I'm going to dust of the ol' red suit and head to the Victoria Derby tomorrow. I will join Alex Stuckey and James 'Frog' Fogarty in the general admission area… Roly P. Nattrass will be there, but in the members area of course.
This could be my only income for a while so I need to pick a winner, please hit me with any trackside knowledge.
If you stick your melon out the window tonight (Oct 29th) you just may get to see an Aurora! More likely here in Perth, even more likely in Boyanup or some other country hamlet where the weather's good. Apparently it might even happen before 11 PM, check the link
Expressed in more scientific terms by a Mr Man from the U.W.A. Physics department in the full story.
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word straight from some Physics guy:
The sun has been very active lately, but much of the media hype has not
come to pass. Things may be different tonight. The X17.2 solar flare of 28
Oct (1110 UTC), the second biggest of this solar cycle, emitted charged
particles directly towards earth. It is estimated the shock front will hit
about 1500 UTC (11pm WAST) on the 29th and may produce an aurora visible
from our latitude. It may even be as good as the great aurora of March
13-14 1989, then again it may be a fizzer. It all depends on the polarity
of the magnetic field of the arriving plasma relative to the earth's.
badger's translation: If you stick your melon out the window tonight (Oct 29th) you just may get to see an Aurora! More likely here in Perth, even more likely in Boyanup or some other country hamlet where the visibility's good. Apparently it might even happen before 11 PM, check the link
<a href="http://www.ips.gov.au/Main.php?CatID=4&SecID=2&SecName=Alerts%20and%20Warnings&SubSecID=4&SubSecName=Aurora%20Alert">link</a>
I had my last day at Rehame today. Due to the litigious nature of this company I won’t say to much about them, suffice to say that I am the fourth to walk from night shift this month (out of a team of 10 or so reporters)… people don’t leave unless something is rotten, and as Paul Keating was fond of saying, “This fish is rotten from the head down”.
Eloise 36, an ex-employee of Rehame, has written an eloquent account of work practices here, many thanks to crikey.com.au for the link.
Melbourne gained an hour on you Perth suckers overnight.
That means I'll be getting the news while you fools are still watching Ricki Lake. I'll be eating dessert while you louts haven't even started the entrée. I'll be tucking into my first gin and tonic while you clowns are getting ready for work… and so on.
Personally I reckon we should move further ahead, we should just move to Friday, leave you guys standing around on Sunday, dicks waving in the wind.
All this talk about Guns'n'Roses, Macho Man Randy Savage and Meat Axe has got me thinking we should start a list of the cockiest Cock Rock lyrics…
I'll kick it off with Jon Bon Jovi's Dead or Alive,
“Sometimes you tell the day
By the bottle that you drink
And times when you’re all alone all you do is think”
… that's what rock'n'roll is all about.
