The Invermay Sandwich Chronicles, Volume 1.

Dear Diary,

Today's sandwich adventure was an intricate mixture of edible emotions; and leads my commentary onto the topic of moisture content. The order of the day was turkey on turkish, featuring lettuce, tomato, beetroot, onion and cheese, supported by mayonaise and cranberry sauce.

The combination of above makes for a hefty sandwich, laden with a high water content.

It is in the combination of the beetroot and the tomato, situated one ontop of the other that creates a pot of bother when it comes to consuming the sandwich. Whilst watery fillings amongst non watery fillings generally keep enough traction to make devouring them entirely possible.. The moment you place a heavy watery filling aside another heavy watery filling, graciously eating the sandwich becomes as possible as restraining a greasy pig on linoleum tiles.

For lovers and patrons of multiple high moisture content fillings, I recommend complimenting them with wholegrain breads and spreads, and sandwich adhesives like the ever so helpful plastic cheese.

One needs to not only consider the components of a sandwich but also the arrangement to ensure an acceptable level of filling cohesion.

Overall... Turkey on turkish: 2 stars.

ed.

Squirrel of the week (wk3)

As much as I was sad to see last weeks squirrel leave my desktop, Squirrel of the week is all about variety (within a very limited frame of reference), so out with the old and in with the new.

This weeks squirrel doesn't posses the same dorky appeal as week 1 or the fashionista appeal of week 2. Week 3 seems more of the 'voyeur', or the evil spiteful squirrel intent of revenge.. but not right now; sometime in the near future.

Or possibly a seafaring squirrel.. gazing out over the seas and pondering the winds and swell (of Hyde Park or Central Park lakes)

There is a look of excitement in his/her eyes, or of determination.

Squirrel of the week is once more proudly brought you you by Harri_1970 from Flickr.

ed.

When Ronald McDonald meets Michelangelo

It seems that bacon and mince have replaced marble in the world of modern sculpture.

Not a contender for squirrel of the week

As much as I love beer, expensive things, and small furry animals (notably squirrels) when all these things mix together the result doesn't really come close to a sum of love of parts.

Its sort of the equivalent situation of liking chocolate, pizza and passionfruit; but probably not all together.

'Brew Dog' has released a line of beer that clocks out at 55% alcohol, but not content with providing you with the worlds strongest beer hangover, Brew Dog also provides the creepy shit you wake up with the next morning.

20somethings of my generation will probably remember the Yowie chocolates. BrewDog beer takes a similar maketing approach. However instead of a small, swallowable, assemeblable plastic native animal toy, The beer company inserts its drinking vessel inside the taxidermic corpse of a small rodent.

Choices range from the stoat, to squirrel, or rabbit.

With a price tag of almost $800 US dollars for this thirst quencher, this doesn't really compare on the economy scale with Red Bitter or Hahn Ice.

The Scottish brewery's URL is http://www.brewdog.com/

ed.

Worlds shittest video games, issue 1.

After a recent visit to the GameOn2.0 I came to the conclusion that it isn't always the most complicated, detailed games that aren't always the most fun, and that simple games (such as the Japanese train driver game) can give you just as much pleasure.

But how far can you take this? how simple can a game be and still be enjoyable?

I think the answer can be found in the late 80's game 'Desert Bus'.

All the 4 bit thrills you can cope with, with the storyline of driving a bus (in real time) from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas. The journey lasts about 8 hours (16 if your doing the return trip for double points), during wich you can experience the slightly changing scenery as the occasional tumbleweeds rolls past.

Just to make sure you dont cheat and sticky tape the throttle down, the bus steers slightly to the left and right, so requires constant diligent steering.

Possibly one for the podium in 'shittest video games' and certainly a finalist in the 'games you won't see in GameOn3.0'

ed.

Squirrel of the week catchup.

As this week is week 2 of Squirrel of the week; I should probably catch up on week 1. I believe it is the same squirrel as this weeks, however in a different pose.

This one also comes courtesy of Harri_1970 from Flickr.

Whilst week 2 is more of a classic 'over the shoulder' pose, week 1 is a more personal portrait, profiling a complex intricacy of this particular squirrel's confidence and idiosyncrasies.

ed.

Squirrel of the week

I have decided, in the absence of crappy standard apple backgrounds, to make a weekly effort to change my desktop. A wise man once said that a change is as good as a holiday.

That's a crock of shit in my opinion. Given the choice between a change in desktop background or a week on the beach in Bali, I debate anyone would consider one as good as the other.

Anyways.. This week is actually the second week of squirrel backgrounds... They come courtesy of Harri_1970 from flickr, in my opinion one of the better squirrel photographers I have seen to date.

ed.