Quit Your Day Job

In my previous post I talked about that sensation you get when you visit what is called a childhood artifact.  In that case I was talking about the comic book artist Kelley Jones, artist that I didn’t really like at the time but have warmed to recently.
Recently I’ve been encountering more and more of these [...]

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The other day I did something that I haven’t done in a very long time, an impossibly long time.
I went into a comic book shop and bought comics.
Not graphic novels, trade paperbacks or even collections.  Just standard monthly comic book issues.  It felt right, comfortable and like I was coming home.  I used to [...]

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Ok so my own wife tagged me with a meme, how am I just going to be slack and forget to do this? The idea is to write a memoir of your life using only six words.  Really bloody hard!
Here goes:
Head always stuck in the future.
I’m not sure if in and the count as words [...]

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After skipping last weeks PodCat I know how devastated you all were so I got everyone out of the room so I could do one tonight for you all. I’m not promising anything exciting. I’ll warn you now. But you do get a chance to hear me stuff up 20/20 vision with [...]

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Number of words: 1500
Preparation: None.
Time left: 10 hours (at posting)
Panic level: 99 out of 10 (10 being pretty damn panicked)
You can follow this magical tour of the absolutely miserable experience live by visiting my Twitter feed.
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This long weekend was to be my independence from caffeine weekend.
It didn’t turn out that way.
Last year I kicked coffee to the curb but then when I started contracting on a big project that had ten to twelve hour days and six to seven day weeks I started drinking it again and dropping Nodoze. [...]

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I’m not militant about celebrating Australia Day. I mean I’m Australian and I love that but I’m not about to walk around dragging our national flag along the ground because I want to stick one end of the flag down the back of my pants. The flag for me is something a little [...]

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There are small things that add up to be extraordinary annoying, a rattle in the air conditioner, the high pitch sound an older computer monitor makes that will only go away by slapping the side of it (which probably makes it all the more worse) and the loud clicking and occasional scraping of a keyboard [...]

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A while ago I threw off the Outlook shackles for something a little bit different, Thunderbird which:

has a cool name
is open source
does everything I suppose I wanted
is free
is alternative.

There were a couple of things to get used to, some plugins to install and a very short learning curve, although to be honest I never really [...]

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Of course if you were to tell me that you have the automatically lacing Nike hi-tops from Back to the Future I may concede it to you.
My shoes are pretty cool though.
Today was the first day that I cracked the seal on the shoes that Tracey got me for Christmas, not for a special occasion [...]

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