Posted in Food, Personal Minutiae on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
It turned out we didn’t have a destination for April as everyone was busy working and whatnot. Still, we headed off to Red Hot, a Brazilian BBQ place on Gouger Street, for dinner this month.
Posted in Food, Personal Minutiae on April 6, 2008 | No Comments »
The most recent stop on our round-the-world food adventure was Croatia. Last Monday we headed off to Morska Vila at Henley Beach for some fine Croatian fare.
Posted in Admin, Personal Minutiae on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Sometime this afternoon this blog had it’s thousandth visit. Even though a lot of blogs would get that many in a day, and my reasons for writing it are more for my self than to attract readers (mainly to work on my writing skills and get ideas clearer in my head), I’m pretty happy about it.
Posted in Food, Personal Minutiae on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Last Monday we packed our bags and headed to Zagol House for what was my first taste of African food.
Posted in Food, Personal Minutiae on January 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Since last month’s trip to Mongolia was so successful, we decided to continue the tour and head to Mexico. We winnowed the choice down to two Mexican restaurants on Melbourne street, Zapata’s and Montezuma’s, and decided on Zapata’s because fewer of us had been there before.
Posted in Admin, Personal Minutiae on December 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, it’s just about the end of the year and I guess that means it’s time to take stock of how this little project is going. As of right now I’ve had 813 visitors to Zombat, which isn’t too bad seeing as I’ve given the thing practically no publicity (or maintenance). Now in my very [...]
Posted in Personal Minutiae on December 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Not long ago I had a really excellent week. There was not a single bad day, it was a lot of fun and many good things happened. So if you’re interested in the mundane details of my life (and let’s face it, who isn’t) then read on about my best week* ever.**
*Not actual week.
**Not actually my [...]
Posted in Food, Personal Minutiae on December 4, 2007 | No Comments »
A few weeks ago a friend of mine came up with the idea of doing a round-the-world tour of some of the restaurants in Adelaide. Last night we set off for Mongolia, specifically the Genghis Khan Mongolian restaurant in Tranmere.
Posted in Personal Minutiae, Politics on November 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Having looked at all the senate candidates and their policies, I went to the polling booth yesterday and cast my vote. On the way I passed the volunteers that were passing out ‘how to vote’ cards. Usually I refuse these but this year I was keen to see who the different parties were preferencing.
Posted in Animals, Evolution, Personal Minutiae on August 5, 2007 | No Comments »
The good thing about having a zoo membership is that I can go there between lectures and not have to worry about the expense. It’s not a bad zoo, certainly the only one I know of that has both a bear-cat and cat-bears. I went twice this week, to renew my membership and to meet [...]
