Some Brisbane Guy

Large portions of this blog’s expansive readership are no doubt wondering how my new job is going, so I thought I would please you, my vast audience, with a short photo-essay detailing some of the surroundings I encounter as I go about my day. Well I really only thought of this at the end of the day so it’s just what I see on the way home, and using the word “detailed” when talking about pictures my camera phone produces is a stretch. But here:

	This is what an office looks like. I may or may not use the only computer screen visible in the pic and it could be a 22″ Compaq CRT monitor. But who could say for sure?
	This is a meeting room near an office, with a view. I don’t actually get to go in here.
	This is the inside of a lift. There are others and they’re all alike.
	This is a big bus interchange, OK I can tell you where this one is, it’s at Garden City. See that light smudge in the sky, directly above the far, small light pole? Yeah that’s a tiny crescent moon.

Cheers

P.S. I’m so disgusted with myself that I can only get those images and captions to look decent in that layout by using a HTML table. That’s just horrible and wrong…in Firefox my BR CLEAR=ALL tag was causing about 40 acres of whitespace and then the second picture after the menu. Why does the menu affect the flow of this div container? WHY? So I added two columns while I was at it, so the captions make a nice vertical row as well. Aww.

This post was meant to be from my mobile phone last night when we were at Hanaichi, but Postie rejected the sending address.

Why do people drink sake? I don’t think it’s very nice…the beer on the other hand was great. So was the fried chicken and the wagyu beef sushi is so good.

I love going to the Hanaichi restaurant in Brisbane city; and as they say on the site linked to above:

Don’t be put off by the shopping centre location, this stylish sushi train is worth catching. With Tokyo-chic styling and seperate tables for a la carte diners it’s a great, central spot for fine Japanese fare.

Totally.

P.S. my phone’s camera is on the VGA setting but it’s so lame that it’s only the 352×288 CIF resolution scaled up. That’s why it looks rubbish. I so need a better phone. Yes, need.

100_3757, uploaded to flickr by glennkentwell.

I’m proud that I made a tool today to help me fix my car, but I’m ashamed at its quality. It did the job though, eventually.

My ED Fairmont’s 5 litre V8 has a busted water pump and is leaking everywhere. I was going to get a mechanic to fix it but freaked out when he said how much it would cost cause it’s only a bloody water pump, I should be able to fix it myself. The mechanic fella said once the fan and shroud are off there will be plenty of space and it won’t look so difficult, so I thought why not, it can’t be too hard.

Well, trouble struck when I realised that the fan is a bit of a mongrel to take off. It has a big (36mm!) nut attaching it to the water pump pulley that makes it turn, and you have to somehow stop the pulley from turning while you turn the big-ass nut. So, the Haynes manual tells you to make a tool, which I pretty much did, but mine was a bit simpler than theirs cause I am hopeless.

So it was still a massive hassle trying to get the big-ass nut undone because it was really tight so I swore a lot and bruised and cut my soft programmer forearms up a little bit (not on purpose like an emo, accidentally like a tough man. I threw some tools too I think, haha.

But I persevered like a true Aussie (one who complains) and finally the fan was free and I could take off the shroud and see my target, the water pump.

Here’s some other pics of those bits and my homemade tool, looks like I need a new hose too it’s a bit yuck around there. But I won’t get to that part until tomorrow

Ford F350. F650And for those who don’t know what a Ford F350 pickup is, here’s a pic of a pretty extreme one.

Check this guy out, hanging off it, he’s so proud. What do you do with one of these anyway? Imagine parking it at the shops or going to McDonalds, haha.
Edit:
OK I lose, the black truck above is obviously an F650 Supertruck and not an F350 as the guy who posted the pic thought. I’m not from the US and A so I don’t know these things straight up, but when I looked closer I noticed that the front of the truck is different to an F350, with the side bits “going in” a bit.

Anyway here’s a decent F350 for y’all to ponder and appreciate the wonder of something so big doing 240km/h:

It’s so big, it doesn’t even fit on my blog!

Ford Pickup F350 … V10

Originally uploaded by !! 7aRo0o0o 2776 o0o0oB !!.

This is nuts…240km/h in a truck that weights 2.4 tonnes! These people must eat teflon for breakfast.

Imagine this thing flying past you! Lol.