Foddrick - Rant

Useless Milestones

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:34:53 +1000

Milestones.. Why do we celebrate things sometimes ? Sure, turning a multiple of ten is worth celebrating. But why am I chuffed that I watched my car's odometer go from 199,999 to 200,000 tonight ? I suppose the barina is a cool car...

Cricket Cowardice

Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:22:01 +1000

Unfortunately, Australia is doing pretty badly in the one-dayer on at this present time. I have therefore retreated, as I usually do, to "watching" the cricket via the online score so I do not sully my eyes with video of the carnage.
Edit: And despite briefly raising my hopes, we did indeed go on to lose this game.

Movies that I want to see

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:28:30 +1000

This page exists purely to remind me to see movies when they come out on DVD as I can't tolerate paying for the evil and expensive cinema experience any longer. Alternatively, these movies could be good movies I've simply missed along the way.

~~King Kong~~
~~40 year old virgin~~
~~Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe~~
~~Wedding Crashers (maybe be available after 2nd Feb 2006)~~

Salesmen

Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:40:19 +1000

I don't suffer salesmen at the best of times and I feel the need to share two recent encounters.

We're looking at getting a new car, and test drove a Honda CRV last week. I made the mistake of giving the salesmen my phone number. Now, he's called at least 3 times bothering me about buying this car. I didn't really like the car, but he's really scotched his chances now!
This indicident, happened quite unbelievably, at Harvey Norman. I go there looking for a mouse, but apparently we don't need cords anymore and need to but batteries ad infinitum. Anyway, they didn't have the mouse I wanted, despite having that one a month ago. The droid goes on to say the one I wanted was, in a few more words, crap and I should use the one he uses at home; we all take our IT cues from HN droids, don't we ? Anyway, I walked off saying that I'd buy it elsewhere and he's still trying to foister his personally preferred mouse on me.