Win a Grand Weekend in Melbourne
Expedia is running a competition to win an AFL Grand Final weekend in fabulous Melbourne (my beloved home city), valued at up to $9,600. The competition closes August 31 and is open to Australian residents. Click the image below to enter.
Good luck!
New Hampshire Numberplate – Live free or die!
While using Wikipedia to research Montréal and the surrounding area, I came across this image of a New Hampshire numberplate. I wouldn’t die for freedom, myself; under dire oppression, I’d rather bide my time looking for a way to put my life and liberty together. Yet I have always loved this American revolutionary slogan, and it shocked and pleased me to see it on something so mundane as a numberplate. I think I’m going to like North America…
Gong xi fa cai – Year of the cock
Okay, Chinese New Year was yesterday, but Happy Chinese New Year, anyway. This morning I found the following image on the site of that purveyor of fine videogaming paraphernalia, Lik-Sang, which I thought was amusing.
Incidentally, this lunar year, which I prefer to call the year of the rooster, or of the chicken, is the year of my own sign of the Chinese zodiac. Not that I believe such things as astrology are any more than metaphysical fantasies, but it is nevertheless, a point of interest.