Like, oh like

You can like some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time but it seems rather difficult to like all of the people all of the time.

But then, I am not sure than some of the people like me all of the time, and some of the people definitely don't like me all of the time, so that's probably fair.

YouTube oddity

The Noodle and I have been playing some music on YouTube, which all started because we were talking about the separation of Germany (What is West Germany, Mum?') and obviously had to listen to Meatloaf*.

So we listened to Took the Words Right Out of my Mouth and were suitably astonished at the power chords (not power cords, which are more useful but less astonishing, although now I think of it, quite important to the production of power chords). And also at Meatloaf's hair and pallid face.

Then we obviously had to listen to The Smiths, kind of to prove that we could in a post-Meatloaf world, and we listened to my favourite-ever Smiths song, There is a light that never goes out, and also Panic and Big Mouth Strikes Again. The Noodle was this time astonished at the generally violent and misanthropic tone coupled with the airy beauty of Morrisey's voice. But mostly he was extremely unimpressed with Morrisey's dancing on Top of the Pops.

So then we had to listen to Paul Kelly, and the Noodle's astonishment was pretty much limited to how amazingly much a person's appearance can change when they are suddenly 30 years older and also wearing a hat.

*No, I don't get the link either, but it seemed reasonable at the time.

Law

So I think that law is competitive textual analysis. If you have the greater insight and close reading, you win! Yay!

Great for those of us who behave badly when the Pictionary is brought out.

Not convinced it's the best way to run the country, but.

Case analysis

One of the useful laywering skills they are teaching us idiot-not-lawyers is how to do a case analysis. I am doing The Minister of Immigration and Teoh for my first mini-assignment.

The butler did it.

Question for Canberra locals and/or dam engineers

Anyone know why the water at the bottom of Lake Burley Griffin smells so bad? Sulfurous it is, as if the devil himself lives down there with the carp.

I would like to add that I have not been snorkelling down there without nose plugs, it's the run off from Scrivener Dam.

Quality

The Sparkes Helmore lecture theatres at ANU are utterly soundproof.

And the lecturers are pretty high quality too.

Also, there is a creek.

There is actual rain actually falling from the actual sky.

Wet stuff lying round on the ground, we calls them puddles. Water spilling over the spill way making that Molongolo River go. The trees and grass are green G-R-E-E-N. Green.

The Noodle says, 'it's just un-Australian'.

This being the fellow who did not own a raincoat until he was six.

Rain, I tells you, rain.

No dancing Katherine Hepburn, though. Not that I've seen.