I actually remember this video from when the song first came out, it was hugely popular in Australia. I still find it funny, watch it to the end :)
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May 07, 2009
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Mar 17, 2009
Spoils from the IT show
I had 2 external hard disk drives but one was a 40G IDE HD and I didn't like that both of them were in different cases, made my computer table look really messy... ok, ok... made it look messier than it normally is.
I trawled the IT show on Thursday & Friday during lunch and after work, I knew I needed another 500G SATAII external hard disk so I could back up the other 500G external HD I had and toss the 40G IDE HD. However I didn't want yet another case.
Finally I found this dual bay HD enclosure. It's the same size as a single external HD but just twice as thick so it doesn't take up much more space. Nice and sleek with a big fan to keep it cool but best of all, it was only $29.90. Snagged a Seagate internal HD for $93 so that's my shopping for the weekend.
On Saturday, I found out another thing that I should never do while on flu meds is try and find the jumpers to disable the RAID setting. I was looking and looking for the entire morning before it finally occured to me to take a look under stronger light. Either that or my eyesight is going... but I'm blaming the flu meds.
Mar 15, 2009
Good grief...
No online shopping for me until this comes down :(
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Jan 30, 2009
Airline food
Apparently this is a real letter received by the Virgin Airlines customer service team. I've had some pretty bad airline meals but thankfully nothing as bad as this one.
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Dear Mr Branson
REF: Mumbai to Heathrow 7th December 2008
I love the Virgin brand, I really do which is why I continue to use it despite a series of unfortunate incidents over the last few years. This latest incident takes the biscuit.
Ironically, by the end of the flight I would have gladly paid over a thousand rupees for a single biscuit following the culinary journey of hell I was subjected to at the hands of your corporation.
Look at this Richard. Just look at it:
I imagine the same questions are racing through your brilliant mind as were racing through mine on that fateful day. What is this? Why have I been given it? What have I done to deserve this? And, which one is the starter, which one is the desert?
You don't get to a position like yours Richard with anything less than a generous sprinkling of observational power so I KNOW you will have spotted the tomato next to the two yellow shafts of sponge on the left. Yes, it's next to the sponge shaft without the green paste. That's got to be the clue hasn't it. No sane person would serve a desert with a tomato would they. Well answer me this Richard, what sort of animal would serve a desert with peas in:
I know it looks like a baaji but it's in custard Richard, custard. It must be the pudding. Well you'll be fascinated to hear that it wasn't custard. It was a sour gel with a clear oil on top. It's only redeeming feature was that it managed to be so alien to my palette that it took away the taste of the curry emanating from our miscellaneous central cuboid of beige matter. Perhaps the meal on the left might be the desert after all.
Anyway, this is all irrelevant at the moment. I was raised strictly but neatly by my parents and if they knew I had started desert before the main course, a sponge shaft would be the least of my worries. So lets peel back the tin-foil on the main dish and see what's on offer.
I'll try and explain how this felt. Imagine being a twelve year old boy Richard. Now imagine it's Christmas morning and you're sat their with your final present to open. It's a big one, and you know what it is. It's that Goodmans stereo you picked out the catalogue and wrote to Santa about.
Only you open the present and it's not in there. It's your hamster Richard. It's your hamster in the box and it's not breathing. That's how I felt when I peeled back the foil and saw this:
Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking it's more of that Baaji custard. I admit I thought the same too, but no. It's mustard Richard. MUSTARD. More mustard than any man could consume in a month. On the left we have a piece of broccoli and some peppers in a brown glue-like oil and on the right the chef had prepared some mashed potato. The potato masher had obviously broken and so it was decided the next best thing would be to pass the potatoes through the digestive tract of a bird.
Once it was regurgitated it was clearly then blended and mixed with a bit of mustard. Everybody likes a bit of mustard Richard.
By now I was actually starting to feel a little hypoglycaemic. I needed a
sugar hit. Luckily there was a small cookie provided. It had caught my eye
earlier due to it's baffling presentation:
It appears to be in an evidence bag from the scene of a crime. A CRIME AGAINST BLOODY COOKING. Either that or some sort of back-street underground cookie, purchased off a gun-toting maniac high on his own supply of yeast. You certainly wouldn't want to be caught carrying one of these through customs. Imagine biting into a piece of brass Richard. That would be softer on the teeth than the specimen above.
I was exhausted. All I wanted to do was relax but obviously I had to sit with that mess in front of me for half an hour. I swear the sponge shafts moved at one point.
Once cleared, I decided to relax with a bit of your world-famous onboard entertainment. I switched it on:
I apologise for the quality of the photo, it's just it was
incredibly hard to capture Boris Johnson's face through the flickering white
lines running up and down the screen. Perhaps it would be better on another
channel:
Is that Ray Liotta? A question I found myself asking over and over again throughout the gruelling half-hour I attempted to watch the film like this. After that I switched off. I'd had enough. I was the hungriest I'd been in my adult life and I had a splitting headache from squinting at a crackling screen.
My only option was to simply stare at the seat in front and wait for either
food, or sleep. Neither came for an incredibly long time. But when it did it
surpassed my wildest expectations:
Yes! It's another crime-scene cookie. Only this time you dunk it in the white stuff.
Richard.... What is that white stuff? It looked like it was going to be yoghurt. It finally dawned on me what it was after staring at it. It was a mixture between the Baaji custard and the Mustard sauce. It reminded me of my first week at university. I had overheard that you could make a drink by mixing vodka and refreshers. I lied to my new friends and told them I'd done it loads of times. When I attempted to make the drink in a big bowl it formed a cheese Richard, a cheese. That cheese looked a lot like your baaji-mustard.
So that was that Richard. I didn't eat a bloody thing. My only question is: How can you live like this? I can't imagine what dinner round your house is like, it must be like something out of a nature documentary.
As I said at the start I love your brand, I really do. It's just a shame such a simple thing could bring it crashing to it's knees and begging for sustenance.
Yours Sincererly...
Dec 28, 2008
Post Christmas haul
Wow, Vox is finally working...
I finally succumbed to those shoes from Tangs during their post Christmas sale
As you can see, I'm still not over my red patent leather craze. However, sanity prevailed and I got these ballet flats in black instead (even though it was also available in a gorgeous candy red). They have a cute diamante buckle on the strap. Finally I have a pair of flat shoes for work.
I finally bought my phone but learnt a lesson to never, ever buy a phone (especially an expensive one) under the influence of flu medication. The phone looked fine at the shop but when I got home, I realized that in camera mode, there is a stuck red pixel just to the left of the screen. Arrgh!!! Don't know how I could have possibly missed it but I'm blaming the meds.
I thought it was the camera lens but the pictures were fine, showing no sign of the stuck pixel so possibly it's a software bug. Decided it didn't bother me so much that I would take it back to the service centre so I'll just live with it. Fortunately, no sign of any such problem on any other phone function.
Ok, after all this I don't think I can afford any shopping until the end of next year. Happy New Year everyone!
Oct 21, 2008
New shoes
At Saresha's request....
Snagged the last pair at Tangs + Co, $375 discounted to $113. Been trying to break them in at the office yesterday and today... why is patent leather so hard to break in? I like the block heels, very different from my usual heels.
I really, really wanted a gorgeous pair that wasn't on sale but sanity prevailed... so far.
I really, really wanted a gorgeous pair that wasn't on sale but sanity prevailed... so far.
