Category Archives: fun

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

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

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 this

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

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

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 on.

Half A Ton Of Muscle With A Brain The Size Of A Cat

It seemed like a nice day for a drive in the coun­try.. A real My Own Pri­vate Idaho kind of day. A friend of mine has sta­bles north of the city here. Here's what a four legged Fer­rari looks like: Yep, that beau­ti­ful beast will set you back about the same amount as a brand new Fer­rari.

Wednesday Night Bouldering

This evening I went to Aikido. Aikido these days seems to involve (since there is often only two of us stu­dents) Sen­sei throw­ing one of us until we're so exhausted we can't stand, then throw­ing the other of us until we're so exhausted they can't stand. Then he goes back to the first per­son.. So,

A Trip To 'The Nongs'

Being a busy Thurs­day, I decided what bet­ter to do than bug­ger off out of town & head to the local mountain/forest range. (Some) locals call these "the nongs", but offi­cially they're the Dan­de­nong Ranges. It's about an hours drive east of where I live. Any­way, they're green, and, you know, moun­tainy. That's all I care

A Silly Party Game

I was chat­ting with my sen­sei this evening, and he told me about a party game he learned. I'm sure this is as old as the hills, but it was new to me, and I found it more than a lit­tle eye open­ing. So, I thought I'd share it with you. First of all, grab a