Month: May 2009
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Oh, wow! This winter the Sydney CBD will be getting an outdoor ice rink for the first time in 50 years. FUN! I’ll be able to pretend I’m in Chicago! (Except it won’t be nearly so cold.)
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In Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs, the geek protagonist mentions at one point that the office becomes obsessed with looking at pictures of highway overpasses and interchanges. After looking at these photos, I think I finally understand why. Neat!
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The next Geek Girl Dinner has been announced, and this one’s at Yahoo. In fact, it sounds a lot like the Open Session we attended there last month. I think I’ll skip this one.
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I actually kind of like these Obama kicks. Stylin’.
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The rest of the weekend…It was actually a busy one. Friday night we joined Tim, Stef, and a bunch of friends to celebrate them buying their first house. There were drinks at Ryan’s bar, then a trip to Lowenbrau for much beer and pork. Saturday morning there was a trip to Toby’s for breakfast, followed…
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Tree Planting in ChippendaleI got an email from Michael last week asking for volunteers to help plant a couple more fruit trees in our neighborhood. “What the heck,” I thought. I put my hand up. So Saturday morning at 10:30 I found myself digging out compost from the community bins in the Peace Park. I…
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Geek Girl Dinner – MicrosoftThis past Thursday, I left work early and joined Kunaal on a train out to (the new) North Ryde Station. We were heading to Microsoft for this month’s Geek Girl Dinner. (The Snook had planned to go with me, but he had a work deadline so Kunaal took the spot instead.)…
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I am strangely burnt out on the Internet this weekend. No particular reason; just need a bit of a break, I guess. I’ll probably be back tomorrow.
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Geekbooks – little notebooks made from vintage computer punch cards and green dot matrix paper. WANT. Do I need to know anything about bookbinding to make something like that?
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I had no idea that Boston’s “Make Way for Ducklings” sculpture was such a target for theft and vandalism.