Well, this year just keeps kicking onskies at breakneck pace, and I am finding it hard to keep up. The cash is exiting my wallet faster than I can earn it, even though I seem to be going out less and less these days. Why is it also, that work days just take forever to end, and the weekend just flies by in an instant? I was thinking about that on Saturday, then it was Sunday, and I thought, hang on what happened to yesterday… Then it was Monday…. and then Monday… and then MONDAY!… we’ll you know what I mean it’s like getting a dog up ya sideways – it’s not fun.
I’m fresh from a geek’s impression session with Brad and Dave and I’m mightily impressed with airport. The way it recognised the wireless router in the vicinity of the laptop has sealed the deal and im ready to sign to the Apple for a full season. The rockers and myself dined on take-out *tommy. I revisited the Ruby Foo’s experience in Times Square, New York, where my mate Filthy nearly died on the Kung Pow Chicken (thats the Kung Pow on the left above the soy sauce in the image above) whilst we were holidaying there last year. Unbeknownst to Filthy, the big bits of chicken he was stuffing into his mouth were actually chilis, and not even the several schooners of Stellas he downed could douse the fiery flames hehehe. So I thought I would give the dish a bash, and it came up trumps. A lot milder in Australia it would seem, the chilis were sectioned not whole like in New York, but it still has that zing, and I can highly recommend it.
*Tommy – many theories probably abound as to the origins of the word “tommy” when used in relation to asian food. There is in fact only one. Tommy comes from Tommy Nomchong, an asian chap a year ahead of me at high school. The phrase was coined when a good mate Moysie and myself were sitting in the infamous Wah Kee restaurant chowing down on lemon chicken and mongolian lamb after a session at the gym. It was an off-hand comment that stuck and is used to this day (over a decade later). This also gave rise to the infamous Tommy Knocker extension of the phrase, which I will leave to your imagination hehehe. So next time you’re thinking to yourself “Geez I could go for some Tommy right now” or “Man that Tommy is knocking already” spare a thought for the vilesilencer 
After getting a trim on Saturday, I was sitting on the station reading the newspaper when I stumbled across a story about this bird in the UK that sold her virginity for $20,000 Australian (8000 pounds) on ebay. Her girlfriend (yes I re-read that too), apparently was in the next room whilst the “transaction” was completed… Even funnier is that the girl thought the first time was a bit of a dud, and she wanted to remember it as something special, so the gent that purchased her cherry, got a second bite at it, for no extra cost hehehe. For that kind of money I’d gladly become a born again virgin and let the highest bidding lady re-de-flower me 
The Danny Williams King Hit on Mark O’Neill has been the talk of the NRL footy world for the last week. It’s occupied the back few pages of the sports section of my local rag paper. Danny, the Melbourne Storm forward, is claiming he suffered amnesia from an O’Neill tackle that concussed him prior to king-hitting O’Neill into hospital. If he suffered amnesia, how is it that he was able to wander across the play and locate O’Neill and deliver the knockout blow? What I also find interesting is that in round 13, Danny Williams broke O’Neill’s nose in a vicious tackle. There is clearly some history between the 2, why doesn’t the coward just own up to taking a cheap-shot on his rival and cop the ban squarely on his chin. After all he deserves it.
Looks like Telstra is back in the news again, and for once it’s not for one of Ziggy’s monumental fuck ups. Telstra is launching the Sensis search engine, which in their words is set to shake Google to its very core. Combining the power of the yellow and white pages, http://www.whereis.com.au/ and a few other databases it claims to have the wood on Google and it’s many rivals… Only time will tell, but my prediction is that this is another case of Telstra offering a Porsche and delivering a Daewoo… no offence to Daewoo.
Recently on the now defunct WPW forum, many mac users were extolling the virtues of the Mozilla Firebird Browser. I’ve heard people literally creaming their daks over using it. So it was with a very high expectation that I downloaded and launched what I thought was going to be the latest in browser technology. After using it I’ve got one word for all those WPW mac users – shithouse. The browser looks and feels like a beta of a bad Camino. Ok I won’t go so far as to say it’s as bad as Mac IE, but it’s down there in the toilet with it. So what do I use? Give me the freedom, speed and simplicity of Safari, which ships as the default with OS X. No fancy garbage, and no frills pretending to be something they aren’t. It’s no wonder to me now why WPW has gone down the drain. The majority of people that frequented that place have no idea about computers or the web. The so-called experts and moderators on the site were nothing more than glorified beginners spouting something they’ve heard or think they know.
As Homer would say “Woo Hoo!!!”. After a rather dull day at work, I was surprised when a customer brought in a CD to be printed containing a poster of (drumroll) The Periodic Table Of Beer Styles. I’d love to see a full screen image of this. I only managed to spend a short time reading over the poster when it was printed, but it is very detailed with information on every style of beer known to man.
While we are on the subject of the periodic table… Scientists have classified an element that has been perplexing man for centuries..
Element Name: WOMANIUM
Symbol: WO
Atomic Weight: (don’t even go there)
Physical properties: Generally soft and round in form. Boils at nothing and may freeze any time. Melts when treated properly. Very bitter if not used well.
Chemical properties: Very active. Highly unstable. Possesses strong affinity with gold, silver, platinum, and precious stones. Violent when left alone. Able to absorb great amounts of exotic food. Turns slightly green when placed next to a better specimen.
Usage: Highly ornamental. An extremely good catalyst for dispersion of wealth. Probably the most powerful income-reducing agent known.
Caution: Highly explosive in inexperienced hands!