ShittyRail is a spoof site on CityRail and it’s pretty funny as the home page indicates:
The ShittyRail network helps you arrive fashionably late at your destination…
A new game category has been added to the blog, so I thought it very fitting to post a link to this Strong Bad email, complete with some flash games at the end featuring everyone’s favourite sexy mexican wrestling mask clad guy — Strong Bad.
If you don’t who Strong Bad is, than your are seriously missing out and I pity you in tremendous amounts. You also need a recent flash player and to check out the rest of homestarrunner.com. There are also other games worthy of playing in the games section, such as Trogdor the Burninator!, awxome cross and population: tire.
At the same time The Unstrung Harp was being published, Gorey was embarking on another project, one which turned out to be part and parcel of a major change occurring in the paperback book industry: designing the covers for the new Anchor Books.
Looky-looky! Online postings of covers by Edward Gorey. Check out Those Gorey Covers!
Sigh! The Shag exhibition wraps up this weekend in Sydney. Josh Agle aka Shag
will be at The Studio for Official Book Signing, 2-4pm this saturday aka tomorrow.
If you haven’t checked out this exhibition, do it! You have to see a Shag painting in real life to truly appreciate the actual colours and textures. The only downer, was that a few paintings weren’t finished in time for the Sydney show. These are going to be shipped directly to Melbourne damn it! But they will be in the catalogue at least.
Bye, bye Shag.
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This is without a doubt one of the best error pages ever!
Remember, Microsoft just bought the Catholic Church.
A joke for your amusement: City Rail! (b-boom chiing!)
I’m not going to go into too much detail on the bullshit that has been subjected to us weary commuters. Driver strikes, gas leaks, cancellation,s etc, etc, etc. Good thing I got me an iPod, that’s all I’m gonna say.
So, to bring some sort of grin to our faces and extra dollars back in our wallets, City Rail will be offering (drum roll please): Complimentary Travel for Regular Commuters. Further details here: How To Redeem Your Free Travel.
City Rail, I would say thanks but I won’t. You’ve fucked up too much of late. We commuters deserve this as well as a reliable public transport system, not one that goes screwy when there’s some rain or it’s too hot or whatever.
So now that just leaves the question of what to do with my extra $37 next week. Let’s see, a cd, or dvd, or drinks, or astro boy figures, or kenshin figures, or new headphones for iPod, or more frangipani sea salt body scrub (don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it), or it could go towards my monthly massage… who knows at this stage. The possibilities are as endless as the value of a $37 weekly rail ticket.
OOOHHH!! Check this out a feedback form on City Rail service. Do I really need to tell you what to do with this, my angry hate filled friends?
I received an email from someone in California about some stationary they bought while in Australia a year ago, with some black and white Australian animal sketches that I did apparently. They wanted to know if there was anywhere in California they could get some more of these items.
I was dumbfounded. Huh? Then I cast my mind back to when I was in high school, there was a teacher who asked if I’d do some sketches for him to print out onto stationary and sell at the markets. I was of course going to get a fee, although undecided at the time. I did the sketches but the teacher then informed me he wasn’t going to go ahead with them after all.
At least that’s what he told ME…
This had to be what the Californians were talking about. My name must be on the pieces some where, so they’ve done a web search and come up with my website and email. I replied asking if they could remember where they got them from, “Paddy’s Markets”.
I’m not quite sure what pisses me off more, the fact that I’m being ripped of by a teacher (whose name I can’t remember), or that very shitty artwork can be traced back to me. Like I said, I did these when I was in high school, they’re crap!
If anyone else seems to have purchased any of these items with said artwork could you please email me with info on where you bought them. I’m not going to blow your head off or sue you, hey you didn’t do anything wrong. I just need more info. Maybe even a scan of the actual item so I can see where my name is or something.
Guess where I’m going this Saturday…
The Nathan J exhibition, Girls and Other Scary Things, has been posted online at the Outré Gallery web site. I would link straight to the appropriate page, but the site uses frames and some annoying javascript that takes you back to the home page with frames even after you open just the content frame in a new window. GGRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
Any way, it’s accessable from the exhibitions link. There are some nice prints and with some equally nice price tags. I also reccommend the blind boxed mini tree house figures. Their cute factor is very high!
I LLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE my new graphics tablet, a 9×12″ intuos 2 in deep purple (it even comes in purple!). I’ve been using it for about a week now and don’t know how I’ve handled drawing with a mouse for so long. I’ve even been coming into work earlier, (this is in part due to me needing more time to redesign and code my website which I now don’t like too much), but also to work on some drawngs for a flash quiz.
It’s captured a bit of attention at work due in part to it’s size. “OOOOO!!! Did work pay for that?” They ask in awe and sly curiosity. “No”, I flatly reply, “They didn’t”, even though I will be primarily be using it for work. Company’s insurance will cover it incase something happens to it while it’s at work, all though they weren’t sure if that was possible for a couple of days because it’s not work’s property, i’t MINE! When I go, so does the tablet.
Our operations department did try to get the company to buy said tablet for me, but company said “Na!”, so I thought, “Fuck you! I’ve been creating vector illustrations for our new website, icons for other clients and am currently working on a flash quiz, I need something to help me get this work done faster and easier. I want one for myself at home any way, so fuck it, I’m buying one!”.
Worth every penny, and the bungled address saga which made the delivery of tablet far more annoying and lengthy on my end.
Sigh! Apple, Apple, Apple! What are you doing!
Safari 1.2 has been released, but if you’re not running Panther then you can’t. Yes, yes I know same goes for Safari 1.1, and not a peep was made by me. I don’t know, I was too busy to notice, and was kinda hoping that Apple would rectify this shortly. Then I thought that maybe the 1.1 release were just minor changes to get it to run on Panther, I don’t know, like some porting thing or something. I don’t know, I’m not a geek, I’m a designer. Maybe this is the case for 1.2 also, maybe, maybe not…
Is Apple intentionally doing this to force users to upgrade their OS? Will users keep having to upgrade almost every time there’s a new Safari release, like a certain Microsoft company you might know about will be doing with their browser from now on? (security patches are of course the exception).
Is this not good or am I just whinging? Maybe some answers will turn up here someday.
There are NO words to describe my utter shock and abhorrance for this dickhead. He gets a G5 for a GIFT! Who the hell gets a G5 for a GIFT?
Ok that’s not what I’m truly shocked at. He dissembowels it so he can whack PC bits in it so he can run Windows XP, apparently he wanted a Dell (Dill or Hell) not a G5!
Where are the Apple police when you need them!
The Nathan J exhibition is only on in Melbourne. That sucks pretty darn hard, but hey, us Sydney siders get to swoop down and gorge ourselves silly on the Shag exhibit and Shag related goodies first, so that’s pretty cool. You know what enhances the coolness of the impending Shag exhibition? The fact that you can buy the Nathan J book/catalogue of the Melbourne show, you know, the book I said “I fucking want” in this entry here. That’s pretty fucking nice of those wonderful Outré Gallery keepers.
On a totally unrelated note, I finally succumbed and bought myself a graphics tablet. How the hell could I resist? I mean they come in deep purple these days. The theory is it will be delivered to my place of employment tomorrowish.
www.booble.com was launched today.
Yes, Booble is a fucking funny play on Google. Google is the webs kick arse search engine. Booble will be the webs kick arse adult content search engine. Illegal and extremely hard-core material have been filtered out.
You have got to see the logo, fucking funny.
Check out this article, Booble takes a poke at Google for some background info and a chortle.
Booble! – tee hee
Gee it’s certainly taken me some time to blog about the whole Apple licensing their iPod hardware to HP thing. I could crap on about how this is a good thing for Mac users, PC users, HP, Apple and every one who wants an iPod, but Mr. Gruber says it far more eloquently than I so here: The H-Bomb. Todd Dominey also says it betterer than I: The HP / Apple Dance.
Like Gruber, I think the fact that the HP iPod will not support/play WMA files is a complete non issue. I also find this article Hewlett-Packard: No WMA for IPod, just some more indirect Apple bashing. Oooooo! You can’t play WMA files! Why the fuck would you when mp3 and AAC are both superior and platform independant? Maybe I just think this as I don’t buy music from the iTunes store or other such stores. If I like something I buy the cd and let iTunes turn it into a cd quality mp3 or AAC playlist and whack it on my iPod. Just a thought, why don’t Napster and other such people offer mp3’s as well or instead of WMA? Why are these people jumping on the proprietry band wagon? Maybe I’m just out of the loop…
Any way, you can checkout the HP branded iPod in HP grey in this video on Cnet.
WMA – HA!
Straight outta the Outré Gallery‘s newsletter:
Outré will be publishing a full-colour 48 page book on the work of Nathan entitled “Scarygirl: Art by Nathan”. This will be one of the very first monographs in the world focussing on vinyl as a new artistic medium. It will include reproductions of Nathan’s working sketches, illustrations and beautiful, detailed photographs of his vinyl work.
I want this fucking book. I want this exhibition to come to Sydney but alas it appears that this is not the case. Nathan J will only be available for Melbournians viewing pleasure, damn it!
HEROES AND MONSTERS: NEW WORKS BY SHAG, Sydney Opera House: 30 January – 24 February 2004.
Meet Shag in Sydney:
- Saturday 21 February at The Studio for Official Book signing, 2-4pm
- Sunday 22 February at The Studio for Closing Celebration, 6:30-8:30pm, and then following for DJs and dancing at The Opera bar until late (free admission)
Of course many Shaggy related items will be available for all your impulsive Shag needs. If you want to buy original paintings you are too late. There was a list, you could’ve joined the list, but it’s closed and the paintings are spoken for. Sigh!
The countdown is on!
AAMI has made some changes to some of their policies. Details of changes…
Car Insurance Policy Changes
Details of changes… Details of changes… Details of changes… Details of changes… Details of changes… Details of changes… Details of changes… Details of changes… Details of changes… Details of changes… Details of changes… Details of changes…
A bit drastic I’d say, but fair.
Let see how long it takes them to realise that they’ve fucked up a tad.
1. They took 2 weeks to port my telstra number to their Opt-sucks shit, which I was told would take 3 days max.
2. Their customer service staff on both phone and in store give you the run around. I have only encountered 1 helpful lady and 1 guy who could actually tell me what was going on, although he was still bloody annoying because he kept apologising in that monotone ‘I don’t care’ voice, out of 15 or so phone calls.
3. It is now January 2004. My mum and I submitted the change of ownership forms with 100 points ID in October 2003. It still hasn’t been done even after receiving an sms from Opt-sucks saying that my change of ownership has been actioned on the 14/10/03.
A phone call last month to see what the hell is going on turned up some other guy who said the info was there it needs to be processed, and I’ll email the dept. to do it and we’ll give you a call. Needless to say I received no such call.
Of course amongst all these phone calls, I have to have my mum to give authorisation because the account’s still in her fucking name. I don’t think I need to tell you how annoying that is.
Today’s phone call was more informative, the guy informed me that the account had been separated, but the ownership hadn’t been changed. Would be nice if I was informed properly about this in the sms or previous phone calls. No info had been submitted, I would have to go into an Opt-sucks store. I rang my Opt-sucks store. They told me Robbie was handling it and would chase it up. Robbie had since October to chase it up. What the fuck was Robbie doing? Oh I have a phone call.
It was Robbie he needed to confirm some more ID details and he’ll get back to me when he’s finished chasing it up.
Why am I still with Opt-sucks you ask? Well, they are the only mobile service that gets decent reception when I’m at home, and I would like decent mobile reception when I’m at home because I use this phone for both personal and freelance business calls. I don’t want my clients to have my home number, and I don’t do enough freelance business to warrant getting another phone line.
Stay tuned for more Opt-sucks antics or read about my previous entry: Port This!.
For the purposes of effective google searching (see Red wolf comment): Optus, Optus, Optus, Optus, Optus. Oh and Optus.
Community Service Announcement: If you’ve got serious issues with your phone service provider that you have been unable to resolve, it would be well worth your while to have a chat to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.
Got this through our gag mailing list at work with this image:
Dear All,
I don’t normally make a habit of forwarding charity e-mails, but this seemed to be a particularly good cause. I know it touched me personally. Mute Tourettes Syndrome has long been in the shadow of its more famous sister-disease,
Tourettes Syndrome, and although much rarer, is even more tragic in its consequences. While a child suffering from Tourettes has difficulty in containing its anger and frustration, a child with Mute Tourettes suffers the opposite fate, and is unable to express their true feelings. There is, however, an answer. A great deal has been achieved by the Mute Tourettes Foundation using new art therapy techniques. However, their work can only continue with your help. Just $5.00 will keep a child supplied with crayons for a whole day. $10 will provide them with enough paper for a week. Please give what you can to help this deserving cause. Thank you.Please open the above attachment so that the benefits of your generosity can be appreciated.
Photoshop rips heavy cultural symbols out of artists’ phrasebook
Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking?
Photoshop BS
Yep, the latest version of Photoshop, (Photoshop CS), now automatically detects US currency and prevents you from manipulating, copying and pasting it.
Paint Shop Pro 8 has also followed suit.
This handy site contains links and facts about using bank note images for countries around the world. And if I’ve read the US guidelines correctly, you can use illustrations of US currency provided you follow these guidelines.
So why is Adobe restricting law abiding Photoshop users?
Colourful mini iPods have been unveiled at the current Macworld Expo. The mini iPods come in silver, gold, pink, lime and blue, alas there is no purple. They hold 4G worth of music and/or data and is even smaller than your standard iPods. The buttons have been integrated into the scroll wheel, which is actually a click wheel on these things so I’d be interested to see how this goes. Not sure if I like the idea of them reinventing the scroll wheel, it’s a fantastic usability and design feature of the iPod that helps set it apart from all the other wannabe iPods.
Accessory madness has already hit the mini iPod range. You can now buy an armband to shamelessly flaunt your shiny new mininess. Not sure if it’s such a bargain though, a full iPod with 15G capacity is $299 USD, where as the mini iPod holding 4G is $249 USD. You’d really have to love the colours and really, really, really, really need something that bit smaller.
New iLife has also been released with a new app, GarageBand, which allows users to record and mix their own tunes. But wait, isn’t that what Soundtrack was/is for? Hmmm… maybe. GarageBand seems to be the really, really, really, easy way to record, for example, with one cable you can just plug in your guitar and go off! Which has sold me, not sure how soundtrack does do this or if it can.
More stuff was announced but you can read about it here.
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