In the spirit of posting about food we’ve recently eaten here are some photos of a hamburger I made for lunch today: (Click the thumbnails to see the full size image) Looks good doesn’t it: 1 beef patty, lettuce, mayo, melted swiss cheese, tomato sauce all on a fresh toasted bun
Earlier this morning, Colonel posted a sample chapter of our as-yet-unwritten Middle of Nowhere Self-Help Book. Completely independently, I had decided to post the first part of a new online serial entitled The Adventures of P.K. Shaw Being a Middle of Nowhere Production, it is severly bizzare and is no-doubt going to induce fear and [...]
From the forever “soon to be published” upcoming Middle of Nowhere self help book titled “Self Help for the Sensitive New Age Moose” How to behave in a restaurant. It is inevitable to anyone who wishes to have any sort of social life that they will soon find themselves in a restaurant. For the uninitiated [...]
We love our TV here in the Middle of Nowhere cave. Some of our favourite programmes in particular seem to be ones that the networks cancel – two which I can readily think of being Firefly and Futurama. Today I read in the news, that Futurama is being revived by Comedy Central! As Prof. Farnsworth [...]
Time is awesome. It’s interesting, though, that western society’s major study of time is history, something that looks backwards in order to perhaps foresee the future. This is indeed wise, but perhaps limited. In Balinese society (according to what I remember from my first year anthropology lecturer) the symbolic emphasis is on looking to the [...]
What is the definition of a good parent? Obviously someone who cares, rather than one who abuses, ignores or simply leaves their child. But this is too simplified. Some things do happen which isn’t exactly great parenting, but then again a child’s interpretation of something could result in bad repercussions. I know that everyone getting [...]
Went to the shops today to buy some milk. And the milk came with a free yogurt and mongo desert thing. It’s so good I’m eating it right now. Don’t know why it was free, it’s not out of date, but hey who am I to complain. Not much new in the land of MON. [...]
I ate a carrot last night. Man it was good. So crunchy, such a good flavour, so consistent. In fact, it was so good I decided to dedicate a poem to it: ODE TO A CARROT O carrot of gold, Not three months old, I eat you up. I didn’t like this poem. So I [...]
Noticed this giant stick insect outside my window the other night and had to take a photo. It was the biggest one I’d ever seen!
Daylight savings is one of those things which sounds like a good idea – in theory. In reality, at least in Australia, it’s become an absolute pain in the arse. History of DST Historically, the idea of daylight savings time was invented during World War I – and not by the British as most people [...]