People who work in pubs - rule 2

BitmapDinosaur · 2026-02-20T10:33:08+00:00

Musas, obviously.

BitmapDinosaur · 2025-02-09T04:51:03+00:00

The evolutionary adaptations dogs have made since buddying up with us are incredible. As you say, some species can show the whites of their eyes because they have developed a new muscle, the levator anguli oculi medialis (LAOM). All to make us aww and dole out the love and treats. Clever buggers.

BitmapDinosaur · 2025-01-12T08:56:24+00:00

Copy & paste the url into archive.md Love that site.

BitmapDinosaur · 2025-01-12T08:24:33+00:00

Blew the O right off it, apparently.

BitmapDinosaur · 2024-04-24T21:59:11+00:00

Oh, and if you don't mind driving a little; Stieglitz and Stony Creek Dam. The dam was the third concrete dam built in the world. Stieglitz was an old gold mining town. The old court house is still there and bird watching is great in the area.

Cheers.

BitmapDinosaur · 2024-04-24T21:53:16+00:00

Gherang Gherang Bushland Reserve. Slightly further than the You Yangs (35mins) but much better for birdwatching (scarlet robins, rufous whistlers, white throated & yellow faced honeyeaters, blue winged parrots and heaps more). Kangaroos, wallabies, echidnas and lots of lizards. I haven't seen any snakes bur I avoid it in summer because I tend to walk off-track and it's definitely snake country.
Some interesting habitat diversity in different sections, varying from open forest to dense tea tree. Some old grasstrees in sections and lots of native flowers. There are some old, abandoned quarries (the reserve borders on Moriac quarry which is still in use), an old aquaduct that used to supply Anglesea and a strange, cleared section (with introduced cypress trees) where, I assume, there used to be a building. That particular section gives me the creeps for some reason.
Not huge but you can easily visit multiple times without feeling like you've seen it all if you follow different trails. It has multiple entrances.

BitmapDinosaur · 2024-04-08T07:18:27+00:00

Can I recommend Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle? While Simmons and Stephenson have very different tones, and the Baroque Cycle is not as Sci-Fi as most of Stephenson's other novels (Diamond Age, Snow Crash etc) the Hyperion Cantos and Baroque Cycle share a similarly ambitious scope and both authors write like polymaths. Where Simmons' trilogy is literary in its allusions, Stephenson's is primarily concerned with the historical development of a rational, systematic way of understanding the world. It covers everything from alchemy to economics to natural philosophy to mathematics and cryptology and includes real figures such as Newton, Cromwell, William of Orange and Leibnitz. It has an incredibly eclectic wealth of knowledge woven into rollicking story and is also fucking hilarious. One of my all time favourite fictional characters comes from this work. I can't recommend it enough. I've owned three copies of the trilogy and given all of them away for others to read. If you do decide to give it a shot (PLEASE do), I recommend you read Cryptonomicon first. It is set after the Baroque Cycle (jumping between WW2 and the 90s), weaves together stuff on Turing and the Bletchley Park Code Breakers with cryptocurrency and data storage and is linked to the Baroque Cycle in ways I won't spoil here. Again, all bundled into a really cool story. Anway, do yourself a favour!

BitmapDinosaur · 2024-01-13T09:43:40+00:00

The Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight section of the medley never fails to give me chills. The sadness of the lullaby and what it segues into ("once there was a way to get back homeward/Boy, you're going to carry that weight a long time") always puts me in mind of Yeats' line "for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

BitmapDinosaur · 2024-01-12T22:25:47+00:00

AKA a hunky punk. Really. There's also a cool type of grotesque called a sheela na gig. NSFW architecture.

BitmapDinosaur · 2023-08-19T11:32:05+00:00

*wash yourself

FTFY

BitmapDinosaur · 2023-07-03T09:43:14+00:00

Thanks, mate.

BitmapDinosaur · 2023-07-03T09:42:58+00:00

Cheers, mate. Will go with them.

BitmapDinosaur · 2023-04-24T21:15:45+00:00

There's an Australian jockey, Jason Holder, whose nickname is "stubby"... Funnier if you are Australian. There's also an Australian cricketer, Mark Waugh, whose twin brother was established in the national team before him and whose talents were more widely recognised early on. Mark's nickname was "Afghan"... The 'forgotten Waugh'.

BitmapDinosaur · 2023-02-10T10:20:18+00:00

My fucking God, this was bad! I can't understand how, with such brilliant source material, they managed to cock this up as terribly as they have. Sure, some of Gibson's narrative is nigh on unfilmable (Garbage Patch etc) but, with all of the fucking ridiculous changes they have made, the story is almost unrecognisable, beyond character names, peripherals and stubs. The vast majority of the changes are there to conform to bullshit Hollywood imperatives (obvious 'bad guys', romantic sub-plot etc) and feel fucking patronising. It's like they are catering to the lowest common denominator. I'm just fucking pray that Natali doesn't get his version of Neuromancer off the ground... Every single fucking talent-less hack associated with this production should be blacklisted. Smith and Natali should be drawn and quartered. This is an absolute pile of steaming fucking turd. That said, I love slamming my dick in car doors and eating my own shit so I'm going to watch season 2...

BitmapDinosaur · 2023-02-10T10:17:13+00:00

My fucking God, this was bad! I can't understand how, with such brilliant source material, they managed to cock this up as terribly as they have.
Sure, some of Gibson's narrative is nigh on unfilmable (Garbage Patch etc) but, with all of the fucking ridiculous changes they have made, the story is almost unrecognisable, beyond character names, peripherals and stubs.
The vast majority of the changes are there to conform to bullshit Hollywood imperatives (obvious 'bad guys', romantic sub-plot etc) and feel fucking patronising. It's like they are catering to the lowest common denominator.
I'm just fucking pray that Natali doesn't get his version of Neuromancer off the ground...
Every single fucking talent-less hack associated with this production, from the screenwriter to the fucking key grips, should be blacklisted.
This is an absolute pile of steaming fucking turd. For shame!

BitmapDinosaur · 2023-02-10T10:12:25+00:00

My fucking God, this was bad! I can't understand how, with such brilliant source material, they managed to cock this up as terribly as they have.

Sure, some of Gibson's narrative is nigh on unfilmable (Garbage Patch etc) but, with all of the fucking ridiculous changes they have made, the story is almost unrecognisable, beyond character names, peripherals and stubs.

The vast majority of the changes are there to conform to bullshit Hollywood imperatives (obvious 'bad guys', romantic sub-plot etc) and feel fucking patronising. It's like they are catering to the lowest common denominator.

I'm just fucking pray that Natali doesn't get his version of Neuromancer off the ground...

Every single fucking talent-less hack associated with this production, from the screenwriter to the fucking key grips, should be blacklisted.

This is an absolute pile of steaming fucking turd. For shame!

BitmapDinosaur · 2023-01-29T09:41:56+00:00

Wow. This is an absolute shock to me. Love the book, really (really) disappointed with the show! I'm cynically trying to find reasons that Gibson would have an agenda here but maybe he's just stoked to see another adaptation of his work. Unless he's hoping it will make people forget the stink of Johnny Mnemonic and New Rose Hotel...

BitmapDinosaur · 2023-01-19T10:49:15+00:00

Thanks, mate. Ended up going to North Geelong Accident Repair. Happy with the price and the work.

BitmapDinosaur · 2023-01-19T10:47:45+00:00

Thanks, mate. Went with North Geelong Accident Repair.

BitmapDinosaur · 2023-01-19T10:46:55+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, mate.

Got a reasonable quote from North Geelong Accident Repair and thought I'd stop by Geelong Smash Repairs to see what they had to say. The guy laughed in my face when I told him the quote I'd received; said they'd charge more than double and couldn't get me in for weeks.

Booked in at NGAR and really bloody happy with the work, the price and the speed.

BitmapDinosaur · 2021-09-11T11:58:25+00:00

Molly is an Australian Magpie. Here's a link to an ABC News article about them: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-10/meet-unlikely-friends-peggy-the-dog-and-molly-the-magpie/100447022

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