Category Archives: fun

Please Board, Mr Sexy Pants

My little bro flew up for a visit the other day. It turned out to be quite an eventful trip. For a start, he managed to wangle a free trip, which is always a bonus. A friend of his was coming up and said she had a spare ticket for whomever asked first. Nice one. They …

December 7, 2011 – 23:01 | By Si | Posted in fun | Comments (5)

Snow!

Today I woke up and there was honest to god, real life snow, just lying everywhere, being all lazy. Even though it's winter, around these parts there hasn't been snow since 1995. So, what better way to spend a Monday morning than to go for a walk up a local hill? (rhetorical question) This hill, unsurprisingly. Mum …

July 25, 2011 – 14:11 | By Si | Posted in fun, life | Comments (10)

Random Thursday Night Adventure

I was sitting at home the other night, minding my own business when a text message flashed in on my intra-planetary communicator: "I'm coming to pick you up. I'll be there at 9:50pm. Pack a toothbrush" Well, okay then. (Secretly? I adore these kind of spontaneous adventures.) On the agenda? Sitting in an outdoor jacuzzi half …

July 16, 2011 – 20:52 | By Si | Posted in fun, life | Comments (10)

Rebecca Black vs The Internet

In case you weren't paying attention (or were distracted by, I don't know, important things) Rebecca Black has become something of an internet sensation. The short story: Rebecca Black's mother paid a company $4000 to produce a music video for 13 year old Rebecca, which was then released on Feb 10 2011. It received a …

April 7, 2011 – 14:11 | By Si | Posted in fun | Comments (0)

Hot Dog!

Today I went to see a bunch of dachshunds discuss human rights. No no, I'm not making this up. Really. Check it out for yourself. Anyway, they didn't seem very talkative — although I suspect they made roughly as much progress as the regular UN would have if they'd been plonked in a Melbourne park …

May 29, 2010 – 21:10 | By Si | Posted in fun | Comments (5)

Earplugs

I got a set of earplugs a few years back, when I was heading off to Burning Man. I saw on them on ebay for, I dunno, maybe 30 bucks. I'm thinking ok, I'll be there ten nights, I want really good earplugs, since people running around with airhorns at 7am is a relatively common …

March 25, 2010 – 08:48 | By Si | Posted in fun, home | Comments (7)

The Rat And The Rose

I was at a friend's place having a coffee when I saw the weirdest thing (to help you out, I circled it): Can you see it? Nope, neither could I, at the start. However, we'd been watching the cat (a delightful Burmese). The cat had seen something interesting, so we were curious what it was. Usually …

October 24, 2009 – 05:10 | By Si | Posted in fun, life | Comments (12)

Just Be You, The Most Awesome You Ever

Comparing ourselves to others is for noobs! As people, we're funny. There's this natural tendency to compare ourselves to others. Typically, we do something like this: Me: $30 Donald Trump: $eleventy billion Conclusion: I suck or maybe Me: kinda good looking Angelina Jolie: super hot (if you go for that sort of thing) Conclusion: I suck There are a …

May 23, 2009 – 06:42 | By Si | Posted in fun, life | Comments (19)

Rewrite Your Past

Memory is notoriously unreliable. It's a fair bet that most of the memories we have are confused, jumbled, or otherwise incorrect. Certainly not accurate enough to hold up in court — this is, after all, why policemen write down everything at the scene of a crime. The funny thing is, these are the memories that we …

December 19, 2008 – 05:55 | By Si | Posted in fun, healing, life | Comments (29)

Bring In The Clowns

I'm not usually a huuuuge fan of clowns, but I got an urge to go for a walk this evening, & I stumbled across these.. ..dancing to music, often upside down, as part of a giant advent calendar.. ..part way up a 10 storey building. I figured, well, in this case they're probably worth cheering …

December 2, 2008 – 11:53 | By Si | Posted in fun, life | Comments (1)