web-goddess

Month: June 2011

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    @codepo8 Hey… Maybe you could try this out for me? http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/06/heres-a-way-to-get-a-google-invite-now/ 🙂

    RT @LLBrandenburg: An Agile Functional Specification http://goo.gl/fb/wc7yU #baot // Excellent. Just what @venks79 & I have been discussing!

    Thank you @henrytapia for my Google+ invite! 🙂

    All the @mobileembrace geeks are thanking @henrytapia for hooking us up with Google+. Amirite, @kunaal84 @lemon_lime @rajsingh2505? 🙂

    @thisismywww I can send to Daniel, @henrytapia. No worries.

    I am totes claiming credit for spreading Google+ to the Sydney knitters via @thisismywww… 😛

    @witty_knitter It’s their new anti-Facebook Facebook. Just trying it out.

    @witty_knitter It’s invite only, but it appears that the # of invitations is not restricted. You have a google account?

    @witty_knitter Well, send it to me and I’ll invite you! 🙂

    @Epaulette I need your Gmail address. 🙂

    Looking forward to tonight’s Geek Girl Dinner at Google! Who else is going? #ggdsyd

    @Epaulette Done!

    Trying somewhere new! (@ Cafe Olivetti) http://4sq.com/kXLuT6

    Can anyone still send Google+ invites? My link to it has disappeared. Wondering if I hit some sort of cap…

    If you’ve got Google+ open with the invite link showing, DON’T REFRESH YOUR BROWSER. It’ll go away!

    RT @knitabulous: thank you to kumaal and @gilmae for my google+ invite. // Heh. @kunaal84

    RT @GGDSydney: We know that there wasn’t enough room 4 everyone so we have live streaming for Google GGD tonight @ 6pm EST http://bit.l …

    @thisismywww I don’t think it works. I tried your method for @Kat13v; it told me email invites were disabled.

    @bellsknits I believe you’ll find it’s from Snoop Dogg, circa like 10+ years ago. So not hipster.

    RT @venks79: My team members’ productivity just halved with the release of google+. Grrr. Must mention in performance review.

    RT @Offbeatceremony: 87 years married, their marriage secrets are: remembering that everyone who plants a seed and harvests the crop… …

    Heading off to @GGDSydney! See you all at Google where we can gossip about Google+ while we drink their booze. #GGDSydney

    Awesome swag bag with SWEET Geek Girl Google coffee mug! Unexpected. Thanks, sponsors! #GGDSydney http://twitpic.com/5iyg5m

    Our tower was doomed to lose the #GGDSydney contest: we were the Internet Explorer team! http://twitpic.com/5iytgn http://twitpic.com/5iyth3

    Yes, there are a few dudes at #GGDSydney. They’re allowed! They’re honorary geek girls. 🙂

    We get REAL food? Best. #GGDSydney. Ever.

    Snook is so friggin’ old school. He’s trying to find irc client for iPhone so he can #GGDSydney chat without twitter. WHATEVER, GRANDPA.

    My Mom should be at #GGDSydney. She’s a girl geek (web dev, in fact), and she’s my hero.

    @GGDSydney I wish! She’s in the U.S. If a visit ever coincides, she will definitely come.

    @zennith I switched to Telstra recently. I’ve got full reception at ggd. Go for it!

    Ada Initiative email sign-up is here: http://j.mp/jYoCsO #GGDSydney

    I asked @adainitiative if we women need to be assholes to succeed in open source. Happily, the answer is no. Change culture, not women.

    RT @gusseting: there was this expectation that i’d be permanently “nice” and “bubbly” and so forth at work in IT. not happening. #GGDSydney

    I asked @adainitiative if women need to be assholes to succeed in open source. Happily, the answer is no. Change the culture! #GGDSydney

    Google’s women’s toilets: free tampons, flossers, hair dryer, straight iron, AND a technical newsletter in each stall. #GGDSydney #jealous

    Do Aussie women have to pay upfront for courses? Thought everybody had HECS? #confusedYank #GGDSydney

    @makarakarn Ahhh, that makes more sense. Just still can’t figure out why course cost is more a consideration for women than men. #GGDSydney

    RT @MXYZ_: Can-tus. Lulz. #ggdsydney

    I haz Google+. In fact, this geek girl was the one that hooked up all the dudes in the office with invites. 🙂 #GGDSydney

    @witty_knitter We heard talk that course cost is a factor in women not doing hard sciences/computers as undergrad. Don’t get why?

    What I would have given for NCSS or Girls Programming Network in high school… Role models are CRUCIAL. #GGDSydney

    ZOMG. I WON COMPUTER ENGINEER BARBIE. I actually WANTED one of these!! #GGDSydney http://twitpic.com/5j0b7s

    As we were leaving Google, the Yahoo decided it was finally time to troll. http://twitpic.com/5j0rwc

    @aimee_maree Totally agree. Met some awesome ladies from Sun Corp tonight at #GGDSydney!

    @redambition I quote: “Oh, totally!” He’ll do it. 🙂

    RT @Illdrinn: Having @web_goddess run at me squealing when I told her she’d won a Computer Engineer Barbie was totally uplifting #ggdsydney

    Look! I really did blog about Computer Engineer Barbie like 18 months ago. 🙂 http://j.mp/mztHEp #GGDSydney @Illdrinn

    RT @GGDSydney: Thursday 8 September, next girl geek dinner sponsored by Atlassian. Put it in the diary!

    @Jinkeez They turned em off. But DM me your google name and I’ll try in the morning! (Somebody else will probably get you by then…)

    @Illdrinn Seriously. I also took a photo of newsletter about refactoring. Because hey, that’s AWESOME. I want geekery in our work toilet…

    RT @Illdrinn: Thanks to all who helped tonight and a special nod to @sundress and @sprongify for all their hard work Hope you enjoyed #g …

    @Jinkeez Whoops. Rectified. 🙂

    Video from last night’s #GGDSydney is on YouTube: http://bit.ly/jt6WCO. I asked a question at the 26:00 mark. (Thank you @adainitiative!)

    Second half of #GGDSydney talks are here: http://youtu.be/2KBc5rGzxbY. Excellent work from the organisers; best GGD yet!

    Wow. I think @ebertchicago’s twitter account got hacked.

    @drkknits @mrs_sockvictim I sent them to both of you yesterday! That’s what you get for not sitting in front of a PC 10 hours a day…

    @mrs_sockvictim @drkknits I was pretty sure I did; same time I sent it to Matt I think.

    I was going to be on time today. And then George Street happened.

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    Reading: “Requirements as Inventory” Metaphor. http://bit.ly/mmlv8r

    Interesting. A particular blogspot blog that was showing three days ago… now isn’t. I WONDER WHY.

    @witty_knitter The Pinterest site is still up. The one where the Google cache shows her surname: http://bit.ly/m1PehG.

    @bellsknits Did you see M-H’s blog? Went from weird to scary for me. 🙁

    I’m tired. Bone tired. Post-marathon funk? Just trying to get motivated or excited about anything. Failing. #existentialcrisis

    @toastman Bay Run, City 2 Surf, Blackmore’s Half-Marathon, and then World Wide Festival of Races Half-Marathon. Yikes. Now I’m even tireder.

    New experiment for July: No Internet after 9pm. I may READ A BOOK or even SLEEP. I wonder if I can make it the whole month…

    RT @drkknits: Oh look, a new show on the abc called #crownies. That looks interesting. And so well designed too. // HEAR HEAR!

    @bellsknits Okay… I am closing the laptop. Any second now. I swear.

    @bellsknits Practically! And no time like the present. Good night! 🙂

    This Oxford comma business is the most unsettling thing I’ve heard all day. This pedant won’t be changing a damn thing! #oxfordcomma4life

    @toastman Have you tried @healthmonth yet? Best health experiment I’ve done in the past 6 months. New cycle starts tomorrow!

    They’re putting in a Mad Mex at Central?! Goodbye low-carb; hello burritos!

    @stufromoz I know! I was tweeting as the bus rolled past it. 🙂

  • How to Talk to Little Girls

    How to Talk to Little Girls. Great little article. Some folks at MetaFilter were kinda down on it, but I think it’s a valid concern. I think both my nieces are cute as a button, but I also want them to think that it’s even more important to be smart and brave and kind and healthy. I’d hate for them to think that being pretty was all anybody cared about.

    I even call out the Snook when he compliments my looks instead of my brains. I know this booty is all that and a bag of chips, baby, but I gots more to offer the world!

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Nothing like an implied threat from a straight-up crazy person to get the adrenaline flowing!

    @toastman I mean crazy in the sense of “being sentenced for actual crimes” and calling people’s bosses and claiming harrassment and CRAZY!

    @toastman Eh, she hasn’t attacked me yet. Just a friend. But I blogged about her too (since deleted).

    Jamie’s 30Min Meal #20: Chicken Pie, French-style Peas, Carrot Smash, and Berry Trifle: http://bit.ly/lZ0QoD. Just right for a winter night!

  • Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals #20: Chicken Pie

    This is our 20th cooking/blogging experiment from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals. Woohoo! We’re 40% of the way through! For this one we chose “Chicken Pie, French-Style Peas, Sweet Carrot Smash, Berries, Shortbread & Chantilly Cream.” You may recall that I actually tried this recipe already back in January, before we started this project. We wanted to document it properly though, so the Snook stepped up to cook this one. We also rewatched the episode to refresh our minds. This was also the first time we’ve ever had an audience: our friend Sharon from Flavour Crusader was here! I think the extra spectator may have unnerved the Snook a bit, as his time was uncharacteristically slow: 39:56. Still, that’s 5+ minutes faster than I managed it back in January…

    Chicken Pie

    Substitutions: We used plain cream instead of creme fraiche for the pie filling. We had one large lettuce instead of two small ones for the peas. And the Snook assembled the dessert into a trifle (with some lemon curd) rather than leaving it as constituent parts, as you can see above. Other than that, everything was as written in the recipe.

    Quick verdict: The perfect winter meal! Very tasty and filling. The chicken in the pie was a bit chewy, but I suppose that’s to be expected when using breast. (Jamie never seems to use thighs?) We overcooked the peas a bit, but they were still good. The Snook’s improvised trifle for dessert was beautiful, the perfect cap to the meal. Overall we both rated this one 8.5 out of 10, but I think there’s still a little room for improvement next time we make it.

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  • Star Wars Burlesque

    Star Wars Burlesque
    A couple of months ago, a friend on Facebook shared a link to an upcoming event at the Vanguard in Newtown: Star Wars Burlesque. I told the Snook, “We HAVE to go!” And this past Saturday night, we did!

    My only exposure to burlesque is the musical Gypsy, so I didn’t really know what to expect. I was pretty sure nobody was gonna get naked, but I figured we’d see some scantily dressed dancers. We’d booked in for the “show + dinner” option, and when we arrived we were seated right next to the foot of the thrust stage. Excitement! We had drinks and ordered our dinner, and over the next couple of hours we enjoyed ourselves as the place filled up. The food was excellent, as were the cocktails. We all got restless though, especially the non-eaters up in the balcony who’d arrived early to get good seats. After many hours, the curtain finally raised… on the Mos Eisley Cantina Band! These three guys went through a rockin’ overture of the Cantina Song, Luke’s theme, and Vader’s theme. The crowd loved it.

    Cantina Band

    The host for the evening was a smooth-talking guy, and he entertained us between acts with nerd patter and Star Wars trivia. To kill time during setup, he brought on a “Go-Go dancer dressed as Princess Leia.” She bopped around on stage for like 15 minutes while everybody played with their iPhones and looked bored. Finally, the host came out to announce the first dancer – “from the tundras of Tattooine, the Tusken Raider!” I GASPED. I’d joked to the Snook that I hoped they’d do some of the less obvious characters, and a pole dancing Tusken Raider had been our private joke. Well, here she was! Minus the pole. Standing on stage in the alien mask and robes before a pile of dirt. Rhythmic music kicked in and she began to dance. It was MESMERISING. Seriously, she was the best of the night. She eventually stripped down to underpants and some strips of cloth across her breasts, but she never removed the Tusken Raider head. It was so weird. People went nuts when her act finished.

    We saw many more acts over the course of the evening: a sexy C3PO emerging from a pile of junk; a Twilek bounty hunter limbering up for a job; a trio of Wookiee hunters; a rather gymnastic Boba Fett; a light saber wielding Jedi; Storm Troopers; and many more. The first act ended with “Slave Leia” of course, whose chain was connected to the ceiling above our table. To our surprise, she actually SWUNG ON IT out over us! It was amazing. And the big finale was Darth Vader herself, dressed all in black latex. She was awesome too.

    So yeah, a fun night watching some talented ladies dance in a big giant Nerd Fest. Highly recommended!

    Slave Leia

    Jedi

    Darth Vader

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    As Mary-Helen is being harrassed at her workplace and accused of stalking, I’ve removed my own post about the same person. I don’t need that kind of crazy.

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    You don’t have to send it to me; I saw it already. http://bit.ly/kwxDpH Snook suggested I switch to something less trendy. “Like a harp.”

    @witty_knitter I’m at work! I don’t bring ukuleles to work! Though I’ve been tempted!

    @drkknits @witty_knitter @janek85 More like, “Can I have your autograph? You guys rock!” AMIRITE?

    RT @redditflipboard: Browsers: #reddit #flipboard http://bit.ly/jkRz5F

    @codepo8 God bless America. (I prefer deep-fried Oreos.)

    It appears last week’s driver update did zilch. Bamboo tablet not accepting two-finger scroll. I still blame Windows.

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