Cheap Therapy

Alyson Hannigan and Alexis Denisof have announced they’re expecting a baby.

The Subprime Primer is an excellent summaryof how the broken financial state in the US came about.

I await the coming of the Extra Large Hadron Collider

If you’re gung ho enough about Rail Baron, maybe you’d like to think about some of these railway related tattoos.

via the boing. Or was it Make? I forget.

It seems that if you try to sell your car by parking it on public land with signs on the windows you wind up getting a warning from the Stirling City Council Ranger.

Obviously they’re more efficient than the Town of Vincent which let an abandoned Volvo rust outside my house for 2 months or so.

My, there sure are a lot of men in China!

Been meaning to blog this for a while. It takes 10 minutes to walk from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital to UWA, less than 5 minutes by bus.

If you need a St John’s Ambulance from there, it can take 20 minutes to arrive (in non-peak-midweek-around-lunchtime traffic). I hope nobody lives any further away than that from an Ambulance depot!

For those who can’t be bothered going to look it up, daylight saving starts at 2am on the last Sunday in October, and ends at 2am (3am summer time) on the last Sunday of March. This makes the dates

Note that I take no responsibility for any inaccuracies in the above.

Channel 10 is particularly annoying for claiming its shows (Californication on 21st August, House on Oct. 3rd) are “Streamed live from the US”, because as far as I can see the show’s aren’t on in the US at the same time.

As we were driving home last night, every street corner on the way up the hill had people on it, looking out towards comet McNaught. I had visions of “Day of the Triffids”, everyone going out to watch the celestial fireworks, only to wake up blind in the morning to then get subsequently eaten by triffids.

The comet was quite visible, although not for long as it slipped below the horizon. Others photos here. Harbinger of change (or is that doom?) I sort of think of them as timepieces. Where were we when it was last here? Who will still be here when it comes back? What might have boiled off it to eventually wind up in our atmosphere on the way past?