Comments for Diary of a Dilletante

Comment on Australia – a nation with their bins out. by Drew

Drew — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:53:18 +0000

That said… I just checked out my house and, sure enough, bins out!

Comment on Perhaps I should just call it a golf blog. by Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:51:52 +0000

I’ve said it before. My grudges are documented and archived.

Comment on Australia – a nation with their bins out. by Drew

Drew — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:23:34 +0000

But garbos have to go down both sides of the street and I’d think the google snapwagon would only have to make one pass. If you followed the garbo, wouldn’t you be making twice the work for yourself?

Comment on Perhaps I should just call it a golf blog. by Drew

Drew — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:14:24 +0000

Still with the Taft Motor Inn issues? Time to move on, matey. There, there…

Comment on Perhaps I should just call it a golf blog. by Courty

Courty — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:59:26 +0000

I take offense at that Apple jibe. See here: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/08/07/toms-hardware-says-apple-and-pc-prices-are-equivalent/

Comment on Australia – a nation with their bins out. by AndyP

AndyP — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:54:51 +0000

Surely 14% is less than you would expect, since a garbo should come 1 in 7 days plus overlap of having bins out………

Comment on Kindness to strangers? by Desci

Desci — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:23:01 +0000

1. I like random complements, but only if they’re not followed up by chat – then it seems like a come-on.

2. ps3.

Comment on Mis-spending my youth part II by Adam 1.0

Adam 1.0 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:42:30 +0000

How have I missed out on this for so long? Any love for Lethal Weapon 3, that was/is my all time favourite. The angle where you had to fire the gun AND play the flippers at the same time was off the charts.

Then there was the dialogue (“what Leo wants, Leo getz”, “You have no authority!” “Load it.. HOLD THE GUN AND FIRE!”) and the choice of music (ZZ Top, C&C Music Factory, the Soundtrack).

Oh and the KASE Armoured Van multiball.

God, I want it now. I was going to buy one at an auction but my ceiling price was $800 and it went for $1500 *sob*

Comment on Mis-spending my youth part II by Karl

Karl — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:57:37 +0000

May I add that Williams ‘White Water’ was a personal fave and ate a lot of my cash at Rage (is that what Roper called it?). Big Foot at the top deciding where your ball was going to go, and the machine screaming “White Water! Head fur the blinkin’ lights!” insanely during multiball.

Jungle Princess is still in working order. Drew still holds the top score of 370,000. Nearest is me at 330,000. I’ve lost the head off one of my monkeys though – time to contact Mr Pinball for a replacement!

Cheers

Comment on Mis-spending my youth part II by Drew

Drew — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:03:53 +0000

Yep, TZ had the weird “powerball” and the gumball machine. So under certain circs, multi-ball could get quite frantic when it spat them all out.

I loved the extra flipper high on the right hand side that allowed you to “shoot the camera”.

I played fishtales a few times, the fish & chip shop I used to frequent had it there, rather appropriately but I never warmed to it.