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A long time ago it was Easter tradition for The Ten Commandments to be aired on TV. Like nineteen eighties long time ago.
(Found this on IMDB: Every year since 1973, American TV network ABC airs this film on Easter, or Passover. In 1999, when for some reason ABC chose not to televise it, they received numerous irate phone calls from people accustomed to watching it every Easter than they have for any other film they have ever telecast. )
Tonight I thought I'd watch it again. Far out it's a long movie :)
Since the beginning of the year, comment spam has been getting past reCaptcha. It comes in waves and it's actually been relatively quiet recently.
But got one today spamvertising "www.topwritingservice.com" that was somewhat amusing.
Term papers completing utilizes a lot of time. Why loose time? This is more easy to buy essay and take a break.
So you're a "top writing service" but can't even spell "lose" correctly or make any grammatical sense at all? I'd love to see your quality writing if you can't even spell correctly in your spam.
I guess the only people that would ever use a service like that would be those that are too stupid to know the difference between lose and loose. And so they get what they deserve.
Went to Morks in Florey tonight with Tony, Heather and Jess. Sooo good but omigosh am I full now!!
Before entree they brought out one of these each - papadum with lettuce and satay sauce - yum!!
Angel prawns
Pork balls
I had "Duck" - Duck Maryland, slow cooked in spices then fried, red curry sauce, lychee and tomatoes, crispy rice cakes, crisped basil leaves.
This dish was fantastic - great duck, those rice cakes were amazing, and the deep fried basil leaves - translucent and chewy and all kinds of awesome.
They also brought us out a little scoop of lychee gelato, which was just nice, because we were all too full for dessert, but this was a lovely finish.
The place was totally booked out - you have to reserve a table days in advance. Would definitely go back!
Well that's what someone said. Two people actually. Or something that effect.
Which is nice :)
Cause at first I thought everything was too easy. Then I thought everything was too hard. Probably an ok mix.
Biggest fails were the Google Doodles (too easy) and the Celebrity Birth Names (too hard). And those big filler rounds were a pain to mark!
Anyways .. until next time... hrmmmm... :)
Weird day today. Next to no sleep, maybe a couple of hours. Power tripped during the storm. Got home and reset everything. Then everything turned off again. Bit of a bang. Looked out the window to a little plume of smoke rising into the sky. Things don't work when people let the smoke out. So figured out how to open the garage door manually and headed to ANU with Theatre-Buddy-Dave to see Fiddler on the Roof which we'd seen advertised at work. It was a pretty good production and my legs weren't even too restless. Parking at ANU is mental. Was glad I was super early getting out of the house, cause otherwise I would have been super late.. Power wasn't off for too long which was good. Was half expecting it to still be off. So that was good.
Eighteen months ago today we explored the Scottish Highlands north and west of Fort William.
Somehow I let the 18-month anniversaries of our UK trip sneak up on me, which means instead of using the six months to select photos for the blog, I really haven't done any of it. Which means I'm just as rushed now as I was six months ago. Doh.
Eighteen months ago today I went up the London Eye, Tower Bridge and went into the Tower of London, as well as seeing the first Leaky Cauldron!
Thought we'd try out Zierholz today. And first time I'd been back on campus since summer school in 1991! Lots of new buildings! (mostly residential heh).
Three of us tried for the calamari salad, but they were all out, so I had a caesar salad, there were two pizzas and Neil had the trio of sausages. Also had some German-style ale which was very nice.
So the salad..
Location: Zierholz, University of Canberra
Price: $15.00
Lettuce: cos, all good
Croutons: these were the best bit - deep fried bready goodness
Bacon: ok amount
Parmesan cheese: reasonable amount
Egg: one egg, split in two
Anchovies: none! win!
Sauce: not bad, maybe *slightly* too .. runny?
I love the croutons in this salad - chunks of pizza by the look of it, deep fried to perfection :)
Today I was a bit naughty and cleaned and tidied stuff most of the day.
Tonight I started freaking out about how much I have to do in the next little while.
So naturally I started the next 6000-piece section of the 24000 piece jigsaw.
Then I sat down and organised the coming months in general terms, breaking things up into manageable chunks.
But for now, bed time! Goodnight!
Went and saw Hugo tonight.
Unfortunately for me I heard too many people say how good it was. Because whenever people do that I start to expect too much. And then I enjoy it less.
Don't get me wrong, it was a lovely film, it's just it got over hyped in my brain and I was expecting miracles. Doh.
We saw it in 3D as recommended. And it was nicely done. But really. 3D? Meh. I'm still not convinced, even by a movie that's supposed to be one of the better ones.
So anyway.
Had a light dinner at Gus' beforehand.
Vegetarian nachos for the sweetie
And "Miti paigani" for me. Not really sure what I was expecting, but it really wasn't this. Oh well.
Went to Sammy's for dinner tonight.
I was intrigued by Crispy lamb in shantung sauce, which turned out to be delicious!
And we also had Drunken chicken with ginger and shallot sauce, which was lovely and tender but didn't have the same flavour punch as the lamb.