Funny headline you think? what if I told you that this theory is being used by Queensland Premier Peter Bettie as an argument against implementing daylight saving in Queensland! (via TSSH). It’s got as much credibility as the moron dairy farmer interviewed by The West Australian last week when Daylight Savings came up again here in Western Australia saying that they couldn’t farm properly if daylight savings came in because 3pm would feel like 1pm (if you don’t get it, you move your clocks forward 1 hour, not 2)…mind you, with this sort of mathamatics is it little wonder half of the dairy industry is going out of business in this state? The latest news however isn’t all that good: despite word being that we’d get Daylight Savings starting 3 December, it looks as if the bill has been delayed and won’t be settled until mid November. Here’s crossing my fingers that Western Australia will actually join the 21st century and I’ll have daylight savings here before Christmas.
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This from The West. We might even get daylight savings by December 1. Now if only they’d allow the shops to open on a Sunday we could really join the 20th 21st century.
My new photo set at Flickr is my best pics from the Waroona Show. I’m going to reserve my comment on how the show was…I don’t want to be the blogger who is negative on everything, but suffice to say, the Harvey Show has less of a crowd and a similar portfolio of things to see. The Brunswick Show has the same crowd as the Waroona show but with 10x the things to see 🙂
226 unread in my inbox as I write this…and worse still there would be another hundred emails I’ve flicked through and not responded to yet. I need a Homeland Security style alert bar/ boxes thing, and I’d go to high/ red alert!
On other things, I bought an webcam today…ok, so I already had one which I bought about 7 years ago which is in a box somewhere and was crap, but I bought a fairly decent new one…well, at least I thought it was fairly decent till I tried to record audio with it….bingbingbingbing..over and over again in the background, sort of like morse code, if anyone knows anything about V-Gear Webcams please leave a comment if you know how to get rid of the really, really annoying sound 🙂
The headline says it all: Kangaroo Sighted on Austrian Highway (via Fark), and that’s Austria, not Australia. OK, so the kangaroo’s hoping down the street is a bit of a cliche of Australia, after all, you don’t see them in most cities (oddly enough Canberra is an except), but you do where I live. She who must be obeyed nearly cleaned up a couple yesterday, and not very far from home either, like under a km away on her way home, the worst thing is you can’t do anything about them, the friggen things are everywhere. God help me if I’m driving the Echo and I hit one, I’d be lucky if I lived to tell the story..it’s also why the other car is a RAV4 with a very nice roo bar if I do say so myself 🙂
Happy whatever todays public holiday is in Western Australia everyone….but to be serious I was about to post Happy Labor Day because I actually had no idea why today is a public holiday here until I looked it up…it’s apparently the Queens Birthday Holiday, which is even more odd given the rest of Australia celebrates it on the Monday following the second weekend in June. Why October? God knows…or as the case may be perhaps the Queen might know, even though she was born on April 21. Is it just because having the Queens Birthday long weekend in June would mean that WA would have two long weekends in a row, the first weekend in June being the Foundation Day long weekend? Or is it purely a coincidence that this long weekend falls on the same weekend as the AFL grand final? Probably wise really given how many Western Australian’s would be suffering 2 day long hangovers following the Weagles victory on Saturday.
BTW I’m a Dockers supporter, but I was backing the Weagles on the weekend because I can’t stand Barry Hall. The guy is a THUG. Haha Sydney 🙂
So I finally got my hands on a very nice, HD Dobly Surround Sound Copy of Jericho. As per Fridays post, no comment as to how 🙂
General thoughts. Not bad, not bad indeed. I can’t get she who must be obeyed to watch it though because the premise of the show is too dark for her….which conversely which is why I was drawn to watch it….after all, watching television shows is not something I do a lot of.
The first episode naturally introduces the characters and sets up the premise of the entire series, that somehow the entirety of the United States has been wiped off the map by nuclear warfare with the except of this small hick town in Kansas (somewhere over the rainbow??)…which the show notes suggest is done via terrorism, and although theoretically exploding a nuclear war head or two in various cities throughout the United States wouldn’t be overly challenging to a terrorist, destroying the whole country is a bit far fetched….but I digress, because this is pretty much it so far. TV and Radio is knocked off the air when the bombs go off, which makes sense, after all the electromagnetic forces of such an explosion would knock out such transmissions, but oddly the power goes out some time later….that part makes no sense at all. The towns folk try to contact the outside world…and cant contact anyone. Stupid really: surely satellites of some sort would still be working, but even if we take modern communications away, haven’t they ever heard of Short Wave? If no one else was out there at all, they wouldn’t be alive because the world as we know it would have ceased to exist.
We leave the first episode with the towns folk going home for the evening after fighting amongst each other for petrol (gas) and the local petrol station…which is again odd given modern bowsers rely on power for their pumping process…so how come they were working if the power was off?.
So will I watch next week. Yes.
Overall rating 6.5/10
Looks like a promising drama in the “what if” premise of other quality shows such as Sliders 🙂
Tags: Jericho, Channel Ten, CBS
Last night was the debut episode of Jericho, the new American series based around an end of the world sort of scenario…and a series that for once we haven’t got to wait 6-9 months to see after its debuted in the States..indeed we got to see it 12 hours after it’s US debut.
I’ve got no idea whether it’s good or not, but having held a long morbid fascination with end of the world tales since my youth, I wanted to check it out. But here’s the catch, I was out when it was on last night. But being the dutiful (ok, occasional) TV watcher that I am, I bought up the TV guide on my Windows XP MCE box and clicked on Jericho to record it before I left. So I get home late last night and think to myself…hmmm, I might start watching what I’ve recorded.
What do I get?
David bloody Tench.
Apparently at the last minute Channel Ten decided to dump Tench to 9:30pm and run Jericho at 8:30pm (a word to the wise, Channel 10 should just dump Tench altogether). Unfortunately because there still isn’t a legal, or official EPG available for MCE and Tivo style boxes here in Australia, my EPG provider didn’t get the update.
OK, I thought to myself, all is not lost, after all CBS is offering re-runs of shows on it’s site, I’ll go over there to watch it.
Click on the link, get some ads running….and running, maybe 3 minutes of ads…and then: buzzzzzzzzz. CBS won’t show the episode to people outside of the United States!
Channel 10 and CBS: you suck, and you wonder why people download shows from bittorrent. Oddly enough there were 4 different recordings of the Jericho first release on Torrentspy today…not that I’d download anything like that of course 😉
Tags: Jericho
