Just a place for discussing my blog, should anyone feel so inclined. It's at http://ariaflame.blogspot.com/

And Brazil! Don't forget he played the lead in Brazil!

Never watched it. I know, I know, it's a classic, but I just never got into it. The little I saw I think I found depressing.

brazil was one of those movies, that after watching it, i just had to sit there and think for about 10 minutes. donnie darko had the same effect.
now i want to hunt down a dvd copy of brazil. if it exists.

Hi Elaine! Hope you're feeling better. I've added your blog to the list on my blog.

I've also added the Incredible Hulk's diary, which is a hoot.

Re Brazil - Blackstar in the UK has it for 14 quid; Ezydvd for $35. Their shop in Cannington might carry it. Much to Leece's chagrin, I got their last copy of R and G are Dead.

 "Don't suspect a friend - report him. Suspicion breeds confidence."

Thanks Pamela,
I'm feeling much better today thanks. A *good* night's sleep can do wonders.

And Cheshire noticed your linking, linked back as you probably saw :) Pamela, will link back to yours very shortly.

Edited by author 27-09-2003 05:52 PM
Checking whether Lily's inability to get here was just a temporary glitch.

Yup.
Works fine from here. I must admit my spare time fills with too many wierd little hobboes.

Such as computer repair in return for alcoholic beverages.

Cheshire - "Such as computer repair in return for alcoholic beverages." Hopefully the former comes before imbibing in the latter. 8)

I'll have to rely on Andrew for computer repair then, don't have any alcoholic beverages, well, unless you count angastori(sp?) bitters

We're on the slippery slide into Xmas. Bah. I saw fruit mince pies in Coles a couple a weeks ago and Chrissie decs last week.

At the beginning of the year I saw the bizarre combination of left over Xmas stuff on one side of the shopping aisle and Easter eggs on the other.

Have I already said Bah?

And I must needs consider leave and airfares... Hmm, is December 18 through January 5 enought time in Perth? Thinks...

At least we don't get inundated so much with halloween and Thanksgiving stuff over here.

Everquesting friend of mine was asked what he was doing for Thanksgiving by an American quester, who couldn't understand it when he was told that we don't actually celebrate that particular holiday in this country.

He was also asked by another if we had computers in Australia.

I'm glad I'm not an american as my birthday is around then and I'd have hated it to get swallowed in the hooha around thanksgiving.

I finally got my taxes done last Friday. It's not like they're complicated or anything, I just tend to forget to make the appointment with H and R Block.

$375 back this year, thanks to a lot of medical bills.

Mine was just sorting through the mess that was my study. Then wincing at how much the HECS bill was. I may pay it off entirely next year before the discount gets reduced.

In my day, education was free and they paid you to go to university! The princely sum of $43 a week, top whack! I lived quite well on that - $55pw rent split between 3 of us, paid off a motor cycle and could afford to smoke.

And I walked 10 miles through the snow to get to school, licorice squares for 4 for a cent, etc etc.

*sigh*
Yeah, both my boss and I think my bf managed to get through without paying anything the lucky sods...Of course I'm not too bad off as mine didn't increase when they brought in the even more hiked HECS levels.

That guy from The Aztecs is indeed a Shakesperean actor, btw. (Then again, which guest actor in Doctor Who isn't?)
   The Aztecs is my favourite William Hartnell story too!

Yep. I am indeed back. Safe and sound. Hurrah!

Sorting photos now.

Settlers of Cataan is great fun. Rob has it on his etcher sketcher Newton thingie. On Thursday night, he and Mark were comparing their hardware. Snigger.

As it turns out, what with one thing or another we didn't actually get around to a game. Ah well, next weekend maybe.

...whine...hot weather...whinge moan complain. It's not summer yet - it's NOT allowed to be this hot.

The jacarandas are late flowering this year.

Edited by author 10-11-2003 11:06 PM
Addicted to proof reading, eh?

Would it be right for a friend to take advantage of a friends addiction?

Simon the magazine editor

But of course, what are friends for?
Although it will be slightly different to the proofreading I have been doing - the aim with DP is to match the page exactly, not to correct grammar or spelling.
However I'm fairly sure I can do that stuff if necessary, or just check for typos.

So, where's our piece of cake? If they can send a man to the moon, you'd think they could invent something that downloads cake.

We all need replicators, obviously. ^_^

Yes but do they replicate the real thing or just a pale imitation?


Would it be an imitation Elaine's banana and pineapple cake?

Mmmmm, pineapple.....

Alien is easily the most horrific of the four, so it's actually clearer sailing from here on in. Aliens is much more of a military action piece, with some great characterization by Weaver's Ripley. Alien 3 is the best of the lot. Special editions out in about 2 weeks on DVD, too!

Hi Elaine. I've noticed the the blogger interface in IE is different to that in Opera and Netscape. Much as I hate to say it, it's more user friendly. Well, tis to me.

Re Russell Crowe - I've seen Gladiator (for Derek Jacobi) and I've seen bits of a Beautiful Mind (for Paul Bettany) and I saw the Sum of Us (for Jack Thompson) and I think that's all.

I wouldn't mind seeing Master and Commander as it has boats, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd and pirates.

Ok, they're not really pirates.

The first Ninja Turtles movie is great IMO. It's a wonderful co-production between Golden Harvest (HK company who produced all of Jackie Chan's films) and Jim Henson (who did all of the puppetry, and one of their main directors headed this film), and it feels like it too.
   For the second film they dumped the Henson Co. to cut costs, and by god it showed.

I didn't know you were a Press Gang fan too! What good taste you have :) Have you been downloading the episodes in divx format?

I am blogging too now: http://www.livejournal.com/users/splanky/

Could've sworn I said 'hello' to you on the PG mailing list.
Alas, I don't think my connection is up to downloading the divx format.

Probably :) I've got a memory like a metal thingy with lots of holes in it...

The DVD is not a rumour. Yay!!!

Get well soon, bloss. There is indeed a lurgi going around - two people are off from work today and it sounds like what you've got. Aches, head stuffed up and hurting.

Hi Elaine, Chris L said to give you a virtul elephant stamp for a) keeping your bugs at home and b) still working even though you are sick. He came back to work today and was sparky at the beginning of the day but had a headach at the end. Guess the place does that to you. Anyway hope you feel well enough to enjoy staying at home but not well enough to come to work untill it is too late on Friday.

Edited by author 07-01-2004 11:17 PM
Thanks Pamela and Chris, mine's not that bad Pamela, no aches so far, (My usual run of symptoms is sore throat so it's sore to swallow, followed by drippy nose and sneezes, which then leads into cough which hopefully *doesn't* last long. I'm just moving from drippy into cough at the moment.) But yes. Still no point in giving it to other people since I can do most of my work just as well from here.
Besides, it's spooky up where my office is, hardly anyone about (popped in on Monday morning to demonstrate my reasons for working from home)

The cold was probably me, Elaine - those sound like my symptoms too. Very sorry. Ooh - do you receive the Flypaper yet? Email me at greg@courtrecording.com.au and I'll add you to the mailing list.

Doubt it. What's the flypaper?

I seem to be managing to weather the cold without overdoing the sudafed though :)

Might have been something else though, Andrew's sister got sick too, lots of lurgi going around.

Another of the managers here went down with the dreaded lurgi yesterday - have you been to the Zoo recently Greg and spread your germs here too?

8-D

The Flypaper is news and humour and gossip (an e-zine) done by me every Wednesday. It features stuff about Perth people and whatnot (mostly thanks to Dave Cake and Lily and a few others) as well as Canberra people. If you want in, mail me at greg@courtrecording.com.au

See you at Genghis Con on Saturday morning, Elaine. I'm part of the expert panel (bwahahah!!) on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 at 10am.

Leece, Rob and I acknowledge that we are sad fans, having won the GC quiz night 3 years in a row.

*smug*

I'm surviving the heat - just. I wish I sweated nicely, like all those young things doing aerobics and other pointless wastes of time seem to be able to do.

Why do I just go red in the face with stringy hair?

*sigh*

Back in the late 80's I worked for the then Minister for Works and Services. One of the perks was a free trip to the Observatory, which fell into her portfolio, complete with a go on the big telescope and food and drinkies.

The staff used to have a photo of the Enterprise on their wall and they'd joke that they took the pic one night.

For some of my fellow workers it was their first look through a telescope and they were awestruck. Couldn't get the buggers off!

Going to see I Robot with Simon will be funny...

I hope you're giving guided tours of your bruises - they certainly sound interesting.

"And this is where I hit the bitumen. And this lovely yellow patch here is where the speedhump got me..."

Get better soon, eh?

Thanks Pamela,
It's more a case of, 'And this bit on my elbow is friction burn from my sweater-encased arm hitting the bitumen' and 'this bruise is apparently from hitting the handlebar when I went over'
I've no broken bones, and I'm seeing a dentist about my tooth today.

Nobody's posted here in over a month... :( It's quiet. Too quiet.

Hi Elaine! The last time I defrosted my freezer I found some tiny mountaineers and their Sherpa guides setting up a base camp before tackling the North side of the Great Lump of Ice.

Well, I am desperately curious to know where you got your Jonathon Creek DVDs. I just tried Ezy DVD.com - nothing.

And Impact is about to close...

Amazon.co.uk actually.
Damn this internet shopping, they show you all sorts of nice things.

Thanks... Season 1 & 2 are on their way now. I can't wait...!

*bounce*

Just cos :)

Hope your ribbal/chestal area is better soon. My dad broke 2 ribs coughing. Twice!

Ah, Jonathan Creek. Maybe when I'm rich. Too busy currently watching Press Gang S2, X Files S1, Boomtown S1, Firefly S1, ER S2 and Witch Hunter Robin (anime), so you can see I'm trapped under a bit of a DVD backlog.

Wasn't that costly actually. Not that I've done a huge deal of DVD buying to compare yet. About on a par with the press gang DVDs, (by the way, any tips on how to get the suckers out of those boxes without bending the DVD significantly?)

*grin*
:-)

Aha! It was YOU! I couldn't for the life of me figured out how I'd stumbled across that bloody review, and it was YOU all along!

I thought I was going insane, and given up!
:-)

Have you tried Pricenoia to compare DVD and CD prices at Amazon international stores? I love it and save some money importing stuff, really!

Hope it helps...

L.

Have a great birthday, blossom.

Those Press Gang covers drive me crazy!!!

I may regret asking, but whereabouts was the educational toy store? Same side of the road?

Out the back of Ikea, turn left, then turn left again. There's a sign, it's called Trover Learning. (It will be moving on 17th January but currently wherever it is...Anna or White/yellow pages might know exact address)

Having just done Jury Duty I'd say the 8:15am start is one of the worst things about it :)

I'm not very decisive either but you'll have 11 other people to help you work through things, which is good.

Hey,
 
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