Population of the Internet

I have reason to look for Personal Protective Equipment, specifically lightweight head and should protection from heat and spatters - ie a cowl of some sort.
I put “leather cowl” into Google and scanned the summaries.

The best price I could find was 9 gold pieces.

Spiders

The move to the new area has come with some side-effects. One of which is the local fauna. particularly the eight-legged variety.
Now, I’m not the best when it comes to spiders, I will freely admit. However, if the are small enough to leave a slight smudge (ie house spider) and not a pool of ooze (ie hunstman spider), then it is I, not they, with the advantage.
There was one in the garden today, I have no idea what type of spider it was, but it had an arse on it that would make Shelob say “Da-yam!”

I also discovered something about redback spiders today. Fuckers are fast, man. That red stripe? Yeah, that’s a GT.

For the benefit of overseas readers, in general, Australia has more creatures that can kill you that any other country. Most of them are tiny, and almost all methods are slow and painful.
Most Australians you come across will have an aversion to small, dark places, like the inside of boots. For the very reason that a spider that can make your flesh rot may live in there.

If you ever visit Australia, never, ever, put your hand, foot or body inside anything you can’t see the whole of the inside of, you might just find a taipan, funnel web or even the dangerous platypus.

I’ll give you violent…

Local radio station had a 2005 song countdown. Weeks worth of airtime. Lots of classic, good songs, lots of classic bad songs.
But the number one song?

Violent Femmes: Blister in the Sun

Surely there’s more taste in the nation than that.

House stuff

First, let me say that gilmae has made me feel inferior by his (relatively) prolific posting, amd his poorly veiled comment in referring to kozaru “that thing that never gets updated”.

Now, onto the house.

The backyard is cut into a hill, and so has a 2 level terrace thingy made predominantly of railway sleepers and tanbark. I thought “Garden lights!”, so I got some solar powered ones.
On the side of the box, it read “Charge for 48 hours before use”.

I giggled. Out of the next 48 hours, I was confidant that roughly half of them would be, in fact, dark.
(I’ll just say here that yes, I am being a smartarse, OK?)
I opened the box and there were 2 pices of paper, plus stickers on the lights themselves, that said, basically “Clearly we don’t mean 48 consecutive hours, you smartarse”

That just made me laugh more.

So I have them charging, and I believe they will add to the garden, especially at night time.

I also installed some plants last weekend…no wait…
*Planted*. Yes, I *planted* some plants.

Didn’t even have to reboot the garden. Must be a linux system…