Not sure if this will be betta than last time…
Ladies and gentlemen, please meet Hektor #2.
He is beautiful – blue with long fins.
I really hope that he is healthier than his namesake was. He’s heated, so I think he has a better (betta) chance from the get-go…
Holly Throsby
Holly’s mum is Margaret Throsby! From Classic FM! How funny!
And I still have 1% doubt about the connection between Xavier and Kevin Rudd….
Foos and Eagles
I’m watching Eagles of Death Metal on JTV, which is always a wonderful thing, and just saw Dave Grohl, which makes me sad – they’re coming to Aus for an acoustic set – how cool!! But they’re only going to Sydney – how bad!!
I wonder if the chick in the vid clip really is in the band? She carries a drum at one point… that would be very cool.
Jet
Can you tell that I’m watching JTV?
I’ve been wondering who the chick is they’ve got singing on “Put your money where your mouth is,” or whatever their new song is – I wondered if it was the girl from… ack, cant remember the band… sang “Buy me a pony”… anyway, turns out it’s not a chick – it’s Nick Chester himself! Guess they did some post-production thing to his voice.
OK Go, on Treadmills
I have finally seen this video! They really are just on treadmills, but it’s so very clever! And the fact that it was all done in one take (with lots of practice, obviously), just makes it even more clever. Plus it’s a great song.
Audioslave
I am _really_ getting into Audioslave at the moment – I think they’ve got a new album out at the moment, so they’re getting played a bit more. I had never actually realised that it’s the dude from Sound Garden (note: I ahve always thought that Sound Garden and Savage Garden should have swapped names, cos there ain’t nothing savage about Savage Garden…).
Colonel Jack
“You ended that sentence with a preposition… you _bastard_!”
As with Carter – I _knew_ there was a reason I liked Jack…
Poor little Pluto!
‘Little’ being the operative word here, I guess… I will have to go into the classroom and put a stickie over Pluto on the class poster.
Still, it’s quite useful to have a working definition of what a planet actually is. And I guess it’s useful to know what a dwarf planet is, too, for whenever we happen to come across them in other systems….
The Zoo
Went to the zoo today, for the first time in absolutely ages. It was great fun. We saw:
Meerkats. So cute. Enouh said.
Elephants. I love elephants. One of them was throwing dust on itself.
Pygmy hippo. If I believed in reincarnation, I’d come back as one.
No tigers.
Gorillas, asleep.
Froggies. Little dainty froggies!
Giraffes. With a baby.
Fairy – I mean, Little – Penguins. They’re cute too.
Tortoises. Little ones! So cute!
And… some other animals, some of whom were worthwhile, some of whom were boring.
Samantha Carter
“Wormhole theory, motorcycle riding, and lock-picking.”
I knew there was a reason why I liked Major Sam, on SG-1.
Randomly Yours, Alex 