Mick's World Tour

Hand Eye Coordination

Here is an interesting site and an interesting sight.

http://www.ssahn.com/

Trackback

I'm in. I'll be taking mine today......

"100 Bloody Blogs" Drive

Give (Sweet Metallic and Red)
Originally uploaded by Santino il Commentatore Rosso.

Give Blood. It's good.

I want to get 100 Australian blogs to put a blog entry about giving blood.

I want you to do your own entry, and encourage other people to put a blog entry.

When anyone adds a posting, they should come back here and make a comment.

Come on, lets get 100!!

Here is the bit to post...

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Give Blood Today - It Saves Lives!
http://www.arcbs.redcross.org.au/

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Here is what to do;

1. Make a posting with the URL and info above, plus encourage others to blog it.
2. Include a link to this posting.
3. Come back to this posting and make a comment to say you've blogged it and include a link to your posting.
4. Invite your blogging friends to participate.

Spread the word!.

P.S. I gave blood today, which is what inspired me.

Me Julie

I'm in love.

So in love.

I found someone who shares the same passions, the same interests, the same facial hair.

Oh, the sweet bliss!

The Serial Number of Your Mobile Phone

To find out the serial number of your mobile phone, type in

* (Star)
# (Hash)
06 (zero six)
# (Hash)

Write it down and if your phone is stolen, then you can report this to the police and they can stop it being resold.

:)

Freedom in China

This picture made me think about whether people who are in a communist country like China actually are happier and live better lives because they don't know what they are missing or whether that is why it is not a good thing in the first place.

My friend Nathan lived in China for 9 months and I've visited there for a week (not much I know...). My impression is that a lot of people genuinely believe that the country is doing the best they can for them, but also that there is a quiet desperation about controls and freedom.

Interestingly, I'd say that lots of people in capitalist societies also 'live lives of quiet desperation' (Emerson??). Plus, most people don't actually use their freedoms very much. They get jobs and work hard and retire at 65 to enjoy life. My observation in Australia (with family and general living) is that when people move here from a country with less freedom or less opportunity, they really try and make the most out of it. They often start businesses, work very hard and place a lot of emphasis on their kids education. Often times I think this is ridiculed in Australia, and I assume US/UK given media/tv (which I admit is not to be relied on for anything). I think we make jokes about Vietnamese people starting bakeries, or Indian people running convenience stores, but we miss the point that they are working hard and reaping profits if they run a business well.

This is not across the board. I know America and even Australia has a good rate of entrepreneurs who start businesses, but I feel it is a lower percentage because we haven't had life without opportunities. We take it for granted.

Freedom without exercising it is like eyesight without opening your eyes.

Tiles, carpet or wood

My parents have just tiled their lounge room. It used to be carpet. They thought about polished wooden floors. I'm not sure what is best? Each has it's pros and cons.

Wood - nice look, good in summer.
Carpet - warm, fluffy, good to lie on.
Tiles - easy to clean, sharp look, healthy (not as good to lie on, but you can get rugs! but if you're going to have rugs, then why not just have carpet...?)

What do you think?

Big Weekendish

Here is how it went...

Thursday night, I was going to have a quiet drink with Simon Nash, but we decided to postpone to a night when he doesn't have to go home so we can drink more. So I end up going to Mei Lin's second farewell (first was on weekend at Commodore and then the old Blueberry's - I think it is called Fluid??). The second farewell is at Mosman hotel and her, Ceals, Rani (briefly due to interview next day), Simone, Dee, Anna, Dan, Sarah and I have our $5 steaks and drink. We keep drinking and end up having 3 rounds of shots including my (bad) invention of vodka midori shots.... hmmm. We straggle home and Mei Lin throws up on the way home - perfect!!

Friday I'm nearly ready for lunch (after early morning meetings hungover) and I get told we have a boozy lunch with our PR agency... So I end up drinking 3 or 4 glasses of wine. Back to work at 4pm (I love marketing) and it is Beer O'clock. Couple of beers. Then back to my place to watch the rugby. More beers, but no fireworks (something about a helicoptor over the harbour bridge...). 11 o'clock Michal and Peter leave for a ferry and I stumble to bed.

Saturday morning and Caine rings me at 7.30 about the bike ride. I get up, shower, and we ride around Narabeen lake for an hour and 15 mins. Good ride. I drop him home, eat some lunch and get some sleep. Because I'm heading to Livid (www.livid.com.au). I wake myself and get going. $100 tickets, you don't want to miss too much. I think I'm going to fall asleep, but Michelle and I get into it straight away. I got into Pacifier, Frenzal Rhomb, Peabody (these guys are funky), Spod (pink...), Living End (still moshing hard at 28!) and finally, the White Stripes - these guys really went off. So very stylish and cool. Rocking hard.

Sunday I have a BBQ planned for some friends (Coopernooks, Kings, Dan and Kim, Caine and Will). But wind forces us inside. Problem was that I hadn't cleaned up from Friday night.... And had no food. And my friend Sal rang from Geneva. I wanted to chat to her, so we did - for an hour. And then I raced around and finished cleaning as the door got knocked on. A great afternoon with young Christopher Cooper stealing all the attention (from me).

By Sunday night I was looking forward to getting back to work.

Today's Quote

"The sun rose and the people breathed in the air and they had the whole day to do what they wanted and life was good. "

Sponsored Speed Cameras

A friend of mine said that in Northern New South Wales, there are lots of speed cameras because the paraplegic organisation sponsors them. They get to keep the revenue.

Great idea. I'm thinking of investing in a couple round my place.

Anyone know about these??

Capital Cities

Ever stumped to find out what is the capital city of a country?? I am, that's why I use;

what-is-the-capital-of.com

you should too!