brett_jackson
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I stayed at the Shinjuku New City Hotel - it was pretty nice, good view over the park to the skyscrapers, and relatively cheap. Free shuttle to the station, but it was only a 10 minute walk anyway. Staff speak good english too.
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I saw 'Sideways' last week. It's one of the best, low-budget independant-type films I've seen in a long time. Really great performances, a simple yet amusing story, and just great all round. I highly recommend it to everyone.
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Nice topic deviation & return there 34 - impressive.Quote:And besides, Australia seems to be having progressively better and better ski seasons!! See, back on topic
Those sites are quite interesting. I would totally do the "walk away slowly, don't make eye contact" thing if I were to run into one of the more extreme survivalists. Those dudes have hoardes of weapons waiting to take control the second the world falls over. Scary shit. And Peak Oil crisis ... quite scary if even close to being accurate.
Similar to you, I'm aware of what could and will happen in the near future, and I do whatever I can to minimise my impact upon this planet (think I might buy one of those Honda Insights next year), but a (very) small part of me is happy if it means more snow
All that would be needed then is some tremendous tectonic movement that pushes the Great Dividing Range another 1000 meters upwards, and perhaps closes the gap between the Vic Alps and Melb to ... hmmm ... an hour or so? Sure, we'd lose Yea and Mansfield, but it's all about adaptation, like you said.
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Thanks for the links tsondaboy, sakebomb
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Anyone got a good site to teach you how to wax a board?
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Tell me more about these apocolyptic freaks 34 .... I find that sort of stuff really interesting.
I should mention, I am typing this having just watched "The Day After Tomorrow" for the first time ....
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If working your butt off doesn't suit you Gamera, you can always try working your fingers to the bone.
(another western hyperbole)
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Funny ... the only thing I can think of that literally involves removing a mass of flesh from your butt is from those Japanese extreme games where a bunch of dudes would get dragged by tractor over a rocky ground along their exposed butts. I remember first being exposed to that sorta thing in the 80's on one of those "Wacky things the Japanese do" type TV shows.Quote:work your butt off... work as hard as you can
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Talking about 'pseudo', I loved the term 'pseudo-date' from the Kevin Smith film 'Chasing Amy', in reference to Ben Affleck's character going out on a date with the lesbian. Gold.
Another good word: 'untelligence' - a measure of the the ability to reason in tough situations. (You can take the Untelligence test here - as well as many other funny tests)
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I intend to live forever. So far, so good.Quote:For me life comes first- you only get one (maybe)!!
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Where are you Sake Bomb? Here in Melbourne it absolutely pissed down rain non-stop for over 30 hours. Floods everywhere ... amazing stuff.
At one point on Tuesday it was 12 degrees on the coast and over 30 degrees inland in places like Seymour, less than 2 hours drive away.
While it was snowing in the alps (15cm at Buller), an hour or two north at Albury it was still hovering in the mid-twenties.
While this will all have absolutely no effect on the winter season here, it's still good to see the hills covered in snow again
the BoM site ( http://www.bom.gov.au ) has heaps of info on this amazing weather.
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Dude ... she may be all talk.Quote:oh oh, a biter and a scratcher, yabai!
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For the first valentines day with my current partner of 10 years, my present to her was the: "Valentines Day is a sham honey, ...it's just a tool to lure us consumers into spending money" speech.
She's still with me .... must be a winner gift
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Yeah, the first two were awesome ... liked pretty much every track on each. 'Beautiful' on the other hand, while it was really well produced like all their music ... I really only liked 3 or 4 tracks. Fingers crossed here too for the new one.Quote:I kinda liked the first 2 Garbage album, but thought that last one (beautifulgarbage) was awful.
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Garbage are releasing their fourth album in April, titled 'Bleed Like Me'.
I'm also looking forward to Beck's new album ... they played a snippet of one of the new songs on TripleJ here in Oz the other day. Sounds .... well, sounds very Beck.
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I remember seeing lots of women/girls as pretty as I'm Sexy's avatar when I was in Japan, but then they opened their mouths to display ... well ... kinda shocking teeth. It was quite strange.
So, a nice set of teeth, while I normally don't even consider it when it comes to appearance, would have to be on my list of 'nice to have's in the perfect Japanese woman.
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What type of WebDev do you do Montoya? I am curious after visiting there as to how much work there is in this area (IT, mainly Web based software development), since most people's internet service resides in their phones.
Gamera, good move leaving the 7 - 11 job, those are just insane hours .... that's 57% of your week spent at work (assuming it's 6 days) ... and you have to fit sleep into that 43%!!
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I agree that the best place to eat Oysters is off the rock, or from a town right next to a farm (I mainly do the latter of those). Raw with a dash of lemon juice is the best way to experience the taste IMO.
I've tried Oysters in:
Tasmania (Freycinet & Strahan) - Damn good
Areas of the SE Coast NSW (Sapphire Coast: Tathra, Merimbula, & Eden) - Nice & cheap, good tasting.
Sydney's famous Rock Oysters from around that area of NSW - Don't see what the hype is about - pretty average
Port Maquarie NSW - crap
North Stradbroke Island QLD (Moreton Bay) - crap
And when I was in Japan I tried them at Hiroshima/Miyajima (biggest I've ever seen/eaten) - looked fresh, felt dry, tasted OK.
... but by far the best tasting, clean, fresh oysters I've ever had are from a practically unheard of place near Nowra NSW (2.5 hrs Sth of Sydney) called Greenwell Point. As you enter the twon, there's a little place on the side of the road that mainly caters for restaurants etc, but they have a little caravan to sell them to the public. They even use local lemons for the wedges. Simply the best I've ever eaten, and everyone I've sent there has agreed so far.
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'Laurel Canyon' had a good soundtrack.
And for something with a good selection of 80's gold, you can't beat 'Donnie Darko'.
As far as motion picture scores go, they're all pretty similar to me (orchestra music) and I like listening to that sorta stuff at work sometimes.
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I haven't shampoo'd for over 8 years .... but that's because I use clippers on my hair and it's never long enough to warrant washing with shampoo anyway. Shower gel is just fine to do my scalp.
I shaved my head one day to see what it was like ... so much easier in all aspects that I never went back.
The funny thing is that I know a bunch of female scientists who all have about the same level of care about their personal appearance as the woman in the news story that started this thread (who is also a scientist). It's so cool to be around women who aren't checking themselves out in every reflective surface every 2 minutes.
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On my 3rd day ever of snowboarding I decided it would be fun to snowboard from the lodge (pension) I was staying at down to the road, jumping off the meter high ledge above the road (since there was so much snow the raod was completely covered). Unfortunately where I thought the ledge was, there were actually stairs. Sank through them, landed hip then shoulder on the snow packed road (the same hip & shoulder that were recovering from being hit by a car on my bike 2 months earlier). Luckily my friend captured it all on camera (d'oh!).
Nothing a chiro couldn't fix.
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These are from an American comedian called Steven Wright. If the name doesn't ring a bell, he's the comedian who keeps a completely straight, deadpan expression when he tells jokes, or tells quotes like these below. Some people don't really appreciate the humour ... I do
"I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five."
"A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said 'Wish you were here.'"
"Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home."
"I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out."
"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory."
"I wrote a song, but I can't read music. Every time I hear a new song on the radio I think, 'Hey, maybe I wrote that.'"
"Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?"
"I was reading the dictionary the other day. I thought it was a poem about everything."
"I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it."
"There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot."
"We had a quicksand box in our backyard. I was an only child, eventually."
"I tried to hang myself with bungee cord. I kept almost dying."
"When the guy who made the first drawing board got it wrong, what did he go back to?"
"If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something."
"All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand."
"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she broke up with me before we met."
"OK, so what's the speed of dark?"
"How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?"
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good."
"Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them."
"Half the people you know are below average."
"99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name."
"42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot."
"A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good."
"On the other hand, you have different fingers."
"The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard."
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So, the turtle this fur comes from - is it from the inside or the outside of it's shell?Quote:....a turtle fur neck warmer
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Really cold, all day, after a fresh fall (or blizzard) overnight.
A clear sky as the sun rises ... with maybe a few clouds in the west to catch the pink & orange light the sun throws off.
The sun stays out for a few hours of the morning, then some high cloud comes over to stop the snow melting by the afternoon.
Snow starts to fall again on your last few runs.
What I wouldn't give for programmable weather.
But since we cant program weather ... i'll go for high clud with patches of sunlight throughout the day (just to look at the view).
OK I'll admit to it
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I enjoy clubbing baby seals to death.
OK, that's a joke. I did, however, once make out with a (really hot) relative.