February 03, 2005

• For us English system Luddites, 125 mm = 4.92".
• I hope it washed out that kebab house in Sydney Road that poisoned all those people.
• I was sitting in the office here in Sydney yesterday afternoon watching the storm roll in. Made for a pretty impressive sight. I heard they got some snow down in Victoria too- despite it being the middle of Summer and temperatures around 30degrees (about 85F I guess)
• Wolof - you mean Alasya? My friend's brother was one of the victims! Unfortunately, it's on a hill! But i think it's a bit unfair - the incident appears to have been a result of a bad supplier, not Alasya themselves...
• It's commonplace to blame the kebab for your resulting illnesses, but more often than not it's the thousand schooners you've consumed before working up the courage to eat one that's the real culprit.
• The river flooding and underwater trees look pretty bad and remind me of Tropical Storm Allison in 2001. The little bit of street flooding shown in the photos looks no worse than a good old Texas gullywasher, though. I guess I'm just used to the rotten drainage planning in Houston.
• Bondurant - salmonella in the garlic sauce was the culprit here... (You don't get shut down for a month because some tit had a 1000 schooners!!!1)
• Mmmmm, creamy garlic salmonella.
• Hehe. Reminds me of the new VB ads where the three mates end up in hospital the next day after a big night. The cause was "dodgy garlic sauce" on a lamb kebab. The writers might've used this incident as inspiration! Sorry to derail.
• It's The Last Wave! minus Richard Chamberlain, of course.
• see, what you do is, you gradually expose yourself to at first small but over time increasingly large doses of salmonella, until you're immune. Then, you can go out and lick raw chicken with impunity!
• There was one hell of strange thunderclap over Melbourne yesterday morning. That was followed by the coldest February day, and the largest downpour in a 24 hour period on record. Just another quirk in Melbourne’s diabolical weather, or a prelude to abrupt climate change that will soon lead to the decimation of humanity, I ask myself. Also, wrt the salmonella laden kebab fiasco – my SO has been inundated with peoples shit (literally!) at work since then. This happens every time there's a food poisoning outbreak, since for every person who actually is sick, there are 150 other hypochondriacs that insist on sending in their samples for testing. No wonder she’s not so cheery some nights…
• *thanks $DEITIES that she decided not to go to Melbourne for library school*
• Immlass (how do you pronouce that?) is correct. This looks like the scenes in Houston every three to five years, when the skies open and the stupid people get into their cars. When your elevation is 50 feet and your distance to the Gulf is 50 miles, there just is nothing to do with all that water. Is this the monsoon season in Australia, or just a freak storm?
• If you don't like the weather in Melbourne...wait five minutes.
• Is this the monsoon season in Australia, or just a freak storm? IANAM, but for Melbourne, the average monthly rainfall graph is pretty flat with a slight peak in the spring – there isn’t a monsoon season to speak of down here, so getting a quarter of the annual rainfall in a single day at any time of year is pretty strange to say the least. A thousand miles to the north, Brisbane and beyond say, it is the monsoon season so they’d be more accustomed to these kinds of storms.
• Imlass and Earwax: Houston floods when you spit too hard or drop a glass of water :) I remember bailing out the Freshman dorm with buckets in '94. and, what I wouldn't give for a decent kabob (with hot sauce!). You just can't get them in Ohio.