Month: November 2010

Apple’s iOS 4.2 is available today, and it includes free “Find my iPhone” service. Huh. That would have been useful two months ago.

Happy anniversary Snookums… under the sea.
Saturday was our sixth wedding anniversary, so as usual we planned a special dinner to celebrate. And where better to celebrate than a “subterranean Italian seafood restaurant”?!

 

A couple months ago Eva forwarded me one of those “deal of the day” links where the offer was a 4-course dinner at Grotta Capri. I freaked out. Grotta Capri was in Muriel’s Wedding! It’s the crazy restaurant/bar where Sophie Lee (and the other mean girls) told Muriel that they didn’t want her hanging out with them anymore. It actually exists, and it’s here in Sydney. (It’s also famously crawling with actual mobsters.) So that’s where we went! The food was alright, nothing too special really. The main draw was sitting in an insane restaurant covered in blue stalactites and assorted nautical flotsam. There was a DJ on playing a truly demented mix of holiday, mafia, and party classics. (I’m not joking. We went from “Blue Christmas” to the theme from The Godfather to “Y.M.C.A.”) The cocktails were awful, but the tiramisu was pretty good. It was just so cheesy and fun. We had a nice time.

I’m lucky to have somebody willing to indulge these whims!

Not sure if I’ve mentioned it before, but Poolga has gorgeous free wallpaper for iPhones.

Living in inner city Sydney, we’re used to hearing fireworks go off just about every weekend. Now thanks to the Sydney Fireworks twitter account, at least we know where it’s coming from! (Boom boom boom… right now!)

Casa 360°. Is this a real house? Because I kind of love it.

Hahahaha… The Harry Potter cast tries to talk American. The Snook thought that Draco was the best, but I thought Rupert was pretty good (except for that dodgy “mozzarella”).

Note to self: Make a Pumpkin Cream Pie.

This is for my Dad: The Knick Killer. It’s all about how Reggie Miller used to drive the Knicks (and Spike Lee, and the whole city of New York) crazy. We Pacers fans loved it.

Since tomorrow is our wedding anniversary and I’m thinking about it…

Is marriage a perk for the elite? TIME magazine looks at some statistics that may surprise you. Jezebel distills it down with commentary. The bit that really floored me:

“In 1990 more high-school-educated couples than college graduates had made it to the altar by age 30. By 2007 it was the other way around.” And people who never went to college are less likely than graduates to marry at all — according to Luscombe’s numbers, just 48% of those with no college marry, while 64% of those with diplomas do….

The report goes on to speculate about why marriage might be becoming the privilege of the educated and well-off. Things like: money to outsource chores, more flexible working hours and arrangements, better conflict resolution skills… Interesting to think about. There’s also a Metafilter discussion.