The worm’s election

Posted by: on Sep 12, 2004 | No Comments

Fresh from watching that silly television debate which was really just campaigning disguised as journalism, I decided to have a look at the ABC election site. It’s full of all the interesting facts that you can also read the Australian Electoral Commission site, but with some extra comments and details. It notes that my safe Labor seat of Throsby had the Liberals polling at 70% in one voting centre. That voting centre happened to be Marshall Mount where I happen to know at least one family. I don’t image there’d be many more than twenty families in the small farming area so it’s a good thing that 70% doesn’t damage the seat one bit.

Nicole’s birthday

Posted by: on Aug 2, 2004 | No Comments

Happy birthday to Nicole. Now a couple of days past. We went to her birthday drinks at the Random Bar on Saturday night and were most amused to find that World Championship poker was being played on the television. Is this a sport?

Oh, and there was also an excellent dinner cooked by Linton and Emily earlier that evening. AND an excellent dinner the evening before at Malaya followed by, you guessed it, excellent cocktails at Loft. Can you believe this place has a guy with an earpiece monitoring the cushy lounge reserving situation? Now that’s pretentious.