Sideroxylon
Featherless biped
Australia
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HawaiiBigSis
List Management
Linky no worky (for me), but 50 is WAY too young to die! I'm always sad when an artist goes, especially an influential one, and too young, because the world loses their future contributions. That's true for all humans, I suppose, but especially for those who are known, whose past contributions are known, and whose futures are bright.
Sideroxylon
Featherless biped
He was too young to go – he had been producing some great music, including a very well received album from last year (2009) that I will have to get my hands on. Many Australians are probably saying “who?” but if you look around what is being said on the Net you can see he had impact. I guess that is what can happen when you blaze your own trail away from “radio friendly”.
Here’s another go at that link blus a bonus:
“Shivers” – Some might remember the Screaming Jets’ cover in the 90s.
“Junkyard” – The Birthday Party (Young Nick Cave up front shrieking, prowling and growling)
Sideroxylon
Featherless biped
Over-rated - subjective I guess and could be applied to most anyone of fame.
A poseur - he most definatley has built a persona and he's done it well:
Anwyn Crawford on the deplorable career of Nick Cave
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
I quoted you to fix up the YouTube links mate. All you need between the [ yt] and [ /yt] tags is the number after the = sign.
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Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
Yeah, Vonnie was only 47 and it's just not right.
Nick Cave is absolutely a poseur, and I'll bet he laughs all the way to the bank about it too.
Sideroxylon
Featherless biped
I quoted you to fix up the YouTube links mate. All you need between the [ yt] and [ /yt] tags is the number after the = sign.
Thanks, it was hard for me to troubleshoot because I have to use a web proxy to get YT.
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
I think that's a problem for folks in China too.
If you had a satellite connection, could you bypass government controls, or is that naughty?
If you had a satellite connection, could you bypass government controls, or is that naughty?
Sideroxylon
Featherless biped
It’s another possibility I guess. Naughty? Perhaps but everyone here gets around the block somehow - the Turkish PM was unembarrassed when caught out early last year when he referred journalists to a YT vid. I think the Turkish block is more the result of a flawed legal system than political motivation like China.
Sideroxylon
Featherless biped
Better start getting used to web proxies then:
http://www.ztunnel.com/
(also ktunnel and vtunnel if that's slow)
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
If it's anything like the government's previous attempts at regulating telecommunications , it'll be an unworkable fiasco and relegated for use only in the Multi-Function Polis (big ol' belly laugh)
Otherwise:
Since I'm in the sticks I can get a discount on a satellite connection, so I might look into that. As long as I can get about 1.5 meggies/sec I'll be happy.
Yeah, I use proxies for some of my other activities, and they can be dodgy.
If the worst comes to the worst, the Upper and Lower Lands will just seccede from Australia and Pharaoh will continue as normal.
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Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
This made me think of something else. Can you get other video services, like Flickr or Metacafe etc.
I'll try and find clips somewhere else to post if that's the case, instead of the 'tubes I normally put up.
Sideroxylon
Featherless biped
We get those fine. Thanks, but no need to bother with that - I am used to cutting and pasting the links.
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
Well, "gorgeous" isn't a word that's been used to describe me in many decades, but I do have beautiful great-grandchildren!
Nonense! You have to be gorgeous to get to the great-grandma stage.
Also, children fly at reduced fares, or sometimes even free, so make sure you bring a few with you.
Or would that the defeat your purpose a bit?
HawaiiBigSis
List Management
Oh, you silver-tongued flatterer you!Nonense! You have to be gorgeous to get to the great-grandma stage.
Also, children fly at reduced fares, or sometimes even free, so make sure you bring a few with you.
Or would that the defeat your purpose a bit?
By the time children are old enough to be fun, they're old enough to pay full price. (Nah, that's not true, but I've not ever had the experience of traveling with small ones, so I don't know how well I'd handle it.) Plus, I'm not sure how their mothers would feel if I took them away for an extended -- and indefinite -- period of time. Their mothers are already unhappy that I live a tenth of the world away from them!
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
When my daughter was little we did all the trips interstate to catch up with relatives, some of them about 1600 km in about even time.
The good thing was that she used to fall asleep as soon as she was put in the car and would doze away happily until we got to wherever.
The funny part of it was that she went for some time thinking that places a thousand kilometres away were just across town. She'd often say "Can we go to Grandma's today?" when we lived 1200 Ks away.
The good thing was that she used to fall asleep as soon as she was put in the car and would doze away happily until we got to wherever.
The funny part of it was that she went for some time thinking that places a thousand kilometres away were just across town. She'd often say "Can we go to Grandma's today?" when we lived 1200 Ks away.
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HawaiiBigSis
List Management
I know! Kids are funny that way. My daughter used to fall asleep in beds at friends' houses, and always wake up in her own. I'm sure she thought it was some sort of magic...no matter where she fell asleep, she'd always end up at home.
And travel in a car is WAY different than the effort it takes to get to TheLandDownUnder. On my recent road trip, the babies did fall asleep a goodly amount of the time. And if it got to be too much for them being confined, we aired them out at many stops. Kinda a different ball game on an airplane, though...
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
Today in History - 4 January - There be Volcanoes!
Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang discovered the McDonald Islands (conveniently named) on 4 January 1854.
McDonald Island
This was six weeks after an American sealer, Captain John Heard, aboard Oriental, sighted the island bearing his name while enroute from Boston to Melbourne.
I wonder where Akhenaten Island is.
Anyway . . .
How to get there
Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) are bare, rocky, uninhabited, islands located in the Southern Ocean at 53°00′ S 73°00′ E, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica and about 4100 km from Perth, Western Australia. They've been territories of Australia since 1947, and contain the only two active volcanoes in Australian territory, one of which, Mawson Peak, is the highest Australian mountain (at 2745 m it's 527 m higher than Mount Kosciuszko). The islands cover an area of 372 km².
Heard Island (I suspect they actually saw it first)
Heard Island (368 km²) is bleak and mountainous, covered in glaciers and dominated by Mawson Peak which forms part of the Big Ben massif.
The other active volcano on Australian territory is on McDonald Island.
It was dormant for 75,000 years, but erupted in 1992 and has erupted again several times since, its most recent eruption being on 10 August 2005.
The McDonald Islands, located 44 km to the west of Heard Island, are small and rocky.
McDonald Island and Meyer Rock
The group consists of McDonald Island (230 m high), Flat Island (55 m high) and Meyer Rock (170 m). They total approximately 2.5 km² in area and, as with Heard Island, are surface exposures of the Kerguelen Plateau.
There is a small group of islets and rocks about 10 km north of Heard Island, consisting of Shag Islet, Sail Rock, Morgan Island and Black Rock. They total approximately 1.1 km² in area.
Heard Island and the McDonald Islands have no ports or harbours and there is no economic activity, although they have been assigned the country code HM and Internet top-level domain .hm.
From 1947 until the 1950s there were camps of visiting scientists on Heard Island (at Atlas Cove) and in 1971 on McDonald Island (at Williams Bay).
The islands are a territory of Australia administered from Hobart by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage.
They are populated by large numbers of seal and bird species. The islands are contained within a 65,000 square kilometre marine reserve and are primarily visited for research.
Heard Island did not have visitors until the mid-1850s. It is probable that no human had ever seen the island until this time. Peter Kemp, a British sealer (seal hunter), was the first person thought to have seen the island on November 27, 1833, from the brig Magnet during a voyage from Kerguelen to the Antarctic and was believed to have entered the island on his 1833 chart.
Fun fact: The antipode to the central Mawson Peak of Heard Island is located less than 70 kilometres (43 mi) West by South of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. (Wikipedia)
Images and information from the Australian Antarctic Division
Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang discovered the McDonald Islands (conveniently named) on 4 January 1854.
McDonald Island
This was six weeks after an American sealer, Captain John Heard, aboard Oriental, sighted the island bearing his name while enroute from Boston to Melbourne.
I wonder where Akhenaten Island is.
Anyway . . .
How to get there
Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) are bare, rocky, uninhabited, islands located in the Southern Ocean at 53°00′ S 73°00′ E, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica and about 4100 km from Perth, Western Australia. They've been territories of Australia since 1947, and contain the only two active volcanoes in Australian territory, one of which, Mawson Peak, is the highest Australian mountain (at 2745 m it's 527 m higher than Mount Kosciuszko). The islands cover an area of 372 km².
Heard Island (I suspect they actually saw it first)
Heard Island (368 km²) is bleak and mountainous, covered in glaciers and dominated by Mawson Peak which forms part of the Big Ben massif.
The other active volcano on Australian territory is on McDonald Island.
It was dormant for 75,000 years, but erupted in 1992 and has erupted again several times since, its most recent eruption being on 10 August 2005.
The McDonald Islands, located 44 km to the west of Heard Island, are small and rocky.
McDonald Island and Meyer Rock
The blue line shows the size of the island when it was discovered. Australia is getting bigger!
The group consists of McDonald Island (230 m high), Flat Island (55 m high) and Meyer Rock (170 m). They total approximately 2.5 km² in area and, as with Heard Island, are surface exposures of the Kerguelen Plateau.
There is a small group of islets and rocks about 10 km north of Heard Island, consisting of Shag Islet, Sail Rock, Morgan Island and Black Rock. They total approximately 1.1 km² in area.
Heard Island and the McDonald Islands have no ports or harbours and there is no economic activity, although they have been assigned the country code HM and Internet top-level domain .hm.
From 1947 until the 1950s there were camps of visiting scientists on Heard Island (at Atlas Cove) and in 1971 on McDonald Island (at Williams Bay).
The islands are a territory of Australia administered from Hobart by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage.
They are populated by large numbers of seal and bird species. The islands are contained within a 65,000 square kilometre marine reserve and are primarily visited for research.
Heard Island did not have visitors until the mid-1850s. It is probable that no human had ever seen the island until this time. Peter Kemp, a British sealer (seal hunter), was the first person thought to have seen the island on November 27, 1833, from the brig Magnet during a voyage from Kerguelen to the Antarctic and was believed to have entered the island on his 1833 chart.
Fun fact: The antipode to the central Mawson Peak of Heard Island is located less than 70 kilometres (43 mi) West by South of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. (Wikipedia)
Images and information from the Australian Antarctic Division