Counting onesself a king of infinite space

In which the homeowner speaks frankly and a little oddly about the perils of owning property in Sydney's Inner West. Under the flight path.

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Latrodectus has moved in

So there I was last night, sitting at my perch near my open window, tapping away on my laptop, as is my wont, when I spotted some movement out of the corner of my eye. Blow me down, if it wasn't a mature (and quite nice looking) specimen of Latrodectus hasselti, more commonly known as the Redback Spider: She's a good-sized female, and was engaged in creating the vertical threads of a new web when I most impolitely intruded wth camera and light, running away and hiding by the time I'd got in a few good shots. Now, these little babies are...

Moshtix acquired by News Digital Media

My girlfriend, Esther, works for a little ticketing company here in Sydney called Moshtix. It's a great company, for whom I've done a little work myself. Well, Moshtix has recently been acquired, and the announcement has broken today. It's now coming under the auspices of News Ltd's interactive arm, News Digital Media. Mr Murdoch, I've had some bad things to say about you in the past, but let me just say, now that your company is helping to pay part of my mortgage, well... Nothing has changed. I'm still not going to read the bloody Telegraph. But if there's a staff discount on Foxtel,...

Newton's Birthday is coming...

... or at least that's how I, as a fully paid-up left-wing atheist, rationalise observing an crypto-christian ex-pagan midwinter festival commandeered, nay, hijacked by corporate interests. Happy Birthday Isaac. And for those who wish to enjoy turkey on this day (though why this is a tradition on Dec 25th I'll probably never know), why not try something a little different? Smoked Beer Can Turkey The recipe comes to you live from Cooking For Engineers, a nifty site for geeks with gas. Personally, I'll probably be enjoying a couple of beers in seclusion, maybe a picnic at the crag would work. The family observance comes earlier so...

Well bugger me; Journos follow-up earlier story

It seems the bolt that crashed through a Five Dock resident's roof earlier this week came from a Singapore Airlines 747-400. Logically, it was an outbound flight - how unlikely would it be for a loose bolt to make it all the way over from Singapore before dropping off a few miles from the airport? In other news, Climbfit can take a running jump, and my internet connectivity is pissing me off royally, dropping out every few minutes.

Further perils of moving; #1534

OK, so having moved into my new place over a month ago, I'm still finding moving-related fuckups. Case in point, last night I plugged in my exercise bike for the first time in a while (yay, first gym session at new house). Unfortunately, during the move the power adapter for the magnetic resistance and metering stuff would appear to have been mixed up during the move. Result: about two minutes into the circuit program I'd selected, the resistance started to grow, and grow, and then suddenly got really, really tough, accompanied by a smell of burning electrical wires. I've essentially...

Insert obligatory pun headline here

Being a homeowner in Sydney's Inner West, right under THE FLIGHTPATH, this story in today's SMH is kinda, well, interesting. Ever see the appalling Michael Caine movie Blue Ice? Well, as that film amply demonstrates, things do occasionally fall from planes and often those things aren't soft and cuddly. In this case, though SMH is hedging its bets, the object appears to be an 11cm aviation-class metal bolt, which would have fallen pretty damn fast from a plane overflying Five Dock. I'm not sure how likely the papers will be to follow-up on this, but I'd be intrigued to see whether...

Good morning owner! Thanks for feeding me and petting me. Here's a present.....

.... It's a RAT!! Isn't it great? Look how its head is almost hanging off! See how I efficiently broke its neck and carried it way up here from where I found it, onto the kitchen roof, up into the upstairs window and onto your bedroom floor, lovingly tucking it under the bed where you had to hunt it down, just like an easter egg! And look at the size! Hefty one, isn't it? Aren't I a Good Cat? Don't I deserve a treat? Praise me and my hunting expertise, which is second to none in this neighbourhood, let me tell...

My Home Is My Castle

The above title phrase takes on a special aptness given that with most castles these days, all the interesting stuff is found via archaeological digs. So too in my study downstairs at my new secret base in Sydney's Inner West - to find anything interesting or useful, expect to dig deep, as these pictures clearly show. We've been in about three weeks now, and I'm discovering, or rediscovering, several fundamental tenets of “The Move”. To whit: Moving two people's belongings from two three-bed houses into one two-bed house is an excercise in spacial dexterity of the highest order Our dogs have trouble grasping the fundamental...

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