4th of July

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Last weekend was something of a highlight, and an anomaly. Sket & Sean were here, as I’ll get to eventually, and they suggested heading up to Napa to see Sean’s uncle, Mike. As it turns out, we drove up to Petaluma, met Mike at the marina, and then spent the afternoon on Mike’s boat, along… Read more

Boo

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Still alive, haven’t been taken by wolves, badgers, armadillos, mountain lions or bigfoot. Just haven’t had the motivation to write much, for a while now. Though I’ve been pretty busy in hindsight, so I guess while I’m here…

Desk goes up, desk goes down

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I now have, at work, a desk which can be raised and lowered at the touch of a button. I have for a long while been curious about the affects of standing instead of sitting, while I work, and now I get to explore them. Thus far I like it, though with the notable caveat… Read more

Old La Honda

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Two weekends back now, I finally got ye ol’ pushbike out for a bit of rotary motion. ’twas my birthday weekend, you see, so I: Since I’m not really at fiscal liberty to splurge on say a new iMac, as last year, given I’m still stubbornly trying to pay off HECS, some decent chocolate was… Read more

Vegas

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’bout time I wrote this up, I suppose. Some months I’m just not in the mood for writing. Then I sit down abruptly and spend four hours doing it. Go figure. It was a lot more continuous when I was back in Oz and had more immediate feedback from people. Or just social contact in… Read more

Anvil

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Just got back from seeing Anvil, which was followed by a Q&A with Anvil. I saw the trailer a month or so back, and though it looked interesting in a Spinal Tap kind of way; in fact I had to ask a few people – older people – if it was in fact fiction or… Read more

Things That Are Faces

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I’m a bit behind the times, I guess, having only updated iLife to ’09 last week. I finally sat down today to try out this new-fangled ‘Faces’ thing. End conclusion is it’s too dodgy to actually be useful, though it’s a cute idea. It’s educational, though. Here are a handful of the things that it… Read more