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| big, scary, accusing, saucer eyes | February 11, 2009 | I just stood on the cat. Accidentally of course.It was doing its usual “hiding under the kitchen mat in front of the sink like a great big tiger waiting for prey to walk past and then bat it with its paw” I was innocently cooking dinner and needed a cup of water so walked to […] |
| pointless business discourse strikes again | February 4, 2009 | I try not to post too much about my job but here’s something I just need to share. Apparently, rather than “prospective student inquiries” we have now have “sales requests”. We also provide “customer service” to our “stakeholders” – “key” or “otherwise”. (The things you learn when you go to a meeting that you had […] |
| pointless business discourse strikes again | I try not to post too much about my job but here’s something I just need to share. Apparently, rather than “prospective student inquiries” we have now have “sales requests”. We also provide “customer service” to our “stakeholders” – “key” or “otherwise”. (The things you learn when you go to a meeting that you had […] |
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| (“CY”) Borg express | February 2, 2009 | Imagine my surprise when reversing out of a carpark uptown (after getting a takeaway coffee) when I had to wait for a whopping great bus called “The Borg Express”. It’s a bus, with a huge friendly picture of Lawrence (Laurence?) Springborg on the side and covered in the LNP logo. I appreciate the effort in […] |
| ("CY") Borg express | Imagine my surprise when reversing out of a carpark uptown (after getting a takeaway coffee) when I had to wait for a whopping great bus called “The Borg Express”. It’s a bus, with a huge friendly picture of Lawrence (Laurence?) Springborg on the side and covered in the LNP logo. I appreciate the effort in […] |
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| I am not an alienista Thursday | January 29, 2009 | “Today is Thursday, the 29th of January and the weather is sunny and breezy”. Every morning in Year 2 we used to file into the school Assembly Hall for morning Assembly. The only thing I can remember about this is that we used to all chant the above statement. Well not exactly that statement, but […] |
| I am not an alienista Thursday | “Today is Thursday, the 29th of January and the weather is sunny and breezy”. Every morning in Year 2 we used to file into the school Assembly Hall for morning Assembly. The only thing I can remember about this is that we used to all chant the above statement. Well not exactly that statement, but […] |
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| Isn’t that a coat? | January 26, 2009 | During some chit chat with my mother I noted how The Australian is reporting this morning that Barack Obama is going to be allowed to keep his Blackberry, in a jazzed up Secret Service, cyberintelligent gathering version of the device. Mum: “Isn’t that a coat?” Me: That’s Burberry” This was nearly as good as last […] |
| Isn’t that a coat? | During some chit chat with my mother I noted how The Australian is reporting this morning that Barack Obama is going to be allowed to keep his Blackberry, in a jazzed up Secret Service, cyberintelligent gathering version of the device. Mum: “Isn’t that a coat?” Me: That’s Burberry” This was nearly as good as last […] |
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| computers for the terrified | January 21, 2009 | My mother was showing me her options for U3A classes. One in particular took my eye: “Computers for the Terrified”. I imagine this would be a prerequesite for Computer Basics (also offered). However, it doesn’t specify whether you must be terrified of computers, or whether terror of other objects, or even just a generalised terror […] |