George Hrab & the Canberra Skeptics

I had a good time at the Skeptics in the Pub event last Sunday. I'd nearly forgotten how much I love listening to live music, and George is a talented musician and an excellent performer. I've seen all sorts of musical acts -- rock, blues, jazz, pop, classical, funk, metal, rap, punk, reggae, ska, R & B, country, alt-rock, rap-metal, etc. but this was the first time I've seen a geek/skeptic/atheist act. With songs like "God is Not Great", "Everything Alive Will Die Someday" and "brainsbodyboth", it was a damned good show.


The geek/skeptic/atheist crowd was okay too (although a few were a bit annoying during some of the audience-participation parts of the show), and I'm planning on going to the next Canberra Skeptics event, a talk by Professor Julian Cribb called "The Coming Famine: Risks and Solutions for Global Food Security". Should be a real hoot! :)

And it wouldn't be a Skeptics in the Pub without the pub, and King O'Malley's is a good one. Maybe a little too upmarket for my tastes (and my wallet), but the beer was good, the decor was interesting, the staff were nice, and the toilets were clean. I started with a Coopers, the a Fat Yak, then a Big Helga's (served in a big "pint" mug), and I finished off with a Guinness, and thoroughly enjoyed each one of them.

Styrofoam and Stout

Damn, it looks like it's just going to be one of those weeks. When I went to the freezer to get the liver for last night's dinner, it wasn't there. It turns out that Jordo forgot to include it in the delivery. That's a real bummer. So I  defrosted and cooked the steak that I'd planned to use for fajitas. Which was good eatin' and all, but I'd been psyching myself up for the liver and onions, and now I'm going to have to wait and give it another shot next week.

On top of that, it's still raining (although so far today it's beautiful and sunny). I'm hoping that it lasts for a little while. If it does, I might be able to squeeze in a walk today. I'm headed into the city in a couple of hours to drop into King O'Malleys for a few mugs of  ale (and stout, and lager, and maybe even an Irish cider) and to hear George Hrab perform at a special Skeptics in the Pub event, and to hang out with some folks from Canberra Skeptics and Australian Skeptics. I've been looking forward to it for a couple of months, and in a very small way helps make up for the fact that I couldn't go to TAM Australia. It should be a really good time.