Ah, so O-day has been and gone, and today was the first day of Semester 1. The bus is packed with students who don’t know that you should wait for everyone who’s getting off the bus to get off before they get on. And a bus driver who seems to also be a fresher, given the sudden stops and kerb scrapes.
Of course to commemorate the start of the teaching year I’ve come down with what I can only consider to be the O-day cold. At least I’m not the only one with it at work, so responsibility for spreading it is shared. I expect this bus full of students is doomed.
So, they would have been born in 1992, before the advent of the world wide web, when I was downloading e-mail to my Newton via my analog phone, newsgroups were still king, WiFi was a dream and DVD’s were yet to be invented. Sigh. I suspect as technology accelerates the rate of world change accelerates and the generation gap widens faster.
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Bus blog 8
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Nerd alert
Sunday, May 31st, 2009I am in the local city farm supply store, buying some chicken life support material (shell grit, vegetarian feed (no prions 
, and some straw). Having just been to see MacHeads I’m wearing my “Mac Geek” t-shirt. I get to the checkout:
Her: “I like the shirt”
Me: “Thanks, it doesn’t get out much these days”
Her: “Wear it with pride”
Me: “Oh, I do” (I think that’s what I said)
Her: “I’m not a nerd I’m a 50th level paladin”
Me: “I think you spend too much time on Facebook”
The two months, redux
Monday, May 18th, 2009Seeing as it’s coming up on two months since my last reduxion…
- Grubby nails garden blitz. Most thankful for all those who attended (and especially Derek and Alex for the gate hanging!)
- Swancon, which I may cover in a separate post
- Star Trek, also subject of a separate post.
- Wolverine, not worthy of a separate post really…
- Deville’s Pad, very cool. As an indicator of their clientele, they have 7 different sorts of Absinthe on tap. Not sure what their Wednesday childen’s sessions would be like though
- Nick’s housewarming and some enjoyable random discussions
- Sheldon’s X0th
- Mikey’s bucks night. Followed by a Mother’s day during which I felt very seedy. Thanks to FoG for the lift
- Shiny new server with G5 goodness. Blogs still go offline if I turn BOINC on though
Unification of photos and music continuing. - Skip and I laid down a batch of Grolsch clone. Just got to work out when we can bottle it
- Puggle’s birthday. He’s now getting pocket money. Unprompted, he spent it on stuff he could share with his sister. I’m so proud! Also has a bike now.
- Bilby is talking up a storm, and developing her stubborn streak.
- Cygnet has worked out crawling, and can now go fast. Now pulling himself up so he can creep along the furniture before running after his siblings…
- A great turnout at the dogcow/MacGeeks dinner, with some new faces and iPhone discussion
- No more daylight saving, at least until the Government decides to try it on us again to see if we’ve changed our minds yet
- The grubby nails day has brought forth vegetables! Now deploying marigolds to keep some of the pests at bay hopefully.
- We have worms too. This week, chickens!
- Today, spent watching Puggle discovering Jellyfish in the Swan (usually by poking sticks through them). His playmate is about to head off touring around Australia for a year. Brief tour of homes of the rich and famous as we tried to work out where in Freshwater bay we were actually meant to be meeting. My old stomping grounds. Dolphins lazily cruising.
Month and a bit, a week ago, redux
Sunday, June 29th, 2008- A relaxing weekend in Mandurah
- Planning an interstate trip
- Wrangling FileMaker, MySQL, PHP, qpopper and postfix.
- Bilby getting much more talkative. Many more words and signs (miming juicing an orange to indicate she wanted OJ!) Long involved soliloquies, if only I could understand what she was actually saying…
- Colds all round Mounds of tissues
- Car serviced.
- Got a call from my ISP claiming I was DoSing someone. Oops (No, it was not a virus)
- Most excellent engagement party with many good friends.
- Baked a Jaffa Marble Cake and a vegan Apple and Almond cake (I was out of walnuts).
- Got a ladder for my birthday. Used it to clean the gutters.
- Got many birthday wishes from people, thankyou, it meant a lot.
- Had a close friend ring up on my birthday to ask me how to send a break from telnet. This was good for the amusement value of him forgetting my birthday at least.
- Watered trace elements into the plants.
- Saw Da Vinci’s machines. Had forgotten how much of it was weapons research.
- Indian buffet.
- Saw Dr. Jones.
- Read Moondust.
The Week, redux
Saturday, March 15th, 2008- Software goes live. Nobody dies. Yay!
- MacGeeks at Agni. Mmm.. Curry.
- iPhone SDK amongst other things
- More busage plus walking. More weight loss.
- Lay my hands on an OLPC XO
- Finish Cory Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribe
- Mum’s birthday, book club.
- Music night, we have a band (of sorts . Violin, guitar, and whatever else Bilby and Puggle pick up.
- Take Bilby shopping for the first time although she’s too tired to enjoy it.
- Bilby takes a fall She seems less fazed by it than I am.
- Jamie’s Sausages and 1kg of cherry tomatoes, followed by another mulberry pie thanks to our tree. Now if only the mango tree was as productive!
- Looking forward to the dentist on Monday
Google t-shirts
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Spotted in the past few days:”I have root @ Google” ”I google myself regularly”
The week, redux
Sunday, February 17th, 2008- An extra 50 minutes of walking as a result of getting off the bus at earlier stops. Yay for exercise!
- MacGeeks dinner at Tsunami
- Sorry day, and Rudd further restoring my pride in being Australian.
- Valentines day (ignored, with apologies to greeting card, flower and chocolate companies)
- A summons to the GP as a result of the cholesterol test.
- Watching Bilby walk around the house without assistance, even carrying things when she’s asked to tidy up after Puggle
- Pushing the swing for Bilby and Puggle and friends. Need to find some way to bolt it to the ground better, they’re all getting heavier.
- Taming of the Puggle (well, more attempts thereof)
- Dinner with the workmates (anchovies, anchovy oil and caramelised onion makes a great pizza if you like anchovies).
- Crossing minor achievable tasks off the list (dug up the fig for a refund, updated car rego and parking stickers)
- Dinner with Skip
Unbridled productivity
Thursday, December 27th, 2007- Cleared some tree bits off the roof
- Upgraded the network so St. Isidore now has to bless packets 10 times faster
- Kept Puggle and Bilby occupied
- Enjoyed the cool breeze
- Scanned some of the paper mountain
Left to do today
- Fix reticulation
- Dig more trampoline hole
- Minor shopping
The weekend
Monday, August 13th, 2007- Work bits
- The all important drinks.
- Nachos
- Movies
- Printer unbreaking
- Grocery shopping
- Outlook
- Poker (Lost. Gotta work on that know when to hold ‘em/fold ‘em thing)
- Sleep
- Going home
- Random office tidyup
- Router configuration
- Boy time
- Girl time
- Dinner
Al Gore, a man close to my heart
Thursday, May 31st, 2007I’ve got the piles of junk, now all I need is the 3×30″ Cinema Displays. Here’s the JoyOfTech take on it.
