Archive for August, 2004
Better Gnomes And Gardens 3
After living in this great steaming bucket of sausage flavoured urine we call London for over 2 years the one thing I have found you can?t help but noticed is that the British are unnaturally obsessed with housing. In Put Another Shrimp On The Barbie Land, also known as Australia, when you want a new house you just build a new house. You can easily pick up a couple of thousand hectares or so of pristine rainforest for only 10 of your Great British Pounds Sterling these days and to build a ten storey Sultans Palace with built in swimming pool and helicopter pad would only cost around a couple of hundred quid at the current exchange rate of 10,000 doubloons to one can of Fosters. My house back home (its more of a complex really) is quite modest in comparison to most of the rest of my Aussie mates. I do use a golf buggy to get from my bedroom to the living room but I could probably walk the distance in ten minutes or so if I wasn?t so fat and lazy. My girlfriend Roxanne has quite an ostentatious house back in Australia by most standards. You may have heard of it. It?s called the state of Victoria.
My Mind Is Melting…..! 0
Can you handle, The Swirl?!
Stuff Of The Day 0
Random Crap from a Random World
Match Heads - This man makes sculptures out of matchsticks. Amazing yet dangerous.
Knight Rider Jr - Some guys, a remote control Toyota Camry, some cameras and a desert. Try this at home kids 
Sugar Water - Very strange, yet oddly strange. This is also quite strange.
Mustang Spin - What happens when cops try to stop someone who can actually drive? Seriously the police should be shot for performing these maneuvers at this speed on a crowded road.
Zero Sex Life - Are you crap? Not a hit with the ladies (or anyone for that matter?) Think you are loser? Well don’t worry! Compared to this guy you rock! Or maybe you don’t, i’m not sure.
Bowman - Kill it!
My eyes are glowing orange… 0
Is it possible to die from drinking too much vitamin C?
Just asking because I just accidentally drank over 600% of my daily recommended allowance. Yikes, I’m gonna be more regular than the Russian tube system!!
I’ll let you know if my teeth start falling out (or I gain any magical powers, like the ability to work a full day of work without thinking about updating my website).
Photo Gallery Updates 0
Some of the photo albums on the site have been restricted to only logged in users.
If you would like to view the restricted photos you will now need to log in (top right of the gallery page).
I will probably send around an email with the user name and password to view the photos but if you want to look at them right now (and I know you) then drop me an email and I will send you the details.
The email address to send requests to is:
ashmodeus+photos@gmail.com
Let me know if you have any problems logging in etc.
You little beauty!! 3
The Thorpedo has just won the 200m freestyle!! Stick another shrimp on the BBQ mate!!
This sort of makes up for Australia only managing to come 6th in the 400m relay yesterday!
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!… < you know the rest >
New Albums 0
The photos from the Mehndi night and Part 2 of the wedding are now online…
Enjoy!
Updates 0
Just a couple of updates to the site today:
1) New york photos are available now! More photos will be coming soon because my gallery uploader is finally working again.
2) Added little icons everywhere on the links. Groovy!
3) Reduced the number of posts appearing in the index page to speed loading. The site uses some tables (temporarily) so loading has been a bit slower for the past couple of weeks.
4) Slight colour scheme change… Possibly temporary because I’m not sure if I like it yet.
Enjoy!
RoboOne 2004 2
Do you like robots? More importantly, do you like FIGHTING ROBOTS??
I’m not talking about any of those lame-o-tronic RobotWars / BattleBot remote control cars with blades here. I’m talking about Japanese fighting robots with swords and ten hit combos! I’m talking about walking tyranosaurus droids capable of self-righting once they have taken a hit (Think about it… how the hell would a T-Rex self-right?). I’m talking about fighting machines the size of small dogs with more moves than a character from Streetfighter Turbo Pro Plus Extreme Alpha Code Seven Extra Edition 3D!!!
That’s right ma’ nizzo’s and nizzo’rettes! I’m talking about the annual robo-fest that is RoboOne!
Here is a link to PC Watch that has some coverage of this years event:
PC World ROBO-ONE coverage (translated to english)
Check out these videos!
I told you robots would soon rule this pathetic dirt ball you we call Earth! I told you but did you listen? Now bow before your mighty robot masters!! Shamon!
Wedding photos available… 0
Check em out! I’m wearing a tie!!
Four Noodles and a Wedding… 2
Wow, that was a big weekend. Saturday Rox and I went to Gopi and Rakesh’s wedding at the registry office in Barking. Their ‘proper’ wedding is actually next weekend but judging from the amount of photos and videos taken at the registry wedding, next Saturday is going to be massive. I’m a bit nervous actually!
On Sunday Rox and I went for the world’s longest walk through Kensington park and on the way home I found out from a newspaper that Saturday was also Jamaica’s independence day! New York has one of the largest ex-pat Jamaican communities and they celebrated 49 years of independence by covering the Empire State building with the colours of the Jamaican flag. Which is pretty cool in my opinion
Also, on the way home from the walk I found a shop that sells Indo Mie noodles which are the noodles I basically survived on throughout uni. These bad boys make Pot Noodles look like the second rate skank tanks they really are and come with not one, not two, not three but five, count em, five flavour sachets!! OMGROFLMAOBBQFUBMFO!!!
Anyway, I thought it was really cool…
Not Wasps 0
I just recently found out that most of the flying things I have been seeing (and trying to hit with a rolled-up newspaper. Shut up Sinan!) are not in fact wasps but in fact hover flies drawn from the sunny shores of France to England by the nice(ish) weather. They look nearly exactly the same as a wasp except they don’t have stingers and their yellow and black colouring is part of the short fur covering their abdomen so it is softer than a real wasp colours.
After some careful thought and experimentation I have found a foolproof technique for telling the various flying summer insects apart in order to safeguard you and your family. When an unknown insect appears, wave a rolled up newspaper around it but don’t try to hit it. If it goes apeshit all of a sudden and starts repeatedly stinging you and everyone around you then my research has shown that it is probably a wasp. If it goes crazy and stings you once before dying then its probably a bee. And if it bumbles around the place trying to work out what is going on before flying headfirst into your newspaper then its probably a hover fly.
Oh yeah and if it is a massive black ball that makes a noise like an old Nam era Huey chopper before divebombing into your face and clawing your skin off then its either one of those things out of the movie Pitch Black or one of those bastard bugs that kept trying to kill us when we were on Ios in Greece last year
Venusian Space Factories 0
I finally clawed open my wallet the other day and bought a new packet of razor blades for my Gillette Ultra Mach-Daddy Turbo Pro Plus shaver. They cost £7.60 at ASDA. Seven Pounds Sixty!? What the hell?
When I got home I opened the packet and eagerly looked inside for the gold plated, irridium edged, diamond encrusted blades that I had assumed would have to be inside to justify the fraction-of-a-small-country’s-GDP I just paid for them but all I found was a couple of plastic shaving heads! they didn’t even have rare earth, nuclear powered anti-gravity ball bearings in them!
I mean, in this day and age, for £7.60 I would at least expect them to include some sort of coupon for say, 20% off my own robotic geisha or all you can eat at Big Jim’s Diner of Questionable Origin but no, it was only razor blades. Yes they work and work well but OMGROFLMAOBBQ they are a rip off!
I finally came to the conclusion that it musn’t be the actual materials they are made out of that drive the cost up but the fact that they are constructed in in a Venusian space factory leased by Gillette from a breakaway Chinese sect of space-faring monks. The bureaucratic red tape involved with this arrangement must be the reason for the cost of the blades. I mean, they couldn’t be charging that much for something that could be made for 20p a pop in Taiwan could they??
Disturbing Flash Animation of the Week Day… 1
If you thought yesterday’s animation was disturbing then get a load of these babies!!
WARNING: Do not watch these animations if ‘you like it when the red water comes out’… you have been warned
Disturbing flash animation of the week… 0
The URL format for the archives on this shizzo have finally been updated to a more human readable format. An unfortunate consequence of this is that all the 2 people in the world who have actually bookmarked any of my posts will have to update their links… Actually scratch that, there is currently no way to find old posts yet so thats not an option, oops. Oh well
Also, Ben just sent me this flash animation which I find very disturbing. Flash has a lot to answer for in my opinion…