G2007

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’

USD vs. AUD

Time to go shopping in America, the exchange rate between Australian Dollar and US Dollar is almost 1:1 would be great if the AUD became more valuable than USD, I think we’d go on a spending spree! USD vs. AUD 2007

Flying Lesson

Amy got me a flying lesson for my birthday last year, I finally got around to taking it. The weather was prefect for it, so I made my way over to Bankstown airport. VH-IIJ Cessna 152 The instructor got me to do a bit of the taxi, to steer the

Manly Shark Sighting on Google Maps

UPDATE – LOOKS LIKE DONALD WAS WRONG THIS IS NOT A SHARK Donald Price wrote into the Manly Daily to tell them he found a shark on Google Maps. I didn’t even have to put in the coordinates to find it once you know what you are looking for – Manly

Taryn and Wade in the City

Taryn and Wade came to visit us for a long weekend and to see some of the sites and sounds that the city of Sydney had to offer. Amy, Wade and Taryn at Bower Restaurant for breakfast We had a Manly day and toured up the Northern Beaches all the

Nancy and Marcus Affiance Party

This weekend we celebrated the engagement of Nancy and Marcus at the Manly Pacific Hotel right opposite Manly Beach. I imagine you have picture of a nice summers day with the sun shining and the golden sand of the beach meeting the beautiful blue water of the ocean. Unfortunetly that

Caramel Slice Food Review

Welcome to the very first G2007 Food Review. This series are all foods that I have cooked myself. I’ve got quite a sweet tooth so I’d like to start off with one you may be familiar with when visiting a coffee shop anywhere in the world – the Caramel

Gale Force Sydney

Update June 9: Deadman’s, the bit which I was photographing and didn’t even realise started to get a bit better on Sunday, here’s Kai Otton looking like he’s about to eat it – (C) Pipemonkeys.com Marcus got some wicked pictures from Deewhy on Sunday as well.

Google Developer Day Sydney

This morning Marcus and I went to Google Develper Day Sydney (although we made it into Google Developer Morning due to work) for Google’s first ever developer conference, which is taking place all around the world with Sydney being the first (for timezone reasons). The presenters we saw were

Winning Notification

I got this email today – WINNING NOTIFICATION The prestigious Microsoft has successfully organised and sent out Sweepstakes marking the 2007 anniversary. Microsoft is running an e-mail beta test. Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 08795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/07 and drew the

Burger’s Australia

My old work buddy Matt was over in ‘stralia very recently, I worked with Matt all the way back in 2001. We invented ‘the sandwich game‘ a very early day blog post from 2003, where we had to buy the cheapest lunch around London. I was always at a disadvantage

Melbourne fantastic

A long while ago Amy and I got cheap tickets to go to Melbourne for the weekend. I have never been to Melbourne before so was really excited about going. We flew Qantas as well so we got to use the brilliant lounge facilities (can’t go back now). Qantas