OK so it was bad enough having Kim working at CTU, but I could deal with that. But now Nina Meyers has come back. Sheesh!

Pity about Lex on Survivor. I really hope they get rid of Rob soon, I don't like him much. It's kinda funny with Lex, because I remember he wasn't portrayed very well on the African survivor, and I didn't like him much on that show. The runner up, Kim, said though that she thought Lex would have won if she'd taken him to the final two, because he was actually different in real life.

urgh can't believe it's so late. There's just not enough hours in the day to get everything done. I was going to do a water change tonight and I need to water the plants. arghghg

I was feeling blah and bored over dinner and went blog hopping. On the Friday Five I found Gazza's blog, which had a link to a physical attraction test at match.com.

It was quite interesting.. it shows you all sorts of faces and features and at the end it shows you "your type".

Some of things it said...

Are you picky? Very Picky: It's official: You're "picky." The fact is you are drawn to the most handsome of the handsome. You know what you like in men and are more selective than most women your age. Your tastes seem instinctual. You'd make a great casting agent, because you have a good eye for men who have "star quality." In real life, your high standards may be an obstacle for you. It's hard to find a man with the strong features you like, who's also well-rounded in other ways. Still, you know the importance of a real physical "spark" in a relationship, and aren't willing (or able) to settle for less. The challenge is finding a man who really wows you physically, even if he's not the most handsome man in the room.

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How You Compare?

Very Selective: You are very selective, compared to most women, in the types of men you find appealing. You're wowed by "movie star" good looks, and in general, appreciate men with "traditional" or "mainstream" appeal. You probably face a lot of competition going after the most popular guys. Let others fight over the "movie stars" and you'll find a more unique guy who can be your own personal "hunk." See the pie chart below to see how many women fall into picky or open categories.

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Looks

Some may call one of your types "Pretty Boys," but all you know is that they're gorgeous. The combination of classic good looks with small noses, beautiful eyes, and full lips is hard to resist. These guys tend to be clean shaven, have clear skin, and get good hair cuts. They're taking good care of themselves so they can be "pretty" just for you! [Well, you and the 1 in 3 women (33%) that are also after them!]

Funnily enough, they were the same results as Gazza :)

What I found most interesting was just how few other women found "my type" attractive:

Here are some of the guys that came up as "my type":

If only I discovered this wonderful utility five years ago. OK so it probably didn't even exist five years ago, but I'm sure something like it would have. The hours and hours I've spent over the years rotating jpgs in lview pro could been cut down to mere minutes.

The utility? Rota.

I was looking at EXIF utilities out of curiosity and discovered you can rotate jpgs just by modifying the image exif information. Again, why did noone tell me you could do this five years ago?

So anyway. Rota can be pointed at a directory of images. You see all the thumbnails of the images, then just click on the ones you want, and they'll be rotated. How easy can you get?

This week's Theme Thursday is entitled "Desperation". My first thoughts were "how the heck am I going to find a picture for that??" In desperation I fired up an ancient copy of Thumbs Plus and started searching through all my photos trying to find something appropriate. The picture I chose may not quite convey desperation very well, but it's a very cool photo.

What's amazing about this photo is the subject. There is a tree literally growing out of the side of a building. Its roots have followed the brickwork, creating fantastic looking shapes. And it's not just any tree. This is a Moreton Bay fig tree - among the biggest trees there are! It's managed to successfully bonsai itself. It hasn't grown much in the years that I've known about it. I've been watching it for ten years and it hasn't grown very much, so it's probably been around quite a lot longer.

The photo was taken two years ago, I'll have to stop by again some time and get an update on it.

I'd been worried about the two angels I put into their own tank - they seemed to be very grumpy and only coming up sporadically when I came by to feed them. That was until last week, when they laid their first batch of eggs on the back of the filter. The eggs didn't last though, and they went back to being grumpy. Then this afternoon I see they've laid yet another batch of eggs. This must be about their 8th batch of eggs all summer. If they keep laying eggs I guess they can't be too unhappy with life. It's a bit sad how cramped they look though - they're over half the total height of the tank!

The pic shows what I think is the male in front of the filter where they've laid their latest batch.

This time I'm going to turn off the filter just before the eggs are due to hatch (there's another filter in the corner - a bubble filter which isn't as likely to suck up the fry). That's even if the eggs get anywhere near hatching.

ok, so maybe not quite that intense, but certainly the same feeling of loss like you'll never be with that person again. I so wish I'd discovered Bowie by 1987 so I could have gone and seen the Glass Spider concert. He was certainly at the peak of his good looks in the mid-eighties (see my drawings of his beautiful face on another post), and the show was nothing short of spectacular. My video is still holding up ok, but if they ever release a PAL DVD version I'll buy it.

I found this on davidbowie.com regarding his concert on Friday:

David Bowie has just come off stage after the first of two shows at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in NSW. He played a similar set to the Brisbane show, except that he dropped Be My Wife and Always Crashing In The Same Car in favour of the very welcome return of 5:15 The Angels Have Gone, Fantastic Voyage and I've Been Waiting For You.

Our BowieNetter reporter in Oz, the very professional Charly, tells me that DB was again "very chatty", and she's currently on her way to an internet cafe to get her account of the evening down for your reading pleasure. Pop back a little later on to see what she has to say.

Meanwhile, here follows that 26-song set list courtesy of Charly:

Sydney February 20th 2004

01 Rebel Rebel
02 New Killer Star
03 Reality
04 Fame
05 Cactus
06 5:15 The Angels Have Gone
07 All The Young Dudes
08 China Girl
09 A New Career In A New Town
10 The Loneliest Guy
11 The Man Who Sold The World
12 Hallo Spaceboy
13 Sunday
14 Under Pressure
15 Life On Mars?
16 Looking For Water
17 Fantastic Voyage
18 Days
19 White Light, White Heat
20 Ashes To Ashes
21 I'm Afraid Of Americans
22 "Heroes"

(Encore)
23 I've Been Waiting For You
24 Five Years
25 Suffragette City
26 Ziggy Stardust

UPDATE: Here's more from Charly via the magic of electronic mail...

Crutches and Hairdryers. By Charly.

So, it was cool being at Sydney Entertainment Centre to start with. Just one of those places I'd always wanted to be. David started again tonight with Rebel Rebel and New Killer Star as is fairly normal these days. A fairly enthusiastic response was echoed around Sydney Entertainment Centre. I was quite over-awed by it all, seeing Bowie live in Sydney - WOW! It's an amazing city. After he'd finished with Reality, Fame and Cactus he brought in 5.15 The Angels Have Gone which was a welcome return to the set. Been a while since I'd heard that one live.

He then did All The Young Dudes which concluded with many arms waving in the air. David started talking about sticks, saying "let's see the stick". A little way behind me, someone was waving a crutch in the air and Bowie thought this was amusing enough to banter a little - "It's a wonderful summer's evening and the crutches are waving in the air. What an extraordinary country. I've got a bunch of crutches outside my window, and they're all brown." Nutter.

China Girl followed with rapturous applause echoing around the room. Bowie sang "Oh baby, just you shut your mouth - she says just shut the fuck up" Then, after the song he said, "it's that time of the evening you've all been waiting for - yes, it's the instrumental. This lead into my favourite track from Low, A New Career In A New Town.

He followed this by suggesting that "it was always a good idea to follow an instrumental with a song so slow you forget to breathe" - The Loneliest Guy! Afterwards the crowd cheered loudly and he said "go and get a copy, it's really good. If you can't get a copy I'll come round your house and sing it again!" Hmmm...... like that's gonna happen!

MWSTW, Hallo Spaceboy and Sunday brought the show on a little further where David decided to introduce the band by saying "People ask, you know, who are these guys that work with you on stage, and I say, you know why don't you mind your own business." Ha ha. The band intro ensued with David telling us all the different things Kat played, including the 'hairdryer'!!!!

Under Pressure and Life On Mars caused great pleasure amongst the throng and Looking For Water was great to hear again, as was Fantastic Voyage. I love that one live. Excellent. He continued with Days and White Light White Heat, saying "I had to get that off my chest" after the latter. Ashes through to Heroes ended the show on a great high. So far so good....

The first encore was Waiting For You, not heard that one in a while. The final three songs were the usual show enders, but I still never tire of any of them. All Ziggy material and all bloody excellent. Bring it on for tomorrow.

Needless to say, I didn't want it end. I actually cried. It was a very emotional experience for me. It was a night I've been waiting 14 years for. What must truly be a once-in-a-lifetime event for me.

The night began with me heading over to Sami and Cathy's place, where we then drove to Rozelle Bay to catch the light rail into Haymarket. A quick bite of food to eat and then we headed into the Entertainment Center. At 7:30, "Something for Kate" came on. They weren't bad, but it was very noisy and I only knew a couple of their songs. They finished around 8:15.

Forty-five minutes of stage rearranging later and finally the moment I've been waiting half my life for - David Bowie entered the room. Of course the crowd went wild and my ear drums got another pumelling :) He launched straight into Rebel Rebel, one of my favourite songs of his. Then a couple of tracks off Reality, Fame, a whole lot more songs I know only vaguely, if at all. Still, there was a sprinkling of the old classics throughout the show - The Man Who Sold the World, China Girl, Life on Mars (I started to cry at this point), Under Pressure, White Light White Heat (I haven't heard that song in *ages*!!), Ashes to Ashes, Heroes, All the Young Dudes.

The show finished with a bang - Suffragette City (another of my all time favourites), and Ziggy Stardust.. "... Ziggy played .. guitaararrr" and then he was gone.

At 10:00 I realised that half the show had gone and that I didn't want it to end in a mere hour. This was a man who occupied my thoughts for much of my waking life for almost two years. And here I was in the same room as him. Looking at him in the flesh, albeit at a distance. I will probably never see him again. He's just turned 57 for heavens sake, he's hardly going to be galavanting around the world for much longer, certainly not on a grand concert scale.

The production was certainly a lot simpler than previous productions (cf Glass Spider). No set changes, no costume changes, quite a simple light show, and very little theatrics. Just the band and the music really. Obviously a very "lean" production to make it quite a bit easier to get around.

And how oh how is one able to get a front row seat, where you can stand up, put your hand up, and be touched by rock royalty? If only I knew..

I've been meaning to do this for ages, go through IMDBs Top 250 movies and note which ones I've seen so I can go see the rest that I haven't yet. JC inspired me to actually get around to it :) I've seen 77 of the IMDB top 250

1. Godfather, The (1972)
2. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
3. Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
4. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, The (2003)
5. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, The (2002)
6. Casablanca (1942)
7. Schindler’s List (1993)
8. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
9. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
10. Citizen Kane (1941)
11. Star Wars (1977)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
13. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
14. Rear Window (1954)
15. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
17. Memento (2000)
18. Usual Suspects, The (1995)
19. Pulp Fiction (1994)
20. North by Northwest (1959)
21. 12 Angry Men (1957)
22. Fabuleux destin ‘Amelie Poulain, Le (2001)
23. Psycho (1960)
24. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
25. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
26. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
27. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
28. Goodfellas (1990)
29. American Beauty (1999)
30. Vertigo (1958)
31. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
32. Matrix, The (1999)
33. Apocalypse Now (1979)
34. Pianist, The (2002)
35. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
36. Some Like It Hot (1959)
37. C’era una volta il West (1968)
38. Taxi Driver (1976)
39. Third Man, The (1949)
40. Paths of Glory (1957)
41. Fight Club (1999)
42. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) (Spirited Away)
43. Boot, Das (1981)
44. Double Indemnity (1944)
45. L.A. Confidential (1997)
46. Chinatown (1974)
47. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
48. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
49. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
50. M (1931)

51. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
52. All About Eve (1950)
53. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
54. Se7en (1995)
55. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
56. Cidade de Deus (2002)
57. Raging Bull (1980)
58. Rashmon (1950)
59. Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
60. Sting, The (1973)
61. Alien (1979)
62. American History X (1998)
63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
64. Leon (The Professional) (1994)
65. Vita bella, La (1997) (Life Is Beautiful)
66. Touch of Evil (1958)
67. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
68. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
69. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
70. Wo hu cang long (2000) (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
71. Great Escape, The (1963)
72. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
73. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
74. Amadeus (1984)
75. Modern Times (1936)
76. Annie Hall (1977)
77. Ran (1985)
78. Jaws (1975)
79. On the Waterfront (1954)
80. Braveheart (1995)
81. High Noon (1952)
82. Apartment, The (1960)
83. Fargo (1996)
84. Sixth Sense, The (1999)
85. Aliens (1986)
86. Shining, The (1980)
87. Strangers on a Train (1951)
88. Blade Runner (1982)
89. Metropolis (1927)
90. Duck Soup (1933)
91. Finding Nemo (2003)
92. Donnie Darko (2001)
93. General, The (1927)
94. Toy Story 2 (1999)
95. Princess Bride, The (1987)
96. City Lights (1931)
97. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
98. Great Dictator, The (1940)
99. Lola rennt (1998) (Run Lola Run)
100. Notorious (1946)

101 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
102 Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989)
103 Full Metal Jacket (1987)
104 Rebecca (1940)
105 Mononoke-hime (1997)
106 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
107 Big Sleep, The (1946)
108 Graduate, The (1967)
109 Manhattan (1979)
110 It Happened One Night (1934)
111 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
112 Deer Hunter, The (1978)
113 Patton (1970)
114 Searchers, The (1956)
115 Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
116 Glory (1989)
117 Yojimbo (1961)
118 Ladri di biciclette (1948)
119 African Queen, The (1951)
120 Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
121 Forrest Gump (1994)
122 Bringing Up Baby (1938)
123 Cool Hand Luke (1967)
124 Ben-Hur (1959)
125 Green Mile, The (1999)
126 Shrek (2001)
127 Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
128 Hable con ella (2002)
129 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
130 Unforgiven (1992)
131 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
132 Stalag 17 (1953)
133 Gone with the Wind (1939)
134 Grapes of Wrath, The (1940)
135 Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
136 Wild Bunch, The (1969)
137 Straight Story, The (1999)
138 Christmas Story, A (1983)
139 Elephant Man, The (1980)
140 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
141 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
142 Hustler, The (1961)
143 Platoon (1986)
144 Back to the Future (1985)
145 Young Frankenstein (1974)
146 Lost in Translation (2003)
147 His Girl Friday (1940)
148 Monsters, Inc. (2001)
149 Die Hard (1988)

150 Amores perros (2000)
151 Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
152 Grande illusion, La (1937)
153 Gold Rush, The (1925)
154 Almost Famous (2000)
155 Spartacus (1960)
156 Life of Brian (1979)
157 Charade (1963)
158 Conversation, The (1974)
159 Gladiator (2000)
160 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)
161 Festen (1998)
162 Magnolia (1999)
163 Smultronst�llet (1957)
164 Toy Story (1995)
165 Being John Malkovich (1999)
166 Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
167 Sling Blade (1996)
168 Insider, The (1999)
169 Roman Holiday (1953)
170 Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
171 Night at the Opera, A (1935)
172 Brazil (1985)
173 Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
174 All the President's Men (1976)
175 Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
176 Mystic River (2003)
177 Mulholland Dr. (2001)
178 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
179 Exorcist, The (1973)
180 Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
181 Killing, The (1956)
182 To Be or Not to Be (1942)
183 Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
184 Ed Wood (1994)
185 Terminator, The (1984)
186 Stand by Me (1986)
187 Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
188 Twelve Monkeys (1995)
189 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
190 Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
191 Adaptation. (2002)
192 This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
193 Harvey (1950)
194 Gandhi (1982)
195 Trainspotting (1996)
196 Right Stuff, The (1983)
197 Miller's Crossing (1990)
198 Network (1976)
199 Ying xiong (2002)

200 Lion in Winter, The (1968)
201 Midnight Cowboy (1969)
202 Groundhog Day (1993)
203 Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
204 Rain Man (1988)
205 Others, The (2001)
206 Minority Report (2002)
207 8� (1963)
208 Laura (1944)
209 King Kong (1933)
210 Snatch. (2000)
211 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
212 Stagecoach (1939)
213 39 Steps, The (1935)
214 Traffic (2000)
215 Whale Rider (2002)
216 Hotaru no haka (1988)
217 Untouchables, The (1987)
218 Strada, La (1954)
219 Beauty and the Beast (1991)
220 Big Lebowski, The (1998)
221 Henry V (1989)
222 Rio Bravo (1959)
223 In the Heat of the Night (1967)
224 Thin Man, The (1934)
225 Todo sobre mi madre (1999)
226 Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928)
227 Planet of the Apes (1968)
228 Fantasia (1940)
229 Good Will Hunting (1997)
230 Being There (1979)
231 Die xue shuang xiong (1989)
232 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
233 Beautiful Mind, A (2001)
234 Red River (1948)
235 Clerks. (1994)
236 Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
237 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
238 X2 (2003)
239 MASH (1970)
240 Man Who Would Be King, The (1975)
241 Road to Perdition (2002)
242 Sleuth (1972)
243 Quiet Man, The (1952)
244 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
245 Heat (1995)
246 JFK (1991)
247 Birds, The (1963)
248 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
249 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
250 Ikiru (1952)

Stolen from Richard

NUMBER OF

piercings = 2, one in each ear
tattoos = 0
height = about 155cm give or take
shoe size = 5-6, depending on the brand
hair colour = blond
eye colour = mostly green
siblings = 1

LAST
movie you rented = sheesh I can't remember it's been so long.
movie you bought = Under Siege
song you listened to = dunno, but "hey, roll over dj" is in my head, so it could have been on the radio on the way home
cd you bought = the John Farnham best of
cd you listened to = I don't listen to cds one at a time anymore, they all get mixed up
person you've called = Peter to do the crossword
person that's called you = perhaps the air conditioner dude .. he said "Tuesday" and I said "no, tomorrow!"
tv show you've watched = um.. it's been days.. could have even been Nip Tuck last week
person you were thinking of = Janelle, and whether she saw last weeks Nip Tuck or not
friend you made = How about all the people that read my blog? I still can't fathom how other people can be so interested in my life :)
enemy you made = dunno

DO
you have a crush on someone = several in fact
you wish you could live somewhere else = not really
you think about suicide = sometimes
you believe in online dating = sure
others find you attractive = not often
you want more piercings = nah
you drink = sure
you do drugs = everything you put into your mouth and lungs is a drug of some description, what's the definition? :)
you smoke = no
you like cleaning = as per Richard's answer - depends what. I'm much happier cleaning up other people's messes than my own, go figure
you like roller coasters = oo yes :)
you write in cursive or print = I don't write, I scrawl

FAVOURITE
food = Roast Pork with crackling and apple sauce, the way mum makes it
song = don't really have one
thing to do = hrm, that's made me think. I like travelling and going to the movies.. and watching fireworks while drunk, now that's nice .. lots of things
thing to talk about = lego, fish
drinks = orange juice, baileys
clothes = jeans and a t-shirt
movies = in no particular order.. Harry Potter, Dragonheart, Hunt for Red October, Titanic, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Princess Bride
singer = don't really have one of those either
holiday = the two usa trips, and Western Australia, Central Australia and Lord Howe Island were awesome

HAVE YOU
ever cried over a girl = only when they pissed me off
ever cried over a boy = Several
ever lied to someone = I outright lied in Kindergarten about stealing some chalk, and it scarred me for life. I don't (actually I can't rather, it just doesn't work) lie outright, but I may stretch the truth
ever been in a fist fight = no
ever been arrested = no

DO YOU THINK YOU ARE
funny = funny peculiar
hot = yes, but then it's 30C here
friendly = sometimes
amusing = not often
ugly = I'm inwardly ugly. Outwardly average I suppose
loveable = no
caring = sometimes
sweet = pfft
dorky = yeah

What one thing are you most looking forward to . . .

1. ...today?
   A good nights sleep
   
2. ...over the next week?
   Getting our domain upgraded to active directory successfully
   
3. ...this year?
   Going to the USA
   
4. ...over the next five years?
   Hopefully a trip to Europe
   
5. ...for the rest of your life?
   No idea.