A wooden gate, a veranda flag, a discarded mattress — all have meaning in May Street, St Peters, Sydney. I took this photo on the way to a client’s office on Tuesday.
Three Thursday Thoughts
- Working from 0630 to 0200 is insane. Starting work again at 0730 is worse. But sometimes good clients deserve attention in a crisis.
- Other clients will always be annoying. They’re disorganised, want everything at the last minute, quibble about the cost and then take longer to pay than anyone else.
- Wynns Coonawarra Estate Shiraz 2005 is a very fine thing for dealing with 1 and 2 above. And they have one of the most elegant wine labels in the country.
Thank the gods, it’s a long weekend.
Roll on Easter!
Exhausted. Long day. Dying server repaired. Annoying client’s website almost finished. Still wide awake. I’m afraid that blue LEDs are dangerous. Billy Law (who I wrote about the other day) did a cool photo of ’Pong. He’s good. A friend’s blog posting about Acid-Base Karaoke disappoints: not a great night out, just some thing for teaching chemistry to kids. At least my video of The KLF arrived from England. I have got to start work on my song idea. And I haven’t even written anything about David Hicks’ sentence or the NSW Election. At least Hugh MacLeod is more bitter than I am.
Evolution disproved by peanut butter
Reason, apart from being one of the 3 Virian Virtues, is supposedly a God-given gift which separates us from the dumb animals. So why do people like Chuck Missler here, working “in God’s name”, abandon Reason so comprehensively when spouting shit like this in support of “Intelligent Design”?
Their mistake, of course, is to use the fallacious argument of personal ignorance: “I’m too stupid to figure out how evolution by natural selection might work, therefore it can’t be true.”
If the Nazis ever return to power, I vote for these people being first into the cattle trucks.
Oz soldiers design own recruitment ads
Nice touch: The latest round of Australian Army recruitment posters were designed by the grunts themselves. This one isn’t the winner, but it’s my personal fave.
Author John Birmingham provided the pointer, and amongst the various daft comments from his feral fan base there’s a gem, explaining how the ads reveal the current self-image of the typical Australian soldier.
The Great “Earth Hour” Con, says Crikey
The SMH claims electricity consumption dropped 10.2% during Earth Hour, but Crikey reckons it’s just “mass hysteria” — in a subscriber-only story which I’ll now summarise for you.