I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

Here is a shot of Henry and regular blog ~~pest~~ commenter Roddy looking for crabs up at Fossil Bluff in Wynyard. You might just be able to see Bass Strait in the background.

As a bonus, here is an arty black and white portrait to scare people off ever getting tattoos. They fade people, and it isn't pleasant when the skin stretches and contracts over time!

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Z said…

Google employees get 20% time to work on whatever they fancy -- and that has been very good for Google. Motivation and productivity are interesting aspects to study, aren't they?

28 February 2010 at 23:23

ratatouille's archives said…

Hi! Kris,
Kris said,"Here is a shot of Henry and regular blog commenter Roddy looking for crabs up at Fossil Bluff in Wynyard."

Nice photograph of...grandfather and grandson. By the way,I find your parents' comments very interesting!
What an interesting quote too!
Thanks, for sharing!
DeeDee ;-D

1 March 2010 at 02:02

Mo said…

Especially here in Nanny State. Thinking woyuld be a great start.
old tats. well great future business in laser removal I say.

1 March 2010 at 02:27

Magpie said…

They look like a couple pirates looking for buried treasure.
Wonderful bonding.

1 March 2010 at 04:16

Roddy said…

You happened to pick the arm with scars through the tattoo. Mine have aged a lot better than a lot that I have seen over the years. What about the one on my leg that has the scar in exactly the same place as my scar.
That was one absolute fluke. A 30cm. gash that traveled through her leg in exactly the same place.

1 March 2010 at 20:10

Kris McCracken said…

Thanks all, don't get tattoos!

4 March 2010 at 11:02

Lost inside an adorable illusion and I cannot hide, I'm the one you're using, please don't push me aside, we could've made it cruising, yeah.

Yes it is Theme Thusday again, and today we are talking GLASS . I've three possible hooks to hang my [glass] hat on with this theme. First, the photo! Yes, it is the river again from an odd angle in an interesting light. You can just make out the bottom, which should tell you that I'm right on the shore. In some ways, the distortion of the stones below the surface reminds me of ye olde glass windows, what they call "cylinder blown sheet glass". You can still find some of this around Hobart these days. Thw second link comes from a trip I took to Venice a few years back. You're probably aware that Venice was (is?) a glass-making centre of excellence. If you have ever been there and taken the tour of the glass factories, you might be familiar with the sheer amount of coloured glass that sits at the bottom of the water there. These fragments of glass have been worn down and had their edges dulled by their time in the water, which makes them ample keepsakes for the ...

Hold me now, oh hold me now, until this hour has gone around. And I'm gone on the rising tide, to face Van Dieman's Land

Theme Thursday again, and this one is rather easy. I am Tasmanian, you see, and aside from being all around general geniuses - as I have amply described previously - we are also very familiar with the concept of WATER. Tasmania is the ONLY island state of an ISLAND continent. That means, we're surrounded by WATER. That should help explain why I take so many photographs of water . Tasmania was for a long time the place where the British (an island race terrified of water) sent their poor people most vile and horrid criminals. The sort of folk who would face the stark choice of a death sentence , or transportation to the other end of the world. Their catalogue of crimes is horrifying : stealing bread assault stealing gentlemen's handkerchiefs drunken assault being poor affray ladies being overly friendly with gentlemen for money hitting people having a drink and a laugh public drunkenness being Irish Fenian terrorist activities being Catholic religious subversion. ...

Happy anniversary baby, got you on my mind

No it is not a webcam, but this photograph was taken a mere forty-five ago on my way in to work. Here you can see a good old fashioned Hobart autumn morning, with the rain pelting down and me getting drenched. This one was taken on the corner of Macquarie and Elizabeth, while I was waiting for the lights to change. Come on Ampelmännchen ! Today is my wedding anniversary, an apparently I need to be showering Jen with leather -related goodies. Va-va-vaVOOM! To you Jennifer, here is a poem I wrote this very morning. Anniversary I love you i love you iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou I LOVE you I love YOU iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou I LOVE YOU iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou Happy anniversary

This will hurt me...

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