Archive for the 'General' Category

A New Blog After Months of Nothingness

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Time to write a new blog seeing as I have not updated since April Fools Day after seeing the 300 for the first time at the cinema. I have since bought the DVD and seen it again at IMax when it made a limited run return trip. The reason that I have been […]

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300: IMAX - you’ve won sneak preview tickets!

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

I have been looking forward to seeing the new gladiatorial gorefest 300, and now I have been lucky enough to win sneak preview tickets at the largest cinema screen in NSW. So on Tuesday evening socko and I will be watching a gorefest.
For those that do not know anything about 300 it is the adaptaption […]

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NSW State Election

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

Today is the NSW State Election day and I am still to find a compelling reason to vote either way. Both parties seem as much of a muchness in a lot of ways in terms of promises. For example, the Liberals will recycle Sydneys water effluent, whilst Labour offer to build a desalinization plant, the […]

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Rheindorf

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Last night I dined at Rheindorf restaurant in Beverley Hills. The food is excellent quality and the quantity is second to none. Pictured is the pork knuckle on a full sized dinner plate. That is literally as much meat as a standard chicken. The cost of the dish though is $20.50.
The size of the veal […]

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Puppetry of the Inferior

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

A puppet is any controlled character. It may be formed by a shadow, strings, by using a glove, by direct mechanical contrivance or electronic guidance. The last method is also termed as animatronics. Digital animated figures may also be hailed as puppets. Because they are often supplanted by physical puppets for closeups. Puppets moved by […]

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