Pizza is cool. Pizza is awesome. I am addicted to Pizza!
I eat it waaaaaaay too often to be honest but I am addicted. I recently did a clean out my room and discovered seven pizza boxes just laying about. That's way too much! I even try to go to as many different places as possible to find the best.
This is actually just a ting post to keep Blaugust going to be honest because I really missed the train on this post. It was bound to happen. I even manged to back date it to make sure it still fits in to tuesday.
Regular programming will hopefully commence on Wednesday people.
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Monday, 18 August 2014
18th of Blaugust - O - Old Photos of Adelaide
I get absolutely fascinated by these sorts of photos. I love to try to picture in my mind exactly where they were taken and then get gobsmacked as to how much has changed.
This one was taken in 1880 and is of King William Street looking south. You can see the Town Hall to your left (without a clock) and the GPO to your right. I believe that glass ANZ building would be where that building with the weird looking tower is today.
This is one of Bee Hive corner back also in 1880 where Rundle Mall would meet with King William Street today. No dome with a bee on it here. It's actually the name of a drapery shop. The current Beehive building would be built just five years later.
Here is another one from 1880 of Victoria Square. If you find old maps of Adelaide you'd find that Victoria Square was not originally diamond shaped. It was laid out like the other four squares in the city. King William Street went straight through the middle as Grote Street and Wakefield Street met in the middle. I wonder what they call that little bit of road that goes through the middle of Victoria Square? Technically it should be neither Grote Street or Wakefield Street as "no one shall cross the path of a monarch!" That's why all the streets change name when they meet King William. It's also why King William Street is renamed as it gets to both North and South Terrace. They aren't crossing King William Street as the street ends with a new one starting on the other side.
This is of the Institute Building back in 1875 located on the corner of North Terrace and Kintore Avenue. Today it is now joined as part of the State Library for a while it used to house an Exibit of things belonging to Sir Donald Bradman. Speaking of cricket in Adelaide...
1933 was when this photo was taken of the infamous Bodyline Test at Adelaide Oval where a record high crowd for Cricket at the ground was set at 50,962. That record has been in place for so long and is probably set to be toppled now that the ground has been redeveloped. It was apparently taken from the top of the heritage listed scoreboard. Can you believe someone proposed we take that scoreboard away? Considering you can no longer see St Peters Cathedral anymore, it's one of the few original parts left and would be a shame to loose. But to be fair, you do have to squint to read what it from the Riverbank Stand.
This was taken in 1927 one year before the current Adelaide Railway Station was complete. It wasn't until the mid eighties when what is now known as the Intercontinental Hotel and the Adelaide Convention Centre was built over the top of the platforms. Before then, all the platforms were out in the open. Who knows where the photographer was standing when this was taken. I like to think he'd be somewhere in hall H near where we had the LAN area at AVCon.
Outside the CBD now. This was taken in approximately 1956 in the Goodwood Road Underpass at Millswood. And yes, that is a tram going right through it. The Metropolitan Tramways Trust painted their H class trams silver back then to make them look similar to the busses they were also running at the time. That's how our busses came to be silver all the way up to the 90's and early 2000's. This tram was on the Colonel Light Gardens line which used to stop on Springbank Road.
So there is my little history lesson for you all. Hopefully you're almost as fascinated as I am (or curious at the least).
This one was taken in 1880 and is of King William Street looking south. You can see the Town Hall to your left (without a clock) and the GPO to your right. I believe that glass ANZ building would be where that building with the weird looking tower is today.
This is one of Bee Hive corner back also in 1880 where Rundle Mall would meet with King William Street today. No dome with a bee on it here. It's actually the name of a drapery shop. The current Beehive building would be built just five years later.
Here is another one from 1880 of Victoria Square. If you find old maps of Adelaide you'd find that Victoria Square was not originally diamond shaped. It was laid out like the other four squares in the city. King William Street went straight through the middle as Grote Street and Wakefield Street met in the middle. I wonder what they call that little bit of road that goes through the middle of Victoria Square? Technically it should be neither Grote Street or Wakefield Street as "no one shall cross the path of a monarch!" That's why all the streets change name when they meet King William. It's also why King William Street is renamed as it gets to both North and South Terrace. They aren't crossing King William Street as the street ends with a new one starting on the other side.
This is of the Institute Building back in 1875 located on the corner of North Terrace and Kintore Avenue. Today it is now joined as part of the State Library for a while it used to house an Exibit of things belonging to Sir Donald Bradman. Speaking of cricket in Adelaide...
This was taken in 1927 one year before the current Adelaide Railway Station was complete. It wasn't until the mid eighties when what is now known as the Intercontinental Hotel and the Adelaide Convention Centre was built over the top of the platforms. Before then, all the platforms were out in the open. Who knows where the photographer was standing when this was taken. I like to think he'd be somewhere in hall H near where we had the LAN area at AVCon.
Outside the CBD now. This was taken in approximately 1956 in the Goodwood Road Underpass at Millswood. And yes, that is a tram going right through it. The Metropolitan Tramways Trust painted their H class trams silver back then to make them look similar to the busses they were also running at the time. That's how our busses came to be silver all the way up to the 90's and early 2000's. This tram was on the Colonel Light Gardens line which used to stop on Springbank Road.
So there is my little history lesson for you all. Hopefully you're almost as fascinated as I am (or curious at the least).
Sunday, 17 August 2014
17 of Blaugust - Alphabet Free Sunday - gdgd fairies
Last night I went to a very entertaining play based on The Princess Bride where I discovered that Pitchy makes an excellent Prince Humperdinck and I decided to pass by a birthday party on the way home. There was games and Street Fighter: The Movie being shown. Afterward the host wanted to show us something from Japan and I was baffled yet amused as to what came next.
This show was the gdgd fairies (I presume it's meant to be pronounced "Goodie Goodie Fairies") and is an actual show on Anime site, crunchyroll. I really shouldn't call this Anime though as it is a 3D computer animation that appears to be done incredibly cheaply. It involves three characters. They are pkpk ("Piku-Piku"), shrshr ("Shiru-Shiru") and krkr ("Koro-Koro"). They waffle on about stuff, practice their magic and make voices for ridiculous video clips. All of this is done in the most drug triping way possible.
All I can say is that it looks like something absolutely horrible that makes My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic look lie a masterpiece yet it is addictive as crack. Go and watch the first episode now!
krkr, pkpk and shrshr
This show was the gdgd fairies (I presume it's meant to be pronounced "Goodie Goodie Fairies") and is an actual show on Anime site, crunchyroll. I really shouldn't call this Anime though as it is a 3D computer animation that appears to be done incredibly cheaply. It involves three characters. They are pkpk ("Piku-Piku"), shrshr ("Shiru-Shiru") and krkr ("Koro-Koro"). They waffle on about stuff, practice their magic and make voices for ridiculous video clips. All of this is done in the most drug triping way possible.
All I can say is that it looks like something absolutely horrible that makes My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic look lie a masterpiece yet it is addictive as crack. Go and watch the first episode now!
Saturday, 16 August 2014
16th of Blaugust - N - Nineties
I was born in the late eighties so the nineties were when I spent my childhood.
It was an exciting time where our society was changing. Analogue technology was still heavily used but was being phased out in favour of digital. Computers were still a novelty in our home at the start of the decade but was becoming essential to our everyday lives by the end of it. Most of us didn't even know what internet was in 1990 but it exploded to become something huge and fascinating. And that was on dialup speeds! I didn't have a CD player until 1997 relying on cassettes and records. It was around that time that my dad had been provided with a laptop and mobile phone from his employer. I still remember the phone. It was a Nokia 2110.
TV in the nineties was exciting as well. After I moved house in 1996 there was a rule of no more morning cartoons before school because before that it was almost impossible to get me away from the TV. That was because of Agro's Cartoon connection.
Another show I was addicted to (and am even embarrassed to tell you now) was the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
So that was a glimpse into that marvellous time in my childhood, the nineteen nineties!
It was an exciting time where our society was changing. Analogue technology was still heavily used but was being phased out in favour of digital. Computers were still a novelty in our home at the start of the decade but was becoming essential to our everyday lives by the end of it. Most of us didn't even know what internet was in 1990 but it exploded to become something huge and fascinating. And that was on dialup speeds! I didn't have a CD player until 1997 relying on cassettes and records. It was around that time that my dad had been provided with a laptop and mobile phone from his employer. I still remember the phone. It was a Nokia 2110.
Yes, that is a pull out antenna. It didn't even have snake on it!
TV in the nineties was exciting as well. After I moved house in 1996 there was a rule of no more morning cartoons before school because before that it was almost impossible to get me away from the TV. That was because of Agro's Cartoon connection.
Yes, that's a Sailor Moon themed dress up!
Another show I was addicted to (and am even embarrassed to tell you now) was the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
So that was a glimpse into that marvellous time in my childhood, the nineteen nineties!
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