Posts for March 2002
As Zuid said I have spent the weekend in Parkes, which is about 360km west of Sydney, with my family, my aunty and her husband, and another set of family friends. The aerobatics championship was a bit of a let down, none of the "good" people were there, so there wasn't much to look at. Kind of weird but that's the way it is. Still, saw a few planes doing some aerobatics so I guess it's not all bad.
I also went and saw "The Dish". That is, the CSIRO Radio Telescope which was the focus of the movie called "The Dish" which is an amusing movie. In fact, I was planning on getting it out on DVD later this afternoon and watching it again. The actual radio telescope is pretty huge and impressive, no one was playing cricket on it or anything though.
Anyway, I did visit one cafe, although I didn't have coffee as we just went there for lunch. It was called the "Paragon Cafe" (I assume it doesn't have a website) on the main street of Parkes. It didn't have any particularly "fly tail", in fact in general I didn't see any "fly tail" in the country at all. It must've all been in hiding for the weekend. Actually, no, there was one kind of nice chick at Parkes McDonalds where we had breakfast one day.
On the whole though, it was a nice weekend although we probably spent more time driving places than actually doing things, but that's the way things are in the country I suppose :)
Posted by Marcin on
31/03/2002 @ 20:27 +1000
Tags: holidays, cafe
I am looking after Marcin's parents' newish dog, Budrys.
Marcin posted a picture of him earlier but he hasn't uploaded the file again.
They gave us a bunch of cans of dog food, and explained, "He eats twice a day, one of these cans for each meal" .. It seemed reasonable. The can is a little more than my dog eats in a whole day, and their dog is about twice the size of my dog.
The apparent problem, however, is that their dog is 50% body and 50% mouth. I put down the food bowl with this can's worth of food in it, and it was empty in the time it took me to turn around and walk through the door.
Now I am concerned that I haven't fed him enough .. Though I'm sure I fed him the amount they specified. :( Maybe he's bulemic by proxy.
The reason I'm hosting the dog is that Marcin and his parents have gone to Parkes for the national aerobatics championships.
This, if nothing else, means you shouldn't hold your breath for the next instalment of cafe reviews .. Though he might have some from Parkes when he gets back. Maybe he can let us know if there's any fly tail in the outback.
Posted by Andrew on
29/03/2002 @ 01:22 +1100
I thought i'd give a quick review of a few of the cafes that I have visited recently. Not particularly in-depth, but you get what you pay for.
Continue reading Cafe Review: Part I
Posted by Marcin on
27/03/2002 @ 05:32 +1100
Tags: cafe, coffee
So anyway, if you cared you would have noticed Junkheap was down for awhile. We were getting "moved to a different server" at the fuckball webhosting place and then suddenly the webhosting place said "we're out of business now, fuck off". So now we're with a different hosting place, and so far everything seems really sweet. It's all automated, the site was up and running within 30 minutes of signing up and I just had to wait for the DNS to cut across but that seems to be fine now (at least from work).
I'm not going to post much now because I am technically at work, but I thoguht i'd test it and see if all the mailing and stuff is still working okay, which it seems to be. Hopefully now we can concentrate on bringing you entertainment instead of keeping the site going.
Update: Since now I can i've modified most of the non-admin parts of the site to use mod_rewrite and much nicer URLs. So the site should be much more indexable and stuff. Not that it's relevant to you, i'm just pretty pleased about it. Let me know if anything is broken.
Posted by Marcin on
21/03/2002 @ 17:02 +1100
I concur with Marcin; my funny.
Also, I fucken hate when movies have credits at the beginning of the film. Nobody cares who the fucking production assistant was, and if they DO care they'll hang around at the end to find out. Opening credits are for cunts and other dirty body parts.
I have been sending ICQ messages to Slashr for months, thinking "What a rude cunt this cunt is for being a cunt and not replying to my cunting messages." .. apparently he's been sitting there thinking "What a rude cunt this Zuid is for being a cunt and not replying to my cunting messages." .. Neither of us had worked out that we are mutually firewalled and not getting each others messages. :)
Has anybody else seen the nearly-goth chick on Totally Wild? She is hot.
Marcin and Vox and Jane and I went to see K-PAX tonight. It was good.
Posted by Andrew on
05/03/2002 @ 09:22 +1100
Actually, I didn't buy a grapefruit at all. I didn't do much else though and yet felt the need to post something, so it'll suffice.
I installed Windows XP on my laptop. I've just got to say, ClearType is fantastic! It makes all the text look so much nicer. Like OS X without all the hassle of having a Mac! :)
Zuid and I have determined that the girls at Starbucks are almost the perfect kind of woman. They can clean, wash dishes and make coffee. The only potential issue is their ability to cook. However that could be easily determined long before any commitment is made.
Actually, the girl next door can cook. Working in a kitchen she can clean and do dishes too. The only uncertainty is the ability to make coffee. I guess that's an easier skill to pick up than cooking too. Hmm, I'll keep pursuing that avenue I think.
Oh yeah, I also intended to tell you how funny Zuid is. He's not really that funny at all. No, wait. We were walking down the street and there was a dog barking - I said it must be a small dog, "All bark and no balls". Zuid said "Just like a tree!". Hahaha! His funny.
Posted by Marcin on
04/03/2002 @ 04:29 +1100
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