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For someone who gets a bit self conscious about birthdays, I’ve ended up having a pretty extravagant and prolonged 30th birthday celebration spanning three weekends.  On the weekend of my actual birthday, Jen secretly arranged tickets for the two of us to fly to Melbourne.  I was planning on spendying my 30th birthday working a regular day in the office.  ...

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Life of Pi is a highly decorated and successful novel by Yann Martel which won the Man Booker Prize in 2003, sold millions of copies worldwide and has admirers including Barack Obama.  But since I’m a poorly read shlub who doesn’t keep up with these sort of things, the first time this story caught my attention was when Ang Lee’s ...

The Newsroom – S01E02 – Newsnight 2.0 Its one of the worst hours of television I have ever seen. There are plenty of tv shows on the air that are knowingly awful.  Or at least they’re designed to be purposefully low brow, silly, frivolous or shallow.  But few things are more awkward than watching a tv show as sanctimonious and ...

Aaaand…done. The Lego Town Hall is the final building (thats still in production) missing from our Modular Series range.  Released in March 2012, it is the newest and biggest in the series, designed by an architect named Estrid. The Town Hall is a worthy culmination of the design elements that have appeared in the previous modular range.  It has a ...

Batman Returns is the sequel to the hugely popular Batman film by Tim Burton.  It was released three years after the original, retained Burton and Keaton but introduced two new villains – Danny De Vito as Penguin and Michelle Pfeiffer in probably her most famous cinematic role as Cat Woman. I mentioned in my review of Batman that I thought ...

What makes a genius? What makes a genius stand out from the pack in a professional sports team, in classical music, in pop music, in Silicon Valley, in literature, in science, in anything?  It’s a surprisingly simple formula according to Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers.  It’s ten thousand hours of practise. Outliers is a much more focused and thematically ...

I was saddened to wake up this morning to the news of Ernest Borgnine’s passing, at the ripe old age of 95.  As an actor, Borgnine had a career spanning eight decades and featured in over 200 different television shows and movies.  For many people, he’ll be best remembered for his roles in The Wild Bunch and The Poseidon Adventure.  ...

I really wish I had thought of this 🙁 Have a good weekend everyone!

Dumb, Drunk & Racist “Initially the show was called “Dumb, Drunk or Racist” and you only had to be one or the other. We changed the name to all three after visiting Queensland.” – Joe Hildebrand This ABC2 program opens with a narration from host Joe Hildebrand who explains that in Indian call centres, staff are taught that the average ...