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Month: March 2009

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @sharre I LOVE mine, as you might guess. Even the Snook is seriously swayed. And @AusVintageGrrl has given in?! You will be assimilated.

    Huzzah! Booked in for Girl Geek Dinner in two weeks w/ @redambition and @AusVintageGrrl. girlgeekdinnerssydney.blogspot.com

    @acatinatree When in doubt, it’s probably the effing SMH site. HATE IT.

    As I said on Ravelry, I can’t even watch the Ped-Egg advert without gagging. IT’S A FOOT GRATER. For some reason that makes my skin crawl.

    @randomknits @sharre I’m on $39 + $13 optus too, but it’s gone now. 🙁 My data usage is way < 200MB. (I have wifi @ home & work tho.)

    @acatinatree Still need one? I’ve got a list purportedly from “Verizon/Sybase + assorted sources”. Can email to you if you like.

    @randomknits Pretty sure. Rodd was interested but they pulled it 2 weeks after I got it. I think $59 is lowest Optus now. Will check.

    @randomknits Yep, gone. No more plain Yes plans. Just Timeless and Cap for loads more. 🙁

    @randomknits Rodd’s plan is to buy one outright, unlock it, and get a cheap plan with decent data. He’s with Exetel; he thinks it’ll work.

    Sometimes supporting your wife is making her go to boxing when she’d give anything not to. Because she’ll be glad she went afterwards.

    RT @acatinatree @markpollard: Free Twitter session in The Rocks, Syd Thurs 23 April http://tinyurl.com/cayzsp

    hates this weather. There’s nothing worse than being steamy bus in the pouring rain, getting dripped on by brollies and roof and wet people.

    @witty_knitter You’ve got iPhone, right? I use TwitterFon (free from App Store). But no, we have no SMS support in Oz (yet).

  • Cool Kids Go to the Library

    Cool kids go to the library. LOVE IT. (Spotted in Nora‘s shared Google Reader items.)

  • Uninterested Cat Bento

    Uninterested Cat Bento. Ha! Nice one, Eva. Now you just need to create a bento of a 7 pound cat leaping on a sleeping person’s stomach and you’ve basically documented half my life.

  • MEAT ANTS?

    I know cane toads are a menace and everything, but good grief – MEAT ANTS?! The very name is going to give me nightmares.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    is relishing a sunny Fall day in Woolloomooloo. http://twitpic.com/2lfto

    is enjoying the chaos. Power just went out all over Sydney CBD. What the heck’s happening? Just walked down 10 flights to get out.

    wonders why traffic lights are out on George & William but not around the park? Something to do with train stations? #blackout #sydney

    @wookie_man And I hope you didn’t drive. Streets are insane. Fire trucks everywhere and lights are out.

    is amused by #sydney #blackout tweets. No #zombies spotted yet. Saw lots of fire trucks in city but no smoke yet. 3G is spotty.

    has made it past Central. Power seems to be okay here. Still no #zombies sighted, but smelly Newts make it hard to tell. #blackout #sydney

    RT @JennifARGH: New show on Ten; Bondi Zombie. #sydney #blackout #zombies

    just visited new giant Harris Farm. (Power is on.) More everything + breads + meat! No #zombies. #sydney #blackout http://twitpic.com/2lkxc

    @venks79 Fun, isn’t it? Best excuse for Twitter, I think.

    is finally at home with provisions and POWER! Now to fortify doors and improvise #zombie decapitating device. #sydney #blackout

    can confirm that Chippo has power and Internets. Suck it, Glebe! #sydney #blackout

    has just realized that all of these silly #zombie tweets are going straight to Facebook. Maybe I should turn that off.

    @randomknits Me too. Yet my inner 3-year-old also thinks she wears pretty, pretty dresses.

    RT @jannism: Skype for iphone ready tomorrow http://tinyurl.com/cgjy4a Holy crap! I may have to finally pay for Skype credits. 2c/min to US!

    Gearing up for a run outside. In the dark. (Come on, Daylight Savings…)

    Listening to the rain. Run postponed. I’m hardcore, but not that hardcore.

    @virtual4now A steady rain I could do, but this is turning full on and off like a faucet. I’ll do boxing today instead.

    Just installed Skype for iPhone and successfully tried it out. Hey family, you can call me for free at work/home now!

  • BLACKOUT!

    Major power outage in Sydney CBD. Now that was fun! At about 4:45pm this afternoon, everything went ZAP! And all the computers shut off. We all looked around. There was a few minutes of joking while the office manager ran to find out what we should do. I sent an SMS to the Snook saying that our power was out. His reply: “Ours too!” Okay, THAT changes things! (His new office is at the Rocks.) Somebody noticed that the traffic lights were all out on William Street. We stood at the windows and looked down at the growing rush hour traffic chaos. Somebody joked, “You should be twittering this.” HELL YEAH, I should! I grabbed my iPhone but the 3G network kept crapping out before my tweet went through. I called my friend Kunaal whose office is at Wynyard, but oddly they had power! (But no Internet, so he had no idea what was happening.) Eventually most of us decided to leave, so I shuffled down ten flights of fire stairs with everybody else. Then I hiked up to the park and towards the city. While waiting for a bus on Castlereagh, I managed to get through to Twitter and did a search on blackout. That’s when I discovered that everyone was attributing it to zombie attack. Oh man, that was fun. I tweeted* all the way home. Snookums managed to train it to Central and met me at the house. Thankfully, Chippendale seems to have power (and Internet). And now here we are, enjoying a beer and feeling sorry for all those still trying to head north over the bridge!

    * I really think this may have been a turning point in my relationship with Twitter. The explosion of the zombie blackout meme was fun and addictive. I told the Snook it was like this amazing spontaneous virtual chat room with folks from all over the city. Plus I picked up seven new followers thanks to my tweets!

  • Best Beer Map of Americ

    For Snookums: Best Beer Map of America.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    is trying to get Joomla extension to recognize PEAR SOAP package & failing miserably. FRUSTRATION.

    is going out for a much-needed run.

    Just completed a 6.12 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/py3Y1 #runkeeper

    @mrs_sockvictim Way to go! Go the Creaky Knees! 🙂

    @mrs_sockvictim Did the battery die? You can have mine; it’s still got plenty of juice.

    @redambition Happy late birthday! 🙂

    RT @chrisgander: just heard our smash-hit Mobile X-Ray Scanner application was mentioned on ROVE last night…. Did anyone catch it?

    is wishing the Snook good luck on his first day at #geekdom!

  • B.A. Baracas Sock Monkey

    B.A. Baracas Sock Monkey. As an accomplished sock monkey artist myself, I have to say that’s one of the best ones I’ve ever seen! I’m all about people who push the sock monkey medium.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    is starting second half of marathon meeting, fortified with tea. I’ve run out of yarn tho, so it’ll be more tweeting & less knitting.

    is losing the will to live. Let’s wind it up, ladies! Brain dribbling out my ears…

    is finally relaxing on the couch with some yummy stew and fresh bread. Loooong day. Jumper turned out great tho: http://tinyurl.com/c3lg8z

    is twittering in the dark. I wish the only candles we have didn’t have competing scents. #earthhour #sydney

    @crumpet Same here! I looooove changing the sheets. I swear I sleep better.

    @ljc Hold up. There exists a clothes dryer that finished a load in 15 minutes?? Does it require rocket fuel or something?!

    @randomknits You’re the knitting juggernaut of 2009. I’m just glad you didn’t enter an Aran too! Congrats… 🙂