I love how all the Australian stuff is just... not there. No Mt Kosciuszko, no Murray-Darling river.... I guess that area of Australia had just been opened up to explorers... Wikipedia tells me that 1854 was about 20/30 years after white man got there.

Me, if I can get my hands on enough of the really good stuff.

Guilty secret time.... Star Wars. Any and/or all of them. I've seen bits and pieces of them but never a whole movie in its entirety. I kept on falling asleep, or shifting my attention somewhere else.

That is quite the trip...

Thank you! Thank you! That really really shat(nered) me off too - the leaving out of the guitar solo, but ESPECIALLY the messing up of bismillah. This song taught me the word, so that I recognised it the first time I came across it used in proper context.

Oh heavens, that sounds like something I'm now going to look up and try my best to understand.

I'd like to see a Top 10 list of the most awesome kitty contributions to science.... Please??

$2500 for airfares to Reykjavik. 46 hours transit. I reckon I could save that much by June...

Amen, sister.

The ceiling was painted a deep blue so that clouds seemed to move across the ceiling, making it look like clouds floating across the night sky.

The robot gets to wake up at 7am on Monday mornings? My 5.30am starts and I are jealous.

I watched it recently too. It's fantastically awesomeful. And I agree - I'd love to see it remade.

Mine currently has me engaged in a game of fetch that's been going on for an hour now. I keep throwing the ball high, so he has to leap for it - it seems to be wearing him out.

That sounds fascinating. Being the 'real girl' part, that is. I'm kinda jealous of you. Any call for an Australian accent on the radio show??

I'd like something that stops me substituting nicotine with rage-fuelled anxiety attacks....

Oh! OH! I just won passes to go and see this at the cinema here in Melbourne. I'm getting all over superexcited now!

That's exactly how I think attraction works for me. Amy's little speech was just perfect.

When I first came into contact with gamelan, I got really really irritated by it - it sounded like a mess of noise and high pitched screeching. However, I was continually dragged to weddings in Java, and developed a love and appreciation of the music.

Tasmanian Devils are rapidly becoming endangered, because there's some sort of genetic and/or contagious facial cancer that's killing them all fairly rapidly. Zoos and the like are establishing disease free colonies on the mainland, in case ALL the Tasmanian ones are killed.