January 2008
33 posts
Audio killed the biblio star
I am so digging the whole listening to the Torah/Pentatuech rather than reading it thing. Levitical covenant law is so much easier to take when it’s voiced by an Afro-American dude and there’s sound effects of sheep bleating in the background…..
“I generally have an issue when people walk out of a movie that was completely...”
– someone called Noonz. I’m lucky I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that…..
“Go for it! What could possibly go wrong?”
– AAHMYEYES (comment #13) in response to using a mutated version of the rabies virus to deliver drugs to the brain. HA! Funny. So yeah, the rabies and mutant viruse epidemic thing: I watched I Am Legend last night which I thought was awesome in the last-man-on-earth sense (Will Smith was great in it),...
“That’s Daddy’s rotary!”
– My 2 year old daughter, after pressing one of the buttons on an electronic car toy in a shop, and hearing it make a burnout noise…..
“He’s a dickhead kid. We don’t write articles about every dickhead kid, even the...”
– Wikipedia users reject Corey Delaney entry | NEWS.com.au (“ick” reinstated by me; ACA is A Current Affair, a local tabloid current affairs show) - (reblogged from) thatguyben This seems very arbitrary. The Corey Delaney/Worthington story, while being immensely irritating and stupid, is also immense....
Black death may plague the world yet again →
Well that’s totally uncool…..
“So why are we putting you through this horrendous medical procedure today?”
– Doctor to my wife before wheeling her into surgery for a caesarean. She had been advised to have one because she is susceptible to spontaneous lung collapses (not great during labour). But yeah, they CUT YOUR STOMACH OPEN and you can’t really function properly for at least six weeks after....
The Bible EXPERIENCE →
I’m currently EXPERIENCING the Bible on CD, voiced by a huge number of African Americans - mostly actors. Aside from the silly name and the tendency for the voicing to be overly melodramatic at times, it’s really good. As far as following the overall stories/narrative, I’m finding it better than reading. There is one very significant problem with it though, and it is this: the...
Jalopnik: The $2500 Tata Nano, Unveiled in India →
Neat little machine, but now India’s roads will be clogged with Nanos instead of over-laden Honda-100 bikes. I also don’t quite get why making a smaller, simpler, cheaper car is hailed as some kind of work of genius every time. I wouldn’t have thought it’s that difficult to think of making a car that has less expensive, heavy crappola on it. Making little cars that are good...
Genesis.
I reckon if I were putting together a book about the creation of the universe, the terraforming of planet Earth and the setup of its complete ecosystem, the first couple of thousand (tens/hundreds of thousands?) years of human history and the rise of civilisation, and then the religious calling of an obscure nomad in Mesopotamia, then I suspect it would be quite different to the one I’m...
Dear Hollywood. Stop it. →
Not long ago, when Transformers was showing, I asked on facebook’s questions application: What is the next lame 1980s cartoon to be remade as a major movie? And my question has been answered…. Even I wouldn’t have guessed at such a cash-in retro rehash as this hideously pointless remake of a hideously pointless show about pop-song shrieking anthropomorphic chipmunks. Even as a...
Hey everyone, just shut up about the freakin...
Seriously.
Plane crash dreams
I have recurring dreams of watching various planes crash. I’m never in the plane, always on the ground. Usually it will be a passenger liner and I’ll hear it coming in low and knowing it’s in trouble from the engine noise (being a plane nerd) and then I’ll see it disappear behind a slight rise or into a valley and I’ll hear the impact and see the fireball. Recently I...
How Heavy's Your Knob? →
You’re probably wrong if you think you know what this is going to be about. — thatguyben I was expecting doorknobs. No, really I was. I did notice this effect in my 808 with its extremely long thin gear stick when I switched from the standard tiny little ball to a much heavier resin gearknob…..although I tended to be more interested in the preserved scorpion inside the gearknob. But in...
What I really need is ANOTHER 1300 sedan........
Geoff: if I move overseas, Im dumping the 1300 on your doorstep. ;)
Dave: How you'll get it up the stairwell is beyond me....
Geoff: I have a dukes of hazzard horn. All I need to do is honk it, call out yeeha and magically a washed out bridge or somesuch will appear and magically I will be able to launch it into your loungeroom.
Dave: It only works if your car has doors that are welded shut.
Geoff: dont laugh, I've seriously thought about doing that.
seriously.
Car thoughts. And embracing sentimentalism.
When I was 18/19 I drove a red 1972 model Mazda 1300 wagon that my brother gave to me on indefinite loan, and then it was written off on a muddy mountain road (I wasn’t driving). Since then I’ve had a string of old Mazdas, including one 1300 sedan which I since on-sold to my brother, who now fusses over it like a mother hen. I also owned an RX2 (rotary) that was loud, obnoxious, fast,...
