I unloaded the camera for the first time since March and posted some of the photos. Lots still to do: emails to catch up with, etc.
Archive of posts filed under the Misc category.
Having a nap
This truck decided to roll onto its side and have a little afternoon sleep…whilst parked.
Saturday morning hell
Things that are guaranteed to piss me right off. The people that live two houses north digging up their driveway with a Bobcat at 8am The people that live a few houses south having their overflowing septic tank emptied and the wind is blowing from that direction. The people that live opposite us playing Michael [...]
Captain’s log
From the UK’s National Archive: A new partnership between JISC, the University of Sunderland, the Met Office Hadley Centre and the British Atmospheric Data Centre has enabled the use of historical naval logbooks in ground-breaking research on climate change. The logbooks include the famous voyages of Charles Darwin’s ship, the Beagle, Captain Cook’s HMS Discovery and [...]
Assorted news
Cyclone season The Bureau of Meteorology has released their Tropical Cyclone Seasonal Outlook for the upcoming wet season and it looks like it’s not going to be very wet. The 2009-10 season is expected to be largely influenced by a comparatively weak El Niño event. Therefore rainfall and flooding should not be as extensive as [...]
Dear Lily…
Dear Lily
Taking the hiss
Giant snake to be removed from boat club Reinforcements will be called in to help two snake handlers remove a giant python from an abandoned building in Cairns in far north Queensland. Aaron Chapman from the Kuranda Venom Zoo says a smaller python lifted his colleague off the ground when they tried to catch it [...]
GetUp! newspaper advert
This Friday, September 25th, campaigning organisation GetUp! will taking a full-page advert in The Australian newspaper. The advert will contain a petition signed by over 100,000 citizens voicing their concerns at planned Internet censorship in Australia. The petition states: Senator Conroy, I don’t want draconian government restrictions on the internet that will hold back the [...]
43 marathons in 52 days
Impressive feat/feet. As a transvestite comic who is prone to put on weight and had never run farther than five miles, Eddie Izzard is not the obvious candidate to run 1,100 miles around Britain. But the 47-year-old stand-up and actor will today drag his aching limbs from the Olympic park to Trafalgar Square in the [...]
Saving cassowary habitat
The Australian Rainforest Foundation (ARF) says land purchases will not be a priority in a project to re-establish cassowary habitat corridors between Cardwell and Cooktown in far north Queensland. ARF chairman Warren Entsch has returned from a fundraising trip to the United States and United Kingdom. He says the foundation has mapped the corridors and [...]
