Month: January 2015

  • Shared today on Twitter

    RT @GGDSydney: Registrations for the February GGD at Atlassian is now open! Go get your tickets 😀 http://t.co/5NaMcPvyDf #ggdsyd


    I’ll be speaking at this meetup about online advertising and what we can do as an industry to make it suck less. 🙂 https://t.co/8O2Jw3vfTB


    @garethrhughes He’s awesome! Love Arthur. Won big on Jeopardy in the US last year, super smart and very funny in his online writing.


    @chrisgander I had the same reaction. IT’S JUST A RUBBER BAND YOU FLIP BACK AND FORTH!


    @JM77 Are you at GDG tonight?


    Google Developer Group. Interested to hear from Dev Advocates about Android and Material Design! (@ Google) https://t.co/0gsAuIpSr0


    @JM77 @testingqa Pizza is here! Perfect timing


    Apparently the Sydney #gdg tonight is the biggest ever. Like, in the world.


    “Transmogrified reality.” That’s a Calvin & Hobbes reference, isn’t it? 🙂 #gdgsydney


    @grabthecode They don’t have rule about you all appearing together? Like the royal family. What if meteor hits the building? 🙂 #gdgsydney


    Questioner fail! Gambling app dev should’ve at least got the app name out there. 🙂 #gdgsydney


    Haha, 3rd or 4th question in a row asking future stuff that Advocates aren’t allowed to talk about. Whoops. #gdgsydney


    Big difference between solving a user problem and simply adding an app to a user’s life. The first should be our goal. #gdgsydney


    @pyko You didn’t actually miss a whole lot. I took some notes, but nothing groundbreaking. They couldn’t talk about anything coming up.


    @mobywhale Ooh ooh cool! Thanks for that. 🙂


    Reading: “Our Hiring Process is Broken. Can a Hackathon Fix It?” http://t.co/5s5Xz1mvdQ


  • Shared today on Twitter

    Reading: “The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Ukulele” http://t.co/pySnIYKNF8


    Reading: “15 habits of an ineffective networker: What not to do at your next event” http://t.co/HmlG0nrifs


    Anyone looking for bedroom furniture? We’re selling dresser + 2 night tables! http://t.co/CIN7RCMMcU


    @drkknits I wondered how you were going! I do not miss snow. 🙂


    I would like it to be known that tonight, a Brit did not realise I was a Yank. HE THOUGHT I WAS AUSSIE. YEAHHHHHH.


  • Shared today on Facebook

    Anybody looking for bedroom furniture? We’re selling… http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/chippendale/other-furniture/dresser-and-2-matching-bedside-tables-beech-veneer-ikea-drawers/1068781402


    I would like it to be known that tonight, a Brit did not realise I was a Yank. HE THOUGHT I WAS AUSSIE. YEAHHHHHH.


  • Whole30: Day 25

    Brunch: Three eggs scrambled in ghee; pork chipolatas; salsa
    Snack: Nuts
    Dinner: Meat loaf muffins and cauliflower slaw

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Unplanned manual labour. @ Waverton, New South Wales, Australia http://t.co/6HoDVSY4G8


    @Ascasewwen @sharre I saw something nasty in the woodshed!


    Reading: “Breaking Bad Terrarium” http://t.co/nigivmbxGb


    Reading: “Rejection Therapy” http://t.co/pBORgacUbq


    RT @ShentonStage: Inspiring poster for local London bookshop @kewbookshop (via @PaulWaugh, H/t @eilidhmac): THINK BEFORE YOU CLICK! http://…


  • Shared today on Facebook

    Unplanned manual labour.


  • TWOP One Pager

    I’m trialling the new Australian streaming service Stan, so the Snook and I have finally started watching Deadwood. I was getting a little lost in the stylised dialogue for the first few episodes so I googled to see if I could find any recaps. To my surprise, TWOP came up. I thought it closed down last year! Instead, the fan outrage seems to have convinced NBC to keep the archives up. I happily started reading the first recap and then ran into trouble when subsequent pages kept timing out or getting stuck in a redirect loop. I guess that while NBC kept the site up, they sure as hell aren’t doing any maintenance on the servers. Just as I was starting to get really, really frustrated, I found the answer: TWOP One Pager. That awesome little online tool allows you to paste in a TWOP recap link, and it will then fetch all the pages and combine them into a single document. It works great, even on the crappy archives. Highly recommended!

    Also highly recommended: Deadwood. Damn. Although the more I watch, the more the, uh, colourful vernacular threatens to impinge on my own vocabulary. I almost called the cat a c**ksucking hooplehead this morning.

  • Whole30: Day 24

    Breakfast: Coffee with coconut cream
    Lunch: Green salad with tuna, bacon, and baby beetroot
    Snack: Apple
    Dinner: Carrot and cardamom soup with some sauteed prawns

  • Whole30: Day 23

    Breakfast: Apple and a couple handfuls of almonds; black coffee
    Lunch: Leftover Paleo Tex Mex casserole
    Dinner: Apple Dijon Burgers (no bun of course!) and oven-baked sweet potato fries