Hic Sunt Dracones

This time tomorrow I’ll be in Christchurch.

This time the following Saturday I’ll be in Wellington.

This time the following Monday evening I’ll be back in Melbourne.

Now you really know.

In my opinion, this is pretty significant. Where “this” is credit card processing in real time on your iPhone. Significant I say.

My main man date Rup, is now just over halfway through his “I’m going to ride a motorbike from Melbourne to Darwin” mission. also known as a sweet way to spend March. Not too surprisingly his hope to update his blog has been a (so far) massive fail. But he has been twittering when The Tubes are in sight, and yesterday got his Uluru on. Rad.

He’s also on Google Latitue which is awesome to watch as he putters around, or at least it was till he left mankind and entered into the out the back where he now tends to jump from inhabited place to inhabited place. He randomly also appeared to jump from Adelaide to Coober Pedy by way of Perth (~2,200KM away). which was a bit random. (Also, dear GOD. Google latitude? That’s some serious madness right there. (right thar))

Hippocampus? Seriously? It is apparently the genus of sea horses (hence the name).

Did anyone think this was a bit odd?

The US ship sprayed one Chinese vessel with water from fire hoses to try to force it away, the Pentagon said. But the Chinese crew stripped to their underwear and carried on approaching to within 25ft (8m), it added.

It’s from this “incident” where some Chinese vessels (allegedly) bullied a USNS ship. And it leads me to ask… They sprayed them with a fire hose? That’s what they got? A hose? (No Dave). Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, we are then shown an alleged photo of this alleged incident, and we see that the other boats weren’t exactly Super Star Destroyers. They look like, I don’t know what they look like. A cross between a junk and a fishing thingy? Not sure what’s going on there, but I do suspect that USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer could drop them. Like they were hot.

Cape Town I think we got a problem.

PS. WOW Safety Dance.

I text Ben earlier in the evening for an IMDB search, but found him sadly non responsive. He’s apparently a little busy. Karen is presumably a lot busy.

I eventually worked out that the answer to “Hey what’s the film with ‘Let off some steam [insert bad guy name here]‘?” was of course Commando, (Bennet being the bad guy).

Dave gave me a call a bit later to pass along the word. And now, I pass it along to you. Only it’s now slightly damp.

PS. This news so concerned me, I have elected to return home on the 21st of March to investigate for myself. Dave tells me I’ve left my announcement too late for Colombo Street parades with ticker tape, but, I hold out hope. And if he doesn’t come through for me, well, I’ll hold out something else.