Damn it. As I got off the bus on the way into work earlier this week, Rundle Mall (the main shopping street in Adelaide) was bedecked with plastic snowmen, Christmas bulbs and chubby Santas – in the first week of November. Nooooooooooooo! Are you seriously expecting me to be festive for two months, for one-sixth [...]
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I don’t sell bullets and I don’t sell crack
It’s an excited free man coming to you from the bottom of the globe today. I’ve been racking my brain since my undeserved windfall yesterday to come up with the best use of a year of sponsored free time. I’m leaning towards adding some tools to me personal toolbox. My university isn’t the best academic [...]
I guess all this history is just a mystery to me
19 Sep 2008 at 16:31
A Free Man
Australia, Football, Georgia, Georgia Bulldogs, Missouri, Music, expatica, link love
(For those of you who, inexplicably, couldn’t give a toss about college football, scroll down for some non-sports related fun and public humiliation. )
Lot of controversy on A Free Man lately, so I’ve decided to ease into something we can all agree as the weekend nears – the supremacy of my almae matres’ football teams*. Both [...]
Analysis and freaky sensitivity
Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, started to study the mechanisms of heredity after observing variations in flower color in his garden pea plants. He began to notice patterns from season to season and ultimately was able to predict the frequency of one flower color occuring in subsequent generations versus another. What started with attention to [...]
Don’t go gettin’ no ideas from the neighbors’ Weimaraner
“Not on your arm
Not on your leg
Not in the toast
Not in the eggs
Not on the carpet
Nor the linoleum
Just how’d your little brother get it smeared all over him…”
-Over the Rhine – “The Poopsmith Song”
The strains of preparing for a trans-continental move must be getting to me because I’m finding the blogging juices have run bone [...]
Over the Rhine - "The Poopsmith Song" [2:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Great Lake Swimmers - "See You On The Moon" [4:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadMiscellany at week’s end
“All my bags are packed
I’m ready to go
I’m standin’ here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye…”
-John Denver – “Leavin’ On A Jet Plane”
Actually none of that is true, but we do have our tickets. And Z has his passports. That Australian one is yummy – tastes like emu.
I’ve really not [...]
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