It’s not selling out…

Posted in in the media on July 2nd, 2009 by thomasr

Karcher New Zealand- thomasr buys IN…, originally uploaded by thomasrdotorg.

It’s buying IN.

Bill Hicks once said “if you do a commercial, you’re off the artistic roll call FOREVER. Every word you say becomes suspect. Every word you say is like a turd falling from your mouth into my drink.”

But he didn’t live long enough to have a wife and family. Sorry Bill, but I have bills.

Harry at 11 months.

Posted in Uncategorized on June 29th, 2009 by thomasr


Harry at 11 months., originally uploaded by thomasrdotorg.

Another month passes. In the last moth he’s started furniture walking and blogging about his love for Igglepiggle.

Good times.

Podcast: Before he was famous- Casey Stoner

Posted in in the media, motogp, motorcycles, podcast, racing on June 24th, 2009 by thomasr

Back in 2006, when Casey Stoner was a first year MotoGP rookie, I was one of about 3 people to attend his press conference (including his wife- at that time she was The Girlfriend).

He was riding for Honda and was not on the factory team. In retrospect, I’m pretty sure he had already signed for Ducati, so when I was pressing him about whether he would stay with Honda (at that time I thought it was a good idea to stay with the number one team!), he was cagey…

Enjoy

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Perez Hilton- My only contribution to intelligent debate.

Posted in idiocy on June 24th, 2009 by thomasr

Perez Hilton, originally uploaded by thomasrdotorg.

Inspiring

Posted in Uncategorized on June 14th, 2009 by thomasr

An ex girlfriend once told me that if I fell off my motorcycle and became a paraplegic she would leave me.

Screw. You.

CarAdvice podcast with Tom Elliott

Posted in caradvice, in the media, motoring, podcast, politics on June 1st, 2009 by thomasr

My latest podcast for CarAdvice is live and you can go and check it out now

Harry goes viral on Halo 3.

Posted in baby, games, harry, vids on May 29th, 2009 by thomasr

As is my fatherly want, I posted a video on YouTube of Harry playing Halo 3.

And boy is he crap. Checkit:

On a whim I sent it to the fansite Halo.Bungie.Org and they picked it up. He’s now had more views than some many of my work related videos…

Local rivalry, or just me goofing off?

Posted in Uncategorized on May 12th, 2009 by thomasr


Local rivalry, or just me goofing off?, originally uploaded by thomasrdotorg.

I rejiged my twin N WiFi networks (routing tables anyone?) and while I was there I changed the SSID for both networks to create a fake street vs street argument in my neghbourhood. Barkly and Milton sts intersect- and now in more ways than one…

Podcast- from the archives.

Posted in Uncategorized on May 8th, 2009 by thomasr

Back in 2007 I was enjoying my first year on 3AW as their motoring expert. One of my first tasks (though I would call it a segment idea) was to find Neil Mitchell a new car to replace his ageing and awful Saab 9-3.

With a budget of $70k the field was wide open. We looked week to week at different cars that Neil hated equally.

Eventually I decided that we had to shake things up a bit. I thought about it thusly: “If Neil is the number one rating morning show presenter in Melbourne, surely he could spring for a lot more than $70k?” So I rang around and assembled some “different” cars for the segment. Different as in $400,000 price tags.

…and you’ll have to listen to the podcast to hear what they were.

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RIP Dom DeLuise

Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2009 by thomasr

LIke every Gen X with a car interest, I loved the Cannonball Run series and Dom DeLuise’s madcap performances.

It was also the first film I saw that had outtakes in the closing credits:

Classic. He was hilarious.