international nut of pastry - I think this lines mostly filler.

Passed on by Rabbit.

I'm not sure why, but I saw a Commodore on my way to work today and it was ugly enough to inspire me to write a rant about it... And actually go to the effort to place it on his windshield.

Whilst this rant is specific to Sony, in reality it's more about the Australian video games in general.

For many years (possibly decades) Australia has had a weak dollar exchange rate with the US and as such, many gamers had grown accustomed to paying a a premium for our video games - around $100AU for a console game. This price wasn't acceptable, but we dealt as there was no real way of getting a (legit) copy of a game imported any cheaper than what we could get here.

Shortly before the Playstation 3 was released, Playstation 2 games started being having a recommended retail price (RRP) of $90AU

Enter the "very good exchange rate" character.

100% crop of a photo taken on Friday the 11th at work.

This young Australian Minor was walking around on the ground, with about 3 or 4 other Australian Minors flying around, or standing near it. The little bugger must of fallen out of his nest in a failed attempt at flying.

He was obviously scared of the human trying to get close to him... But as it walked up to the top of a mound of, he came back down to have a final look at me before running to the top again, and flying off - into a wire fence.

f16 - 1/500 - ISO 400 - 55mm

On my way to work this morning, I saw this balloon who was so low that at one point I thought it was going to land in a parking lot.

First off an article about how to infuse vodka. Something that i wouldn't mind trying at some point, mostly so I can say "I made this" - much like my homebrew.

Secondly... Those crazy Russians - Downing a whole bottle of vodka in around 30 seconds, followed closely by the after effects.

f8 - 1/125 - ISO 200 - 55mm

f9 - 1/640 - ISO 400 - 150mm

Adjustments in Aperture to hide the blown out highlights.