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Four Minute Showers

Last weekend we celebrated early Christmas, Amy’s Birthday and Taryn’s Baby Shower up in Brisbane, we left on Friday night from a very busy Sydney airport for the flight up. Brisbane and other areas of Queensland are in Level 6 water restrictions and the target is to use

Seal Rocks 2007

Hot off Seal Rocks 2006, comes Seal Rocks 2007! This time we broke last years 13 people record with an estimated 28 of us! The place has become extremely popular in the last few years; even we could notice by the amount of camp sites there were on the weekend.

BhangLassi @ Cat & Fiddle

The lassi played a gig at the Cat & Fiddle last night, I recorded some of the songs and this one turned out to be the best recording – Download high quality windows media version (32 meg). Get more info at bhanglassi.com

How not to sell Pepsi Jazz

At lunch yesterday I went into Manly Proper to get a caffelatte. I soon realised this was almost an impossible task as most coffee shops were closed and everyone on the streets appeared to be drunk, thanks in part to the Melbourne Cup. So I went into this little speciality

Uncorked

This weekend we went out with Amy’s friend from London to the Victoria Room in Darlinghurst. It was a good night and very interesting. When we left, it was tipping it down with rain, with bolts of lightening all around us. On Sunday we woke up to glorious sunshine,

Fade to Black

Last week after work I went down and met Marcus and Dan for the Anon Sunwear Launch Party which was a tow-in aerial show down Manly Beach in pretty small conditions. Dion Agius is the real standout in this video, the dude wearing the bones wetsuit. Peace

Jaraka and the flies

This weekend Rach and Mike came over to the Northern Beaches all the way from the the South Beaches. Normally arch rivals, we laid our weapons down for one night of jazz and dinner. We went to Artichoke in Manly a great little cafe that has live music whilst you

Manly Shark Sighting on Google Maps Woopsie

After ruining Australian tourism with the post ‘Shark Sighting on Google Maps‘ I have an apology to make. I was looking at g2007.com stats and there’s a fair bit of traffic that arrives on the blog for people searching for the shark post – Shark Searchers I was showing

Not On Facebook?

Primary School Friends, High School Friends, College Friends, University Friends, Work Friends, Flat Mate Friends, Internet Friends, Surf Related Friends, Friends of Friends, Business Friends, Parents of Friends you name it there on Facebook and it used to be said the intenet would be the end of friends. Here is

Horatio Nelson

This bank holiday weekend Amy and I went to Nelson Bay on the NSW coast about 3 hours drive (including traffic) North of Sydney, about 45 minutes South of Seal Rocks. This post is geo-tagged so you can find out exactly where it is. It has some amazing scenary and

Whizz Bizz?

For some reason, Google Adwords seems to think I’d be interested in this device the Whizz Bizz – Not sure what algorithm decides who would be interested in these kinds of things but its definitely not me 🙂

In Restaurant and Spiderman

OPEC Friday, Amy, Nancy, Simone, Marcus, Stu and I headed to In Restaurant in Neutral Bay for dinner, a stones throw from Sydney, there was hardly any traffic on the roads I think mostly due to OPEC APEC. I had the John Dory fish which was very nice and I

Sydney, Texas

My name is Gary Bauer, and today has been the longest day of my life. Actually these aren’t my photos I’m the third degree of separation down the chain mail to recieve them but they are worthy of a post. A lot of world leaders are in town

Moonsongs

Le Luna eclipse for some parts of the world occured tonight, a total luna eclipse. A group of us went down the beach to watch it happen. It was pretty amazing and a lot of people were down there to see it. Total Luna Eclipse The colour of the moon

Manly Restaurant Tour

This weekend Amy’s parents came for a holiday and stayed in Manly. The weather for the weekend managed to stay fine enough for the first two days of their holiday. We had dinner at Ironbark Pizza in Manly which did one of the best Mexican style pizzas I’ve

Bhanglassi Headline The Hopetoun

2nd August was the date and the Hopetoun Hotel was the venue. Bhanglassi, the headline act, played their best set yet to a crowd of excited Hopetoun punters. The night was supported by In the After, The Ghetto Blaster and a strange guy dressed up as a civil war union

Bimblegumbie Snow Trip

Believe it or not ‘stralia isn’t just blue skies, hot weather and beaches. Some parts (very few parts) get snow and inland from Sydney just past Canberra is Mount Kosciuszko the highest mountain on the Australian mainland. It is a mere 6 hour drive from Sydney so Esther, Rach,

Birthday on the Moon

Last night I had a surprise (well Jon coming was a surprise) Birthday dinner at a Himalayan restaurant in the Crows Nest. Birthday Dinner Himalayan Style Amy got me a telescope for my birthday it is brilliant, I used the excellent open source application Stellarium last night to find out

2nd Anniversary

Amy and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary high in the sky at Level Forty-One restaurant in Sydney, Amy had not been nor had dégustation, I had visited with my parents before but was well worth the return trip. We had a dégustation menu of six courses which took three and

Lassi Acoustica

BhangLassi played an awesome set at the Old Fitzroy last Sunday as part of their LassiAcoustica set. BhangLassi at the Fitzroy, Woolloomooloo Photo thanks to Marcus. Looking forward to their next gig, headling a night at the Hopetoun August 2nd.

Namesakes

ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS: THE WAY OF THE TOSSER follows gary brewer, a die hard rps professional, along with his girlfriend holly brewer, (no relation) and best friend trevor morehouse as gary quests to reign supreme at the 2006 rps world championships! as gary trains to be the best we learn

Marcey the Fish

Nancy and Marcus came over for dinner and to celebrate my birthday ( a few days early as they are busy around the time ). They got me a Siamese Fighting Fish named Marcey (a mashup of the names Marcus and Nancy). Marcey the Siamese Fighting Fish I am slightly concerned with

Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist

I am a bit of a hardcore Smashing Pumpkin / Billy Corgan fan. I run BillyCorgan.Info which is a blog about stuff Billy Corgan is up to which gets a bit of traffic. My Billy and Pumpkin obsession dipped a bit when they split up in 2000, but in 2003

Manly on Fire

Update: The Manly Daily, Manly’s finest investigative journalism newspaper, reported that a Fairlight unit was engulfed in flames after a resident left clothes to dry over a heater while she was out. A women who lived directly opposite called the fire bridge as smoke was pouring into her flat,

Live Earth Sydney

The reason for Live Earth and the ideas behind Earth Day are one and the same, to raise awareness of conservation. There are many Earth Day activities you can do by yourself to help the Earth such as picking up litter or planting trees. The Earth Day celebration has it’