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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Christmas party



We had our work Christmas party last Friday. Was a whole lot better then last years...


This year we were in a club, looking out over the beach. Good food, free bar.
Thought I’d leave off posting an entry until I see what sort of fallout resulted.
Not a lot it turns out. Looks like all the wayward kids decided to ‘get a bit’ of discretion.

The thing I’ve noticed about a lot of Christmas parties is a desperate rush by a load of people to ‘get with’ someone from work. As though the rules are changed for one night.
Ordinarily it takes a couple of days for someone to end up with a 'post party rep' but a new record has been set by one girl who had started as a receptionist just a week earlier. The party started at one in the afternoon and she had a reputation by eight o’clock that night.
I think history is caught in a feedback loop that’s slowly tightening.

There was a fancy dress theme.
Some of the boys did it, as did quite a few of the girls, and everyone else dressed nice.
As usual, there was a guy who dressed up like a woman, and he won a prize for best costume.
Why is it almost always the guy that dresses up like a woman that scores the prize for best effort? The decision was made by a group of girls. Are women not bored of seeing men dressed up as parodies of women?

There were mechanical surfboards pitching young guns off into the scenery, video games, and a fortune teller booth. I lined up a fellow sceptic to accompany me into 'flaky land.'
Fortune teller reckons I’m going to have a close relationship with in six months. I pressed him for more details and it will be a proper relationship, not just copping off in an ally behind the pub. I said that if I found true love within the next six months, I'd track him down and write him a cheque for a thousand dollars.
Let’s call the end of June the cut off.

So how was your Christmas party?

Christmas party

We had our work Christmas party last Friday. Was a whole lot better then last years...

Link to last year’s party

This year we were in a club, looking out over the beach. Good food, free bar.
Thought I’d leave off posting an entry until I see what sort of fallout resulted.
Not a lot it turns out. Looks like all the wayward kids decided to ‘get a bit’ of discretion.

The thing I’ve noticed about a lot of Christmas parties is a desperate rush by a load of people to ‘get with’ someone from work. As though the rules are changed for one night.
Ordinarily it takes a couple of days for someone to end up with a 'post party rep' but a new record has been set by one girl who had started as a receptionist just a week earlier. The party started at one in the afternoon and she had a reputation by eight o’clock that night.
I think history is caught in a feedback loop that’s slowly tightening.

There was a fancy dress theme.
Some of the boys did it, as did quite a few of the girls, and everyone else dressed nice.
As usual, there was a guy who dressed up like a woman, and he won a prize for best costume.
Why is it almost always the guy that dresses up like a woman that scores the prize for best effort? The decision was made by a group of girls. Are women not bored of seeing men dressed up as parodies of women?

There were mechanical surfboards pitching young guns off into the scenery, video games, and a fortune teller booth. I lined up a fellow sceptic to accompany me into 'flaky land.'
Fortune teller reckons I’m going to have a close relationship with in six months. I pressed him for more details and it will be a proper relationship, not just copping off in an ally behind the pub. I said that if I found true love within the next six months, I'd track him down and write him a cheque for a thousand dollars.
Let’s call the end of June the cut off.

So how was your Christmas party?



Monday, December 17, 2007

Bondi to Bronte swimming event 07 (part two.)

This is a follow up to the photos I posted last week….

library/post/bondi-to-bronte-swimming-race-07

It’s taken me a week to get the videos cut up (filling in the spaces in-between bursts of gainful employment.)

This event was held on Sunday off Sydney’s Eastern beaches.
The course is drawn between the first two Surf Life Saving clubs in the world.
Starting in front of Bondi Surf Club, it runs out from Bondi, around McKenzies point and down the coast into Bronte Beach. A distance of 2.2 - 2.5km (depending on the positioning of the buoy off McKenzies point).

I was pretty impressed watching this mass of people swim out of the bay, down the coast, and then back in to shore.
There were young ones, oldies, chunky and thin.
They were carefully watched the whole time by the ‘water safety’ folks.

The embedded map has the coarse drawn on it, and clicking on the pins opens a video up.

Use the controls to zoom in and out, and drag to reposition the map.







Sunday, December 16, 2007

Weekend wondering

This weeks question…
Which are more irritating, moths or flies?


Answers to last weeks question from a variety of sources…
Who would win a drinking contest between lil Red Riding Hood and lil Bo Peep? (The drink is Tequila Slammers.)


Let me hear it for the Peepster!
  • No contest. Little Bo Peep, everyone knows its the quiet ones you have to watch out for.
  • I go with Little Bo Peep...definitely the quiet shy ones you do have to watch out for...lol
  • I'm going with my Peep. 'Bo', you may not realize, is short for 'Booze'.


Make a noise for Red from the hood!
  • Little Red Riding Hood of course.
  • I think red riding hood with her "oh my what big.... you have" isn't so innocent and would probably throw her shots over her shoulder when bo beep wasn't looking.
  • What a silly question! everyone knows red riding hood can drink bo peep under the table. jeesh!
  • Bo Peep loses her sheep on a good day, I doubt she can hold her liqueur:) ::smiles::
  • She isn't red riding hood for nothing you know!...lol
  • Red Riding Hood, no question. (Bo-Peep drinks wine coolers and gets sleepy or weepy)
  • Lil Red Riding Hood hands down. She probably carried Grannie's hooch in the basket too and enjoyed many samples on the way through the forest.
  • I'll go for Red Riding Hood to win (no matter what the drink) - I see her and the Big Bad Wolf having some serious drinking sessions and that'll get my girl over the line.
  • R.Riding Hood. Takes courage to stand up to the big bad wolf. Besides, have you ever known anyone in a fru-fru petticoated dress who can drink anyone under a table?
  • Red riding hood

Weekend wondering

This weeks question…
Which are more irritating, moths or flies?

Answers to last weeks question from a variety of sources…
Who would win a drinking contest between lil Red Riding Hood and lil Bo Peep? (The drink is Tequila Slammers.)

Let me hear it for the Peepster!

  • No contest. Little Bo Peep, everyone knows its the quiet ones you have to watch out for.
  • I go with Little Bo Peep...definitely the quiet shy ones you do have to watch out for...lol
  • I'm going with my Peep. 'Bo', you may not realize, is short for 'Booze'.

Make a noise for Red from the hood!
  • Little Red Riding Hood of course.
  • I think red riding hood with her "oh my what big.... you have" isn't so innocent and would probably throw her shots over her shoulder when bo beep wasn't looking.
  • What a silly question! everyone knows red riding hood can drink bo peep under the table. jeesh!
  • Bo Peep loses her sheep on a good day, I doubt she can hold her liqueur:) ::smiles::
  • She isn't red riding hood for nothing you know!...lol
  • Red Riding Hood, no question. (Bo-Peep drinks wine coolers and gets sleepy or weepy)
  • Lil Red Riding Hood hands down. She probably carried Grannie's hooch in the basket too and enjoyed many samples on the way through the forest.
  • I'll go for Red Riding Hood to win (no matter what the drink) - I see her and the Big Bad Wolf having some serious drinking sessions and that'll get my girl over the line.
  • R.Riding Hood. Takes courage to stand up to the big bad wolf. Besides, have you ever known anyone in a fru-fru petticoated dress who can drink anyone under a table?
  • Red riding hood



Thursday, December 13, 2007

Re-Dub

Earlier I posted a image...

post/here-are-some-more-postings-of-shots-taken-with-my-newish-caplio-gx100

...and there was a comment made about re-dubbing it as B&W, so here it is...




Sunday, December 9, 2007

Weekend wondering

This weeks question…
Who would win a drinking contest between lil Red Riding Hood and lil Bo Peep? (The drink is Tequila Slammers.)

Answers to last weeks question from a variety of sources…
Is purple the new black?

Yes
  • hell yeh get with it,,lol x
  • I don't know - but I love it!

No
  • No way...
  • Hmmm, i think not. I have far more black than purple in my closet. Purple does not slim, in fact a chubby person in purple may look like a grape. Purple does not match everything like black does. Even the word purple is icky sounding. Nope, not the new black...can't be done. :)
  • No Dave. With all stereotypes put aside, Hispanic and Arabic are the new black. ^_^ But purple's good too...
  • Definitely not. Black is the the black.

Ummm
  • I get tired of hearing that such and such a colour is the new black. Black is classic and cannot be replaced. So stop trying! (I adore black;)
  • who cares. what does it mean anyway?
  • I'll Play. A Tomato sandwich beats an apple any day, although apples have more divirsity, spread with peanut butter, bake, numerous recipes that far outweigh the tomato.
  • Is this a fashion question?
  • With my fashion sense, I'm the last one to offer any kind meaningful answer.