October 17th, 2007 by Kevin Withnall
Greta Christina’s Blog: Atheists and Anger
I’m angry that so many parents and religious leaders terrorize children — who (a) have brains that are hard-wired to trust adults and believe what they’re told, and (b) are very literal-minded — with vivid, traumatizing stories of eternal burning and torture to ensure that they’ll be too frightened [...]
October 17th, 2007 by Kevin Withnall
So many people have asked me how much weight I have lost during this pre-op phase. So far its 7.6kg. They then go on to say, “Hey, maybe you should just keep doing that and don’t need the operation”.
The operation does 2 things. Firstly it reduces the stomach size to that of a banana (100–150ml). [...]
October 15th, 2007 by Kevin Withnall
Greens to control Senate if Labor wins: Howard - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Mr Howard says a Labor victory would deliver a big change in the Senate and the Greens would be likely to have the balance of power.
He seems to be saying that this would be a bad thing. As much as I [...]
October 15th, 2007 by Kevin Withnall
These milkshakes are getting old very quickly. At least I’m not a week gone and have less than a week to go.
I’m booked in, paid for and am only now waiting on a theatre time for the 22nd October. Aparently it’s a morning ‘list’ that Dr Talbot has so it should be (according to his [...]
October 14th, 2007 by Kevin Withnall
These are based on an idea I had about 18 months ago. I was shooting some panoramas and decided to have a friend stand in the middle of every shot (so I had enough overlap to still blend). Since then, I’m far better at getting it right and can now have the same person next to [...]