On my way home

Driving home Wednesday night.

A piece of Vanuatu

Our little statue from Vanuatu

A very cool present

Healing

Nuni is happy again. My powerbook has been to hospital and got a brand new 5! Yay!

Leaving Vanuatu

Happy birthday to me!

Not a bad place to spend your birthday.

Water, beach and sun

Number plate

Lessons in Bislama

Toilet = Ples blong pis pis
Thanks a lot = Tankyu tumas
I'm sorry = Sori tumas
How are you? = Yu oraet?
Bathroom = Rum blong swim
Bra = Basket blong titi

Vanuatu

Between 4 and 6

I'm very sad. My '5' key came off yesterday. :-( I was in mourning the whole evening. I feel like a part of me was injured.
Also, now I'm gonna have to write "between 4 and 6" instead. Or "almost 6"... "Definitely more than 4!"

Around town

Patterns in the ceiling

Saturday breakfast.

TGIF

Dr. Katz - Ants!

"There are a lot of crazy people on the street. I'm walking down the street and I see this guy. And he's just screaming. He's running down the block and he's screaming, he's like: "Ants! Ants! They're all over me! Ants! Ants! Ants!" He gets to the curb... he looks both ways. "Ants!"

The only time you notice these guys is when they do something normal, you know. I'd love to follow this guy like on his day. "Ants! Ants!"..."One for legends of the fall" "Ants! Ants!"... "Can you supersize this?"

So then I see this other guy, this one crazy guy. He's just laughing at an empty juice container. He's just laughing at it. And he sees me looking at him so he goes: "Jealous?"
- And you know something? I was a little jealous.
What is the secret, crazy??"

- Dave Attell

Chandelier obscura

Light waves of clouds

The afternoon skies are so beautiful right now...

Oh how I've missed you

Potato fetta hash cakes. It is the best breakfast ever.

Swapping CO2 for Oxygen

You know, this is really quite pleasant. A lot better than this...
But it's hard to cycle and photograph at the same time!

Antioxidants & vitamin C

Mandarin and green tea to start the week...

Ways to amuse oneself

... in a shopping centre

Kate's 21st

Sleepy...

Can I stay?

Can I Stay?
Ray La Montagne

Dr. Katz - quit smoking

"You know, my father smoked a lot. And... he's been smoking for years. He tried to quit. You know, he tried everything. He tried hypnosis... and it didn't really take. And then he tried that thing... with all the needles... what do they call that? Heroin. He loves it. He loves it! We can't get it away from him now."

- Bill Braudis

One from the archives

Dakar, Senegal. May 2006

Pasta is yum

Skalman knarkar!

Det här hade jag helt glömt!
(If you don't know who Bamse, Skalman & lille Skutt are, there's not really any point in me explaining this. Sorry. Even if you did look him up, you wouldn't understand...)
This particular episode caused huge controversy at the time...
The whole episode can be found here.

Yay I'm good!

I know I should be doing this every day, but once a week is still a good start.

Sunday drinks

A quiet drink on Sunday afternoon/evening

The gas pump cemetery

Where gas pump go to die...

Rusty

Ivy

Running water

The power house

One of the greatest buildings in this city

Colourful leaves

Rust on a pole

There's something about rust that I find really quite fascinating and beautiful in a way. The rich colour and the patterns it creates is almost organic and living.

Blue skies & light clouds through glass

Warning high voltage

More on global warming

Tim Flannery (author of "the Weather Makers") interviewed by Steve Colbert on "the Colbert report".


More from the Daily Show and the Colbert report on the issue:


These two shows give me some hope about America...

Dark thoughts and fancy cars

David Attenborough on climate change

There you have it. Clear and simple.

Angry kitten

Wall art at the Alibi room

An inconvenient truth

A film well worth seeing. Go and see it now!
10 things to do from the Climate crisis website.

• Change a light
  Replacing one regular light bulb with compact fluroescent light bulb will save 150 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.


• Drive less
  Walk, bike, carpool or take mass transit more often. You'll save one pound of carbon dioxide for every minute you don't drive.


• Recycle more
  You can save 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide per year by recycling just half of your household waste.


• Check your tires
  Keeping your tires inflated properly can improve gas mileage by more than 3%. Every gallon of gasoline saved keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere!


• Use less hot water
  It takes a lot of energy to heat water. Use less hot water by installing a low flow showerhead (350 pounds of CO2 saved per year) and washing your clothes in cold or warm water (500 pounds saved per year).


• Avoid products with a lot of packaging
  You can save 1,200 pounds of carbon dioxide if you cut down your garbage by 10%.


• Adjust your thermostat
  Moving your thermostat just 2 degrees in winter and up 2 degrees in summer. You could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple adjustment.


• Plant a tree
  A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.


• Turn off electronic devices
  Simply turning off your television, DVD player, stereo, and computer when you're not using them will save you thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

www.climatecrisis.net

I'll also throw in this little interview of Al Gore from the Daily Show.

Sniffle sniffle

My (or at least my nose's) best friend right now

Wednesday punk

Nature's patterns

Limestone from Manly