Raarr! I LOVE being a cop in the motorcycle display team!
What a great photo! From Photo Cliches.
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It's all malarky
Or that's what this internet cafe manager thinks of Apple Mac fans. I don't mind agreeing. "Like bloody born again Christians, they are!" He's pushing 55, and has one sort of squished eye from a car crash in '99. I like him. We've been puzzling how to get him more custom. The kids aren't filling the place and nor are the tourists.
It might be the nasty mural that covers all the walls. On a yellow background is an Earth spinning with coloured ribbons radiating out, and between the ribbons are what I can only describe as "travel highlights". I am sat in front of an inaccurate interpretation of the pyramids, my neighbouring computer user has a partial vista of Stonehenge in front of him. It's pretty horrible.
If I were a brooding Counterstrike player, I think I'd go to the cafe with the blacked out backroom with cammo netting on the ceiling, not this place. It resembles a nursery, or a classroom for special needs.
Not that I suggested this to the manager.
Anyway, this is a half hearted update from Australia. We've had rain and flooding up the New South Wales coast. Small town Bellingen was entirely cut off, with all roads in and out submerged (pictured, left).
However, Australia has an excellent volunteer service called the State Emergency Services, and these brave souls don yellow vests and lift grannies out of submerged homes and search for missing people. Possibly due to this large community effort only one fatality occured.
At their best the Aussies are very community spirited, that's when they aren't making dubious laws to curb the motorbike gangs, the "bikies".
I love it that newsreaders and journalists have unquestioningly accepted the term "bikie".It's just not a scary word, bikie, it sounds like something small and potentially cute.
I narrowly missed by a couple of hours, witnessing a bikie being offed by a rival gang at Sydney airport. About a week later, that bikie's brother was then also shot. I'm not sure what to make of it. It's like a low rent Sopranos, but where everyone looks like Vin Diesel with oiled pecs and 6-packs.I'm headed to Byron to sample a little of the Blues and Roots festival this easter weekend, but will be in Sydney later this month. Any Sydney-siders I didn't catch up with yet, shout and I'll see you on the way back.
Labels: travel
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Fringe is back with bonus Wirespotting
More Wire actors in the last Fringe, episode twelve. Not only is Lieutenant Daniels a regular as an almost identical character Agent Phillip Broyles, but this week Union Man Frank Sobodka appears as the most unlikely of characters, a skilled programmer who writes virii! Also, Marlo's muscle and Snoop's partner Chris Partlow is a hacker in the very same episode!
Here also are a couple of screen grabs from an earlier Fringe episode. I'm always interested in the craft of storytelling, especially the smaller details, how a moment was put together or communicated. In the scene below FBI agent Olivia Dunham returns home after a disturbing scene where she believes has seen her supposedly dead lover John Scott. Back at home she has a new email that appears to be from him.
If you look carefully at the text in the email, no normal font would have a wrongly sized "E". The ill fitting "E" was an effect to subtly add some unease and a sense of "wrongness" to the email. Nice!
Labels: editing, fringe, wirespotting
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Showjumping rabbits
This has made me very happy. Thanks Scott. Can't embed this clip but here's the link. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cNPOdffkkLo
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Morning messages
My Thunderbird client offers me a button to restore natural order...
..and my favourite spammer apologises for the 'enconvienice' of a massage.
...another spam special from an email entitled "Be 9 inches in 2009". I like to think some poor, underpaid graphic designer was tasked with making something creative to illustrate their 'product' and came up with this bizarre creation.
Labels: funny
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