The wizard of...

Australia's lastest gold medal winner at the Winter Olympics is actually an American dot-com millionaire who joined the Aussie team because we don't make him train as much as the Americans. In otherwords, a fake Aussie. I'm noticing a pattern here in our Winter Olympic wins...

Still, Dale Begg-Smith sure is cute! And he's awfully driven for someone so young. And he has the tiniest lisp on the end of his sentences. I smell some gay... (yay!)

Pulling a Bradbury

Steven Bradbury is an Australian champion, after a fashion. He won a Winter Olympics 2002 Gold medal only because everyone else fell down. I've heard this called very Australian, and I agree. Though I'm not sure how to feel about that...

Damn doctors

WTF is it with doctors?! My doc said i could let him know if i had trouble pay his extra fee. So i mention it, and he gets mad at me! sheeeeesh! *grumps*

There was a nude porn photo shoot at my gym. Just the one guy in nekidness. Sadly he wasnt that cute or had that good a package.

Also, I can do 23 dips now :D

I think this is why technology was invented... um maybe not.

I just bought a super cool graphics tablet and I am writing this with a pen and the magical thing is turning it into text. Look at the other sophisticated things l can do with this:

omg omg omg *faffs hands*

It's sooooo exciting. I've just been invited to be on a panel at Conflux, a big science fiction convention in Australia. Sir Arthur C Clarke and Ray Bradbury will be there! They dont get any bigger than that in the sci fi world. And I, as the winner of the European Space Agency's Clarke-Bradbury Short Story Competition have been invited along. Aint that fab! *points at me* famous author ;)

Canuck awucka! - LINK FIXED!!

This is hilarious! A Canadian report about American plans to invade the Canucks.

"I'm sure Winnipeggers will stand up tall in defense of our country," Mayor Katz said later. "We have many, many weapons."

What kind of weapons?

"We have peashooters, slingshots and snowballs," he said, laughing.

"Moongazing reveals the chaotic world of Uranus"

bwahahahaha. Sorry. I couldn't help myself. The New Scientist story is here. A similar story here. Heh.

Vale QAF

I love tv shows that make you feel PROUD. I think that's what people call art.

Obtuse Confusion

Yes, I know I have been slack in updating this blog, please forgive me. I've just finished reading Samuel R. Delany's Time Considered As A Helix of Semi-Precious Stones. I bought his Distant Stars anthology even tho it was 27 bux, which is a lot for me to spend on a paperback, but I decided to unclench my sphincter and buy it.

It's a pleasant enough read, but I confess I don't get it. This is, like, an an award winning story, and one of his important works apparently. I'm not particularly dense, but if someone could please explain the significance of the story or point me to a good analysis I would be most grateful.