slightlyodd

Tim Minchin’s wee animated short here, Storm, is quite something. I’m not usually one to go for beat poetry, but this ten-minute tirade had me picking up my jaw from the floor. Watch only if you’re either a sceptical person or not too easily offended.

This morning, a fellow named Brad from NAB called to see how my banking was going. The call was unsolicited and the caller ID blocked. Brad was friendly and polite as he began asking a few questions about my banking habits. You can imagine though, that I wasn’t terribly inclined to answer any of his [...]

Here is your opportunity! Lucky you! The white bits are the optic nerve. The darker section is the macula, and in the middle, my fovea.   The good news is, they’re in good shape. Apparently the white sheeny stuff is reflection from the vitreous. Gross, huh!

There is a really good reason why I’m driving fairly slowly and leaving a large gap in front of me on the Warringah Freeway. Believe it or not, I’m doing you a favour – you and everyone in the lane behind. When driving in heavy traffic, patterns of stop-start movement will emerge; sometimes because of [...]

A wee bit of nostalgia today – I found a few pictures of what was our first home PC. It was a PC/AT compatible 286, running at 8MHz. As seen in the image below, it came with 768kB of RAM. If I remember correctly, at some stage we upgraded it to 2MB. On it, I [...]

There’ll be, no doubt, lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth about how the awesome, large and novel carbon tax will send Aussie battlers broke. But it needn’t be that way. Let’s assume that the government will provide tax relief to low-middle income households (because that’s what they reckon they’ll do). Here are two scenarios [...]