Morris Iemma, you just don’t get it. So you don’t want two year olds drawn into a gender war? That’s fine, because the littlies at Tempe aren’t. As was pointed out in this article over at the SMH, if you had a think about where the centre was and who was using it you just [...]
Entries from May 2006
May 22, 2006
Sacrificial laptop
Some of you may have already seen this but I just had to mention it. From The Onion: Heroic computer dies to save world from Masters thesis.
“This fearless little machine saved me from unspoken hours of exasperated head-scratching and eyestrain, as well as years of agonizing self-doubt over my decision to devote my life to [...]
May 18, 2006
Ole, ole ole ole
I’ve picked my fantasy football team, I’ve got my wallchart, I’ve read the FourFourTwo guide to the World Cup and I’ve got my scarf. All I need to do now is wait.
It’s hard to share your excitement about sport with people who just don’t care. It’s also hard to keep telling people that there are [...]
May 7, 2006
Who at all the pies? Who cares?
So, Shane Warne’s been at it again. Yes, there’s texting. (Sidenote: I love the way that word has become part of our vocabulary). Yes, there are English tabloids. Yes, there are models. And you know what? It doesn’t bother me one bit.
I have taken a beating in the past from a lot of people who [...]
May 7, 2006
February baby = football star
My son was born in February, apparently a large proportion of professional footballers are born in the early months of the year, ergo…
The article is actually about the Expert Performance Movement:
a loose coalition of scholars trying to answer an important and seemingly primordial question: When someone is very good at a given thing, what is [...]
