There was a tweet earlier today from Matt that bemoaned Dubai’s predictability in its weather – always hot, humid and sunny.  Not to look a gift horse in the mouth but occasionally I feel the same way with Brisbane.  It’s always at a pleasantly mild twentysomething degrees and since the flood in January, it’s gone back to behaving itself and ...

Red Dog Redemption

I had a rather unusually protracted birthday celebration this year as it co-incided with my recent holiday with all the relatives in town.  So Jen and I celebrated a week early, then we celebrated with the family on the actual day and then a few weeks later I caught up with my friends for a drink.  Lastly, for some strange ...

You wait for years for a new show about dinosaurs to turn up and then in September we get two at once.  The BBC are airing Planet Dinosaur, a successor to their famous Walking With Dinosaurs series.  Across the Atlantic, the Discovery Channel are launching Dinosaur Revolution.  Here’s the trailer.  The special effects look a wee bit dodgy but I’m ...

Ape Escape

Average Avenging

It was only last night when we said farewell to Jen’s parents as they flew out to China did it really feel like the closing chapter to a four week winter holiday.  It all started in mid-July when we had relatives arrive from around the world – visiting from Scotland, China and America.  Six in total.  Plus all of Jen’s ...

Starting from tomorrow, I’m going to have six relatives visiting Jen and I in Brisbane for the next three or four weeks.  I won’t have any free time to update The FAT Website until the week starting August 8th. Hopefully in the downtime, some of the other TFW bloggers might do an update or two.  I hear one person has ...

I have no idea what the story is behind this video clip or why it got made.  It’s a short film about the friendship formed between a dolphin and a dog.  It’s pretty rad and has a soundtrack scored by Vangelis who did the soundtrack for Bladerunner. Enjoy, and have a good weekend everyone.

The FAT Website is currently in its eleventh year of operation and aside from a six month hiatus between 2008-2009, the site has now been running for approximately 3,800 days, making it one of the longest running blogs on the Internet. The last time we looked at the stats was in June 2010.  Back then we were pulling around about ...