• Support me in the 40 Hour Famine

    No, I haven’t been kidnapped. That photo on the right is just my way of announcing that I’ll be participating in World Vision Australia’s 40 Hour Famine this year. The idea is that people sponsor me to go forty hours without food. It takes place May 14-16, starting at 8 pm on the Friday. All proceeds go towards hunger relief in Tanzania. This page contains more information on how to donate. Everyone who contributes will get listed and linked, and I plan to make hand-crafted thank-you gifts for you all as well. And of course, I plan to blog the entire event. I’ll probably be obsessing about food, so feel free to send me your favorite recipes to post. Will I faint? Will I go mad? Will I start hallucinating that the Snook is a giant hotdog? I really have no idea.

    Edited 29/04/2025: Image is gone and not sure where it is. The donation page is dead and not archived.


  • Owning a cat increases your vocabulary

    Phrases that have crept into the Snook’s and my everyday speech in the past two months, which we have seldom had occasion to use before:

    1. My cat’s breath smells like cat food.
    2. No, Kitty… Kitty is a bad kitty!
    3. Mom, Kitty’s bein’ a dildo.

    I think I uttered every one of those during Amy’s trip to the vet last weekend. Good times.


  • Are you a typoholic?

    Are you a typoholic? While my font identification skillz aren’t the best in the world, I still nurture irrational prejudices against businesses that use Comic Sans MS on their signage.


  • Xander in rehab

    Wow, Xander’s in rehab. Best of luck, Nicky.

    Edited 29/04/2025: Link is dead and not archived.


  • Calling Kylie fans…

    Somebody’s selling her high school yearbook!

    Edited 29/04/2025: Link is dead and not archived.


  • Fortune cookies

    Somebody left a box of fortune cookies on the table in our office kitchen, so I grabbed one. My fortune:

    Brisbane’s cost of doing business is cheaper than Sydney. See how much you could save with our supply chain analysis offer.

    A crummy commercial!


  • Jigglers

    Hmmm. I need some help. My Mom sent me one of those Jello Jiggler Easter egg molds, but the first batch yesterday didn’t go very well. The eggs all broke in half when I tried to get them out (even after running hot water over the mold), and the halves themselves weren’t as stiff as I remembered. Do you have to modify the basic Jello recipe at all for Jigglers? I was thinking that maybe I should use less water and that would stiffen them up a bit. Any ideas, either for the recipe or the unmolding process?


  • Geek Nirvana

    Oh yes. The Snook and I will be extras in Star Wars, if I have to lie, steal, cheat, or even kill to get us in. (Can you tell I watched Gone With the Wind last weekend?) How frickin’ cool would that be? I’m sending in our details right now.


  • Worst performances

    The five worst live rock performances ever. Actually that’s a weird list. Four out of the five are in Australia, which made me think that it was strictly an Australian list. But then they throw in Oasis at Wembley (which is in England), which throws the whole thing into doubt.


  • New Poll

    What’s your verdict on ol’ Spook Tooth? You know, I honestly don’t know where I got that phrase from. I think it’s one of my sister’s. At any rate, I’m referring to “Jewel”, the singer-songwriter-poet (and crappy horse rider). As my college roommates can attest, I’ve had an irrational hatred of her for many years now. Am I the only one?



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My name is Kris. I’ve been blogging since the 90’s. I live in Sydney, Australia, and I spent most of my career in the tech industry.

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