My parents are in Vietnam right now, and my Mum sent me a message saying that they met some people who are “poor and interesting” today. She also said their tour guide lamented that he knows someone who killed and ate his pet dog. They also ate pig’s armpit meat and discovered that the people [...]

We went out to Kobe Jones tonight. By “we”, I mean Spiff, my parents, my grandmother, a family friend and myself. The food was fantastic, but the family wasn’t impressed by the ambience. Noteable moments from the night: Upon arriving, my Dad requested that we move to an inside table because it was too cold [...]

“If it’s not simple, it’s probably really fucking hard” – David Young, Software Engineer Ne’er a truer word spoken.

Trish says: aw man Trish says: /me tries to remember what the file made yesterday was called Trish says: /me sifts through files called things like jam.xml, ponymeat.xml, pork.xml, raisins.xml, great.xml, jelly.xml Trish says: oh scone.xml Trish says: it’s all so obvious now Dewi says: /me laughs Dewi says: I hope you’ve got test cases [...]

Me: “Sweetie…why is there a clear plastic bag full of unidentified round white pills in the spare bedroom?” Spiff: “….you have a problem with my coke?” Me: (raises eyebrow) Spiff: “It’s my melatonin that I took to Rocky.” Me: “You took it like THAT?” Good thing it was only a domestic flight, really.

Mum rang me up today to read me some old letters I’d written to Santa. I really was a sarcastic little suck up as it turns out. I wrote lengthy letters involving various bizarre quips such as “I guess if your name was shortened it was be Saintni” and wrote suspicious postscripts asking things like [...]

Just overheard this snippet of conversation: “…so are you gonna get it?” “Oh yeah! Does the pope shit in the woods?” (slight pause) “It’s bear, isn’t it?” “What? Does a bear shit in the woods? Uh, whatever…”

Spiff says: your mum called me up and got me to measure my head with my headphones cord  Dewi says:Q: How many Microsofties does it take to change a lightbulb? A: 1 to build a “vision” with ideas from various other competing lighting solutions; 1 to host boisterous seminars and yell “CONTRACTORS! CONTRACTORS! CONTRACTORS! CONTRACTORS!”; [...]

From their recent trip to visit Sydney: “Get the bill dear, I’m going to the toilet” – Dad proving chivalry ain’t dead. Mum: “So here’s the big bag of rubber snakes…” Paul: “Holy crap, how many snakes did you buy?” Me: “She bought every snake in the toy store.” Paul: “Stop leaving them here, you’re [...]

anthony says: lol they’ve got all these models n shit or whatever parading the melbourne cup anthony says: but they’re all dressed in jockey shit so they’re baggy and look like jockeys anthony says: HAR HAR HAR no skank for you! anthony says: how dould you feel if you were a model and you were [...]