Print Story #fff #ccc #333 #ded
Diary
By cam (Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 08:44:46 AM EST) (all tags)
Work, food, economics, ford crown victorias, utes, photo blogs, asparagus, screaming jets and mazzy starr.


1. Worked most of the weekend. Huzzah? Boo! I will take a day off during the week to do all the gardening I wanted to do yesterday during the glorious weather.

2. Our neighbour is having their kitchen done. My ever thoughtful wife invited them over for dinner, which proved a good thought as they had been eating take out mostly the last couple of days. We bbq'd a london broil with mexican rice and asparugus. Good stuff. First grilling of the spring too.

3. Peter Martin is the most interesting journalist on economics in Australia at the moment. There are several very prominent Auian economists that fit the public intellectual profile, but lately, his ideas have been very strong and well written in support of his ideas. He thinks insider trading should be allowed again as it gives a faster signal to the market of a companies share health.

4. The Ford Crown Victoria is going to become a police and fleet car only. I want to know, what retard buys one anyway, since the coppers use them , and they are so rare as a civil car, everyone slows down when they see one.

5. Attention Gedvondur: A Chrysler Concorde Ute. IIRC some bloke in Florida came back from Australia and was inspired to make a BMW M3 Ute.

6. I have been enjoying the blogs that take a photo a day. Like St Kilda Today and Sydney Daily Photo. it is good punk documentation of the present. Another one that has caught my interest is Melbourne Runway. This person takes photos of street fashion.

7. Another photo blog I like is Grab Your Fork. it is predominantly a food photo blog.

8. Another site I have been reading lately is Self Made Minds. It mainly focuses on the entrepreneurial side of managing content heavy sites.

9. I have asparagus to plant in the garden this year. Never grown asparagus before.

10. But you know and I know better. Oz rock hair band from the late-80s/early-90s.

11. Bought this song from itunes on saturday night . Mazzy Starr fade into you.

< Wibble | BBC White season: 'Rivers of Blood' >
#fff #ccc #333 #ded | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback
Hope Sandoval (of Mazzy Star) by R Mutt (4.00 / 2) #1 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 10:20:30 AM EST
Sexiest voice ever.



Die Heretic! by Herring (4.00 / 1) #2 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 10:31:02 AM EST
That's Charlotte Green.

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. - Bill Bailey
[ Parent ]

World gone crazy ! by Phage (4.00 / 1) #3 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 10:41:10 AM EST
On my mp3 player even now.

Those photos make me sad/homesick/anxious ? Dunno what it is. Found myself nodding to many of the Sydney pix, been there, seen them, wish I'd done that etc. It's not my home anymore, I think it's nostalgia for the Sydney I used to know.

The Czar of Accounting. No Nit Too Small To Pick


Oh, and by Phage (4.00 / 1) #4 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 10:42:36 AM EST
The yellow ute = faargoff yanker
M3 = I'll think about. It sort of works, but it's no Maloo.

The Czar of Accounting. No Nit Too Small To Pick
[ Parent ]

Know what you mean with the nostalgia by cam (2.00 / 0) #9 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 11:07:31 AM EST
My understanding of the environments is now that way. Especially Sydney as I spent so many years there. I suspect my view of Sydney is anchored in about 1992-94.

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic
[ Parent ]

Yeah by Phage (4.00 / 1) #10 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 11:13:55 AM EST
1982-1995 was Sydney. It was 1983 when I set my landspeed record Sydney to home. back then you could do insane speed down the old windsor road with the only dangers being livestock and your shocks collapsing.

When I go back now, they've put in whole new freeways. Much of the towns have changed and people moved on. Times swift arrow yada yada...

The Czar of Accounting. No Nit Too Small To Pick
[ Parent ]

Whoa by Gedvondur (4.00 / 1) #5 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 10:43:22 AM EST
While the Concorde might be a mighty fine vehicle, I can't imagine why you would......for the lack of a better term El Camino it.

They did do a hell of a job, though.

I will also be interested to see when they get the BMW done.  Lots of very nice metal work going into that puppy.

Gedvondur
"If that's not irony, I'll drink a kitten." --Fleece


Who buys a crown vic ? by sasquatchan (4.00 / 2) #6 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 10:48:20 AM EST
why those of us that are stylin.. Sure, it's an LTD (country squire) but it's a crown vic at heart baby!



A Crown Vic would be a great troll car by georgeha (4.00 / 2) #7 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 10:54:57 AM EST
As soon as a speeder spotted you, they'd sow right down, causing traffic jams behind you. You can put some boxes and domey things on the dash and make people nervous when you pull behind them.


[ Parent ]

People cop them out by cam (4.00 / 1) #8 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 11:03:11 AM EST
I saw a crown vic speeding on Rt95 that had a young girl in it. Because it had the angled light hanging off the rear view mirror everyone was slowing down. It looked like a cop car. All it takes is some CB aerials and a spotlight and no-one is taking chances.

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic
[ Parent ]

My friend had a Caprice in college. by miker2 (4.00 / 2) #11 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 11:48:37 AM EST
When on the NJTPK he'd be flying in the left lane as people got the hell out of his way.

Ah, sociopathy. How warm, how comforting, thy sweet embrace. - MNS
[ Parent ]

You know and I know better by Bob Abooey (4.00 / 1) #12 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 12:19:59 PM EST
That song was in heavy rotation on my mp3 player at the gym for a while. It's a swell elliptical machine tune.

Warmest regards,
--Your best pal Bob

How's my blogging: Call me at 209.867.5309 to complain.


RIP Ford by leviramsey (4.00 / 1) #13 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 02:17:39 PM EST

While GM and Chrysler (and even Hyundai, and maybe Toyota) [re]discover RWD, you're trying to transition Crown Vic drivers to the new Taurus.

It also looks like the Town Car will go to fleet-only, leaving the Grand Marquis as the only retail version of the Panther platform.

As it is, the Crown Vic isn't even that good of a police car; Car and Driver picked the FWD Impala over it and the Charger in their roundup of police-spec cars.

As I've only just now returned to HuSi, I'm wondering: have you made your reservations for a G8/Commodore yet? Or are you waiting for the inevitable G8 GXP with a Corvette engine?


--
Could I be the next Lee Abrams?


No I wont be buying a G8 by cam (4.00 / 1) #15 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 03:28:56 PM EST
for the same reasons that I haven't bought a GTO. I prefer my Corvette. If I had two kids and needed four doors, then yeh it would be in the running. Rumour has it that the GXP will get the LS3.

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic
[ Parent ]

no you did not barbecue a london broil by alprazolam (4.00 / 1) #14 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 03:21:35 PM EST
you grilled it. when you barbecue something, you cook it off the heat, using smoke. although it's common in the northeast to call what you did "barbecuing", they're entirely different ways of cooking.



Grilling was done in an oven in Au by cam (4.00 / 1) #16 Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 03:29:37 PM EST
all firepit or open fires were called BBQs or barbies.

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic
[ Parent ]

Yah - What he said by Phage (4.00 / 1) #17 Tue Mar 27, 2007 at 05:54:46 AM EST
Apart from the hungi.

The Czar of Accounting. No Nit Too Small To Pick
[ Parent ]

#fff #ccc #333 #ded | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback