is snacking on fancy cheese while we wait for the oven to heat up to cook the pizza. (Goal: To try every brie at Harris Farm and then die of a very happy heart attack.)
2 avocadoes + 1 tomato + 1 clove garlic + 1 lime + ridiculous amount of coriander + salt/pep = heaven. I will never pay for guacamole again.
Possible solution to Twitter/Facebook integration issue: FB app “Selective Twitter Status”! Testing it now.
Happy Friday! I’ve got a beer in my hand and I’m celebrating the fact that I’ve just handed my boss a signed employment contract. Yours truly has graduated from a “we’ll-give-her-a-shot” contractor to a bonafide permanent employee. Yay!
Wow. This tilt-shift video of Sydney is FANTASTIC. I really like the music too. It’s just lovely. I spoke to our company photographer Stu about how it was done. (He knows the guy who did it.) Stu’s of the opinion that it’s actually “fake” tilt-shift (i.e. done in post-production). Still, it looks GORGEOUS.
I wondered last night whether Obama’s gift of an iPod loaded with show tunes was actually legal. Turns out it’s a very tricky issue. That’s the second gift he’s given recently that has highlighted a copyright problem. Is someone on his staff doing this deliberately to point out how broken and stupid the system is?
Sweet! Just got this month’s Kinokuniya newsletter, and it looks like Neil Gaiman’s coming out in May. I just RSVPed for myself and the Snook to meet him. I suggest you do the same if you’re a fan!
Margaret and David
Ma Snook’s down for the weekend, so last night she and I headed over to gleebooks for the launch of David Stratton’s memoirs. The book’s called “I Peed on Fellini,” and we had a great time listening to the story that inspired the title. The main theme of the night – and, according to David, the reason he wrote the book – was film censorship in Australia. Margaret was there of course, interviewing him and adding her own colourful commentary. (My favorite part of the night was when she referred to the Attorney General of South Australia as “pussy whipped.”) They also referred to the good ol’ days at SBS a bit, at which point Ma Snook elbowed me and whispered: “See? You didn’t want to work there anyway!” All in all, a fun evening.
It’s not every morning you log onto Gmail and find a lovely message from Nicky Epstein! I’m just astonished that she remembers me and that she’d send me a nice note. Hi Nicky!
The Final Countdown. I’m almost disappointed I’m missing Indiana’s historic Daylight-Savings switch. I wonder if the old people are freaking out? I can just imagine them lining up at the IGA right now for jugs of water and batteries. (I worked at a podunk grocery store for four years. Every time anything remotely problematic was predicted, old people would turn up to stockpile like it was World War III.) Ooh, I hope Moire posts some sort of recap!
Behold the Abominable Baby! Step back lest it bite off your face!
People knit some crazy shit for their babies, yo. I was just looking at patterns to make for the Impending Carbo (my sister’s sprog-to-be) when that image jumped out at me. Now you can have nightmares too!
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My home economics teacher taught us to use “J cloths” as press cloths. (Cellulose cleaning cloths). The upside of using…
We have the Harold McGee book, v interesting and often useful. Right up his alley I reckon!
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