http://samuelgordonstewart.com "It's just not normal" -- Anonymous Correspondent Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:06:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If there is one thing that I have to give Jon Stanhope credit for, he is very good at playing with the media. Whether it's his "I will spend five minutes answering your question about what you perceive to be a lack of rubbish bins by telling you a story ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/he-certainly-knows-how-to-play-the-media I managed to find a good point about having the Olympics on at night and Seven's AFL coverage delayed until 7:50am in New South Wales...if I sleep for thirteen hours from 6pm on Friday, I can wake up on Saturday and still see most of the AFL. Anyway, the Dennis Cometti ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/another-dennis-cometti-quote There was supposed to be more than one post on Wednesday, and I was expecting to write more yesterday and today. Noticeably, and for multiple reasons, this has not happened. Normal programming will resume tomorrow though (and the planned Friday Funny for this week will be held over (again) for ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/unexpected-break-in-programming Apparently the Internet contains pornography... Teenagers and young children searching and downloading the latest tunes over the Internet are being exposed to pornographic images and websites. The popular Internet tool LimeWire is at the centre of the pornography scare. Searching for Britney Spears and even children shows The Wiggles and HI-5 return explicit ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/useless-non-story-of-the-day Good evening Stuart,I could be mistaken because there appear to be satellite issues tonight causing parts of words to be replaced with blips and blops, but did I hear you refer to "talkbock radio" at the top of the show? Could this be related to the "Bock of the 90s" ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/talkbock-radio Caltex successfully convinced me yesterday that they do not use logic when deciding on petrol prices. I was fairly convinced of that already, but they made sure of it yesterday. According to 2UE's Tim Webster, all the Caltex stations he passed in Sydney were selling unleaded petrol for 146.9 cents per ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/petrol-confusion All of the swimming in Beijing has reminded me of the day that I came to the conclusion that swimming just wasn't for me. I was in primary school and was reluctantly taking part in the weekly school swimming trip to the AIS pool in Bruce. For one reason or another ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/i-knew-that-swimming-was-not-for-me I'm confused and I have been for some time. Endeavour carpets in Fyshwick have a radio advertisement featuring a jingle for "Independent Carpets". What I can't work out is why Endeavour Carpets would want to pay for an advertisement claiming that "Independent Carpets is the only place to go". The only ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/endeavour-or-independent Today is not a good day for me to have a headache which is gradually getting worse, and what feels like the start of a cold. If anybody wants to buy them from me, let me know...you can have them. "Buy" might be the wrong word as I don't intend on ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/headache-and-possible-cold-for-sale It says something about the travel habits of Kevin Rudd when radio news stories can start with the line "The Prime Minister's been in Canberra today". On this occasion he was doing something noteworthy in Canberra, but it's only a matter of time until him spending time in Canberra is ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/highly-travelled I didn't catch the full details in 2CC's 3pm news as I was distracted, but there has been a motor vehicle accident at the corner of Gladstone Street and another street (Update: the other street is Wollongong Street, and traffic is blocked in both directions) in Fyshwick. A vehicle has ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/motor-vehicle-accident-and-power-outage-in-fyshwick A few months back, Mike Frame left 2CC to host the Queensland version of Southern Cross Ten's State Focus programme. Mike does this from the Southern Cross Ten studios in Watson which is interesting not only because the regional program doesn't have to be filmed in the region, but also ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/mike-frame-on-state-focus The Australian is reporting on a rather peculiar statement from Macquarie Radio (Sydney's 2GB and 2CH) chief executive Angela Clark. Ms. Clark claims that Deborah Cameron's success this year on ABC 702 Sydney's morning show is "a survey glitch". She is referring to the latest survey in particular where Ms. Cameron ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/if-a-trend-is-a-glitch-what-do-i-make-of-2ch As tempted as I am to run a guaranteed vote-grabber poll along the lines of "How interested are you in the Olympic Games", I will restrain myself and run a more interesting poll. In the last few days I've been wondering whether I am alone in my quest to use proper ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/samuels-blog-not-quite-weekly-poll-proper-english-in-text-messages It has been a few weeks since I last did this, and I've decided not to bother with catching up on the missing weeks. I will, however, pick up where I left off, and as promised purposefully pick a song from the ever-growing list rather than allow the random number ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/samuels-musicians-of-the-week-61 Good evening Gibbsy and Brandy.The offer by Pakistan to give each and every one of our cricket players a "presidential style security team" is very generous, but it doesn't change the fact that DFAT considers it to be a dangerous country. I don't think that Cricket Australia have any right ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/cricket-in-pakistan How much do you know about Global Warming/Climate Change? To find out, and brush up on what you don't know, take The Global Warming Test. Update: Link corrected, sorry about that. End Update For the record, I correctly answered nine out of ten. (Thanks to Jim Ball for the link). Samuel http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/the-global-warming-test I managed to stump Jim Ball with this around 5am and I was going to post it here at that time, but decided to get some sleep instead. Probably not a bad idea after being awake for 33 hours. So, today is the 13th of August, and it is a most ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/its-the-most-exciting-day-of-all-in-the-world-of-radio A few moments ago I walked downstairs muttering to myself, only to find Nattie peering out of her bed at me and giving me the "I'm trying to sleep here" look. I then said to her "Don't mind me, I'm just telling myself off for going completely cuckoo." Could this be a ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/did-i-just-say-that Good afternoon Tim,Seeing as it's Mark Knopfler's birthday, do you think there is any chance of you playing Going Home, the theme of the Local Hero (John Stanley's theme music)?I'd be ever so appreciative if you could, it's a great piece of music. Regards,Samuel Gordon-StewartCanberra For those of you who ... http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2008/08/mark-knopfler