I so want one of these combined bottle opener and usb drives. Via the most interesting brewing site Fermentarium.
Archive for September, 2008
Beer opener + USB drive = Drink and drive?
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008The Subprime Primer
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008The Subprime Primer is an excellent summaryof how the broken financial state in the US came about.
In the garden…
Sunday, September 21st, 2008- The evil yellow grapefruit tree is in flower
- The lemon is in flower, and green fruit
- The plum has come into blossom this week. So has the ‘other’ plum.
- The mango has some new growth
- Two leaves on the fig! Maybe it will survive this season
- There are lots of mulberrys. Perhaps a combination of Puggle pee and trace elements agrees with it. Pie tonight hopefully
Nice photo op if only I could remember where the battery charger is. - The apple is still not dead.
- The nectarine probably is dead.
- There are white creeper roses, probably from the rootstock
- Weeds
- More trace elements watered in
A380 plane porn
Sunday, September 21st, 2008Qantas have some A380 desktop pictures and Mac and Windows screen savers up on their site. I suspect the hand of Photoshop though, I don’t think one’s flown over Perth, all the shots are from the same angle and I’m still pretty sure it can’t land on the current runway.
The F-word
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Watch for Evil
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008In case anyone missed it, Google, in partnership with the US Department of Defence, launched its own (spy) satellite with 40cm black and white resolution (less in colour). And they have plans for their own LEO satellite constellation to provide net access. via Valleywag
Mini Rorschach
Monday, September 15th, 2008I was in the kitchen the other day and heard Bilby calling me. For the Watchmen fans, imagine a thigh high Rorschach with a pink flowery hat and instead of his ink-blot mask a flannel with a duck on it. Not to mention a high pitched giggle. If only I’d had my camera…
Fortnight and a bit, redux
Sunday, September 14th, 2008It seems I haven’t posted a redux-ion in some time. Since last:
- Went postal (voting, that is).
- Greeted the new arrival
- Fathers’ Day
- Discovered a rust spot under the weather seal on the door of the new car. Missed by the RAC. Not mentioned by the dealer (if they noticed it). Bugger.
- Visited a few car shops to get anti-rust stuff.
- Therapeutic shopping at NetPlus (need more storage), OfficeWorks (noticed they now have magnetic print-yourself car signage) and Zytech.
- Want one of the new iPod Touches with a speaker!
- Was not destroyed by Large Hadron Collider. Nor was world. At least not that I could tell.
- Made a lot of some assortment of toast, boiled eggs, baked beans and Weet-Bix every morning.
- Many stories were read.
- Drove the battlewagon some more.
- Attended surprise birthday for MikeyOb.
- Showed Puggle how to solder. Badly. But at least good enough to fix the cordless phones. Discovered you can answer the landline while the voip line is still ringing. Then pick up the voip line and get a dialtone even though the landline is in use
- …darling, names, names names…
- Walked to the shops with the kids. Had coffee. Waitron brought water with plastic cups for the kids unbidden, and my cappuccino plus two ‘cups of froth’ for the kids totalled $3.65 (cheaper than I pay for just a coffee many places). Hats off to Bada Bing.
- Discovered the evil credit card company (ANZ) will ring you to tell you you’re overlimit, but not before they’ve charged you $35 for the privilege. It also seems easier to cancel and apply for a new card than to get a limit increase (even if it’s to a lower limit than you were on before!). Getting a decrease is much easier. They did at least have a callback number when I didn’t believe they were the bank and resisted my social engineering attempt when I hadn’t identified myself.
- Helped the kids make vege kebabs with pesto. Yummy!
- Took the opportunity to indulge in pate, soft, hard and (soon) blue cheeses.
- Roasted a chook.
Is that the best you can do?
Thursday, September 11th, 2008I await the coming of the Extra Large Hadron Collider
Fathers’ day x2^H^Hx3
Monday, September 8th, 2008It’d been suggested that a good fathers’ day present would be not helping with Cygnet’s birth. Which as it turned out was not what I wound up doing on Fathers’ day. Instead, I found myself in the kitchen, babe in arms, with Bilby and Puggle pleading for breakfast. All very domestic.
Both sets of grandparents paid a visit, (reminder, clean the lens before the baby’s born!), as did the midwife. Then Bilby and Puggle were whisked away to play with their cousins for a few peaceful hours.
I did manage to score some homemade Rocky Road, a copy of Stardust, and of course Cygnet and spend the majority of the day in my pyjamas.
