Smurf-tacular!

I can't get this Family Guy quote out of my smurfing head.

TELEVISION ANNOUNCER: We now return to the Smurfs...
(on television screen)
Smurf #1: Hey, did you have a good time last night?
Smurf #2: Smurf-tacular!
Smurf #1: Yeah, I saw you leave with Smurfette.
Smurf #2: Oh man, as soon as we got out of the bar, she started smurfing me.
Smurf #1: Shut the Smurf up!
Smurf #2: Yeah!
Smurf #1: Right in the Smurfing parking lot?
Smurf #2: Smurf-Yeah!
Smurf #1: Oh! That is freaking Smurf!

Ahh almost as good as the chicken fight in Season 2.

I Can't Believe It's Not Magazine

I saw this poster/magazine in Melbourne last Friday which was actually interesting, both in idea and content. It's called "Is Not Magazine" and you can find out more info here

This would have been the most interesting thing I saw in Melbourne ( in my short 1 day stay) if it wasn't for the 30 or so Ravers I saw wearing huge baggy pants with smiley faces and tassels on them after a long night at the Sin Bn.

LOST Season 2

Thanks to eager networks ready to cash in on success LOST Season 2 will begin in three weeks. (pumps fist in the air)

There's already news on Lost-tv.com and even HI-Res has been called in to do a special website. Although it seems like a run of the mill (if you can call them that) Hi-Res site. When you on to a good thing stick to it :)

With two new season regulars joining the cast and hopefully (fingers crossed) they will pull their finger out and explore that damn island.

LOST joins the ranks of shows like Sopranos, Family Guy, Simpsons and yes even Nip Tuck which are required viewing.

Karate as a Subject

I've found a site where people can share ideas and give feedback on them. It's prooving a lot of fun to post silly ideas and see what people think. Here's my first titled "karate as a subject"

FFFFC or Fantastic Fucking Finger Food Company

Every time I got to a function I'm always afriad of what crap finger food they are going to serve. Sure swordfish and goat's cheese sound great but they taste horrible. Finger food should be food you would normally eat but in bite size pieces.

The most recent function I attended was the Desktop Create awards and it was the mini pizzas, tiny bowls of risotto and fish & chips that were snapped up before the staff even took 3 steps. The fancy cheesy/meat combination went around 4 times.

Before that was the RE:B00T launch and all the finger food their rocked (except for the goats cheese and swordfish)

While waiting for something good to be offered I came up with the idea to create a finger food company that doesn't serve anything that you normally wouldn't eat and doesn't require you to ask "What is this... Vomit?" every time you see some colourful mush on a biscuit.

While I'll put together a definitive list of the best and worst finger food here's a few ideas for FFFFC that were thrown around the office.

1: Mini Kebabs: The size of a spring roll with chicken, lamb and beef to choose from
2: Single Serve Nachos: A tiny bowls with mini corn chips and nachoe's. (Could also be one chip with nacho's topping)
3: Gelato: Why don't they ever serve a good dessert. Tiny scoops of Gelato in a variety of flavours
4: Toasted Cheese Sandwiches: Call them jaffles if you want them to seem fancy but no one could turn down a mini toasted sanga’.
5: Mini Burgers: I've seen these done but we want quality burgers just smaller.

Plastic Bag Warning

Ant sent me this today. I'm unsure whether thats don't strangle yourself or someone else in the first diagram :)

Desktop Create Awards

Every since seeing Happy Gilmore I've always wanted to win a giant novelty cheque and last Friday we did that at the Desktop Create Awards. We not only get a nice glass trophy which looks nice but we get $5k which makes it better than a Cannes Cyber Lion as I don't know of any other awards with a cash prize?

If you want to meet new people just walk around with a giant cheque under your arm. People can't help but come up and chat.

Fuck You Steve Gunnels!!

Like a kick in the nuts* my web host, Steve Gunnels, unplugged all his servers and disappeared. Leaving me with no backup of my data and no legal access to my files which were ultimately hosted on theplanet.com.

The Planet kept telling me due to their privacy policy I couldn't access a backup of my files. Even though i had created these files their policy states they I'm not the owner, their customer is. Even if this customer has acted fraudulently or is unable to be contacted I cannot access the my files.

So anyone out there DO NOT host through a reseller. Go right to the source otherwise a beef with the reseller could mean all your data gone and no legal right to access your files.

On a positive note I didn't actually get kicked in the nuts which should help me spread my seed later in life. And I do have a backup of my blog data (no happy snaps) to October 2004 so I only lost 1 year not 5. So hears to a fresh start.

Any missing images from previous posts I will try and find and re-upload.

*I say like a kick in the nuts as they usually come by surprise and make you feel sick on top of hurting like a bastard.