Giraffe Casts a Long Shadow

Much of my online time of late has been spent at DPChallenge and I’ve been considering changing this blog to a photoblog.

Just thinking about it at the moment…

It seems as I continue to neglect this site… question is, will a photoblog fix that. Will this site give me anything I don’t get via my DPC portfolio, or my Picasa, Zoomr and Flickr accounts?

Need to think about this some more.

I stumble across one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a LONG time.

A bit of background first, so you don’t get any ideas about what it is I spend my time on the internet looking at.

I was inspecting the last few days of links over at HotLinks where I followed a link to a livecasting video of a Penny Arcade being illustrated - something that interested me as I

1. like Penny Arcade
2. have always been impressed by people that can draw well.

Anyway… while watching the video, the music backing it was a version of Sir-Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back“. I quite liked the version, and was amused by the style so I went and googled “Baby Got Back”. While working my way down the list I found “Baby Got Book” at a site I’d never heard of… “GodTube”? Despite my reservations I checked it out… and it’s hilarious.

“My minister tried to console me but that book that you’ve got makes me so holy”
“My bible study don’t want none unless you got book hun’”

Good to see religion and comedy together… best way to combat fundamentalists.

Just upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and thought I’d attempt a post to try out the install…

The image above is a drawing a friend did of the band I was was in back in 1995. We were called “The Frying Dutchman” and played at the Punters Club in the RMIT heats of the National Campus Band Competition. Hard to believe it’s been more than 12 years…

Anyway… came across the drawing when I was looking for my music books after I bought myself an acoustic guitar a few weeks ago… thought I’d share it.

One of the guys from Collective Apathy has asked me to post a rant on my site… seems that the Collective Apathy site is still down, denying Shovel of his outlet. So here is his rant, in full and unedited.

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: MCG: Fun Exclusion Zone?
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:25:38 +1100

While retarded monkeys, the daughters of bloated egomaniacs and phone text addicts all chimed in to tell us how to ‘reinvent the game of cricket’ this week, all in the name of somehow restoring its status in Australia, Cricket Australia and the MCC did their very best it seems, to ensure this would not be an easy task by once again employing their “zero tolerance” policy toward cricket fans actually trying to bring some personality back into the stands.

While 2 visiting kiwi’s were ejected for a blatantly obvious joke sign from 7-11 ’supporting Indians all over the world’, and others were ejected for standing on their seat to celebrate a century by one of Australia’s greatest opening batsmen, several makers of rollercoaster restraint harnesses were rubbing their hands with glee over the potential new contract to install their pull down overhead restraint systems to every seat inside the G.

Unconfirmed reports have been rife that the MCC has been drafting a request for tenders to install the restraint systems usually employed on rides that actually provide non-stop entertainment from the moment you get on. Despite cricket’s obvious lack of ‘non-stop entertainment’, the aging MCC board have apparently unanimously agreed it is the only way to save the purity of the game.

Personally, I’m all for the restraint system, because once the MCC has successfully alienated all potential visitors to “the greatest stadium on earth” (*cough*), and everybody just stays home and streaks across their own living room, they will be forced to make use of these restraint systems by turning the G into one giant “Gravitron”. Just imagine how exciting cricket will be to watch when you are spinning around and around and around. Each level could spin in opposite directions, so on those days when it’s not a sellout, you can mix it up, by moving between levels. Who needs the wave then?

And here’s the icing on the cake. each bay will be repainted black or red with a giant number painted under the seats. The MCC will then run an online betting roulette game. Punters can place bets on what bay the cricket ball will land in for every six hit in the match. Given the popularity of online gambling, this will make the MCC and Cricket Australia a BOMB.

So bring on the restraints i say. “It’s good for cricket!”

No, this is not going to be a rant about the state of public transport in Melbourne… If that is what you want Daniel Bowen might be your best bet.
No… this post is documenting my first commute to work via public transport. Yes, not since my uni days have i used public transport for anything other than a trip into the city for a sporting event, or family excursion.
So… here I am sitting on a tram trying to type this on my phone with a stylus… so i don’t know if i’ll finish this before frustration levels overcome my persistence.
Why am I commuting on public transport? After my accident on the Western Ring Road last Thursday, writting-off my Barina, we’re back to being a one car household.
Okay… my fingers are going numb from this stylus. I’ll have to complete this later.
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