The case of the missing bun...

On my previous trip to Singapore, I bought a fake soft bun from Action City, similar to this one (without the chocolate smiley face).
I left it on my desk at work, and it fooled quite a few people who thought I had left a real bun sitting on my desk for days on end.

After the Christmas break, my bun had disappeared. I was a little annoyed, cos it cost $5! I thought someone had stolen it...

One of the other guys had a friend going to Singapore, so he asked them to buy some donuts. Now four of these donuts are sitting on my desk, and they've done an even better job at fooling people.


Turns out, the cleaner asked one of the guys at work if we were going to through them out as they were on the desk for days. After a little investigative work, I eventually found out my bun was thrown out by the cleaner! Argh!

What have they done?

Technology makes easy work to spy into people's yards. Today, I was using nearmap.com.au which is like Google Maps but higher resolution and a timeline where you can look back in time (Perth has about 2 years of data) and see how things have changed...

I had a look at my folk's old house, where the family lived until 1997ish. Boy have things changed. This shot was taken in winter (the grass is green .. the latest one in Dec 2009 shows everything dead/brown). The only things which have remained after 13 years are the pavers and the concrete slab where the shade house used to be. No more citrus plants. No large patch of buffalo to play on (or ride and get prickles on). All my childhood memories are now just that.

Australian retail ripoff

Australian gamers are amongst the most ripped off when it comes to paying for games. Case in point:

On the EB website (and I presume the stores), you can get:
PS3 Star Ocean for $108.
PS3 Final Fantasy XIII (pre-order) for $118.
Total = $226

On a UK game site, I just bought:
PS3 Star Ocean for $56.08.
PS3 Final Fantasy XIII (pre-order) for $70.56.
Total = $126.64

Same game .. only the cover doesn't have the Australian Classification markings.

What a joke. I just saved $100 (effectively got a game for free in Australian terms), got it delivered to (my folks) door and didn't have to deal with the body odour filled games stores that we have here in Aus.

F*cktard drivers in sports cars

What is it with people who have sports cars and can't drive? I almost got cleaned up today cos some guy in an EVO VII decided to cut through a double lane roundabout. It's not like the car was unable to corner properly, and I was beside him leading up to the roundabout, so he must've known I was there. Really pissed me off this morning.

I noticed he had to stop at the next traffic light, so I stopped right next to him and motioned for him to wind down his window. I gave him a few nice words before moving forward into the traffic light queue.