So anyway…

I just paid my cable internet bill online. The reason this is good is because for me, it’s always such a luxury to be able to actually pay bills when they’re due. I spent so many years barely surviving (in every way you can imagine), and now I have this pleasant middle-class existence and I can pay my bills when they’re due. I’m so glad I can appreciate stuff like this. Makes life much more pleasant when you can take such joy in typing in your credit card number and knowing it’s all good.

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I miss Halloween. I mean, okay, it’s techically the 31st of October here, and some Aussies do celebrate Halloween, more or less (costumes, candy, etc.). But it’s spring. It’s SPRING! You can’t have Halloween in spring! Part of what makes it Halloween is that there are blowing leaves and your mother makes you wear a sweater over your cool ballerina costume (even though you insist that ballerinas do NOT wear sweaters) and it gets dark fairly early.
Just imagine trying to have Halloween around the first of May. That’ll give you an idea. The trees are getting all lush and green, there are flowers in bloom all over the place, and today I went out and it was pretty darned hot outside. It’s just NOT proper Halloween weather, dammit.
Then again, at least you wouldn’t have to put a sweater on over your cool ballerina costume…

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As the veteran of a long and successful internet relationship, I can think of more than a few possibilities for this technology.

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“An Examination of Lynard Skynard’s ‘Freebird’ as a Masterful Existentialist Treatise, Using an Adapted Version of the Encyclopedia Britannica’s ‘Existentialism’ Entry” is most entertaining, but you may appreciate it more if you’re a child of the 70s. Personally, I think Freebird is one of the defining songs of my generation.

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Wanna see some kitty porn?

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Spammers never quit. Now they’re spamming people’s referral logs. All spammers should be taken out and beaten within an inch of their enlarged, Viagra-enchanced penis and larger breasts, regardless of their fabulous money-making opportunities and ability to track anyone via the internet.

Also at Wired (where this information appeared): Spam Masquerades as Admin Alerts, Spam Blocker Has Opposite Effect, and Porn Spam: It’s Getting Raunchier.

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This article at Salon is very political and very biting, but I thought it was a good read. Sums up a few things I could say if I were inclined to be political in a public forum. About as far as I’m willing to go is, “I don’t like George Bush’s policies on several things, including the environment.” The author of this article went just a tad further, though…

And I’ve just seen that there’s a followup article. Apparently, other Salon readers liked it as much as I did.

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Boston’s first album, from 1976. Real “air guitar” music. When they first appeared on the scene with their remixed, double, tripple, quadruple tracked sound, they were completely fresh and it blew everyone away. Real innovators in the world of pop rock, if you ask me.
And yes, I’m showing my age by being able to remember Boston’s first album (which is self-titled, thankyou).

I understand about indecision
But I don’t care if I get behind
People living in competition
All I want to have my peace of mind

Very Seventies sentiments, I think. The Seventies were about slacking, about nobody telling you what to do, about doing your own thing and telling everyone else to piss off if they didn’t like it. Yeah! And if you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with… (although that, of course, is not Boston).

Smokin’,
Smokin’,
We’re cooking tonight,
Just keep on toking!
Smokin’,
Smokin’,
I feel alright, mama,
I’m not joking.
Yeah.

Ah, the bittersweet recollections of a misspent youth…

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We’re Friends of the Zoo, and that gives us an annual unlimited pass to two zoos/wildlife habitat centres in the area, plus reduced rates at a nearby open range zoo. So today we went to the zoo. We went to the one in Melbourne, which happens to be the oldest zoo in the Southern Hemisphere.
They have the most gorgeous grounds there. People actually have weddings in some of the gardens, that’s how pretty it is. They also have a lot of really cool attractions and interesting displays.
At the moment they have a baby giraffe, one so young she still has her umbilical stump. They also have a buttefly house which is absolutely amazing. I got a few pictures of butterflies, but most of them didn’t come out well at all, unfortunately. Butterflies are surprisingly difficult to photograph…
Anyway, I’ve got a nice lot of pictures of the zoo and some really nice new flower photos. I’ll get them online soonish, but I’m getting ready to switch over to a different gallery system and I’ll wait until I’ve done that before uploading more.
It was a good day. We had fun. Life is good.

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The Hero Machine is seriously entertaining.

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