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

Skiing @ Heavenly

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This last weekend I went up to Heavenly with Steve & Nils, to partake in some skiing. The trip up on Friday night was pretty much perfect – the roads were clear from the warm week and the lack of recent snow, so we made about as good time as can be made. We stayed… Read more