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Ferris Bueller as Fight Club: http://tinyurl.com/dxtc7u BRILLIANT.

@twelveeyes No no no no no. Not a word. Not to be uttered. Makes my skin crawl. I’m pretty sure it was invented by marketroids.

Just downloaded the Business Analyst Body of Knowledge (BABOK) v. 2.0. I am too excited about something so nerdy.

@randomknits In Australia? Has the Snuggie finally arrived on our shores? (I still like the DOONA SUIT myself.)

RT @KnittyLynn: Fake indie alert, Urban Threads ripping off Jenny Hart AKA Sublime Stitching: http://tiny.cc/fakeindie

Party cat: http://nedroid.com/tag/party-cat/ Thanks to @marmotmaster for the link!

@sharre We should form the Anti-Tights Liberation Front. I’M RIGHT THERE WITH YA.

@knitness I believe the appropriate response is “Drink til they’re cute.”

Pub. Pub pub pub pub pub.

@venks79 Awww, I’m already home!

@acatinatree American comma? It’s the OXFORD comma, and I am 100% in support. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

ARGH. Spent whole ride to work sending furious complaint email to Sydney Buses about drivers on 461 & 480 routes. I am officially a crank.

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It takes a special kind of chutzpah to turn up 45 minutes late to a project management workshop. (No, not me.)

So far this PM course is really good. Lots of practical info. Just spent lunch quizzing instructor on approaches for annoying work issue.

Just got followed by @motherabigail ! Please tell me Stu Redmond’s on here. I’d head to Hemingford Home for him. (Beware the Walkin Dude.)

PM workshop going great, but warm room + white noise + post-lunch = yanking hairs out of my arm to stay awake. A coffee is needed.

@Alex_Manchester My cousin @imdominating is completely obsessed. She saw the movie like 14 times & met Edward. Oh, and she’s an adult woman.

In case you’re wondering if people actually still read Dilbert, the ones who put together I.T. training course materials do.

@Alex_Manchester I’m sure she’ll correct me, probably upwards. I read 3.5 of the books but fully admit they are made of Suck.

I’m tempted to go to Chinatown and look for the pot of gold. http://twitpic.com/47b3l

@brockleyboyo No way. Just picking up a few skills to add to the BA repertoire… 🙂

@jose9 No worries. I didn’t hang around either. I had a pressing appointment with my couch and a loaf of sourdough. 🙂

@Ezzles I always think the same thing. And then I never do. 🙁

@mrs_sockvictim Haha! Petey still shows no interest in TP. He just thinks anything on a flat surface is a cat toy that belongs on the floor.

@imdominating YOU TYPED MY DAMN USERNAME WRONG AGAIN, COUSIN! (Didn’t see the reply til now.) @Alex_Manchester – More than 14. Told ya!

@brockleyboyo Just winging it at the moment. We’re a small company. PM and I are making it up as we go, basically.

Just completed a 4.34 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/FPOZS #runkeeper

Somehow the tweets from @VegasWalkinDude have gone from funny and meta to vaguely scary and meta. I have an overactive imagination.

Of course, the day I finally make it to the bus stop at a decent hour is the day everybody in Sydney forgets how to drive in the rain.

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I touched a monkey. http://tinyurl.com/cojjhg

Snook just reported blackout at his office in Circ Quay. Anybody else?

@socialbanter He’s in the DFS building on George Street… Are you there too?

Well, William Street seems to be fine this time. Damn. #blackouts are fun.

@SBSnews East of the city seems to be fine. No power loss on William Street so far.

@kunaal84 There are a lot of geek offices in the Rocks! Pretty much ideal conditions for Twitterstorm. #blackout

@steven_noble @Alex_Manchester I was wondering that too! I can tell Chippo’s got power though from webcam in my living room. 🙂

@wookie_man Damn. No #zombie #blackout fun for our office today!

@Alex_Manchester Ours isn’t that spiffy. It’s really just so my Mom can watch me watching TV on the weekend.

@amandaemillar Hm. I know geeks who are into pop music and like both of those (including me!). If it’s catchy, I like it.

Just joined a twibe. Not 100% sure what the point is. But visit http://twibes.com/sydney to join.

@DDsD I was going to say not everybody puts in location, but I’m checking Twibe & so far everybody does. So you may be right.

@codepo8 Interesting related post here: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1961. Stuff is being saved, but lots seem purged already. 🙁

RT @Alex_Manchester: RT @cafedave: Recipe 4 vegemite cheesecake – good or terrible? http://twurl.nl/xl1k0z <- WIN. I’d totally hit it.

@codepo8 Ah, you’re saying they didn’t ask for help. That certainly changes it. Odd that none of the blogs have mentioned that part. 🙁

Good grief. Looked at Amazon wishlist for 1st time in years. SO RANDOM. VHS tapes? Bad feminist essay collections? Need a DELETE ALL button.

Going to AIMIA project management workshop tomorrow: http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=4344. Anybody else?

@jose9 Cool – be sure to wave hello! I’ll be the giant with the Yank accent.

@redambition YES. Why? Surfaces, darling! Surfaces! Beautiful iMac, beautiful KB & mouse w/ NO WIRES marring my desk. It’s all about style.

@michaelengle ZOMG. I’ll do it. I can drive if you navigate. If there’s any gross food challenges, it’s all you though.

Holy crap! Indiana person with swine flu is Notre Dame student! Should get me out of visit home anytime soon. http://bit.ly/s6q1y

On the bus heading to training session in the CBD. I hope it doesn’t suck!

@jose9 You here?

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@Justacogitating To get Sydney time, subtract 10 hours from Indiana time and then add a day. So right now it’s 10am Monday in Sydney.

@gemma747 Paging @mrs_sockvictim! I’m hoping she’s better today. We got her home all right in the end…

Awesome. Gives “Save Ferris” a whole new meaning: http://ask.metafilter.com/120479/Crimes-committed-by-Ferris-Bueller-during-his-Day-off

Ugh. Headache entering its 30th hour. “Never attribute to overindulgence what you can more dramatically attribute to SWINE FLU,” I say.

Australians always ask what I miss about America. I usually say the junk food. Fairy bread just can’t compete w/ BACONE. http://bit.ly/GJa7z

@DDsD I emailed them offering to bail and give up my ticket; never heard back. You want it? It’s yours.

No #smcsyd for me. Going to go home and nurse my continuing (SWINE FLU) headache.

Cold night. I decided that the best thing to ward off SWINE FLU was a Big Crumb Coffee Cake. SOOOOO GOOD. http://bit.ly/CygvW

Holy crap. Watching TBL finale. Sean looks hot. Did he get his teeth fixed?? I might have to swoon a bit.

@leatheregg I didn’t have any fresh rhubarb because Rodd turned it all into jam a few weeks ago. So I used that instead. Very, very good.

RT @lotsofco: My take on Swine Flu if it turns into Captain Trips: Eh, I’ve had a good run. <- Mine: See you in Nebraska!

Day 3 of headache. What is UP with that? Is it just the cold, dry weather?

Uh-oh. Three people out sick today in the office, and others coming down with it. Perhaps my headache is more ominous that I thought.

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@misswired Where is it? We did vermicomposting at the Water Shed in Newtown.

If there is a prize for having the most hangovers at knitting camp, our cabin has won it. Me, I’m good.

I finished Rusted Root last night! I frogged it back to put in waist shaping and a rolled edge. Looks pretty cute.. http://twitpic.com/40d22

Settled in at home after the knitting retreat. Snookums is making me a gumbo. Hangover is fading by the minute…

Oddly looking forward to getting to work and organising my tasks for the week. Productivity nerd! #fb

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Miss Fee and I decided to be virtuous and go for a run! They certainly feed you good at knitting camp. http://twitpic.com/3xy85

@witty_knitter I choose not to race!

“It’s Hawaiian, mayte! It’s got the ham AND THE PINEAPPLE, mayte!” http://twitpic.com/3yaw7

@witty_knitter Indeed. I was leading the cheering section for Pizza Box, but Coconut Boobs won the Best Dressed contest.

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Jumper collected. Heading home! No dramas.

@gemma747 You get the ribbon! They pin it to your jumper. FYI: I lost my collection sheet, but I showed the certificate and that was okay.

@Justacogitating Not very often, and pretty much always with the Snook navigating. It’s not the traffic so much as the confusing streets.

@Steffi_83 I’m home in plenty of time! Will see you there. Hope you’re ready for a workout!

@randomknits You click the button next to the account, then look for the link to Today’s transactions. They show on Today but not general.

Met @Steffi_83 for her first Spudds workout. She did great! Much better than my first one. We are ass-kickin’ ladies!

Sitting on my front steps waiting for the Knitting Retreat convoy to arrive. Why, yes, that is a box of Banrock! I’m classy like that. #fb

Paging @randomknits! What time is dinner? We’re all hungry but we’re about an hour away..

We made it! There’s a Hawaiian theme happening. Fiona, of course, had to go the demure route. http://twitpic.com/3vt3n

@witty_knitter She says give her a few more hours. Something about “norks for knitting”. 🙂

*yawn* I think I’m too sensitive to noise to share a cabin with 6 others. I need a total sensory deprivation tank to sleep.

@AusVintageGrrl No, I brought em! But they’re just cheapo foam ones.

Knitting in nature. Trees, hills, sunshine, ocean, clouds… http://twitpic.com/3xdgt

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@witty_knitter Weird thing is I’m not sure she tripped. She was coming from the gym and she seemed dazed. Perhaps a little dehydrated?

@randomknits I’ll take one! Can never have too many leis. 🙂

Ooh, have I finally been economically stimulated? ANZ is showing extra cash in the joint account! But oddly for only one of us so far…

@AusVintageGrrl Planning on it! Got a PM that knightlyknitter (aka Kate from TAS) is in town and will be coming too. I’ll be there 6ish.

I… was… not aware that patterns exist for knitted tampons. You learn something new every day!

@witty_knitter @randomknits This is what happens when I browse the Big 6 Rav Boards on my lunch break. BLEECCCCCCHH.

@randomknits Grass skirts… Are they suitable for those of us who may be a bit, uh, “ample” around the mid-section? If so, count me in.

@randomknits It’s cool. Snook says I can take his Hawaiian print sarong. 🙂

@twelveeyes Someone was suggesting HEMP as a possible material. I really hope she was joking.

Figured out how to see pending transactions on ANZ… and yep! I am officially stimulated! Thanks, KRudd! (Now where is Snook’s?)

Heading off to knitting… and then a 3-day weekend!

@knitness WHOA! Okay, first step is, YOU DON’T TWEET IT. Second step is, you need to give us all the juicy details.

Little nervous. Heading out on my biggest solo drive ever in Sydney to St. Leonards and Homebush!

@codepo8 Crap. No time! It was great to catch up though. Say hi to London for us! (If you ever get back… 🙂

Leg 1 complete. Chippo to St. Leonards is a doddle. iPhone was great for checking position. Next hurdle: Lane Cove Tunnel in rush hour!

Somehow I missed the fact that Show collection doesn’t start til 10. Crap. So now I’m killing an hour at IKEA.

@Timmay83 I am a very conscientious driver! No tweeting once the car is in motion. 🙂

@AusVintageGrrl They weren’t open at all yesterday. Just today and tomorrow for collection. It’s cool. I’m hangin’.

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Anybody else on Hunch? Got my invite today. So far I asked which Wii game to get, it said Super Paper Mario. Sounds about right…

Wow. Google Calendar says it’s Earth Day. I had no idea. I haven’t seen it promoted in Sydney at all.

Cricket on Mount Everest. Neat! http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/22/2549625.htm

Heading to Yahoo to drink with the nerds.

It’s a free developer talk w/ a guy we knew from London. Drinking beer before it starts… http://twitpic.com/3rczx

Yahoo get a point for better beer and not making us sign NDA. But Google had free wifi.

Christiann says official hash tag is #y7os. Stay tuned. First beer has been drunk!

Talk is going to be about Yahoo UI and things to make, find and share. #y7os

“If you use a [code] library, you might be able to have a holiday. Maybe someday even a girlfriend!” #y7os

User testing is not as important for businesses that are openly antagonistic towards their users by design. Like premium mobile. #y7os

Did he just burn Zeldman? Sweeeeet. #y7os

Shit. He’s making me think I should use YUI when I redesign web-goddess.org. #y7os

@henrytapia Heresy in this building!

Finished with my cynical question: How does any of this make Yahoo money? Answer: it doesn’t. Not directly. Now, food. #y7os

Grabbed a free Yahoo t-shirt. EVERY ONE IS SIZE XXL. Curse of geek events! #y7os

@wookie_man He did. He basically said to pick one library and stick with it. He also gave much love to google products, surprisingly.

Said bye to Christian. Fun to catch up with someone we haven’t seen in 7.5 years! He’s such a good UI evangelist. http://twitpic.com/3rgnv

@CerealBoy Hey, I recognize that facial hair! Agree with your assessment of the talk. Very good!

@lachlanhardy So I’m not the only one that took photos in the bathroom. Good to know!

@DDsD I wouldn’t capitalise it, but the New York Times probably would. Less about spelling and more about style guide. 🙂

@amandaemillar Great, great event! Well done. Looking forward to coming to more Yahoo Open Sessions!

@lotsofco So. Cute. 🙂

Just completed a 4.15 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/boYNg #runkeeper

Halfway through run, looked up to see woman falling to pavement. Cut her knee pretty bad. Stayed w/ her while guy got first aid.

Which I offer as explanation for why I’m running late today. Still haven’t had breakfast…

@BigCatRescue I was surprised so many others offered to help. Newtown folks are nicer than I thought. 🙂

@Timmay83 Nah, it was too slow motion to be funny. Plus she was like in shock. She’s all: I saw bone! I’m like: ITS JUST SKIN, SERIOUSLY.

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Snook just pointed out that ATO says bonuses are being distributed by random postcode. http://bit.ly/NIUFD

@imdominating Why not both? You’ll probably find enough loose change in the process of cleaning house anyway. 🙂

RT @DDsD: RT @paullyoung: Now I’ve seen it all. Brian Lara showing Obama how to swing a cricket bat: http://bit.ly/nCcAU via @sbones

http://tinyurl.com/c79xp8 <- My feeling is no. It’s snake oil. SEO is all about content and common sense.

Sydney knitters! Miss Fee is at Kmart RIGHT NOW and they have loads of blocking foam blocks. Who wants? Reply in the next 5 minutes…

@AusVintageGrrl Awww, sorry you missed out! I called her too, going “TIA WANTS SOME, WAIT!” 🙂

@glittertrash Most disturbing tea cosy I have made: http://tinyurl.com/cxfpw9. Also, vaguely nationalistic.

@glittertrash I believe you are talking about leggings. And leggings are a crime against nature.

@glittertrash Hm. Cycling? I’ll allow it. As long as your goal is not to look like Mischa effing Barton, I’ll refrain from judging. 🙂

@_Leva_ I blame Lindsay Lohan. http://bit.ly/KvE4H There. Now you have to go rinse out your eyes.

Discovery: The reason the M&S server keeps crashing is the boss’s brother’s Ruby on Rails site. I KNEW IT! Grrrrr.

Just completed a 2.45 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/19ezo #runkeeper

@wookie_man Sorry I sent you on a wild goose chase – again! Stupid Kmart didn’t actually get any stock beyond 1 pack for me. 🙁

A slow jog home through the cold rain. Hot shower. Warming green curry with rice. Glass of red. New episode of 30 Rock. Blisssssss….

Watching “Around the World in 80 Gardens.” Me: “Aww, Auckland looks pretty!” Snook: “It’s a wretched hive of scum and villainy.”

@Justacogitating There is no situation for which he cannot find an appropriate Star Wars quote. It’s pretty much why I married him.

I have become one of those people that goes crazy when I see the phrase “begs the question” misused. WHICH IS EVERY TIME, EVER. #fb

It’s complicated, but if you mean “raises the question,” you’re using it wrong: http://begthequestion.info. Ergo, 99.9% of use is wrong.

Yes, I’m a prescriptivist. Spelling Bee Champions like language rules to be OBSERVED!

What’s really shocking is dumb ol’ Miss California didn’t realize that 90% of pageant fans are gay. Don’t insult your core audience, bigot!

@Justacogitating Unfortunately you are now doomed to the same growing irritation every time you see it used wrong. Welcome to hell.

trekyourself.com. I made Kris the Romulan! Now I know what I’d look like as a bald alien dude. http://bit.ly/fjpHv

@witty_knitter Apparently. I had no idea he had strong feelings about Auckland til it came out. You’ll have to ask him about it sometime. 🙂

RT @rhagern: Shirless Obama to be cover boy: CNN – http://is.gd/5HE. <- This constituent is very, very much in favour!