Sunny Breaks

I really don’t like gardening. Oh how I’ve tried and tried but 9 times out of ten it’s a pain in the arse. I feel like this isn’t good, because I’m supposed to have this connection to nature … and i do – I love to look at the birds out the window here – particularly now that it’s spring and honeyeater and {little stripey with yellow splotch on wing} bird hang around — but I can’t hack all the centipedes involved in gardening. I always seem to get the shit jobs like digging through the compost bins – they’re a complete horrorshow of sights, smells and feels. I had a task of tranferring dirt to two unused troughs today and I did it wrong. (However, I nailed my Enlightenment + food packaging + tourism promotion essay. Yay.)
Maybe I’ll get the hang of gardening one day. It’s in the ‘to be continued’ basket.

Lord of the Cheese for Tuesday is CheeseWorld. I went there once – some time ago now, and had a cheese sandwich and milkshake — certainly one way to be reminded of what gravity is.
There’s not really much there. They could be thinking a lot bigger. A phenomenal number of international tourist get bussed to near by ’12 Apostles’ each day. They could hook ‘em with a Cheese theme park — rides, slides — it wouldn’t be too hard to brainstorm up something when cheese is the base.

I don’t make a habit of regurging other people’s writing, but this is really nice non-fiction – from the ‘Unwrapping Use Value’ chapter of Susan Willis’ A Primer for Daily Life (1991) :

“Of all the attributes of mass-produced commodity packaging today, the most important is the use of plastic. The plastic cover acts as a barrier between the consumer and the product, while at the same time it offers up a naked view of the commodity to the consumer’s gaze. Sometimes the plastic covering is moulded to fit the contours of the commodity and acts like a transparent skin between the consumer’s hand and the object. Shaped and naked, but veiled and withheld, the display of commodities is sexualised. Plastic packaging defines a game of cache – cache where sexual desire triggers both masculine and feminine fantasies. Strip-tease or veiled phallus – packaging conflates a want for a particular object with a sexualised form of desire.”

“Packaging prolongs the process of coming into possesion of the commodity. A buyer selects a particular item, pays for it, but does not fully possess it until he or she pulls open it’s plastic case or cardboard box. Possession delivers a commodity’s use value into the hands of the consumer. Packaging acts to seperate the consumer from the realisation of the use value and heightens his or her anticipation of having and using a particular commodity. Packaging may stimulate associations with gift-wrapped Christmas and birthday presents. However, plastic commodity packaging reveals what gift-wrapping hides. The anticipation we associate with the gift-wrapped present is for the unknown object. In anticipating a plastic-wrapped commodity, we imagine the experience of its use since its identidy is already revealed.”

“In all our experience of consumption, we are little different from the child who convinces his mother to buy the latest Ghostbuster action figure. From the moment he picks the packaged toy off the shelf, to the moment he passes through the checkout, he will trace the contours of the package with his hands, attempt to scrutinise the toy’s detail with his eyes, and lose himself in imagining how it will finally feel to push the lever that makes the Ghostbuster’s hair stand on end and eyes pop out with fright at the delightfully cold and gelatinous slime – also included in the package, but not yet available to the touch.”

My question is, what does this say about those people who collect toys but then don’t open them?

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How many mr.whippy vans are there in this state, this country?
I think it’s one of those things about people that we will always be into wanting to race things. Why? To see which thing comes first. And it’s not necesarily a masculine thing either — or it is a masculine thing, and there are plenty of masculine women around too. Maybe masculine’s the wrong word — yang as opposed to yin. This is entirely another topic.

I want to see Whippy van races. National championships – you name it.
Or maybe a movie about the cut-throat world of professional Whippy-dom — wrangles for the best turf between main playas, and such.

comments:
Jon
url: the spork
date: 2003-09-29-22-50
Mr. Whippy hmm I wanna see the Soprano’s version as Luigy Whippy and da Boys lay waste to the New Zealand Icecream crowd for invading their turf. And we thought they called him Mr. Whippy coz of the ice cream .. naaaaah mate.

I ditched blogrolling because it was sub-par. Maybe it’s not it’s fault or maybe it is for relying on weblogs.com – either way only half of weblogs on my list that were updating were being displayed as updated — and particularly all those here and generally based anywhere a long way from where the weblogs.com servers are. I don’t really know how it works. But a link-list isn’t that hard to edit myself.

Have used Mozilla 1.4 for a week and a half and it’s pretty good. Bits where I like Opera better: managing (ie. adding + moving around) bookmarks, jumping to a google search, Opera can be set to never open another window (just open in tabs). Bits where I like Mozilla better: pages just seem to ‘look’ a bit better (maybe Moz makes better use of available typefaces), it’s just a touch less crashy and more flexible with html.

I’ve been using the Mozilla mail program too, and that’s fully alright. Am a bit surprised more hasn’t been done with the Sidebar bit of Moz — I thought I could open AIM (and therefore the Linux mexican non-unionised equivalent, Gaim) in it. So there’s not that much that the sidebar is useful for.
Any speed difference between Moz and Opera is unoticable. If I open up someone’s weblog comments pop-upp in Moz, and there’s a link there I want to click on, I don’t get the option to open it in another tab, just another window.
I used to be 100% dead against the way browsers (like IE and Moz) would open new windows. It doesn’t bother me as much anymore but I still don’t think it’s the best way to do things.

Anyway… that football thing is on… “Hooray for football!”… “You’re all Winners!” .. and so one and so forth.

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Nothing says ‘Welcome to my house in Australia!’ better than a couple of lions at your front gate … except perhaps a large stuffed lion in the lounge room.
These two fine specimens were both part of matching sets seen while walking around and about.

Fiefdom/feifdom? My kingdom for the right spelling of fiefdom. And while looking for it in the dictionary I came across
Felch: verb (i) Colloquial to perform analingus. Also Velch – from homosexual slang of the late 60s, originally a jocular term: origin unknown.
It’s all in the dictionary son – it’s the naughty-word connoisseurs dictionary.

What I’m listening to: feed of amon tobin gig in vancouver — it’s breakCity, baby — I just wish my bandwidth were a little fatter so it’d come through in more than 11Kbps.

Observation: you know you’re dealing with an extrovert when they’re talking to someone on the phone – telling a story, and they’re directing it at you too, as you stand there in front of them.

comments:
Jon
url: the spork
date: 2003-09-26-21-27
Hmm listening to Amon Tobin now .. very good ..

name: tony
url: the horse’s mouth
date: 2003-09-27-00-16
If it were possible, would lions have statues of humans at the entrance to their dens?

name: Jon
url: the spork
date: 2003-09-27-09-08
Btw this entry 100 .. and tobin is stick rocking my ear passages =). Tony – I recon if I was a lion I’d consider it .. but it’s have to be someone cool .. like hmm .. dunno ..

name: yak sox
date: 2003-09-27-09-25
…George Clooney? hehe – I’m coming around to seeing your point of view, except I reckon he’s cool in a hammed-up Bruce Willis kind of way.
I think it’d be too easy to smash the heads off little stone humans with a cricket or baseball bat. Kookaburras works for me.

I might have to do something with my remaining uni bandwidth re: that Real stream.

Always feel better about having a buzz around the internet when it’s after doing what I’ve suppose to have done, as is the case right now. Was having some serious freak-out moments yesterday about workload.

More on the Australian ethos: this story is fantastic because it includes (not one but) two key elements of the Australian Character — kleptomania, and having a stuffed lion in your lounge room.

From the article, “at times he used museum vehicles to remove specimens and displayed in his home a large stuffed lion that was a museum heritage item first exhibited in 1911”.
I also think it’s great because he was the museum Bug Extermination Guy. Just like in the movie version of Naked Lunch.
And because no serious harm was done and everything was recovered (thanks to the mass media) we can all have a bit of a laugh at this guy and his mental problems.

The October LinuxFormat mag. has FreeBSD 4.8 on it – pretty neat. Never had a go at BSD, but will in approx. 7 weeks.

Via C.O.R.E. (which stands for L.ots O.f F.un S.tuff – but with a silent L, O, F and S) … is!
today’s cheese link for the day – here.

comments:
Jon
url: the spork
date: 2003-09-25-07-35
Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers, Mushroom, Mushroom, Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers,Badgers, Mushroom, Mushroom – cheesey indeed =). Still it messes with my mind so it’s cool =)

Jon
url: the spork
date: 2003-09-25-07-38
Oh I noticed this wasn’t that one – but still it’s a classic – he’s also the guy repsonsible for Weebl & Bob – http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/ which is only slightly more mainstream. =)

yak sox
date: 2003-09-25-17-00
Those two are by far the best – the badgers one and the ‘I’ve seen things with my eyes’ one.

Rissa
date: 2003-12-11-06-41
Carrots handbags cheese toilets Russians planets hamsters weddings poets Stalin Kuala Lumpur!! pygmies budgies Kuala Lumpur!! :’-D

liver mn
email: shardlowATfsworld.co.uk
date: 2003-12-11-23-37
why dont you show animated porn like the other carrot and cheese sites on google

Went to the dentist last friday – first time in 3 or 4 years. There was a televison wedged in the ceiling. Caught an episode of PlaySchool, the sound was off but I could could still tell what was happening.
The good news is that there is no hole in my tooth where I suspected there might be. The bad news is that it cost 90 bucks to find this out. And she wants me to come back again – she said it was to get some crap out that’s built up under my gums, but I reckon she just likes me.

A brief update on being a smartarse at school – ‘old skool’ was marked as a spelling error — but I got 80% anyway. Something in comments about being ‘a bit too informed’.
In psychology they makes us use a style guide – do this – don’t do that – as to how reports are supposed to be written. In it it says not to kick it off with cliches like “ever since humanity has come down from the trees, psychologists have been interested in…” Guess how i started it off? Hehe – perhaps it was stoopid – we’ll see.

Either way, I’ve got 2 essays totalling 6500words (and some reading for that) and 2 exams squished into the remaining six weeks then I can get back to the important things like launching my singing career with a kareoke version of that McDonalds, kentucky fried chicken or the Pizza Hut song —in German.

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Charles
url: disinfotainment
date: 2003-09-24-15-43
Do not neglect those teeth, you’ll regret it. I didn’t have health insurance (or money) for about 5 years, I let the dental care slip, I had to spend $1500US just to get that crap out from below the gumline, and man was that painful. Go back and have it taken care of NOW before it gets worse.
If you have bad teeth, you are always miserable. And bad teeth are now blamed for heart disease, vascular disease, etc.

name: yak sox
date: 2003-09-24-16-03
Uh-huh. Actually they’re fairly good considering i just came off an 11 year smoking habit.

I was brushing too hard thus pushing down the gums, allowing the crap in.

I only whinge because while decent healthcare costs almost nothing for poor folk like me, dentalcare does cost.
I s’pose I should be grateful that we even get the healthcare — compared to the situation there in the US.

name: Quanta
url: please don’t eat me!
date: 2003-09-24-17-41
Ohhh – Someone takes dental hygiene very serious. Obviously someone isn’t British.

name: yak sox
date: 2003-09-24-21-33
Are you saying the british all have bad teeth? 8)

name: Charles
url: disinfotainment
date: 2003-09-25-04-25
Yeah, I get lectured continually by my dentist about brushing too hard. Be sure to use a soft brush. And don’t forget to floss! I hate to floss, but you gotta do it.

One fine morning while wandering around down near the Jordan river jesus came upon a tree. It was christmas holidays so there was no school and jesus, who was 14 at the time, was bored and I mean really bored. He had his tomahawk with him and decided it would be some pretty fuckin’ good fun to chop the tree down. He dragged it back home with the intention of using it to whittle with since whittling was something of a hobby of his. Later on in life this tendency would transmogrify and blow out to a full-time penchant for carpentry—house frames, staircases – that sort of thing.

When jesus entered the living room with the pine tree in tow his whole extended family stared at him slack-jawed and dumb-founded.
“Jesus! That was one of only 7 trees… in the country which this is.”
Jesus looked on at his father but said nothing.
“Oh but wait, you’re jesus— so anything you do is okay.”
{BEAT}
Everyone laughed and then they ate pudding.

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Jon
url: the spork
date: 2003-09-22-08-46
That actually looks quite funky.

yak sox
ip: 203.58.6.10
date: 2003-09-22-10-04
Ah, I just wanted to keep that column moving.

Last time I was at NQR i picked these up

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<%image(20040112-peaz.jpg|75|109|pass the peaz)%> – you’ll just have to trust me about what it says on the packages because the scans didn’t come out too well due to crappiness.

They’re in the salty snax category — the green one is called PEAZ. The idea is that they are made out of peas instead of potato, with the flavouring being ‘monterey jack cheese’.

Will the pea usurp the potato as the number one vegetable vehicle in the salty snack market? Only time will tell… or maybe time already has told and that’s why they’re at NQR.
I would’ve thought that behind brussel sprouts and cabbage (maybe cauliflower) peas were one of thee most disliked vegetables. And I don’t know who Monterey Jack is – sounds kinda Beat.

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oldtimey
url: soup de jour of the day
date: 2003-09-22-14-58
Aren’t peas a Japanese kind of snack, too, wasabi peas or something? I swear I’ve had them before and they were actually good.

Horse flavoring: hee hee hee!

And though I tell my version of Opera every day that I love it, I put the same version on at work, same OS — it’s buggy as all hell — back button doesn’t work.

Last comment (condensed all into one long one, sorry): the practicality of blogrolling won out, for me, but I slightly ‘hid’ mine so people wouldn’t be forced to see it all the time. Also, sometimes it doesn’t update properly (?) and I don’t understand why . .

yak sox
date: 2003-09-22-19-55
Yeah – I know there’s that kind of spicy cracker mix that has dried peas in it – that’s nice.

I noticed two of the compter mags here have stuck different versions of Linux that can run from a CD on thier covers currently. Aust. Personal Comp. has LindowsCD 4 and aust. PC World has Knoppix 3.2. The idea is that the whole thing runs from the CD. You just whack it in the drive, boot up and the operating system runs the same way it would if it was on the hard disk, but it’s not — so once the CD is taken out again, it’s back to Windows (or whatever is normal) liike nothing ever happened.
A good thing if you’re left slightly dizzy by the thought of accidentally obliterating everything you’ve ever created or collected onto you computer.

Files created while running either of the CD OSes can be saved onto the hard disk in a small folder in Windows. Supposedly Lindows should have more drivers for bits of hardware in your machine, but in almost all versions of Linux this is much, much less of a problem these days. Any machine bought or put together with bits made in the last 4-5 years should be fine with either of the two CD OSes.

Knoppix is a dedicated ‘system on a CD’ project, while the Lindows CD is kind of like a promo-tool with the intention of impressing you enough to buy the full system. A promo-tool, but very much a value-added one — like the chemist show-bag.
There’s something like 800 programs in Knoppix, LindowCD has a smattering of the essentials with the idea being that you cough up some cash to join the ‘click n’ run’ warehouse.

If I was going to get one of these I’d go for Knoppix.

comments:
Quanta
url: please don’t eat me!
date: 2003-09-21-19-25
APC has a free complete version of Linux a few months ago, I forget what type it was, but it was interesting to toy with the idea of actually using a non-ms OS. Luckily I stopped myself before actually going through with the install.

;)

(p.s I think it might have been Debian-something.)

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I went, I saw, I took a couple of fotos. But didn’t take appropriate headware so didn’t stay long on account of the sun. It’s pretty easy to say something’s reason for existing is ‘in the name of peace’ (“yeah, we’re having a BBQ for World Peace. You wanna come?”) I don’t mean to rag on it, I suppose it was peacable enough. Not really boppin’ enough to mash to though. Looked like the guy on the stage was using a white iBook.

But earlier someone threw themself in front of / fell in front of the train at Werribee (or Hopper’s Crossing … one of those loser suburbs) which left me at geelong station, waiting for an hour longer than expected. How’s that for crappy luck!? There were busses substituting — they were full of collingwood supporters. They were still sober but that didn’t make them any less repulsive.
And then on the train back got stuck next to a gaggle of geelong valley girls — “My Dad bought my Mum a new BMW 4WD for her birthday.” “What about the 4WD Honda?” “I don’t know.”
Maybe my tollerance is down today. I had to move to another carriage.

I reckon four-wheel drives, or SUVs as the north americans like to call them, are they biggest con-job of the last decade and a half – the way people are led to believe they need that kind of vehicle when they virtually never get near a dirt road, let along a situation that needs 4WD.
It was inevitable that advances in technology would lead to smaller more efficient engines, which apparently became more necessary after 1974, but from what I can tell, people might as well still be driving hulking huge cadillacs because they’re basically the same as 4WDs in the way they use resources. The whole thing reminds me of the age of the dinosaurs.

Golly I just got de je vu.

My guess is that the server was getting a lashing last night and that’s why the site wasn’t here. In the literal sense – it’s located in Maryland and supposedly it’s raining there.

Don’t forget Earthdance — i’ll be there with bells on doing the mash p’tater this arvo — at the melbourne one at least. They’re in a few other places in australia too.

Briefly – check out this bit at CORE about reflectoporn — like an mutation of ‘the mirror project’ with commerce thrown in.

comments:
Jon
url: the spork
date: 2003-09-20-12-57
Yeah had you M.I.A. the entire day – I was nearly getting withdrawal symptoms ..=) ..

yak sox
date: 2003-09-20-17-31
aww, nice to know I’d be missed. :^)

Hehe – I couldn’t resist that – it was the title of a spam. The spam situation here has improved markedly lately. The TPG isp put some filters on and now I just get one update link email from them each 3 days. I click through to their postmaster setup and take a quick look to see if there’s any real ones.

I’ve been watching how blogrolling works on please don’t eat me! and myrr purrs and am giving it a go. I think it could save me some time by me not clicking through to weblogs that haven’t been updated.

At last! Those three.com.au people have made a mobile phone that can be held at arm’s length and yelled at, instead of wedged against the ear. The fact that it has a small tv screen is an unasked for bonus. They let a good opportunity go begging by not tying in Original series style communicators in the ad. Some pointy ears at least!

comments:
Myrr
url: myrr purrs
date: 2003-09-20-10-40
about the blogrolling thing – it’s ok up to a point, but sometimes people update but the roll doesn’t tell you, so in the end you have to click through everyone anyway … I have thought about going back to doing it the old way but I’m too lazy.

yak sox
date: 2003-09-20-17-28
Yeah I was wondering about that – i thought maybe I hadn’t configured it right.
Ah well, worth giving a try for a little while.

- Small machines are rebelling against me. The electric shaver (a Remington = “I was so unimpressed with it I badmouthed the company”) died after 2 years(?) … memory hazy. And the answering machine sounds really really bad. I’m a fool because I can’t find the receipt. Let it be known that from here on in I dilligently file receipts, warranties and all those wonderful little manuals that say things like, “For best result, do not insert in ear”. And as a digital note to self – today I bought phillishave mechanism from Owen Crowl (hehe ‘crowl’) so warranty lasts for two years hence and the receipt is buried 34 paces south of the giant-head rock on Monster Island.

- What I’m digging food-wise – sourdough rye bread from these people. At first I thought I’d mistakenly bought a bag of cardboard, but the texture’s pretty interesting.
Musically – little bits of DJ Food scraped off the carpet. Very groovy website, but then I always say that about Flash-driven sites that actually work for me. But seriously — a couple of screens in there’s one of those little music loops that you sometimes come across — it’s got some flute in it, sounds a bit like muzak -> very nice! I could listen to that all day.
Dj Food isn’t actually a person, but a collective of artists ie. food for DJs.

- I’ve decided to give Mozilla a proper run and am going to use it for a whole week as main browser. Usually I only use it to write these entries in. I can’t remember the last time it crashed and there’s a couple of weblogs that don’t show up properly in Opera, but do in Moz.

- I wasn’t intending to mention tv two posts in a row, but there was this doco, the cutting edge – ‘Japan’s Missing Teenagers’ last night on sbs, which was about hikikomori which blew me away. There’s 1.1 million guys in their late teens/early twenties holed up in their rooms for years because society is freaking them out.

In medieval times people who did that were labelled anchorites and were admired for their religious hardcoreness. Funny how things change — but then, the anchorites didn’t have PlayStation 2.

- I probably should’ve said ‘that spot would be booked up til 2028 if they decide to show the whole thing— of Dr.Who. I think it went for decades. I really don’t know. But I can see how it could’ve been stretched out that long – the episode last night literally had two scenes in 25 minutes. The quality of the film reminds me of the video clip for the Stones song, 2000 light years from home.

comments:
Quanta
url: please don’t eat me!
date: 2003-09-18-19-32
Yeah, but with head? According to my desktop background thingy, their are a few.

yak sox
date: 2003-09-18-20-50
Erm, vot part off de entry iss ziss comment referring to, Q? :^)

yak sox
date: 2003-09-18-20-56
Oh wait, now I get it. Golly I’m slow sometimes.:-P

Quanta
date: 2003-09-20-13-00
Oh wait – I thought you said easter island.

Lets agree that we are both stupid.

Channel ten lost ys at 7pm a couple of months ago when the plunged into big brother. Where could I go? That half hour can be pretty barren. I ended up watching sbs world sport. I’m not much interested in soccer or swimming or netball or grid-iron or rugby or anything else where there’s no chance of something exploding into flame. But I do really like the fact that they cover those sports. According to the commercial stations there’s nothing else except AFL lately. Not that I’ve been meaning to dis football — what I forgot to say is that as a sporting pursuit I find it infinitely more admirable than cricket, which is full of crones and thugs. At least those footy blokes exercise.
If there was ever something that needed some heavy duty spin-doctoring, it’s international cricket.

Anyway, I mean to say – Les Murray was back on World Sports tonight and I really get my jollies from hearing him pronounce “Juan Pablo Montoya” — which he did. Such Gusto!

Oi what’s this? a review of this site as being, “nothing sepical”…? Well Khan, if that is your real name, when I catch up with you you’ll be on the pinchy end of a nipple twist so severe that you’ll be well regretting that poorly spelled judgement. And then I’ll maroon you on a desert planet with no tea-bags.

I know that the North Korean head-honcho is evil and everything, but I’m never failed to be impressed with the visual qualities of those shots of their huge precessions. The marching soldiers in particular – how long must they practice to get that so spot on!? Amazing. I think the trick is in the little hoppity bit on the step forward.

I’ve done no homework this weekend and am totally okay with that. I have been sleeping a bit and watching tv – again – okay. Most of the time I’m too harsh on me for not doing what I’m ‘supposed’ to be doing. Sometimes it’s hard being human because where is the midline? What tells me that I’m operating as expected?
It’s like the end of winter shake out. I’m more inclined to go with the countries/cultures that peg the 21st of the month as being the change from one season to the next.

I watched From Dusk Till Dawn on vid. I’m slowly changing my opinion on George Clooney, who in the past I’ve thought of as being a sap. It’s not even so much that I think his acting is good in this (or Brother Where Art Thou?) but the fact that the people who put those movies together thought him okay enough to cast.

My apologies to people visiting here using Opera for Windows – your visits are like a needle stabbing me in the eye because I know the page looks messed up, and I am yet to do anything about it. I will have to look into that. It’s a tad frustrating that Opera doesn’t behave the same in ‘doze as Linux — Mozilla does.

comments:
Quanta
url: please don’t eat me!
date: 2003-09-15-17-37
No tea bags – how harsh.

Don’t worry Yaxxy, we all stil love you no matter what this so called Khan says.

Group hug for Yax!

yak sox
date: 2003-09-15-22-33
Ah fanks Ben :)
It’s all in good fun.

Jon
url:the spork
date: 2003-09-16-10-02
Actually I rather like George – He’s got a good level of coolness – I recon when he gets old he won’t have quite the same effect as Shhhhawn Connery but similar.

But primarily I like him because his birthday is on the same day as mine (though he’s a few years older) .. =)

yak sox
date: 2003-09-16-17-36
Hhmm.. I put a bit of distance between Clooney and Connery…
But I think I’ve said before that I can’t tell the difference between a good actor and a bad actor —- it was more the things george was in:
-like that thing with nicole kiddman
-and ER
-and that military industrial complex propaganda film – “three Kings”
-and that The Perfect Storm was pretty lame too.

I labelled him dodgey by association. But if the Coen Brothers and Tarantino will hire him ….

oldtimey
email:
url: soup de jour of the day
date: 2003-09-17-23-32
A needle stabbing you in the eye? . . now I feel bad! No, seriously, the Opera/Win combination works fine on your site as far as I can tell (when I’ve come across unreadable sites I just don’t bother revisiting them). I’m surprised Opera even works in Windows . .

yak sox
date: 2003-09-17-23-50
No kiddin’ – there must be something wrong with the version of Oppy I use then.
That’s good to know that this thing doesn’t look messed up. :)