And when I say crazy, I mean absolutely fucking nuts. No indicators, travelling at high speeds and cutting across in front of you for no reason, going 70km/h in a 60 zone while being 3 metres from your back bumper.

This one time, I was quietly going along at the speed limit (70, if I recall correctly) and this car pulls out from behind me, speeds round me, cuts in front of me (without using any indicators), abruptly breaks and turns into a driveway. WTF?!? Why!?

Another time, I was being tailgated by a city bus at 80km/h.

The friend who I’m staying with works for an insurance company as the person who fills in and files the claim when you have an accident (she says that she generally only takes Melbourne calls) and she told me some shockers.

Today, she filed a claim for a woman in her late 70s, who was pushed into an intersection and who narrowly avoided being cleaned up by a bus, by a truck who 1. didn’t noticed that the car ahead of him in his lane was stopped, 2. didn’t notice the stop light the car was stopped at, and 3. didn’t attempt to brake at all. What the fuck was he doing? Was he in the back of the truck smoking copious quantities of marijuana and cackling maniacally? Jesus.

Apparantly, Victorians have the highest rate of car-pedestrian accidents in the country. By far. With the way these freaks drive, this does not surprise me one bit.

Anyway, must go now. Sliders (that old-school 90s b-grade sci-fi series) is on Foxtel! w007

Do you like pointless, often personally-directed debate? I DO!!!

I created a new forum today expressly for this purpose. I think it should be pretty self-explanatory. Read the topic and what comments people have already posted. Then, express your own opinion, or just shoot down someone else’s!

Check out the forum here.

This period’s topic is: Self-harm laws.

There’s an excellent movie shop called Alpha Video not too far from our house, and since weekly DVDs are $1.95 to hire(!), I decided to indulge. We (my Korean housemate Jae-Son and I) hired several DVDs, of which I have seen two – JSA, a Korean movie about soldiers on the DMZ between North- and South Korea, and XXX (which I hadn’t seen until this week).

JSA was quite good. I enjoy movies about stuff like war, Korea, Hitler, Russia, Nazis, Communists, etc. so that automatically increases its appeal for me, regardless of whether the movie is crap or not. So, maybe for you it’d be a terrible movie. It wasn’t a real “bang bang shoot-em-up” sort of movie, but I don’t mind that either. Yeah, as I said, quite good. On a scale of 1000 to 300 tuna tins, I’d give it 573 tuna tins.

XXX was fucken awesome. I don’t generally go for stupid Hollywood movies, which XXX could be classified as, but this had definate flair. Just a sidenote: maybe the reason I liked this movie is that it had evil Eastern-European characters. It might also be because Vin Diesel isn’t bad at all to watch. I’m kinda spewing that I didn’t see it at the cinema. This one I’d rate as 253 1/2 whales out of a Japanese whaling ship.

That ends my half-arsed movie review.

This week, Doyle started setting up an online shop (just the default one that comes with our webhost, so I promptly deleted it and installed a different one, much to Doyle’s disdain), so I’ve been having fun playing with that. As it’s not quite ready for production yet, no, I’m not going to post the link for it (although unless you’re a complete fuckhead you should be able to figure out the URL without much problem). But expect to be able to buy miscellaneous shit from us in the near future.

While browsing somethingawful.com, I came across a link to this site. I sincerely suggest that you take a look. Oh, the hilarity!

One other thing – why do most of the blog-post titles refer to the author in the third person? Isn’t that kinda lame? I seriously don’t get it. It’s obvious from the author and the category who wrote it, so why do we need the author in the title as well? That’s just an observation- I still intend referring to myself in the third person. I think that it was originally Doyle’s fault. Good one man.

Hello to all. I’ve decided that, yet again, I am being left out of the blog-fest of loving that is blog.olilolo.com and that I wish to rectify this situation.

Well, question: what’s new? Answer: not much. After spending a few days of downloading, my computer is now fully ready and configured for Internet use and, surprisingly, it’s reasonably fast. Well, not to load Internet pages, but it doesn’t take ages to start programs. Also, I found an MSN client for Linux! W007! My god, the Internet is cool.

We were short a house-mate for a little while (our old housemate, Leslie, moved to Sydney awhile back), but we now have a new house-mate, whose name is Jaeseon. Consequently, I have resolved to learn a little bit of… (wait for it…) Korean! Not necessarily how to speak it, or understand it, just how to pronounce and write the words. And no, that’s not nearly as crazy as it seems, as the Korean alphabet is entirely phonetic (it’s said how it’s spelt unlike, for example, Chinese and English). This will have the net effect of making me more attractive and lovable to possible Korean mates, as well as making me weirder and more hermit-like to all of my non-Korean friends. Everybody wins!

BTW, good to see that, after vehemently swearing that he’d rather die than write a blog post, Ben has actually written something. That took a lot less time than I thought it would.

Well, as you may have guessed, Internet connection was a little slower in coming than I’d hoped. I got home on Monday after work to find things just as they had been. When I rang Telstra, they simply denied all knowledge that the line was meant to be connected on Monday at all, and let me know that it should be ready on Wednesday. *sigh*
Well, it is now Wednesday and as you may have noticed from the title, Telstra did in fact come good on its promise and I NOW HAVE INTERNET. Yes, it’s crappy dial-up internet and yes, it’s really, really slow, but it’s INTERNET!
Anyhow, I’m currently installing an OS from the internet (which I expect to take literally days) and posting this from a text browser. w007.
Have fun to everyone who’s going to watch the State of Origin tonight. Unfortunately, I don’t believe that there’s going to be television coverage in SA, but I’ll attempt to follow it on radio. Either that or I’ll just listen to music instead.

As other people have posted much more than I have, I feel left out and that I should probably get in on the action. Not that I have anything to say. Seriously.

Not too much has been going on. The car broke the other day and I had to put it in for a service, but I get it back this afternoon (well, at least that’s the plan). $365.90 – not too bad. I originally reckoned that it’d cost about $150, so I’d budgetted $300. Then the mechanic rings me to tell me that the brakes are fucked and he needs to replace some shit. So I figure that $365.90 is pretty good. I reckon I would have been happy with anything under $500. Now all we have to hope is that it works, and continues working for a while. Now all I have to worry about is rego (damn cars).

On the Internet front, I now have an internet account (dial-up only though, I hate you guys), although still no phone line. Internet is $13 a month (with these guys), phone line costs $13.90 (with Telstra Pre-Paid Home) and is meant to be connected sometime on Monday. Not too bad, I reckon. So hopefully there’ll be internetting next week. Then I’ll be able to join your cool internet-1337age club, and maybe post to the blog a little more often. w007.