Starbuck, eat your heart out.

I thought I had better post because I wanted prove I can do so more than Nigel. He must be short of material worth posting. Maybe it's like Capricorn I and he really isn't riding around the world, he's just in his apartment in Tokyo photoshopping his head into pics he got off flickr.
Anyway, I had to post this picture of a bicycle I spotted that must be owned by someone aboard Galactica (Which restarts in a few weeks). This was , of course a mama bike complete with baby seat, for who else would have such a thing written on their frame.
The second pic is a common one off the net but one I find particularly amusing for some reason, maybe because it's something I would do if wearing full leathers. I saw a dude the other day riding a scooter with a sleek black tinted fullface helmet. Damn I wish I had had my camera. With the T-shirt and scrawny body it was a real giga-helmet. I love the fact that the other people in the park are oblivious, like it's quite a normal sight.
I am happy to say this blog has not been hijacked as I thought, since my password didn't work. Turns out my google account name was entered wrong (Arnie voice 'bawwwww') so all is good.
Looking forward to seeing everybody soon.

Some disturbing pictures

Now I found this photo when cleaning up around the place. I believe it was Mums place, Christmas 2003 or so. The scan is really bad (I have a crappy scanner/printer) but all is not as it seems.









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Dodd has been Cruised.

He who controls the spice, controls the universe.

A recent project I haven't had time to take pictures of. A guy at work is into modeling characters with clay and he's pretty good so I decided to give it a try. This was the result. I probably tried something too challenging but it was fun nonetheless. Yes it is Mau'dib and yes his thumper is actually a mini screwdriver so no need to give me a hard time about that one. His head is a little too small and his eyes are just dots but he turned out ok considering it was me that made him. My attention span being what it is, his hands were rushed so are just blobs and his paint job is a bit rough coz pin insisted on doing most of it. Almost as rude as the dune vid I sent out. If you didn't get it heres the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mo0OxH0SP0
Try watching it all, it gets funnier as you go through. For Dune fans only though.
A few other Youtube links I found that had to be posted. For c64 and Amiga nostalgia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUoJBerFDsA
I think I played 95% of these games at one time or another.
For Spish and Dodd. Warning, this has bad associated Tasmania memories:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkL2PH5fQ7w

And for the Sunday Roast nights in Fitz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V1lYUDXYgg

Any more cool ones, please post. Kurt and I have been playing MK3 on Mame with SNES games pads. I hate Nightwolf but if Kurt uses him I counter with Lou fck'n cheat Kang and the cycle kick.

Hanabi season

Typical stinkin', @#$'in hot day here in Bombay..er Tokyo. Went to the Fireworks last night. Cool but really crowded as you'd expect. We arrived at 6:30, just enough time to find a spot to stand. Couldn't get all the way to the river though. We discovered in hind sight that the best spot was actually in front of a convenience store in a nondescript back street that was actually almost under the epicenter and offered a wide sky view with space to sit down. Will remember for next year. I can't believe the tenacity of the locals. Many families got there before 4 pm to get a spot. It was a 36 degree day with unbelievable humidity and they didn't think twice about bringing their small kids to wait for 3 hours for the show. In any event the show was good and we left a little early to avoid the mad rush to the train station. The timing was perfect to get the finale while on the platform, just before the doors closed on the train. My fireworks fix for the decade satiated.
Inson still has bad morning sickness. She calls throwing up 'gebo' and I'm not sure if it's Japanese or just a made up Inson word. When I told her mum on the phone,'Inson is doing Gebo' Inson laughed and her mum didn't seem to understand.
I have some rudeness which I will post in later installments, just wanted to get this thing active again in the hope some of you will actually read it. No peeps coming from Melb. other than mum these days. Partly my fault I know, I feel like all I do is work and sleep and neglect my computer habit which happens to also be my portal to the western world. When one goes down the other is lost too. If you want to see more pictures, I will be posting some more on my flickr site
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gree/
Now I can officially give shite to Keb again for his blogglessness.

Jacob's ladder

I know this picture is repeated in my flickr account (gree1001) but thought it was a good excuse to make a new post, something sorely in need of attention.
Good to see it's finally starting to warm up a little here. Cherry blossom season and all that.
1. Who art we to skin a _______ head.
2. Lord of the high slung bottoms of ______.
3. We are eating at ____________, come over.
4. Take him to __________
5. David, you're a ____________. What does that mean?
6. If I'm China and you're ________________!
7. No sir, I don't like it. His Butt's too________. I've heard of that.
8. Feelo, Sundoo, ________.
9. Roudy Doudy Doo Da ______.
10. Do we have a _________ that could look the same.

I have been teaching pin some famous English songs such as "Moscow, Moscow, see the Russian teddy bear, dancing in his underwear. oh oh oh oh oh. Hey!" She can sing it pretty well. She is also exceptionally good at pulling rude heads. I remember Ben saying that Mace had the same rare ability at about the same age. Talk about the selfish gene. That one is as stubborn as they come. There must be some biological advantage to such an ability or it would not be such a successful genetic trait. Darwin would be scratching his head. Perhaps there are examples in the Galapagos islands of animals that when attacked, pull rude heads, scaring off their attackers and hence surviving to continue their genetic legacy. The ultimate culmination of this evolutionary process would of course be the Gee family. The next rung up in the development of the so called super human. The universes seeeuper being.

Horsehead Nebula

While on a stroll through Inokashira park we came across this specimen. I thought I was traveling at light speed through the cosmos and had come across this most famous of all astral phenomena. All I could think of was, 'Genius! Why did I not think of this first?'
Pyon was not amused. Especially since he had an exceptionally smooth bock and the Japanese equivalent of KT26's.
Which is better then? One pair of $100 Nike's for 1 year, or 10 pairs of KT26's for the same time period? Schulze would argue the latter although he would make the one pair last 1 year so comparison is a moot point.
Were we really that cool. Darby's totally classy nightclub. $15 black barter scouts coz they won't let you in without leather shoes. Happy hour half price Bundy & Coke in each hand coz happy hour's about to run out. Shiny grey baggy trousers borrowed for the occasion in combination with $2 green t-shirt. Virago cologne. In the VIP room which is just another room but with less stale beer on the floor and glass windows. Sitting across from a dance platform with a male Bouncer/Dancer in Lycra Bike shorts and sporting huge fafolta, pelvis gyrating to 'Jack to the sound of the underground'. Sitting next to 2 chicks who look good because of the Bundy & Cokes but you know your senses are letting you down because they are affectionately known as 'Mongoloid' and 'Steroid', and the best loking chick in the place is going out with a guy who wears Stone-wash stretch Fabergé jeans when not forced into polyester for this weekly tradition.
The DJ is looked on as a god here but is just a big haired bogan with one bike glove on. The chicks are playing 'Who has the biggest bangs' while dancing in their high-heels in a circle around their purses and Winny Blues'. The DJ has a bunch of hangers with even bigger hair and mullets who know every tune he plays, the label it's on and the BPM. A bunch of guys are in one corner of the dance floor wearing splat pants stompin' because they have members medallions and know the door bitch so can get in without polyester.
Need I go on...

I am not a furry!

Walking around Shinjuku I come across a bunch of rabbits and figure, when in Rome. My stupidity often amazes even me. Sales season so went to Zara for some new duds. Tried on about 5 pairs of jeans and found one pair that doesn't make my butt look big. (as it is) In the changing room carefully fold that pair, put it aside for purchase and throw the pile of unacceptable ones at the store clerk. Go and pay, go home and decide to try them on. Open the bag and realize the pair was not the one I had selected but a much daggier pair I had discarded. What a loser. At what point did I think I was capable of surviving in modern society without a bib (fortuna) and dummy. Anyway, Inson's gonna take them back for me tomorrow while I lay on the couch and watch American Chopper, as is my Sunday morning tradition. She will pay for my lack of vision. This is the way of things. Except that American Chopper has been discontinued on Sunday in favour of some Beyond 2000 kind of thing that is sadly out of date and still doing stories about the wonders of Carbon Fiber and ethanol. And they even have the gaul to have ads for the AC boxed DVD set since we can no longer see Paul Jr talking about chroming and power coating while Paul Sr has another (oh so obviously) roid rage fit in the background.
Finally got this comp up and working properly, the old one now inhabits the HAL case. Don't know what else to say as I am a bit en-beveraged and need a slash.

Later...

I Know, I know

Yes, It's been an obscenely long time since an update. The main problem is not lack of material but lack of pictures to go with it. You can also blame this new job which I am just getting used to enough to start catching up with my old interests. Job is getting easier but still very challenging. I think it will be easier to get used to than the casino was but much easier than teaching, by a long shot. Much more fulfilling than either.
I spent most of the (short) winter holidays getting this new computer to work. After finally working out the problem was the memory, and after returning it twice and finally deciding it's better to spend a bit more for name brand memory, all's well. (touch formica).
I am able to do this tonight because, for once, I don't have to get up at 4:30am. But only for once. I guess all have heard about Kebber. If not, well ask him. If you don't know already, it's not my place to say....well ok, he's really gay. He came out of the closet last weekend. Out of the blue he decided to come around a night last week and Inson and I both suspected he was going to tell us about his sexual preference. And so he did claiming not to have realized he was going to do it himself.
Congrats Kurky.
Here is a celebratory picture of Shoehead who has the tendency to eat my foot from time to time.