The Ute. Utes are a very common vehicle in Australia. They were invented here to service the needs of our farmers. However they have become synonymous with any male (and often females) wishing to paint themselves as a “hard-working Aussie’. As such they have become popular with tradesmen and lazy dickheads.…
I looked closely at my work ID on Tuesday, and noticed that it expires in a bit over a week. The ID is current for 5 years, and as this was my first ID issued by the hospital I work at, it meant that I was coming up to my 5th year anniversary. The ID…
It had been only three or so months since I’d driven the road between Canberra and Melbourne, but the landscape looked so different. While previously the hills were an eye-piercing yellow, they were now a lush and rolling green. The rains had come and life had exploded which also had the unfortunate effect of increasing…
Rob in front of the ‘red zone’ …. Sometime in the 1980’s. The phone was hung up with a slam rather than a gentle hanging up. It was a 70’s era wall-phone and the give in the plastic immediately bounced the handset back out of the cradle. “Keating is a f***ing prat. He’s more…
It seems Microsoft have come up with something cool to do with a keyboard. This… cool thing.. is a merging of computer system controller and…. a keyboard. So someone down here in the Australian media has then seen it and which somehow led to them writing an article about alternative keyboards. The device itself is…
So… I’m back in Brisbane. I’ve been back a few days, and while this isn’t a bad thing I’m feeling a little sad about it. Quite sad. But not too sad. There seems to have been a steady flow of little surprises of late. The Typewriters. Let’s get down to business. Firstly, I managed to…
Steve and I woke up early again as we were eager to get into Sydney and through the traffic before it became difficult to drive on it’s consistently grid-locked roads. It was a cold morning in Scone, and my car was frosted from cold condensation that had dropped overnight as it hit the nearly 30…
My alarm went off at 3:30 am, and I immediately sprang to my feet (I’m a morning person, clearly). By 4:20 I was on the road to Steve Snow’s place, and by 5am I had his company with me while I drove Ruby the Exxy. It was a cold easter Saturday morning, and we would…
The Filthy Platen 