I heard you like bridges so I took a photo of a bridge over trouble waters while on a bridge from neither here to there.

Old warehouses convert into expensive houses.

Hark, a bridge doth approach our merry band of… Melvin, stop that, you’re supposed to stay in character. Geez.

A wedding party attempts to get a nice photo amid the trrts.

Thus endeth the bike ride. Well, I went home from there.

A nice quaffer from the Mt Lofty Ranges. Good with bitey cheese and red meat.

Inception: Really really good. Really. Ignore all the people wondering what it means and being confused, just go experience it. Worth trying to catch in the cinema if you still can. Enough has been written about it by now that I don’t want to add anything to it, so.. yea. Just go see it.

The Expendibles: Very disappointing. What should have been a tribute to all the great action films turns out to be just another action film. Pointless exposition, annoying camerawork, empty characters, no good one-liners and no swearing. Why can’t they swear properly in action films anymore? It’s stupid.. we can have people exploding left right and centre, but we can’t swear at them? So dumb.

Time for a musical interlude! Emancipator is excellent trip hop, have a listen and do the ol’ purchamachase thing if you dig it. There’s also Robot Science (great chiptuney fun) and The Evpatoria Report (not really sure).

As you can tell, I’m not much for long reviews. I’d rather just share the experience.

And now for something completely different:

I took this on my new workphone, a Nokia E72. Seems a good phone, kinda Blackberry style with a full physical keyboard and the like. Rubbish web browser though.

I gotta start burying some of this young stuff..

An easy 10 years wine. Could be stupendous.

Ok, some explaination required there. Toulouse is a ute who is part of the extended household of my yoof. It’s a 1982 4 cylinder diesel Ford Ranger that’s lived a hard life. I learned to drive in it, as did the rest of the young’uns and everyone else we know has borrowed it for picking up furniture, taking crap to the tip (en-us: dump) and anything else you can think of. It was my first car for a month while my Rover SD1 (the V8 one with EFI!) was being made roadworthy, and I borrowed it again when I was working on a tv show. In short, it’s the most useful vehicle anyone’s ever had, and once you’re used to having one available there’s really no turning back. Once his roadworthy life has ended, I believe he should be retired to a plinth somewhere.

So anyway, there’s several reasons why the beastie could aim for such heights of automotive greatness. Firstly there’s the aforementioned handy/dandy load carrying capacity. Then there’s the impecable reliability that can be attained with such a utilitarian vehicle. The beastie would want little more than its battery kept charged and a run every now and then to be kept happy. The downside to this whole thing is that I don’t really have somewhere to keep it. At the moment it’s staying in a mate’s garage until I move it on, which is ok in the short term but I don’t really want to turn that into anything long term. Also without it being at hand it means that doing any maintenance or going for a ride required forethought and planning, which are two things I’m not historically much good at. So alas and alak, I must put it up for sale. Anyone want to buy a much loved postie? New clutch and rebuilt carb, runs excellent, some money ono.

I worked out today that the new bike gets about 4.5l/100kms, or 55mpg (imp). Which is actually not all that great if you think about it, but it’s really not designed for fuel efficiency. For one thing the design dates back to 1989, and even then it was but an evolution of an earlier bike. Still, it’s better than most cars. Otherwise things are going well with it, I know where the fuel tap is now so I can switch it to reserve when it starts coughing… as it did this morning. Not that that’s an issue, there’s still heaps of fuel in there when that happens.