Category Archives: Musings

Stuck In The Middle With Adobe

Reading a web-bound PDF document last night, I was prompted – (most unusually) – whether I wanted to use Adobe PDF Viewer (Chrome Plugin) as my default PDF viewer either “Never” or “Always”. I was ready to click “Always” when I stopped and realised how silly this question sounded. If I want it to “never” […]

Pizza Hut: Beware The Battle Axe!

I got more than a little chuckle when I ordered a pizza online from Pizza Hut last night. Out of curiousity when finally confirming my order, I checked the list of possible delivery instructions, and I saw “Battle Axe Block” as a pre-existing canned “Special Delivery Instruction”. I didn’t select it – (I probably should […]

Who Shot Osama?

Shortly after seeing this tweet this morning, I wandered outside from the systems engineering course I am attending this week, to get a quick gasp of fresh air, and saw precisely the same thing: It seems that News Limited and Fairfax have a slight difference of opinion on Australia’s position in the current world order!

Collingwood Focused Pole Dancing

Whilst browsing through my regular news sources this morning, I stumbled on the following article in my hometown Ballarat Courier: Up the Poles for Charity Couldn’t help but notice the dancer at the bottom of the middle pole, wearing a Collingwood guernsey: Seems to be focussing on a really niche market, I would have thought? […]

More AFL Mathematics Fail

Hot on the heels of this piece of fail from the AFL website, comes the latest: Melbourne – 12-10-73? Surely they mean 12-10-82? Brisbane – 11-4-57? I’m sure that’s actually 11-4-70? Geelong – 7-12-47? Got a feeling that’s 7-12-54! Port Adelaide – 2-6-17? Might be 2-6-18 perhaps? Also, the scores aren’t “live”, they are quite […]

Untruths More Painful Than Reality

I’ve not exactly been myself this week. I do know exactly why that is, but I also can’t and won’t talk about why – at least not in a public forum. To all my family and friends, if I have been short with you in any way this week, I apologise. For our closest friends […]

Alexander Downer: Bitch

In what many are seeing as an extraordinary spray against regional Australia, former Liberal opposition leader and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has stated: “If SA Cricket Association members vote down the Adelaide Oval redevelopment project then it will consign our city to mediocrity and provincialism worthy of Geelong or Newcastle.” Not to be outdone, Geelong’s […]

Professional Commenter or Birdbrained?

Having a quick browse of the local news before sitting down for dinner this evening, I found myself chuckling at a comment posted against this story about a concept car for the upcoming new Mad Max sequel, Fury Road, found in the Geelong Advertiser. Says “Jo of Geelong”: “HHHHHHMMMMMM!!!!!!! if only Ford would use their […]

Footy Is Back – Maths Ability Is Not

Great to see that football is back for 2011, though some at the AFL have clearly started the new season without their mathematical abilities in tact: Surely Collingwood’s score of 12 goals and 2 behinds totals 74 points, and not 37? And surely Port Adelaide’s score of 3 goals and 5 behinds equals 23 points, […]

Shiny Happy Coca-Cola

Got a giggle out of this piece of marketing fluff on the side of a bottle of Diet Coke this morning. “Listen closely and hear the happiness being unleashed when you open this bottle.” Sounds like a piece of the bad marketing english you’d find over at Engrish.com or on a Hello Kitty product. Funny.