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Woohoo! I’ve got my blog working again!
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Over the past few months, some things have happened.
First is that I no longer have a girlfriend. Long story short, we’re apparently not compatible so after all that, I’m pretty good.
Another is that I’m now a proper freelancer… which is weird to say the least.
Then there are the ridiculous amount of projects I’ve undertaken for myself, most of which are designed to make people smile. I’ll get to them shortly.
But in case you’ve been tuning in to see the weird-ass writing style of one Leigh 
Stark, you’ve probably been saddened to find the blog not updated. Well, that was mostly due to a glitch I kept running into that stopped me from using parts of the blog within the WordPress version I was running.
After some tweaking tonight with WordPress, plugins (usually the root of problems any WP user will suffer), and some effort, that looks like it’s fixed and I can start blogging again!
Woohoo!
So the other part of this is this: I’ve started to redesign my blog well & truly. The new design is based off of something you can go get at Elegant Themes, but I’ll be attempting to make it truly unique (or hoping to) as the days roll on by. And if not unique, then definitely me.
I’m back, ya’ll.
Tags: wordpress
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Fire by the Apple store! Save the Macs! Save the Macs!
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
As I headed back home from the city this morning, smoke caught my attention.
Being the oh-so-intelligent human that I am, I of course headed straight for the smoke to see what was up. You know, because we’re smart us humans: we head straight for death when we see it.
But there wasn’t any death when I arrived. Just a car on fire.
http://www.leighlo.com/videos/2009/04-CarFire-02.flvThat’s a Ute on fire. What looked like a Holden Ute from what I could tell. And it was spewing its thick white smog at everyone it could find.
Sitting next to the Apple Store, it was beginning to make the crystal clear windows looks more like the titanium white coating that shells the iPod, old Macbook, and the people unlucky enough to prefer a white iPhone.
It’s pretty amazing that a car that small creates a smoke that heavy. Still, don’t recommend the smell over clean air. Wow, did it smell bad…
Tags: Apple, cars
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Turning a Half-Nelson into two
Monday, July 7th, 2008
Yesterday, as the latest media got its greasy hands on the newest artistic scandal, one news outlet put out an article that has to be one of the most poorly written articles I've ever seen.
On the one hand, I think it must be hard for the writer to physically write this article as the viewpoint and coincidental names could be seen as "holy shit, I didn't see that one coming," while on the other should have been written a hell of a lot better.
Or at least passed through an editor.
They do have editors as News Limited right?
What I'm talking about is this:
Brendan Nelson to call cops over nude child on magazine cover
*sigh*
When will politicians learn? (more…)
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My God Thinks World Youth Day Is Bullshit
Friday, July 4th, 2008
This evening, I decided that I would love to create a wonderfully decorative and yet representative t-shirt for my beliefs to wear around Sydney when the Pope decides to visit. I feel that this shirt not only honours him but honours the understanding of "God" which I may or may not have being the Disturbed Jew that I am.
It would say:
MY GOD THINKS WORLD YOUTH DAY IS BULLSHIT.
It wouldn't necessarily have to be all in caps either. Rather, it could resemble that of a decently written fragment sentence:
My God thinks World Youth Day is bullshit.
It could even be worded for the youth who happen to agree with me:
OMG-ish! My G*D thinks WYD is bullshit! LOL-OMG-ROFLMAO!
That one could have a blue or green pixel-y background to resemble the mobile phone generation.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen… my invisible, hypothetical, and altogether irrelevant deity happens to think that Sydney's Pope visit lasting five or six days and inappropriately titled World Youth Day is a crock of shit.
Just look at some of the things they'd like the public of Sydney to submit to…
Tags: religion
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Working It Out
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Yesterday, I read an article which made me go "err… no".
The article could be found in The Sydney Morning Herald and basically read as more than 90 percent of Australians (provided all 20 million Australians are represented by 1143 people) were still relying on old excuses like being too tired or too cold to not exercise.
"Everyone knows the importance and benefits a healthy lifestyle can bring and that they should exercise and eat well – but a startling number of Australians just aren't doing it, and it comes back to the same old excuses," dietitian Kate Di Prima said.
Let's just get one thing straight, Ms. Di Prima: you're a dietitian, therefore your job is to make sure you're healthy and other people are healthy. I take it based off of that that it is your job to go to the gym and come up with healthful eating schedules and other health-based crap that's supposed to make you fit.
Now I'm a journalist. A tired journalist. Oh sure, I'd like to exercise. Really, I would… but I'm just too fucking tired.
No, seriously. I'm exhausted. I'm writing this as I fall asleep.
So for those of us who work in jobs NOT related to losing weight, did you ever stop and think that we might actually really be too tired to exercise and it might not be an excuse?
Like… really.
Tags: exercise
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