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United States of America, welcome back!!

November 7, 2008 – 12:08 pm

I missed the last week of the US election campaign as I was on holiday in Perth with my family, we had very limited to no internet access, to some degree that was a deliberate ploy and I only used the internet access at the hotel twice, once to check the phone number of a friend I was meeting in Perth, and the other was the day before we flew out so I could check flight times and check email for confirmation from the airline.
Perth was a great getaway for me as I got to relax for a few days, and re-charge my batteries a bit. The main reason was to see the Red Bull Air Race and also because it was a long long way from work. Yes we had a good time, and thanks for asking

It was only as we were boarding the plane to fly home on Wednesday afternoon that the US election came back into focus, as I took my seat I saw that the screen in the seat back in front of me was showing SKY news and they had just dropped to a live feed in the McCain camp, I quickly fumbled around in my carryon bag looking for all the world like a crazed fool who has lost his life savings, desperately trying to find a set of those free earphones they give you on the flight so you can pay to watch movies on that tiny screen. I soon found a pair and plugged them in to hear that John McCain was conceding defeat……………… OH HAPPY DAY!!! I couldn’t believe it, and obviously some of my fellow passengers couldn’t either as inquisitive heads were popping up over the tops of seats to look around like Meer cats. I started to change channels and found the other news channels were all playing the same thing, it was true. Now normally I would turn the screen off and sleep on the trip home (Old Army training, whenever you have a moment, sleep, as you never know when you will get the opportunity again) but this time I reached for my wallet (On Virgin Blue, the screens are hooked up to Foxtel satellite, a cable TV service in Australia, and while the Aircraft is on the ground all the channels are free, once the Aircraft takes off, you have 10 minutes to swipe a credit card to either watch one of several movies, or watch all of the TV channels) so After takeoff I swipe my card, sit back and relax as I witness a truly historical moment.

After McCain has finished his speech, and to be honest I don’t remember much of it as I was still in shock, I watched the breakdown of the votes, and upon first seeing the number of Electoral votes each candidate received, I realised that Obama didn’t just beat McCain, he had given him a good old rogering, and then wiped himself off on the curtains as he left the room.
And then the moment I had been waiting for, the victory speech from Obama, and what a speech it was, I have yet to go over a transcript but I think it only fair to say that school children will have to study that speech in 100 years time.

After the euphoria had worn off a bit, I decided to surf the other news channels, CNN was giving their break down of events and how they saw them unfold, SKY news UK was also covering it between other news stories and then I came across the FOX news channel, and they were a sour bunch of grapes if ever I saw some, they were dragging out every excuse for McCain not winning (notice I didn’t say losing) and were basically crying in their beers about the Obama victory, I have to say, it gave me some measure of perverse joy to watch such a bunch of sad sacks on TV, now all we need for Obama to do is to invoke some “Truth in reporting” laws and most of those at FOX would be looking for work at the local Drive thru.

So, as my heading says, USA welcome back from the edge of the abyss. The sound of rushing wind you hear is the rest of the worlds collective sigh of relief

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I’m Off

October 28, 2008 – 2:57 pm

OK so I’m taking my first Holiday in 8 years and flying out to Perth tomorrow, see you all in a week’s time, and remember to play nicely with each other.

I just hope that my return flight on the 5th will be a happy one (for all my American friends )

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I just found ANOTHER reason to love Terry Tate.

October 23, 2008 – 6:49 pm

for those who don’t know who Terry Tate is, have a look at these videos

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What sort of a Barstard would I be, If I thought like Sarah Palin.

October 19, 2008 – 8:13 pm

I was just reading about the Jujitsu politics being practiced by the Democrats in the current political battle being fought for the Oval Office.

As Dana Hunter at En Tequila Es Verdad points out, it is more akin to Aikido, as she quotes here.

ChristieKeith compared it to jujitsu, which is apt, but I’m thinking aikido. The whole idea is to take your opponent’s force and turn it into something graceful and positive. Here’s an excellent description of it from someone who studied aikido in Kyoto, Japan:

The subtlety of the movements have always been – I thought – a wonderful metaphor for how to approach conflict or confluence. The core principle in Aikido is that in every interaction, one is responsible not just for themselves, but also for the other. As a result, meeting force with force is not an option, as someone will always come out ‘damaged’ from the experience. The art, then, is in harmonizing two opposing forces, dissipating conflict.

Omote and Ura – Every motion in Aikido can be divided into Omote (direct) and Ura (indirect). In all cases, the result is harmony (ie two opposing forces merging into one), but depending on the situation, that path can be merged quickly and abruptly by Omote, or through a longer period of converging before the conclusion.
In a conversation, where there is not a gulf between those interacting, omote can guide you to conclusion faster; but where the gulf is wider, a longer, less direct path is needed to reach harmony.

Tenkan – this is a movement, almost a pirouette or spin, but is central to making the Aikido philosophy physical. Essentially, any attack is not met head on, but is pulled into a spiral so that direction and energy between the two parties have the chance to merge, instead of collide. This, to me, seems a critical consideration in facilitation; how do you guide without hitting head on? This is how you acknowledge, follow, then redirect.

Obama seems to have mastered this. You’ll seldom see him returning an attack without redirecting. Instead of hitting back with the same acrimony and viciousness, he draws on the force of his opponent’s attacks to get his own message through. This could be why so many Republicans and conservatives have come to his side: he doesn’t even seem to be fighting, and yet he wins. Every time.

now that got me thinking, what would the Whitehouse be like if McPain and Bible Spice got in, more specifically what powers would Bible Spice wield if she had all the power that the RepubliCon party has stolen over the last 8 years.

My first job in Office would be to set up a branch within Homeland Security to hunt down and locate ALL of the people who said anything bad about me during the election campaign, then, because if you were against me, you could be branded as un-American and taken away to one of the many FEMA internment camps and either re-educated or “removed”
Don’t think it could happen, well I didn’t think the US would have a policy of Rendition a few short years ago either!!

Now what next, well I suppose “Drill baby Drill” comes to mind, but she might be facing a hostile Congress full of newly invigorated Democrats, so that might have to wait for a while. No, I would think that the (re)Education system needs a turn over, no more helpful, factual and informative sex education classes in school, abstinence only classes for everyone, we know that doesn’t work, but hell, we need more ~~cannon fodder~~ soldiers for our continuing wars, all over the globe so “Breed babies Breed” would be the new mantra for that generation, and while I was “fine tuning” the education system, Creationism would need to be added to the curriculum.

Now there would be changes made so my friends in big business and big oil could rape the wallets of the average American even harder and this time there would be a hole in the protective condom so large, you could roll a fundi driven Pope Mobile through it.

What else would you propose folks, leave your ideas in the comments, I dread to think what they may be, but then again, the utter barstardry that has been shown by the RepubliCons this time around has made me almost too shell shocked to care.

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Now Hiring, criminals decoys, apply Craigslist!!

October 6, 2008 – 9:39 pm

I what can only be called a called a case of clever criminal barstardry, a clever criminal barstard has used Craigslist to dupe poor unsuspecting people into acting as decoys for him while he committed a robbery.

according to www.king5.com

MONROE, Wash. – In a move that could be right out of a Hollywood movie, a brazen crook apparently used a Craigslist ad to hire a dozen unsuspecting decoys to help him make his getaway following a robbery outside a bank on Tuesday. He then made his escape in an inner tube on the Skykomish River. shedding clothes as he ran.

That’s right Folks, an aspiring evil mastermind used a trading web site to dupe people into thinking they would be hiring for a job, at around $28 and hour they probably thought they would be earning a fortune, but alas it was only to entice as many people as possible to the site of the evil deed.

The robbery happened about 11 a.m. on an armored truck guard at a Bank of America branch.

"He was wearing a dust mask, a particle mask. At first I thought it might be a surgical mask. I still didn’t think anything was wrong, just unusual. Then I noticed he had a pump sprayer," said Mitch Ruth, who had looked out his office window and noticed the man walking into the bank.

The robber sprayed the guard with pepper spray, grabbed a bag of money the guard was carrying and ran about 100 yards to the creek that runs into the Skykomish River, shedding clothes as he ran.

But apparently, the robber had planned ahead. In case anyone was hot on his trail, he had at least a dozen unsuspecting decoys waiting nearby, which he recruited on Craigslist.

"I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour," said Mike, who saw a Craigslist ad last week looking for workers for a road maintenance project in Monroe.

He said he inquired and was e-mailed back with instructions to meet near the Bank of America in Monroe at 11 a.m. Tuesday. He also was told to wear certain work clothing.

"Yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask… and, if possible, a blue shirt," he said.

While I dont condone stealing, you have to admire the effort that has been put into this job, wear something that will be recognised and then make sure that thee are as many innocent people as possible wearing the same clothing in close proximity…………… And looking like a workman that was probably spraying for weeds or bugs, allowing him to get close to the unsuspecting guard with a canister full of pepper spray was also a genuine masterstroke, no guns, no chance of killing an innocent bystander, I must say that reading about a daring robbery where a gun WASN’T used makes a pleasant change.

Mike showed up along with about a dozen other men dressed like him, but there was no contractor and no road work to be done. He thought they had been stood up until he heard about the bank robbery and the suspect who wore the same attire.

From there, the cook made his watery escape in a creek that dumps out into the Skykomish River. One witness said the robber swam away, but another said he used an inner tube to get away.

While not planed, this has also fallen into the robbers favour with two conflicting eyewitness accounts, If he is ever bought to trial a good lawyer could use these conflicting reports to sow the seeds of doubt in a jury’s mind.

"We did get an inner tube that was about 200 yards from the place where he entered the water and took that for evidence," said Debbie Willis, Monroe Police.

Investigators believe accomplices could have picked the robber up at a nearby boat launch or park.

The FBI is helping Monroe Police trace the ad and want to talk to anyone who responded.

"Any piece of information anyone has could be the piece of the puzzle we need to apprehend the suspects," said Debbie Willis, Monroe Police.

Some Monroe residents, while not endorsing what the robber did, are somewhat amused.

"Creative. Not a right way of doing it, but creative," said Monroe resident Byron Bevard.

"I grew up in LA and I never heard of anything so crazy in my life," said resident Sarah Vazquez.

The suspect is described as a white man in his 20s, between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-10, wearing a dark blue shirt, jean shorts and a mask.

well that just described about 20 million Americans right there, Where were YOU at the time this robbery was being committed ??

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who’s up for the challenge!!!!

September 22, 2008 – 6:27 pm

WooHoo, I’m back to full speed Internet and in celebration of that I’m posting a little story that tickled my fancy, and as it has to do with “Hot” food, all the better, you see, I’m one of those people who feel that food isn’t “hot” enough unless the soles of your feet start to sweat. I have sent back a Thai Green curry and told them to make it “Thai Hot” (anyone who knows Thai food, proper Thai food, will understand)

And then this story lands in my inbox, a story about the worlds hottest hamburger, and its only a 10 hour drive away form me in Brisbane, I was sorely tempted to give it a go one week-end, but after reading this story of woe, I have decided that descression is the better part of valour.

Read it and weep

Mcdonalds has the big mac, and Hungry Jacks has the whopper, well there’s one Wellington Point diner, which is laying claim to the worlds hottest hamburger.
The Megadeath burger isn’t for the fainthearted and even comes with a health warning because it contains ingredients that make a jalapeno look mild.
So, what makes it so hot?
Well first there’s the 10 slices of jalapenos, plus the beef pattie which contains 2 grams of chilli powder. Then there’s the chilli jam, the sweet chilli sauce and the ground pepper. And then there’s the secret ingredient. It’s called chilli mega death sauce made from the hottest ingredients
on earth, it’ll have you seeing stars, and forget about sending you to the moon, you’ll be rocketing all the way to saturn.
The Megadeath burger has a whole tablespoon of the stuff on it. And not even the diner’s owner has been able to polish one off.
If you think you’ve got what it takes the owners of Off the Wall welcome anyone with the mouth and stomach strong enough to take a
Megadeath burger, to give it a go. But you have to be over 18 and not have anxiety, asthma, or heart problems. There’s plenty of milk and yoghurt on hand to help you along the way.
The Off The Wall diner is at 386 Main Road Wellington Point – 3207 3209. Bottles of the sauce are for sale at the diner.

and now for a first hand account

Cranky and the World’s Hottest Burger, Off The Wall Diner, QLD, AU
Dear sweet arse-raping Jesus i will make this report VERY quick because just the memory of the burger is giving me bowel cramps.
First of all the burger in question can be found at the ‘Off The Wall Diner’ at Wellington Point in Brisbane. Secondly, before it gets served to you you have to put on rubber gloves.
Finally, it was not so much a meal as a physical assault. I swear to god i have never been in so much pain in my life. i was mentally prepared for the burn and had decided that no matter how hot
it turned out to be i was just going to open a can of ‘harden the fuck up’ and keep eating. So here’s how it panned out…
4 of us head to Wellington Point around 2pm for a cruisy Saturday lunch. Me, Thommo and our two better halves.
We know that drinking beer won’t help the burn, but just for psychological backup we have 2 6 packs of Little Creatures. We drink 1
6 pack on the way to the diner. We start on the other as soon as we arrive.
The 2 guys order the megadeath burgers to much laughter and derision from the kitchen of the diner. The 2 girls order sensible burgers.
We are downing the beer like water before we even see the burger so we run across the road and grab another 6 pack from the pub.
The girls burgers arrive and they are awesome hand made giant patty mother fucking things and I’m starting to get REALLY hungry.
Our burgers arrive, with rubber gloves and a recovery kit consisting of a big drink of milk and a bowl of yogurt. The challenge remains
that if we can finish the burger without resorting to the recovery kit we get our names on a plaque on the wall…
I start eating, and eating fast. I stick with my game plan and ignore the burn, just push through the pain.
2 things happen immediately to my body.

1. I get violent hiccups as my body tries to reject the molten lava i
am putting into it.

2. I begin crying like a little girl.

Not to be discouraged I forge ahead, quickly shoveling the burger into my mouth. I begin to descend into my own little hell. Staff come out and are watching us eat and are egging us on. I can barely notice anything except the immense pain in my mouth, eyes, ears (yes my ears were ringing) but most importantly in my stomach… And this is the problem.
The burning mouth, the crying, the ringing ears I can handle. But now with less than a third of the burger to go my stomach seizes up and refuses to let me put anything into it. I take a deep breath and look for my can of ‘harden the fuck up’ when I notice that my mate Thommo has stopped eating his burger just beyond the halfway point and is wandering aimlessly up and down the street. He has honestly lost the plot and is walking around in circles.
I decide I can’t be defeated and manage one more bite before my stomach explains at this point that it is about to return to me
everything i have just eaten at high speed. not being able to face the prospect of vomiting back something that
hot i pull off my gloves and admit defeat with 2 mouthfuls to go. The staff can’t believe I have got this close and not finished it but at this point i really don’t give a Fuck because I have just started to hallucinate.
No exaggerations here for the next 15-20 minutes or so as we just sat there I was completely off my face. it is one of the strangest drug experiences I have ever had (thats a BIG call). The closest thing I can liken it to is the feeling you have when you are coming off an ‘e’ and you are really jumpy, agitated, spun out and trippy.
Can I recommend this burger to anyone?
No fucking way.
Should you go and try it anyway?
Absofuckinglutely!
The Evil Burger
Mark crying like a little girl
Thommo wants his mum
Defeated

And about 2 days later…
it is now almost 48 hours later and I have just had my second shower for the morning. second shower? why have 2? because I am still shitting white hot torrents of molten steel and I need to cool down my puckered, torn and abraded sphincter before it decides to go all ‘china syndrome’ and melt through the crust of the earth to the core.
I swear to god all i have eaten in the past couple of days since the ‘event’ is stomach and anus friendly food like yoghurt, and ham and salad rolls and yet here i am at 6am on Monday morning wondering why I have just been fisted by someone with a handful of broken glass and gravel?
the burger was evil. and it’s evilness continues to taunt my bunghole. shame on you for wanting to try this boobmeister. shame.
… and finally, a few days after that…

lol thanks for your concern fucker
it lasted until Tuesday night (I had the burger on Saturday lunchtime) and I had my first *normal* crap on Wednesday morning. my mate I went who also tried the burger with came good on Tuesday morning, but he admitted by ‘good’ he meant he wasn’t bleeding profusely from his anus and eyeballs at the same time. that burger was all fucked up.
now go try it.

Oh the tears………………

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I HATE Migraine !!!

September 15, 2008 – 2:55 pm

I woke up this morning with a Migraine headache, There was a little man inside my head with a sharp stick, and every time I moved my head, he poked part of my brain with it!

The paint wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for all the pretty colours I see, even with my eyes closed and when I do Open them, not only is that little man with the sharp stick there poking my brain, but his little brother it there throwing hundreds of darts in my eyes, and all through that, everything I do see has a lovely pretty coloured rainbow halo defining the edges of everything, I now understand why people think they see angels.
I even know what causes my Migraines, its my work ethic, I worked 14 days straight last fortnight, to cover for other people, and on Wednesday night/Thursday morning I felt a Migraine coming on so I jumped out of bed and took some Aspalgin, as it seems to de-rail the Migraine before it gets up a head of steam. Sadly it doesn’t kill it dead, and even though I just had a 3 day weekend where I actually got a chance to relax and play Spore for a few hours, this morning the sneaky barstard had lodged itself in my front left lobe and nothing short of Imegran was going to dislodge it, so after about 6 hours of drug induced sleep I awoke with my current head full of porridge, so don’t expect much in the way of Barstardry tonight, Oh and for the last week I have been throttled back to dialup speed by my ISP for going over my monthly limit, that is the reason for not posting this last week, its a bit hard to comment on Barstards when I cannot get to the net to read about them without waiting for a page to load in galactic time frames.

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SPORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

September 9, 2008 – 7:26 pm

Yes. coming to a computer near you, and If its good enough for Richard Dawkins to have it on his site, then I sure as hell should have something on my site as well. Considering that I have not had a day off since August, I don’t feel so bad about the lack of posts this month, My day usually ends with me just wanting to veg out for a while and then go to bed. Forgive my lifting this story as my brain is in “get the hell to bed” mode at the moment, and as I have my first day of this Friday I will definitely be grabbing a copy of Spore for myself.

‘Spore’ Its for the Little Guys

Will Wright sure knows how to make a guy feel completely insignificant.
Thursday night, the charismatically nerdy creator of Spore celebrated the upcoming release of his evolutionary (and revolutionary) from-base-life-to-intergalactic-exploration game at a launch party at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, CA. There, he tells the press how he wants to inspire artists.
His new buddy, astrophysicist Frank Drake (most famous for his alien-hunting work on the SETI program and with his own Drake’s Equation), then tells us how the world needs more scientists. Then the evening wraps up with the venue itself showing us how physically small we all are in the grand scheme of things via a visual planetarium trip through the known universe.
It all makes one feel as though he should be doing something more with his life than playing computer games. But as Wright humbly sees it, Spore (which he initially named SimEverything) could be the bridge.

The man (who was also the brains behind SimCity and The Sims) loved creating stuff as a kid. "I spent most of my childhood building models — planes, tanks, ships…" says Wright. "My mother used to complain that I would spend all this time making models, but I later found a way to make a career out of it, so she stopped complaining. I think it’s kind of cool that I get to spread that obsession [through Spore]."
But, as you might expect, Wright is thinking about a much bigger picture here, way beyond just giving players the tools to populate alien worlds with penis creatures. "If you go and ask kids, ‘Can you draw? Can you dance? Can you sing?’ They typically say yes. Kids know they’re creative," says Wright. "If you go into a university class and ask the same questions, everybody says no. So people can extrapolate the process of education is really teaching us what we cannot do.
"But yet in games, we found that any time we give players creative capacity, the ability to make stuff, they love doing it. They’ll make content. They love sharing it."

Wright shows many slides this evening in his light-hearted yet heady PowerPoint presentation. Scenes from 2001: A Space Odyssey illustrate the impact the movie had on his life and Spore. "It introduced me to a couple of major concepts: number one, the idea of extraterrestrial intelligence, and number two, the idea of homicidal robots," says Wright. "Both of these things stuck with me for a long, long time."
Drake’s Equation, used to calculate how many spacemen may theoretically be living out there, pops up on-screen, something Wright refers to as "a simple equation… that a five-year old can understand" but might be better suited for Good Will Hunting to decipher. Naturally, it’s another influence that eventually helped to form Spore. And pictures of several entertainment-bred aliens appear, ranging from E.T. (Wright: "nice") to Alf ("stupid"). Wright shows how their variety closely reflects humanity’s.
But perhaps the most interesting, most telling slide is one showing a graph of art, quantity on the Y-axis versus quality on the X-axis, on a downward curve. On the far left is a child’s drawing. High quantity available, low quality usually. On the far right is the Mona Lisa. Very low quantity (like… one), high quality. What Wright hopes to do with Spore is to raise the bar… or rather, the curve.
"It’s not a problem with our creators," says Wright. "It’s a problem with our toolsets. So what we wanted to do with Spore is pull up [the right, Mona Lisa] side of the curve by increasing the power of the tools."

Enter Spore’s creation system, used for everything from your starting, primitive creature to the sleek (or not) spaceship it’ll eventually pilot to other worlds. Wright’s hoping the long-term effects of giving the masses such a user-friendly system will eventually produce more Mona Lisas in our society. Or in game terms (more specifically, Civilization terms), Wright feels he just gave humanity a +10 culture bonus with Spore.
Wright’s brainiac friend, however, is looking for a +10 science bonus. "We in our culture are not producing enough scientists these days," says Drake. "Young people have become interested in other things. The result is a smaller fraction of young people are going into science, and this is bad… for our country and for our world.
"How do you get people to be interested in science? You expose them to the most interesting questions in science. And one of those is the nature of extraterrestrial intelligent creatures. Spore works to do this.

Drake goes on to prove that he’s not just some "celebrity" guest speaker who isn’t familiar with the product he’s helping to promote. He pulls up on the screen his own in-game Spore creation, a "Supersapien," to show the audience. The Supersapien is what Drake imagines a human would end up becoming through perfect evolution: a mouth that connects directly to the stomach (because the esophagus is a waste of space, and we shouldn’t be breathing and eating through the same organ — choking hazard, you know), a single eye at the back of the head (for mothers to watch their offspring), and six limbs (because two arms are not enough to carry your groceries and open doors at the same time).
Can a computer game inspire others to think this way? Can it inspire something… more?
"We’ve taken people in focus groups all the way through the game," says Lucy Bradshaw, vice president and general manager at developer Maxis, as well as executive producer on Spore. "They have this awe when they move from one stage [of evolution] to the next. The first zooming out from their planet to the space stage…it was this moment that just connects with them in this way. Half the time they’re like, ‘[gasping noise] Huh! Oh my gosh! There’s just all of this stuff to do now.’
"That simple statement is one of the things we were hoping to trigger with this ‘powers of 10′ — this idea and context of where we are in this galaxy. And if that provokes people to think even a little bit further about how you’re going to adapt and what were some of those stages in evolution that allowed you to ultimately succeed in that particular ecosystem — that’s the kind of interesting, provocative thought [processes] that might happen.

"At the same time, we make it a game. We make it a fun experience."
So maybe we don’t need to worry about doing something more, something bigger just yet. Wright, Drake, and the California Academy of Sciences planetarium might enjoy reminding us what tiny specks we are in an incomprehensible universe and how greater things may lie ahead for us, but for now, we can feel better about ourselves simply by playing a computer game.

http://richarddawkins.net/article,3085,Spore-Its-for-the-Little-Guys,G4TV

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Monday Magnificent Science

September 8, 2008 – 12:05 pm

http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x3wrzo

Today is not so much about science as about magnificence, I came across this little Video a while ago, and was reminded of it the other day, it is a video showcasing the work of a man who makes old fashioned vacuum tubes by hand. His name is Claude Paillard and his site is in French but you dont need to be able to read French to appreciate the craftsmanship displayed, the Video is 17 minutes long so be prepared, grab a coffee and sit in awe, I know I did, and I will probably do it again just because I love watching a true craftsman at work.

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Friday F^(kwit

September 6, 2008 – 12:34 am

Well for those that live in my home state of NSW in Australia you would all be aware that our beloved *cough* Premier has been pushed on his own sword by his party.

Well I say good riddance to bad rubbish, Iemma wanted to sell of one of the last remaining public assets to prop up a state that his government had essentially bankrupt in the last decade. Now we have a virtual nobody as the head of our State, only because he is probably the last party member who hasn’t been under investigation for some form of corruption or other, mainly because he has only been a politician for 18 months. Is this a good thing or a bad thing, who knows, but I do already have an admiration for him as his career path has almost mirrored mine, he was previously a garbo and also a Greenkeeper. I was a Gardener for a large State hospital (270 acres of lawns and gardens to look after [Horticulture Certificate from TAFE after 4 years of study]) and I was also a garbo (Garbage truck driver) for several years, both jobs that require someone who isn’t afraid to get their hands dirty and raise a sweat, so I don’t have any doubts about his work ethic.

As a Bonus, the talking penis, Michael Costa, our state treasurer, was fired by Iemma this morning before the showdown in the party room that saw Iemma shown the door. So to Iemma and Costa, don’t let the door hit you on the arse on the way out.