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Billy Two Desks
Sometimes, dear eye listeners, a person is so very important that they get to have a second desk in a completely different building from the one they usually work in. At the moment your humble narrator is a multi-desk VIP.
Not only do I have two places of desking I also have about 1000 monitors. [...]
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I can’t eat apples anymore.
Every week day for the last many many years I have eaten an apple. Last week I had a string of bad apples, bruised or tasting like parsnips.
I can’t even think about eating an apple any more without my insides squirming and trying to flee.
I have reached the end. The end of apples. [...]
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Dr Gregory Van De Busch
Oh dear eye listeners I have made a terrible assumption about each and every both of you. I have done the assume that you, like my learned colleague and close personal friend Dr Gregory Van De Busch (pictured to the rightways), thrive on neglect. I have treated you exactly how I treat the good employee-of-the-month-for-12-months-running [...]
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A week of which we will not speak…
… cos of how much I really didn’t like it.
Last night Gabriel Taylor Russ slammed poetry at an poetry slam. I had heard the piece he was going to perform before the event but this time he delivered it with much more loudy voice, handy gesture and conviction and angry face than ever before. He [...]
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Brisbane
Did you go on the City Cat on Saturday? Yes I did, now stop following me freakcake.
We got up at the early on Saturday and decided to take the boat into town. Yes that is a real thing as any Brisbane-livers or havebeento-ers will know. It’s a bit of a stroll to the boat stop [...]
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My Two Wheeled Wife
Did your wife just buy a scooter? Why yes Sir, she did indeed.
A few weeks ago Alana dragged me and Gabe to a scooter shop as some kind of punishment. It was probably because we were killing zombies too loud or something. It was called Scootopia and it had a man called Ben who we [...]
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Dubber and Spoons Take the Bus
Have you ever been part of a Podcasting duo? Funny you should ask, because yes.
Back in England in 2005 I worked at the same University as Dubber. I was a video technician and I think at that point in time he was pretending to teach radio. He was involved with a research project about [...]
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Wrong Winter Woes
1st July may bring promises of Summer and BBQ’s back home in England but here in Brisbane it’s the deep mid-winter. By deep mid-winter I mean the mornings are about 8 degrees C and the day only makes it to a teeth clattering 20 or so.
You’d think it would be brilliant that the coldest daytime [...]
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Coffee and a Muffin
Coffee and a Muffin – has to be the best way to kick of an otherwise nondescript Queensland winter Tuesday. It may not however be the best way to kick of a blog.
My Dancing Bean coffee habit has me over there every weekday morning at 7.30am (that’s when they open) facing my daily dilemma – [...]
“If you don’t hear from me by sometime in March avenge my death….”