Movie: The Bank Job Another Jason Statham picture; as you’d expect with a bank heist film set in London, there aren’t a lot of guns in the picture, but it makes up its MA15+ rating with more nudity than the trailer would suggest. Most of the violence is off-screen (or over quickly), but there are …
Monthly Archives: August 2008
dvd: mister roberts
Mister Roberts An old classic, I remember watching it with my dad. As it turns out, I didn’t remember as much of it as I thought. Amazing to see how much content can be smuggled past the censors back in the day. A slow-paced film – based on a Broadway play – its pacing was …
the resilient paperbark tree
the resilient paperbark tree Years ago, when we still lived at Hurstville, there was a large paperbark tree out the front of the unit block. One Friday night – just before friends from Canberra were coming up to visit us for the first time – someone parked a car next to the tree, and set …
speed stacks
There seems to be a whole sport built around stacking cups at high speed. Don’t forget, when you’re stacking cups like that to use both hands.
St James coffee cart, Sydney CBD
st james coffee cart, sydney Toby’s Estate Coffee. King St, Sydney. Outdoors, in the shade of one of Sydney’s oldest churches (which, incidentally, looks like it’s pretty high Anglican with its talk of Eucharist and healing ministry), is this coffee cart, with its umbrella-covered outdoor seating. Having walked past and seen a line of suits, …
the book that understands me
Great post from Mike on someone who looks for truth all over the place, but ultimately finds it in a location he’d ruled out before his search began.
movie: wanted
Movie: Wanted I couldn’t get into this one. There’s too much repetition in the start, trying to set up the character as a ne’er-do-well with a miserable life that he doesn’t enjoy: in its rare moments of characterisation, it forces the point too much – we understand that the little girl is a young Angelina …
the mysterious short cappucino
This old slate article explains that you can (could?) get a short cappucino at Starbucks – a better, cheaper coffee, but it’s a secret. Why? It’s all about extracting the most money a customer is prepared to pay. If someone has no idea there’s a cheaper version available, they will spend the extra money on …
drinking tea
[jess g] Terrible puns… tea-a-logian: come on. And yet, there’s something about this blog post drinking tea in light of the cross that’s compelling.
1975 ibm slideshow
1975 slideshow for the future, by IBM.