Welcome to davidpye.com

Domain For Sale!!

2011-12-03T15:57:00.000+10:30

This domain (davidpye.com) is for sale. You may purchase it by going to http://www.domainmarketplace.com.au/ and searching for davidpye.com.

MY domain has been on the net since 2004 and either davidpye or david pye will show at the top of a Google search.

domainmarketplace.com.au will be the agent for escrow, so you are guaranteed to get the domain. A $100.00 charge is made by domainmarketplace to cover this transaction.

Thank you for looking.

Jaws once again.

2011-09-11T15:00:00.000+09:30

Just when you thought it was safe to stay out of the water.

My Granddaughter

2011-08-23T20:49:00.001+09:30

Finally got off my bum, went out and bought a sandbox kit for my granddaughter. She's just under 4 but she spends at least one night and day each week at our place and loves it. I ended up buying a kit (in a box) and just screwed it together, it should have been an easy job, but the pre-drilled holes were very small which made it hard work.
Put a tarp in the back of the car on the next day and filled the back with sandbox sand, which was just enough to fill the sandbox.

Took a short video of her playing in it, as she absolutely loves to be outside and hardly got out of the sandbox.

I must admit that i find it very tiring when my granddaughter is here, but then after she has gone home, I find that I miss her. She really is the most adorable little girl and for reasons I cannot understand, she seems to like me a lot.
I also cannot understand any grandparent who doesn't want to see their grandchildren, as children are generally honest and either like you or not. There's no two-faced hypocrisy with little children - what you see is what you get, and to be loved by the innocence of your grandchild is absolute perfection.

How not to snowkite.

2011-08-19T15:16:00.001+09:30

Snowkiting is supposed to be fun - isn't it?

This is one reason why you shouldn't go snowkiting!!
The good stuff starts at about 34 seconds. Enjoy.

We all need one of these.

2011-08-18T19:13:00.000+09:30

If you can't figure it out, they're fake spilled stuff that you put on the table where you sit to save your spot.

We're really an inventive species, aren't we?

TV Crime shows

2011-08-18T18:58:00.001+09:30

Anyone else apart from me getting fed up with the "true to life" crime shows on tv. My wife (and apparently heaps of other people) actually like this garbage.
I'm retired and enjoy watching TV (docos and real shows mainly), but it seems that if you don't like crime shows then you have to watch a "reality" show (and I use that term begrudgingly).

The reality shows are all about a bunch of narcissistic, self opinionated people who have an insane desire for instant fame and the crime shows are full of actors portraying giggling, unprofessional, glamorous macho types who don't adhere to the law and just run around waving guns and lots of blue lights and never do any paperwork.

Am I the only person who finds these shows incredibly unrealistic, far fetched and boring. I quite like a good thriller or crime show but the only ones that come close are some of the British shows. Realistically, detectives handle several cases at once (not several detectives to one case at a time), and it would be extremely rare to solve any case in a day.

Maybe I'm just cynical in my old age, but I prefer to watch shows that at least bear a slight resemblance to real life. Blue lights, people walking over a crime scene, joking about death, people with makeup and fashion clothes at 2am, beating people up, no lawyer representation, magic computers that instantly find anything, science fiction plastic screens and more.

How many of these ridiculous shows are they going to make:

CSI
CSI Las Vegas
CSI New York
CSI Miami
NCIS
Law and Order
Law and Order Criminal Intent
Law and Order SVU
Law and Order UK
Lie to Me
Bones
Without a Trace
Cold Case
The Mentalist
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds Suspect Behaviour

C'mon Hollywood, let's get a bit real!! This is the ONLY real CSI - http://www.csicop.org/

Gamblers WOW!!!

2011-08-17T19:43:00.000+09:30

Went with my wife for lunch at the local hotel (yeah it was good), and she went into the poker machine room to spend her usual $20.00. In South Australia we have one of the dumbest ideas ever thought of by politicians - they legalised poker machines in EVERY hotel in the state! Of course this provides the State Government with an incredible amount of money at the expense of people who can least afford it and many who have become gambling addicts resulting in broken marriages, homes, bankruptcy and even suicide.

I don't gamble, but I find it fascinating sitting and watching the habitual gamblers pouring money into machines that they cannot possibly win at.

This is what it looks like - they sit for hours in a zombie like state for hours at a time, completely oblivious to everything except the screen in front of them. The machinies are GUARANTEED to only pay out about 87% - which means that these people who continually play them are GUARANTEED to lose 13%.

Yep, that's right, there's no possible way that they can win, but they still keep playing.

But just out of interest, on the day we were there my wife won $70.00 - so we took it and left. Ha Ha!!

Did you know?

2011-08-16T13:02:00.000+09:30

We humans are the only animals that use a smile as an emotional response.

A new phone @#$%$#

2011-08-15T09:41:00.000+09:30

A few days ago while browsing the shops we bought my wife a new mobile phone (cellphone if you're from the USA). We figured that it was about time we updated to the new, fantastic, magic android phones with the snazzy touch screen, GPS, "jazzy apps" and to keep up with the latest "technology".

Well, that was a HUGE mistake!

I have never owned a mobile phone and never will, my wife doesn't know how to set one up and since I like technology and have a pretty good knowledge of computers and electronic stuff I figured "how hard could it be"?

The phone was an LG-P350 and the booklet that came with it explained next to nothing, I couldn't find any info on the net to explain how to use it and so we were hopelessly lost..

I ended up getting so frustrated with the dumb phone that I came close to putting a hammer through it. I'm 61 years old and probably 10 years ago I could have easily figured it out, but now I can't help but wonder how the hell anyone uses these stupid phones.

We've ended up putting the sim card back into my wife's old push button phone and putting the new android phone om eBay to try and recoup some money.
Is it just us - are we really so dumb that we can't work the next generation phones, or is it because the phone designers make them too complicated and can't be bothered providing adequate instructions?

Anyway - we're done with these super duper phones and we're going to buy a couple of spare push button ones (while they're still made) and use them until we're too old to bother with mobile phones.

It's Census Time!

2011-08-11T11:39:00.000+09:30

A couple of days ago, here in Australia, we all had to fill out the 5 yearly compulsory census form.
This is something that most Australians think is a ridiculous waste of time and money and I'm one of them.

There's nothing wrong with the concept of having data about the people of this country, it's just unfortunate that we have politicians asking the questions and wasting other people's money.

The census is supposed to be anonymous, but the very first question on the form is to provide your name. Now the household can be easily identified by the individual number included on the top of each form - so why does the government want to identify each person along with their answers.

A number of polls have been done by newspapers and TV, and it has been found that most Australians don't trust the census. Of course that means most people will make up answers on the form! Another thing that I couldn't understand is how it was possible for me to fill out the census online 4 days before I was supposed to do it! -- go figure!!

Another interesting thing I noticed was that about 25% of the questions relate to information that the government welfare department require from anyone receiving any form of welfare payment. I guess "big brother" really is watching.

It's estimated that the census costs Australia $440 million (that's $19 per person)!! I think that it's obscene that a government wastes that much money on getting what is largely incorrect information, when our hospital system is struggling to cope.

I suppose that I shouldn't really get so upset, but it really infuriates me to see such an incredible waste of money and time.

Stereograms

2011-08-09T15:42:00.000+09:30

I thought that I'd post a stereogram picture (or commonly called S.I.R.D.S) just to show everyone what they are. This one is a 3D picture of animals.

To see it you'll need to focus several inches in front or behind your computer screen and eventually, youll see a 3D image. It does take a bit of practice, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes easy.

There are quite a few of these images available for download from this site and if you want more info, just Google SIRDS or stereograms.

Just click on the picture to see it full size and enjoy.

First post

2011-08-08T11:08:00.000+09:30

Well, after shutting down my website after 7 years and 4.5 million visitors, I got a bit bored and thought that I would start a blog, share my thoughts and maybe some stuff that may be of interest to others.
I'm not sure if I'll maintain the interest to keep this going, but it seems like it may be something relaxing and therapeutic for me.
By the looks of it, just about everyone and their dog has a blog now and I must admit, mine may well turn out to be just as trivial as most of the others.

Well, time will tell...