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Month: July 2010

  • USA!

    Posting might be a bit sporadic – more so than usual – as we are in the USA for 3 weeks visiting the fam. I’ll do a big post when we get home, but check Facebook and Twitter for pics as they happen. (And huge thanks to Issy for watching the house and cats!)

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    In the cab. Crotchety old man driving. Ahhhh, Sydney.

    Thanks everybody! Especially @redambition, who is on house- and cat-sitting duty for 3 weeks. Wave to her on CouchCam! 🙂

    Do I look stressed?! http://twitpic.com/25xvx3 I am obsessively checking everything. How did we not forget anything? That’s unpossible!

    We are checked in and waiting! Didn’t forget anything; which makes me more anxious that if we did, really. But all good so far.

    Well, except that we aren’t seated together. We’re going to plead at the gate. Fingers crossed for an upgrade?!

    Nah, bad luck. Have to sit a few rows apart. Not the end of the world, really.

    @mrs_sockvictim Best of luck with the move!!

    Plane is boarding! Here we go!! http://twitpic.com/25ys1o

    Safe and sound at the Carbo house in Petaluma. Really tired though…

    @redambition That was quick! He must have remembered you. Glad to hear it’s going well!

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    @sharre Congrats! That’s awesome!

    @gilmae Sent you a Gmail….

    @redambition I beg to differ! You can always run home if you forget something… 🙂

    Trying unsuccessfully to checkin for tomorrow’s Qantas flight online. Site says it should work but I just get errors. BOO. @qftravelinsider

    Twitter: I saw a photoshop of Kim Jong-il with Bieber’s hair, and now I can’t find it. WHERE IS IT?

    @witty_knitter Yeah, I have no idea why. Giving a cryptic error. Guess we’ll just have to do it on the day.

    @stufromoz IT WAS BREATHTAKING, DAMMIT. Bieber’s hair makes everything better. 🙂

    @Kimchiboy0208 hahaha, not any of those, oppa! It was just in the past 2 weeks I saw it…

    @witty_knitter 12:50pm. We’ll get there about 2hr before. Just means more waiting around. 🙁

    Work is done! Heading home to finish cleaning and packing. Less than 24 hours til we go!

    @mrs_sockvictim Good luck with your move! And don’t you dare have housewarming without me! 😛

    @mrs_sockvictim August 7th…

    @Lauren_lolly_ Just to the US for a visit with the family…

    Only acceptable time to visit Kmart is 7.30am. Totally empty. And with self-serve checkout, no human interaction required! 🙂

    @brodrigu Nope. They have Kmart here. Just picking up last minute supplies. But we’ll be in Cali in about, oh, 16 hours!

    90 minutes til the taxi. Time to finish putting stuff in suitcases! EEEEEEK!

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    iPhone4 performance in Oz: http://bit.ly/9gE9wc. Yep. I’m still getting one.

    Anybody who wants a postcard from the House on the Rock needs to email me their address! (@drkknits @kunaal84)

    @_brigita_ Only 3 days. Driving from Indiana, then a full day for HotR and Taliesin, then driving back to Chicago the next…

    @_brigita_ I plan to eat my weight in fried cheese curds, yes indeedy. (@lotsofco recommended The Old Fashioned in Madison.)

    @_brigita_ Wait, wait. How did I miss that you’re IN Madison? WE HAVE TO MEET UP! Will email you details. 🙂

    @_brigita_ He just went there on vacation 2 weeks ago! Posted all about it on FB. Even sent me specific menu recommendations. 🙂 @lotsofco

    @_brigita_ I fully expect it to suck balls. But we both read American Gods, so it’s kind of a Gaiman pilgrimage too. Email sent…

    @_brigita_ It features quite heavily in @neilhimself’s “American Gods.” He’s actually going there for Halloween! http://bit.ly/buh48b

    @Justacogitating @imdominating Either of you got Aunt Deb’s email? Trying to plan where we’re crashing in Indiana…

    @_brigita_ DAMN! Bad timing all around, indeed. 🙁

    @redambition And now that’s in my head. I think I actually prefer the #glee version too! 🙂

    @mrs_sockvictim Hoooooorayyyyy! Congratulations!

    @Warlach Total strawman. I’m surprised Hitler wasn’t invoked as well. (Huh. The filter =Australia’s own Godwin’s Law?)

    Check out the Blog “Which Pop Star are YOU! Take our funny quiz!” I found at #GetUpGo http://bit.ly/d01nWe

    @dancingman I can’t! Have a doctor’s appointment. 🙁

    The Snook has just finished his last official day with Photon! Now he has a month’s holiday before starting his new job… as a Yahoo. 🙂

    @DDsD YES. I don’t want to say anything else til his final paycheck is deposited though, as I’m sure you can appreciate. 🙂

    Proof that our cheapass wok works great on induction! Best stir-fry we’ve cooked in YEARS… http://twitpic.com/25g3fj

    Celebrated Snook’s new job with a Band Hero session tonight. Fun! The Bosstones were my favorite…

    @dancingman Sure! We had GH4 + 5 before, but we only got BH just recently.

    @IronBrandon The Impression That I Get is surprisingly fun to play on the (fake) bass! 🙂

    @DDsD You can. Google “chess boxing.” 🙂

    @mrs_sockvictim I would totally do that.

    @redambition You are spending more time packing than I am!!

    RT @Epaulette: hillarious > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxZiae16Ry8&feature=related – TOO GOOOD! reminds me of my melbourne years

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  • Scott Pilgrim

    I am so enamored of the Scott Pilgrim movie. I bought the first book last weekend, and Snookums and I both finished it. Our first manga! All it took was George Michael Bluth…

  • EPICWIN

    EPICWIN. Finally an iPhone To Do list app that I think the Snook might actually use!

  • RunningBlog: Week 28

    The week did not begin auspiciously. Last Friday night, I was coming home from the shops with the Snook and took a nasty fall on some wet, muddy leaves. I landed heavily on my left knee. I took off a layer of skin and got a massive bruise on the side. It was really painful the first day, so I took the weekend off to ice it and recover. On Monday I went out cautiously for my scheduled 4-miler… and I felt okay! It ached a little bit, but I think that was more to do with my running tights constricting around the bruised bit. I managed three runs total this week, and my knee and foot have been feeling better with each one. Today was the least my right foot has bothered me since February! It’s pretty amazing. Each run has been faster than the last, too.

    July 12: 6.45km
    July 14: 5.69km
    July 15: 5.77km
    Total this week: 17.91km (11.2mi)
    Total in 2010: 525.49km (328.4mi)

    I’m still about 13km behind pace in my goal to run 1000km in 2010, but I’ll get there. Each week I’m going a little bit farther. I’m excited that my next run will be back in the U.S.A.! I hope I survive the summer heat…

  • Crustgate

    So yeah, yesterday that whole “Crustgate” thing happened.

    Summary: Crust Pizza are a pizza chain with a highly-regarded social media strategy, including a Twitter account that gives pizzas away every Friday. Yesterday they tweeted: “Need a laugh? Hilarious compilation of female driver madness.” with a link to a YouTube video of women crashing into light poles and such. I didn’t see the original tweet, but I saw one of my friends responding to it. I was really surprised they did it; their brand appeals a lot to women. So I retweeted it myself, adding: “Sexism FAIL. Badly done, Crust.” A bunch of other people chimed in. By the end of the day, Crust had apologised and the social media experts started weighing in. Mumbrella had a story (which quoted my tweet amongst many others), as did the Amnesia Blog. As you might expect, the anti-PC brigade was out in full force defending the post as “funny” and branding the complainers as overly defensive whingers. This guy implied that only “social media experts” had issues with the tweet. I’ve just posted my thoughts on the subject over at Warlach’s World, which I’ll repeat here for posterity:

    I tweeted about it fairly early on, just noting: “Sexism FAIL. Badly done, Crust.” I stand by that. No, I wasn’t offended. I’m not crying over it or anything. It’s the CONTEXT. I expect blonde jokes and bad women driver jokes in emails I get from my Grandpa. I also expect that type of thing on South Park. It doesn’t make me angry; it doesn’t get me worked up. I probably wouldn’t even have batted an eye if a brand like Dominos had sent the tweet out. But Crust’s brand, to me, doesn’t say larrikin. Their well-designed website; their social media presence; the weekly contest; their fancy pizzas… that’s all stuff that I associate with being at the higher-end of the market, with appealing to a female audience. (Every Friday, I’d estimate that 75% of the tweets I see entering their contest are from women.) So yeah, to me it struck a really wrong note and I couldn’t believe they’d made such a misstep.

    That said, I’m totally happy with their response and the apology. That was well done. I just resent being lumped in as some sort of panties-in-a-wad “social media expert” (newsflash: I’m not) hyperventilating over political correctness… when in reality I was just a consumer going, “Huh, maybe this brand doesn’t mean what I thought it meant.”