Monthly Archives: June 2008

are jokes funny if they need explaining?

In this correspondent’s opinion, yes, but only somtimes. The joke here (that I laughed my ass off btw, which proves what a nerd I am …) is that by naming her son “Robert’); DROP TABLE Students;” the mother caused the school’s records to be lost, because the ‘) completes the Insert phrase (for example, INSERT [...]

I’m a financial genius!

From 1 July 2008, the 1% Medicare Levy threshold for singles will increase from $50 000 to $100 000. The couple threshold will increase from $100 000 to $150 000. This may lead to many people reconsidering their private health insurance cover.

Well well well. Look who was pissing money away for years on the medicare [...]

my best trade yet!

2008-06-13 01:54:25
Steppe
Sold 131 Steel
+84444

2008-06-13 01:50:25
Steppe
Service (repair 2 armour)
-200

2008-06-13 01:48:25
Steppe
Service (refill 1500 fuel)
-1500

2008-06-13 01:46:28
Steppe
Service (reload 337 ammo)
-337

2008-06-12 18:51:16
Aleut
Bought 131 Steel
-8382

I’m talking of course, about Skyrates. Leyton is now onboard with Skyrates too, and we’ve decided to form a Wing, which serves no real purpose except giving us our own channel on the online “radio” (ie, chat [...]

traditions

You know, since Australia is such a “new” country, Australians don’t really have many traditions. I do.
Every time I remember, I get pretty drunk watching State of Origin. Last night I headed to the Crossbar (which I’ve only been to once before) and had a pretty good night. Of course, with east coast Australia 3 [...]

Joined BookMooch

So I’ve joined up with BookMooch and encourage everyone to do the same.  It’s a world-wide book sharing club, and it works like this:

You type in the books you want to give away.
You receive requests from others for your books.
You mail your books and receive points.
Ask for books from others with your points.

How brilliant is [...]

Fan fiction? ugh

In the interest of getting a blog post out, here’s a few paragraphs I wrote but couldn’t be bothered finishing. Fan fiction is just so … ugh. It’s about Skyrates if you hadn’t figured that out.
Begart was 21, and a boarman. He had been born on a skyland named Leng, and chose the only career [...]