The other day, after going sailing, I was thinking “yeah I’ll be comfortable in a ship with maybe 6 decks,” and lo and behold, yesterday morning the ‘Aurora’ was docked at the Circular Quay international dock, all 7 or 8 decks of it. I still don’t quite concieve how physics can let that thing float. It literally looks like a gigantic hotel that just so happens to be on the water. ...

Dick Cheney needs some new glasses, stat: It’s almost as good as Bush choking on a pretzel. See also Davezilla’s take on it. The Internet is having a field day.

Gods, even when I’m speaking they turn it into “Karen”. I recieved 3 letters in the last week with Karen instead of my carefully spelt name (“Obviously someone screwed up typing it because the a and e keys are like practically next to each other. Oh they screwed up this mister stuff as well.”), and on top of this lazy ass f#$ks at work in the IT Support side of things like to read what they expect. Sample exchange: ...

So today’s the day that is officially designated for romancing and early-stage love (for whatever reasons; explore them further on Wikipedia). And I suppose the expected thing would be for guys to go find some lucky lady and proclaim their love, or somehow do it discretely in a manner that says “I love you (and I don’t want to tell you my name) (possibly from a distance) (please don’t take me to be a stalker)”. ...

“Look, there’s a simple reason why you should convert - don’t you want to go to heaven? That’s the whole purpose of life!” “Ain’t that a bit of a dead-end purpose?” Yes, my friends, I have had my first visit from a missionary. And a horrendous pun to shut him up =)