Some lunch time blogging

Mutterings continued.

Had dinner at Cafe Relish in Scarborough Beach Road last night. It was Maureen and Leece's birthday (they get one each) on Monday and last night was the ritual exchange of presents and overeating. Huge portions, no room for dessert. I was eyeing the lemon meringue pie but just couldn't fit it in.

Today is breezy and rather grey. It sort of looks like rain but I suspect nothing will come of it. I could be wrong, of course.

To the nitwit who paid over $1000 for a bit of cereal that sort of, but doesn't really, look like ET, this from the Daily Telegraph:

"Box of cereal 'worth $35,000'
December 2, 2004

ONE man got $1035 for a single Nutri-Grain resembling ET, yet yesterday we discovered 34 ETs in a box of the cereal we bought for $6.25.

The Daily Telegraph would like to state that at no stage were our Nutri-Grains altered to resemble the aforementioned celebrities (John Howard and Rove McManus).

Actually, in the right light, they all kind of look a little bit like ET. "

Never underestimate the stupidity of the public and there's one born every minute.

I want one of those in-car navigation thingies that tell you where to go, however...

"Car tells driver to do freeway U-turn
From correspondents in Nancy
December 1, 2004

AN elderly motorist driving along a 130km/h expressway in eastern France caused a crash when he followed the advice of his onboard GPS computer - and made a U-turn.

Police said the hapless 78-year-old driver, who was not named, and the occupants of the vehicle he ran into escaped unharmed from the collision on Sunday, but it could have been much worse.

The man told officers his car GPS had told him to "make a U-turn immediately" as he drove along lost near the town of Nancy in search of a hotel."

Having been driven in France I would have thought this was perfectly normal behaviour. Mind you, my companion did do some rather bizarre things himself, such as driving through a pedestrian island. As we passed through the hand rails on the island I asked him if he was sure he knew where he was going. It wasn't until after we had parked the car and walked back the way we had come that we confirmed that it was indeed a pedestrian island he drove across. No wonder we got startled looks from the passersby.