Today I have announced my retirement from the game of professional basketball. Me on the left.Trust me, it's probably safer for everyone this way..It started off with an email at work. In amongst press releases for the endangered Helmeted Honeyeater, offers to extend my manhood to biblical proportions and pictures of amusing cats, a colleague who also coaches the local professional basketball team emailed me with a request for my t-shirt size.Naturally I took this as 'One of my clients wants to give y...
Ahh newer car ownership, it's fun isn't it? Especially when that newer car swears at you in Japanese, is 22 years old and loves the game 'How many mechanics does it take to change an oil filter'? My new toy looks like this!(The answer to that question is one but you'll still pay about $80 in labor to get the damn thing out...)Yep, in an amazing turn of events I swapped the noise and petrol fumes of a well traveled Mazda Rotary to the sound of two turbos slurping away happily while a family of four sit...
Thank the gaming gods for driving sims, otherwise we'd be completely oblivious to some wonderful pieces of automotive machinery out there, somewhere, legitimately churning up the dirt and tarmac (unless they turned up on Top Gear and I just missed that particular episode).. Not just the maddest car in Gran Turismo 2!Seriously, did you know about any of the following before someone shoehorned them into a video game?Nobuhiro 'Monster' Tajima's Pikes Peak Suzuki Escudo We played it first in: Gran Turism...
Remember the Cape? Of course you don't, it was terrible. TerribleBut in case you were semi curious about this short lived TV series, allow me to give you the gist of how bad it truly was...Sitting down and watching the very first episode of the American superhero TV series The Cape was like jumping into a shiny new RUF Turbo and giving it more stick than the Collingwood Football Club Cheer Squad cops from Carlton fans. It moved along at such a pelt that before you can utter the words 'Wait, what was t...
Oh random press releases, will you ever stop the rock and roll train of amusement anytime soon?Today I've found out that: A 16 year old Helmeted Honey-Eater has defied all odds by living three times longer than the average male and is now the oldest wild bird of this species on record... Fascinating!A fact so incredible, I almost back-flipped through work's second story window...Which of course is amazing news for ornithologists and fans of the Helmeted Honeyeater (and undoubtedly the helmeted one the...
Isn't it wonderful when you do a cleanup on your computer and you find the backup from your old lost blog, the one you thought had gone with the last window formatting? In a step back in time, today I reveal how I came to become much richer than you'll ever be. So I came home the other day, opened up my mail and instantly became more wealthy than the rest of Australia combined. A tall order for some 31 year old radio announcer from Bendigo who's juggling a mortgage, car repayments, an upcoming wedding an...
It was in a toy store who's location are now lost to the winds of time. There were two kids who were at the age where the coolest thing around were the Ninja Turtles and thoughts of mortgages, repayments, hot women and fast cars wouldn't be thought of for many years to come. In a time way before the internet (1990 evidently), it was the newest, sexiest toy ever - the unknown entity that was black and sleek, almost dangerous looking with more buttons than we knew how to handle. It was the next step in evo...
Blame it on a lack of sleep after struggling with an on and off again cold, blame it on the traces of cold and flu medication I’m on that gives me very strange dreams and make me forget when I went to bed, blame it on the moon’s alignment – whatever the culprit is, it’s causing me to have some strange thoughts while trying to wake up in my 5am shower.And this morning I pondered the very important question in the hot water: How come I’ve never heard of the Italdesign Scighera car outside of the notoriousl...
Like buying a 24 year old rotary, investing in shares and trusting that most mobile phones will make it unscathed through two years of abuse, watching this Vin Diesel effort is like doing a Ugandan tax return.Especially when you find outyou don’t know any Ugandanese. Or know anything about tax... Even after reading everything I could on wikipedia and IMDB.com I’ve still scratched my head hard enough to draw blood. This movie is just flat out confusing and dog fart bad, and not necessarily in that order...
You know those lucky bastards that manage to find the most useful and expensive stuff that's been turfed out and just waiting by the roadside for a new home? Well we met the king of the roadside finds the other day and you can bet that we made him share his wisdom... Not even a close approximation.My radio co-hosts grandfather has eyes sharper than diamond tipped surgical steel and seems to have made a career out of spotting what all and sundry have missed. The legend can sniff out a dropped fiver 3 m...
