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The Final Countdown (no, not Europe's song...or is it?)

Right, well, from the last round of songs...

Only three weren't guessed, and they were:
4. "Driver", Eskimo Joe
6. "What Happens Tomorrow", Duran Duran
9. "Full Moon", Machine Gun Fellatio

So the scores as they stand, are:
1. Courtney--14, plus 5 bonus=19
2. Kel--8
3. JAmes--5
4. Pat--4
5. Thuc--1

So now we have the FINAL ROUND. And like everyone else...it's random lines, not necessarily first lines. So here we go!

1. Don't ever stand aside, don't ever be denied [Courtney, "Roll With It", Oasis]
   
2. I got you out on a wire, you need love and I'll be a liar [Courtney, "Lights and Sounds", Yellowcard]
   
3. Those long days and long long nights, they cut you up inside
4. And now I'm nailed above you, gushing from my side with your sins that you have killed me [Thuc, "Auf Achse", Franz Ferdinand]
   
5. Can't we join an army of you, and help you out in battle, defend your point of view? [Illmo, "Lost Control", Grinspoon]
   
6. The confiscated every accident, and turned ourselves in on our selfish turns
7. I'll be your best-kept secret and your biggest mistake [Courtney, "Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner", Fall Out Boy]
   
8. Read between the lines: what's fucked up and everything's alright [Courtney, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", Green Day]
   
9. I used to lock myself in your bathroom, swallowing the codeine kept for your back
10. And there's not many knew him the way that we did; sure enough, he was a wild one, but then aren't most hungry kids?
11. But I know, it ain't over till tonight
12. All my friends are fuck-ups, but they're fun to have around [Illmo, "You Sound Like Louis Burdett", The Whitlams"
    
13. Because you're sweet and lovely girl, I love you
14. You had something to hide...should've hidden it, shouldn't you?
15. Over there there's friends of mine, what can I say, I've known them for a long, long time
16. Soon you will learn how to swallow a tear, so when you are old you can cry in your beer [Pat Mysterio Jr., "Are You Ready for the Fallout", Fastball]
    
17. I don't think you trust in my self-righteous suicide [Illmo, "Chop Suey!", System of a Down]
    
18. You and me, and a bottle of wine [Thuc, "Save Tonight", Eagle Eye Cherry]
    
19. I'm not crazy 'cause I take the right pills, every day [Courtney, "Bleed American", Jimmy Eat World]
    
20. Bite my lip and close my eyes, I'm slippin' away to paradise [Illmo, "Longview", Green Day]
    

and for a final bonus, again worth 5...
21. Everything we've ever stolen has been lost, returned or broken, no more dragons left to slay. [Thuc, "The Road to Mandalay", Robbie Williams]

Good luck, v.3.0

"Thank you, Wolverine!!"

Well, I've discovered some things over the past few days.
a. no stores in town seem to think that Winter season stock should be sold yet
b. Marion is a cesspool

The latter is very true indeed. Courtney and I went to Marion in desperation, purely because nowhere in town had the skirt she needed or the shirt I wanted. So we trudged out there, and as it was lunchtime when we arrived, we had lunch. The foodcourt is terribly designed, and everyone's packed into a very small space. But we found a table next to the big hole in the floor, which gave us a clear view of the back of the stage for those children's plays that they have in shopping centres. You know, the ones where they had Batman et al. This one had Spiderman, Doctor Octopus and...Wolverine. Why Wolverine is involved with them is lost somewhere. But we had a good laugh watching this, especially when Wolverine, looking very very bored (and rather like a possum), just ambled up on stage, and the woman in silver coat and boots and flame red hair forced the kids to all shout "Thank you, Wolverine!!". As if he'd done something more than walk up on stage...
Other sights included:
-very bored children
-a 11-year old (or so) who crawled away to sit on the Big Bird train ride
-a mother sucking a dummy while the pram holding her baby rolled away
-a mother explaining to her child what "yes" means
And we managed to capture these odd snaps on my not-too-flash phone-camera:

The MUST-HAVE DVD for Christmas 2006! Yes, "his faith will inspire you!" Sit enraptured as you watch George W. Bush: FAITH in the White House, now selling at a Target near you! Of course, never mind that he's the most unpopular president since Richard Nixon...his faith will still inspire you! What faith, I wonder? In "God", or "Donald Rumsfeld"?


Target are very generous, I believe. Look at these socks! Before they went on sale they were $5.88. Now, with the reduction, you can get them for $14.89...
Maybe Target management should splurge and buy a non-Target brand calculator, so their employees can finally see that, yes, $14.89 is, in fact, NOT reduced from $5.88...

So, from this sojourn, we were able to find a skirt. Not, sadly, a shirt. Though I did get a scarf...

On Friday night, Courtney and I went out for dinner at Cafe Primo with Natasha and Andy, and other people who I've unfortunately forgotten. It was good fun, and I have to say, Cafe Primo make nice cannoli. As for main course, next time I might opt for the pizza...

Uni next week. But don't forget, Tuesday's a public holiday! =)

-Ragamuffin-

Commander Keen this ain't

Just thought I'd provide some congratulations...

For those of you who didn't know, Pat's been away in San Antonio, Texas, United States, for the IBM-sponsored acm International Collegiate Programming Competition. Over the course of a week, several teams...program, I suppose. They have to solve problems by coding something, I think. Ask Pat when he returns. But anyhoo!
Pat's University of Adelaide team has placed a very respectable equal 39th, well ahead of many other teams, and the team members were crowned regional champions for the South Pacific region; the world champions are the Saratov State University competitors. Congrats, Paddy, you should be proud!

Here's a pic of our regional champ in action at the competition. Look at that steely resolve!

See you soon, sports fans!

...and even less...

Okay, so after five days, I've decided that as many lyrics were guessed as would be. So, what were the answers?

1. Cool for Cats, Squeeze
2. Work, Jimmy Eat World
3. The Ballad of Michael Valentine, The Killers
4. So Beautiful, Pete Murray
5. Between Love and Hate, The Strokes
6. Boys in the Band, The Libertines
7. Vampires Will Never Hurt You, My Chemical Romance
8. Hold on Me, Grinspoon
9. Nothing Wrong With You, The Finn Brothers
10. Insight, Depeche Mode
11. Morning Glory, Oasis
12. Welcome to Paradise, Green Day
13. Miss Misery, Elliott Smith
14. I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me, Fall Out Boy
15. Planet Earth, Eskimo Joe
16. Something, George Harrison
17. Helicopter, Bloc Party
18. Sunday Bloody Sunday, U2
19. Modern Way, Kaiser Chiefs
20. Out of My Head, Fastball

And the final scores for people guessing the songs were:
Courtney: 8
Pat Mysterio Jr: 3
JAmes: 2
Kel: 2
Unclaimed: 5

So, here comes Round 2!

1. Laura, can't you give me some time? [Kel, "Laura", Scissor Sisters]
   
2. It ain't no joke I'd like to buy the world a toke [Thuc, "Walkin' on the Sun", Smashmouth]
   
3. She says she's no good with words, but I'm worse [Courtney, "Dance, Dance", Fall Out Boy]
   
4. Hold me tight, don't let me go, oh, I'm the one who takes you home at night
5. I could tell you the wildest of tales, my friend the giant and travelling sales [Courtney, "How I Go", Yellowcard]
   
6. Child, don't you worry, it's enough you're growing up in such a hurry
7. Aaaah, watching the people get lairy, it's not very pretty, I tell thee [Courtney, "I Predict a Riot", Kaiser Chiefs]
   
8. Well you're just across the street, looks a mile to my feet [Courtney, "Kill", Jimmy Eat World]
   
9. I got washed up on an island in Memphis, I got wasted in a Long Beach bungalow
10. You are a getaway car, rush of blood to the head [Kel, "Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends", Fall Out Boy]
    
11. They made up their minds, and they started packing [Kel, "The Way", Fastball]
    
12. Try to see it my way, do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on? [Pat, "We Can Work it Out", The Beatles]
    
13. She will bring a little box of moonlight [Kel, "Vampires", Fastball]
    
14. We took a walk that night but it wasn't the same [JAmes, "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine", The Killers]
    
15. As I glance once upon the foam, forty feet beneath my feet [JAmes, "40' ", Franz Ferdinand]
    
16. Ask if we can have six in, if not we'll have to have two [JAmes, "Red Light Indicates Doors are Secured", arctic monkeys]
    
17. I heard you crying loud, all the way across town [Courtney, "When I Come Around", Green Day]
    
18. First they ignore you, then laugh at you and hate you [Kel, "Tripping", Robbie Williams]
    
19. Hold on, hold on, don't be scared, you'll never change what's been and gone [Courtney, "Stop Crying Your Heart Out", Oasis]
    
20. Precious and fragile things need special handling; my God, what have we done to you? [Kel, "Precious", Depeche Mode]
    

Good luck, version 2!

Oh, and BONUS SONG!
21. Anticipate the studio lights, the crowds are screaming, shouting out my name [Courtney, "I'm Gonna Be Big", Patrick Coleman and Bodie Ashton]

Anyone who gets that gets 5 points. Tip: you won't find it on your music players

Useless

...is a great song by Depeche Mode. But that's not what I'm writing about today.
No, I thought that today I might compile a list of useless things, and why they are so. Why? Because I can. So there.

• Adelaide Metro ticket machines
  Okay, so I get on the bus, I buy my tertiary student ticket, I walk up to the machine to validate it...and it makes that annoying "beep beep beep!" noise, with a big red cross, like my ticket is the most reprehensible thing in the world. I try again, same response. "It's not working", I tell the bus driver. "Hold on a minute", he replies testily, as people queue behind me, also with bought tickets, and though they know as well as I do that I have actually bought the damn thing, they stare accusingly, as if I'm trying to swindle my way onto the bus...until their tickets also don't work, and then, suddenly, it's the driver's fault again. Said driver spends half an hour telling us to "wait, I can't do everything at once!", before--finally--solving all our problems...by pressing one button. It must be hard pressing one button on the keypad right in front of you while doing all the other important stuff, like waiting for the passenger to give you their money.
  
• Adelaide Metro bus drivers
  So, barely have you survived the ticket fiasco, when you're nearly jettisoned from the bus by the driver, who seems to have learnt to drive in Afghanistan, dodging rocket-propelled grenades and tanks. Red light? No problem. Corner? Ehh, you can speed through that. What's that, doing 50kph and the bus stop you need to stop at is only four metres away? That's what the brakes are for.
• Harbour Town
  "Huge range at factory prices", says Harbour Town. "Marked up prices and several hundred square metres of crap", says I. Courtney and I went out there today. It's ugly. We were looking for boots for her. None of the twenty bajillion shoe stores had anything decent. We found her boots in Glenelg by chance...
  Oh, and the "official authentic" Converse shop didn't have any shoelaces other than white and black, and it sold more Saucony sneakers than Converses.
  Harbour Town. Bah.
• Rogue Traders et al.
  There is no excuse for Rogue Traders and their ilk. Although I suppose it's the press' fault for hyping them up, along with Simple Plan, the Black Eyed Peas, Destiny's Child, r&b music and much more. Prime cause of the phenomenon of "Pimpz n Ho's" parties, when barely pubescent skanks get to dress up as slightly older skanks. Most influential cause of the next most useless thing...
  
• The Teenie-Bopper Generation
  "Omagawd. We're, like, together, but not together, in the together sense, but not?"
  What the hell does this mean? Ask a teenie-bopper. Or run them down. Then, steal their iPod, and delete all the Rogue Traders/Simple Plan/Black Eyed Peas/Destiny's Child/r&b on there, and replace it with good music.

So there we have it.

Oh, and Saints is the Head of the River champ! =D

BANANA

Happy Birthday Ali!
Today Ali celebrates being 19. Which is a damn sight better than 1. Or 9. Or 1+9=10. Or 1-9=-8. I wonder what it would be like to be -8. Maybe someone can investigate for me...
Anyhoo, I hope that our favourite Night-Rider had a superific day, and hopefully has a memorable hangover in the morning. =P

I'm not very creative tonight, the product of lack of sleep. But Berry is Best. And Belgian Hot Chocolate is stunningly decadent.

Startlingly, we all lack originality.

First it was the JAmesian KOOLHut challenge. Then, Nerdley...I mean, Denley...adapted it. Then it was So-louified. Now, finally, it's been blasted out of all recognition as it's entered blown up space.

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

1. The Indians send signals from the rocks above the pass
2. If you only one would let me, only just one time [Courtney: "Work", Jimmy Eat World]
   
3. Michael plays with stars, Soul Sister, won't you take a ride in his car? [Pat Mysterio Jr: "The Ballad of Michael Valentine", The Killers]
   
4. Found myself just the other day, in the backyard of a friend's place [Courtney: "So Beautiful", Pete Murray]
   
5. Watched her as she wiped her eyes, you don't make me sorry
6. You're walkin' like you never seen the light, you're walkin' like it every night [Courtney: "Boys in the Band", The Libertines]
   
7. And if they get me and the sun goes down into the ground [Courtney: "Vampires Will Never Hurt You", My Chemical Romance]
   
8. Oh no, it's over, can I give you a call? [JAmes, "Hold on Me", Grinspoon]
   
9. It's a slow parade down a dusty road, we've learned to take abuse from devils we don't know
10. This is an insight into my life, this is a strange flight I'm taking
11. All your dreams are made when you're chained to the mirror and a razorblade [Courtney: "Morning Glory", Oasis]
    
12. Dear mother, can you hear me whining? [Kel, "Welcome to Paradise", Green Day]
    
13. I'll fake it through the day with some help of Johnnie Walker Red [Kel, "Miss Misery", Elliott Smith]
    
14. I've found the cure to growing older, and you're the only place that feels like home [Courtney: "I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me", Fall Out Boy]
    
15. Outside a marketplace on Earth, there's a subject we all talk about [JAmes: "Planet Earth", Eskimo Joe]
    
16. Something in the way she moves, attracts me like no other lover [Pat Mysterio Jr: "Something", George Harrison]
    
17. North to south: Empty. Running on: Bravado [Courtney: "Helicopter", Bloc Party]
    
18. I can't believe the news today, oh I can't close my eyes or make it go away
19. I know, 'cause I've seen it; it was great, and I want it [Courtney: "Modern Way", Kaiser Chiefs]
    
20. Sometimes I feel like I am drunk behind the wheel [Pat Mysterio Jr: "Out of My Head", Fastball]
    

Comment with your answers, tell me on MSN, or tag. Whatever. Good luck!
Also, probably the last blog entry before Saturday, so cheerio to Pat Mysterio Jr on his San Antonio sojourn. And Pat, Antonio is like Anthony. As in, Simon Anthony. And San starts with S, like Simon. Spooky...

*achoo*

I've a cold again.
It is rather unpleasant.
Cold, go away. Now.

And that was an original haiku poem by me. =P

Seriously, though, I do have a cold again, and it's rather unfun. So unfun that I completely missed the roll-out of the newly-restored Lockheed P-38 Lightning at the Classic Jets Fighter Museum on Sunday. Not interesting? Is too! The actual plane was shot up by the Japanese and crash-landed in New Guinea, where it was abandoned and only rediscovered in 1996, as a heap of torn and scrap metal by the CJFM director. For ten years they've been restoring the old bird, and now she's fully finished. And I missed it. Cry.

SO I was so distraught that I went and bought me a pair of Converse Chuck Taylors. I then discovered that Converse was going to release Chuck Norris boots as well. The reasons for them eventually not doing this are confusing. According to corporate rumour, either:
-they were withdrawn when it was discovered that the boot wore the person, not the other way around; or
-when you tried to put on Norrises, they'd jump up and roundhouse kick you in the face.
Still trying to work out which of those reasons is fact, though...

Okay, so I asked a few people to fill out a short 20 Questions quiz so I could publish the results. =P
And the surveyed people were (with their assigned colours): Bodie, Courtney, Coops and Pat.

1. Name the song that always makes you teary.
Stop Crying Your Heart Out—Oasis; or Twenty-Three—Jimmy Eat World
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Good Riddance - Green Day
None - never been emotionally attached to a song...

2. What is your favourite scene from a movie?
When the rookie pilot lands back at base in Battle of Britain, only to be chewed out and taken up again by his squadron leader. “You can teach…monkeys to fly better than that!”
The end scene in Notting Hill (I won't give it away!)
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - When Sean Connery's grave has mysterious rumblings.
Aaarg - I really can't think of this one, so I'll say the first thing that came to my head: The final concert scene from School of Rock :) - "I...am the principal...of a school" - "Cool, that's cool.........you're hot" "What?"

3. What is your favourite line from a song?
Well…it’s a few lines: “Downtown lights will be shining on me, like a new diamond ring out under the midnight hour”
"I'm the first kid to write of hearts, lies and friends..."
"The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds/Strewn across a blue blanket"
"An iron fist in a velvet glove"

4. What is your favourite book?
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Ice Station - Matthew Reilly
Surprisingly, even for myself: MYST - the book of Atrus...I've always thought the hieroglyphic circle language thing was clever, and the drawings helped set that style of mood I like.

5. Who is your favourite character from a movie?
Camp Freddie, The Italian Job
Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) =D
The Hunter (Sean Connery, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
Captain Jack Sparrow - not only a Pirate, but a Johnny Depp pirate (see Q8)

6. Who is your favourite character from a book?
Colonel Aureliano Buendia, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Tom Jericho (Enigma)
Lt. Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield
Roland the gunslinger - Stephen King's Dark Tower series

7. Who is your favourite author?
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Janet Evanovich
Matthew Reilly
Pretty even between Terry Pratchett and Michael Crichton

8. Who is your favourite actor?
Michael Caine or Patrick Stewart
Nathan Fillion (Captain Malcom Reynolds in Serenity)
Sean Connery
(see Q5 ... and Ron's law of recursion)

9. Who is your favourite artist?
Claude Monet
Claude Monet
Band? In Fiction
Van Gogh, easily. "Starry Night", and "Biographia", look awesome and are such nice ideas.

10. What is your favourite work of art?
“The Beach at Sainte-Adresse, 1867”, by Claude Monet
"The Lady of Shalott" - John William Waterhouse
Bodie's Religious Comic =p
No idea what it was called, but it's an abstract red and green blob thing that you would SWEAR was moving.

11. If you could create the perfect setting, right now it would be…?
Sunset by the beach at St Kilda on a warm summer day, with Courtney
A bubble bath
Going sailing in the Med
Nerdy, I know, but in a programming contest...and hopefully doing well

12. What was the best holiday you’ve had so far?
Melbourne with Courtney, 2006
Melbourne! January 2006
Going sailing in the Med
10 Days in Moorea - there were dolphins at our hotel - Dolphins!

13. What is on your walls?
Posters from Franz Ferdinand, Green Day, Che Guevara and Star Trek, framed prints of First and Second World War-era aircraft, postcards from Germany, 2002 school photograph
Posters, paintings, photos, drawings, postcards...
Booze posters
Paint

14. What is your favourite drink, either alcoholic or non-alcoholic?
Rich hot chocolate with two marshmallows, with a scone with jam and cream
Blue Heaven milkshake
Orangina/Baileys
Easy - Diet Coke. Flavours in order of preference: Vanilla, Zero, Normal, Lime

15. Is there a historical figure who you deeply admire? If so, who and why?
Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, who commanded the Mediterranean Fleet during the Second World War. He was cunning, forthright, daring and extraordinarily intelligent, and a superlative example of a leader of men.
None.
Churchill because of sense of humour under pressure.
None that I can think of, I look into the future more than the past

16. What is your fondest memory from your school days?
Community Day, 2004—playing soccer for Da Costa House all day, and we did well for once; being able to have a great day with my school friends while watching other sport and playing soccer.
Year 8 camp, where I made some of the bestest friends I'll ever have (and we had hilarious fun too!)
Fond memories?!?!
Recess, playing Hacky-Sack.

17. What’s your opinion of Adelaide?
Adelaide’s a beautiful city, a great place to live, and also means that even trips to Melbourne are exciting, because Melbourne’s so much bigger and offers so much more.
Green and friendly
Great place to live, as long as you are with a 10km radius of the good places
KOOL, though not as good in IT sector as Melbourne

18. What is your greatest interest? (people, ie. girlfriend, boyfriend, Carmen Electra, not included)
Writing, and aviation. Show me a plane, and I can probably tell you what it is…or at least, I used to…
Music
Guitar
Programming...followed not-so-closely by music/guitar/composing

19. What is something you regret?
Missing out on the Classic Jets Fighter Museum airshow and roll-out of their Lockheed P-38 Lightning after 10 years of restoration. I was there when they uncovered the heap of scrap that constituted the crashed remains of the Lightning, I still have an original section of the canopy in my room. I watched them restore it, and I missed the big day that it was officially unveiled. Boo.
I try not to have regrets
Missing chances
Not answering this question properly. Other than that, not much.

20. Complete this sentence as it applies to you: “I love the smell of _____________”
…coffee and/or hot chocolate in the morning.
“I love the smell of rain in summer”
...hugs.
Napalm in the morning. Come on, what else can you say!?


And I shall leave you tonight with the words and wisdom of Tomek:
"And there's your answer: a happy fish."
"There's your answer: zero equals zero."
"There's your solution: a biker fish named Steve."
"Kadds touches me in ways I can't even imagine!"

Goodnight.

Vroooooooooooom!

The Fosters Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix was today!
I love Formula 1. It's the coolest motor racing ever. V8 supercars are boring, and NASCAR just go round and round in circles. But Formula 1 is truly exciting. It's international, it has awesome personalities, not boring ones like Russell Ingall et al, and it goes all over the world. Cool.

Look at these awesomely beautiful cars:

Renault.


McLaren Mercedes.

The next pic isn't a car. It's someone who, for decades, made Formula 1 special. And he was back in Melbourne this week, providing special guest commentary.

Murray Walker.
Murray is the Voice of Formula 1. He makes it the most exciting sport ever. When he retired, it lost its shine somewhat. No one catches the same excitement as Murray. So I was OVERJOYED to hear that he was the special guest commentator for the Melbourne Grand Prix!
And he summed it up perfectly:

"Some people suggest to me that Formula 1 is dull. Well this just proves that they're out of their tiny little minds, because this is SEN-SATIONAL!"

Murray is of course famous for his Murrayisms, such as:

• "Unless I'm very much mistaken -- I AM very much mistaken!"

• "Look up there! That's the sky!"

• "Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position."

• "And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car."

• "This is an interesting circuit, because it has inclines. And not just up, but down as well."

• "And there's the man in the green flag!"

• "That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year."

• "And he's lost both right front tires."

• "Only a few more laps to go and then the action will begin. Unless this is the action, which it is."

• "And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself."

• "Mansell can see him in his earphone."

• "Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does."

• "Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place."

• "As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth."

• "Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?"

• "I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem."

• "I know it's an old cliche, but you can cut the atmosphere with a cricket stump."

• "Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place."

• "The lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact, it's just under 7 seconds."

• "Tambay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now."

• "This has been a great season for Nelson Piquet, as he is now known, and always has been."

• "And the first five places are filled by five different cars."

• "As you can see, visually, with your eyes."

• "And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill."

• "Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher."

• "Jacques Lafitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Lafitte."

• "Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th."

• "Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve."

• "Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen."

• "Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth."

• "Schumacher has made his final stop three times."

• "Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record."

• "And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures."

• "Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him."

• "And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over."

• "It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way."

• "Let's stop the startwatch."

• "That's history. I say history because it happened in the past."

• "And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race."

• "I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one."

• "Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest."

• "I was there when I said it."

• "Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th."

• "The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander."

• "Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it."

• "The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick."

• "You might not think that's cricket, and it's not. It's motor racing."

What a commentator.

And if you were wondering, the final positions of the 2006 Fosters Australian Grand Prix were:

1. Fernando Alonso--Renault
2. Kimi Raikkonen--McLaren Mercedes
3. Ralf Schumacher--Panasonic Toyota
4. Nick Heidfeld--Sauber BMW
   
5. Giancarlo Fischicella--Renault
   

Australia's Mark Webber suffered a clutch failure while his Williams Cosworth was in first place, and Britain's Jenson Button had his BAR Honda's engine explode on the very last corner, which allowed Fischicella to pass him right on the line; Button's car came to a shuddering halt about five metres from the finish line.

Mince!

So what's been happening recently, I hear you ask?
...
...
Not that much, really.

I'm serious.

BUT there's still a blog entry's worth.

So uni's been happening. It's boring again. Go figure. I got 14/25 for a History test, but considering I thought I was going to fail, that's not that bad. I guess.

I've become addicted to lemon and coconut slices.

Oh yeah, I was playing around with some online comic creators tonight, so here's some of the finished products.

The first one is a Garfield comic.

Garfield's a dood. Jon's a dork.

The next few were using the awesome Strip Creator. Now, you may recognise a few of the characters, and that's because they're the ones offered by that site. You'll note that Gabe from Penny Arcade suddenly turned into me, or rather, I use Gabe as myself. That's because no one else seemed right.

ON THE BUS


POLITICS


BOBULATOR


RELIGIOSITY


...and finally, SLEEP DEPRIVED


...yep, I was bored.