Author: Morgan Avery

More presents, and a lovely afternoon in a park. Great day. Shame about the pathetic little council prat at Judges Bay, at least he had the sense to give me a ‘warning’ rather than a fine ($400).

It’s strange that fines are called that, when they really aren’t, don’t you think?

I’m not certain, but I think I might be a king or something… Being woken up with kisses, breakfast in bed, and presents… Is wonderful. 🙂

A poem for my baby in advance of that bizarre annual festival of lies — no, not my birthday — Valentines Day. It’s called "Hey baby, could you get some dinner on the way home from work?."

Hey baby, could you get some dinner on the way home from work?

I’m not sure what you want, but I wouldn’t mind having Wendy’s.

If you want something else, that would be fine too.

If you want me to cook for you, I’d love to do that.

But if you want Wendy’s too, I’d like it if you could get me a bacon classic combo and a chilli.

Oh, and please get some extra hot sauce.

It’s hot, like you.

It’s saucy, like you.

I love it, like you.

I think she’ll like it.

Went out to Forrest Hill for more mountain bike trail riding insanity yesterday, this time I took George along, he seemed to enjoy it, but running along the twisty turny trails for over 20Ks wore his legs down to bloody stumps. Now he keeps looking at me strangely sort of like: "Please don’t make me run anymore you fucking two-legged bastard."

Things I didn’t learn until today:

The same bloody genius that discovered that ethyl lead made engines run smoother, and caused it to be added to petrol, discovered Chloro Fleuro Carbons.

Who says one man can’t make a difference?

Apple are a marketing company, most of their products are the same as what’s available on PC, in some cases utterly identical and cheaper, so what Apple sell you is "style" and "a whole lot of shiny white paint" they also still pretend to sell you "easy," which is a complete lie, but never mind, ‘cos they’re now really really good at marketing their shiny white boxes.

They even get to me sometimes, the Imac G5, for example, isn’t original, there are other ‘everything behind the screen’ machines, but: it’s lovely, and while you could have an ‘okay’ PC with dual 19" LCD screens for the price of a single 17" Imac G5, but its amazingly less of a price shock than was the norm even just a couple of years ago.

However, the coolest recent hardware from Apple is the new mini mac, it’s much more versatile than the Imac G5, however, even this isn’t really that original – there are plenty of cheap and cheerful tiny case options for PC users – thing is, they’re mostly not as hot as the mini.

The MP3 players, though… I really can’t imagine the drive that some people have to buy the over priced over rated Apple branded MP3 players, I don’t have the drive, so I think you’re all fools, and yes I’m sure you do like your Ipod, it’s nice to be able to carry around a lot of files, but I do this with portable hard drives, bigger than any Ipod, and a third of the price. But who in their right mind would buy the new Ipod Shuffle? It’s a flash based mp3 player, just like the non-Apple world has been enjoying for years. Why would you bother? (It was an obvious move for Apple, of course: it’s the only portion of the mp3 player market they don’t yet 0wn, and I suspect it’ll probably work.)

Apple do need to sort out OSX, though, it’s an awful unintuitive lump.