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Bush fire!
For several hours now my co-workers and I have been watching a bush fire not far off from our office in North Ryde. It started with just a gigantic plume of smoke down near the river. Eventually a couple choppers showed up – one from the Fire Department to drop water on it, and another from Channel 7 News. My friend Roy took this picture from our office on the 3rd floor. Now we can hear sirens off in the distance. None of the Aussie news sites seem to have any information on it yet. How excitement!

ColorVision Test. Are you color blind? I’m not, but two of my co-workers are. (They already knew they were but it was cool to see the test verify it.)

“It’s a superhero movie for people who don’t go to superhero movies, and for those who do, it’s the one they’ve been yearning for.” Ebert gives SPIDER-MAN 2 four stars. Wow, I can’t wait for this one!

Amazing Pictures of babies in the womb. The one where he has his eyes open freaks me out a little bit. I mean, it’s weird enough to think about women walking around with little people inside them, but to think those little people are blinking, sucking their toes, and scratching themselves just blows my mind.

Yep, I’ve seen it. “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.” I’m not sure about that one. It has a “Phantom Menace” sort of ring to it. And who’s the half blood prince? Voldemort? He’s the only one we know of that fits the bill, right?

Why I Love the Snook

1. He secretly cleaned up all the wires and cords around the TV because he knows they drive me crazy.
2. He happily ate lentil casserole with me for dinner tonight and only mentioned it being “hippie food” once.
3. He calmed me down after an intense anxiety attack tonight when I realized that by this time next week, I’ll be earning half as much as I do now and working about ten times as hard for it. (What was I thinking?!)

Oh yeah, and that makes five full days of vegetarianism for me! My longest stint ever. Although I have to confess, four different people at work have told me I look pale over the last couple days. I need some red meat! Other than that the detox is okay. I haven’t made it to the gym since the aborted race last weekend, mostly because every night when I get home my stomach starts churning and I’m afraid to venture too far from the bathroom. But the dizziness of days 3-4 has passed and I’m feeling pretty energetic. Maybe tomorrow then…

Steve Jobs has unveiled a preview of the next version of Mac OS X, codenamed “Tiger”. It looks pretty sweet. And ha ha! Looks like the folks at the Worldwide Developers Conference had a little fun at Microsoft’s expense…

“Earthquake Rattles Midwest.” Dammit! Why do all the cool things happen when I’m not there?

How to Find Lost Objects. This will be useful. I borrowed the Snook’s Swiss Army knife when we went to Prisoner of Azkaban so I could cut apart my little knitter business cards. That night he asked for it back. I told him I’d given it back. He didn’t have it. I swore I didn’t have it. We argued back and forth for ten minutes, with him imploring me to check my bag and me insisting that I didn’t have it. Finally, to prove him wrong I dumped out my bag. There it was. Oops.

Weird Foods of the World. Man, poutine sounds good. I haven’t had durian but I’ve seen it in the supermarket here. (I did notice the restrictions on eating it while we were in Singapore in 2001.) I’ve tried Vegemite but I think it’s horrible! The Snook happily ate black pudding in the U.K., though he never ventured to try haggis. I’ve had octopus, though, as well as alligator and kangaroo. Everyone I know in the U.S. has done the deep-fried turkey thing, though I haven’t had it yet. And since when is miso soup “weird”?