the rain) I looked them up. As part of my investigations I came across the reason why these odd words were in the song in the first place (also see here.). It was basically a dare, an interesting nerdy dare :)

In progress…