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"Micro"? HAH! AMIRITE?!?!

Saw this image on BoingBoing today. Both of these items are US mains power to 5V USB adapters. They both do exactly the same thing. One is made by Apple, for the iPhone. The other is by Microsoft, for the Zune. This is an example of when dedication to design

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Procreation: COMPLETED

It’s with a surprisingly vast and surprisingly heartfelt feeling of happiness, that I must inform all of you gentle readers who don’t already know that Annette is pregnant. Baby bean is due around the middle of March, 2010.

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Oh mighty Gaz'Hakk, accept this offering!

From irc: [Zorr] Maybe you guys might be able to tell me why the fuck I can’t seem to get xine to play a DVD? [jsr] Zorr: Buy a mac. [jsr] Zorr: Hope this helps. [Zorr] jsr: diaf [Zorr] Fuck Macs… [Zorr] Overpriced… and overrated [jsr] Zorr: Myep. [jsr]

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Curse you, Studio Ghibli!

I cannot get the music from Ponyo on the Cliffs by the Sea out of my head. Dammit! It’s worse than Funkytown. It’s worse than Groove Is In The Heart, even. DAMMIT.

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..head out on the highway...

Finally got around to taking some pictures of my new ride. These were taken in a very low light garage, using my iphone and its tiny-ass lens. It didn’t do a bad job compensating for the darkness, but still, my apologies in advance for the grainyness of the images

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A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WAY TO WIN IS TO JUMP AROUND, JUMP AROUND

This is basically what I imagine kai_loi dreams when he’s actually sleeping and not out taking drugs and pretending he’s still in his 20s. The Runner -Exploit yourself- from BLR_VFX on Vimeo.

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LOL, as the kids say, FAIL

Rees won’t buy ticket for $90m Oz Lotto “Punters will descend on newsagents across NSW and the ACT on Tuesday to stake their claim to the $90 million Oz Lotto jackpot. But an altruistic NSW Premier Nathan Rees will be sitting this one out, saying he doesn’t want

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Less than meets the eye

Geek Confession: I thought the transformers cartoons were shit in the 1980s, and I think the recent live-action transformers movies are DoubleShit. I wasn’t interested in Productbots vs Merchandisacons when I was in my early teens, and I’m definitely not fucking interested when that dead-eyed waste of skin

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Good Dog

Ducked home from work early, because my beloved found out today that her mum was in a car accident yesterday. Looks like an oncoming car in the other lane crossed the line, and hit her head on. She has fairly minor-sounding injuries, luckily. But poor little Silver, the utterly beloved

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Bleah

I’ve been at home all day, illin’ it up. I have all the symptoms of some kind of flu – headache, upset tum, bad cough. I’m strongly hoping it’s not of the swine variety.

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Bomb squad.

From Wikipedia, on the entry for my new bike: The pink wire connected to the ECU of some of the later 900 bikes retards the ignition timing in the lower 3 gears to make the bike more user friendly, limiting the ability to spin up the rear wheel out of

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What does this button dooooOOOOOAAAAARRGHHHH

First lengthy ride on new bike (about 20 or 30kms, from previous owners place to Annette’s parents place.) So, the RF is 900cc, and my previous few bikes have all been 750cc. Doesn’t seem that much different, right? Except that the old bikes were all circa mid 80’

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There's the poor old gaffer going down the hill with his bits of things on a barrow.

I find that I require some sort of bag in which to transport my accumulated personal stuffs while I’m riding the new bike. And when I say stuffs, I mostly mean “laptop”, these days. Anyone got any reccommendations? Ideally, I think I’d like: – Backpack bag (preferred, though a

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Brrm!!!

Purchased today: One (1) Suzuki RF900R, Colour Black, For the riding thereof. Also: Shoei helmet about 10x better fitting, lighter, more awesome than the cheap-ass helmets I could afford when I was a student. Also: Clutch-working left hand well out of condition. Sore after short ride. This should self-correct eventually.

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Leather.

I just returned from purchasing bikin’ gears. I bought new gloves, with nice kevlar plates over critical hand bits such as knuckles. Test punched myself in the head while wearing them. It hurt. Required size XXXL. I also purchased a fine Shoei Multitec helmet, which fits well and is a

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No, not a ring. This is a magic JEWEL. Totally different.

I just found out that David Eddings died on June 2nd. I’ve read the Belgariad and the Malloreon, and the Elenium and the Tamuli more times than I would care to count. They’re pretty much textbook Campbellian fantasy, and thus quite like crack cocaine if your mind is

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Brrrm.

So, I’m now prepping for motorcycle purchase. I’m getting a bike instead of the car we had planned to buy, and Annette will be using my old car for her occasional trips to the local post office. Eventually, further down the road, we’ll replace it with a

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True Geek Confession!

This months True Geek Confession is: I have never seen “The Goonies”. I missed out on last months, so here’s a bonus: I still read and enjoy some of the “Dragonlance” books.[1] Tune in next month for more True Geek Confessions, where you may mock me at will.

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Hrrr.

More brilliance from Applegeeks.

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Black Sheep

Black Sheep, originally uploaded by jsr.spathi.

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Ow, my brains!

Came home mid-afternoon with a blazing headache shading to migraine, took a bunch of pills and went to bed. Just woke up, it’s 9.00pm. Sleeping pattern: Fucked.

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How will I manage without a flashlight app?

This weekend, the following things have broken, in order: (1) Our car. This is now in the shop. They don’t have a loaner, so I am taking the bus to work. (2) My new iphone headset. This is now being weird in one ear. (3) My iPhone. It developed

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DIAF.

About the only broadcast TV we watch these days is C4 for music videos during dinner. This means that we sometimes get to see a guy named Dai Henwood. He is, we are told, a professional comedian, who also does presenting work on C4. Apparently he’s won awards for

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Have Yeoman Rand washed, and sent to my quarters.

Yes. Oh Yes. Daddy like.

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Oh yes, Henry Tudor actually slept here.

I’d like to present some thoughts on Japanese street fashion, and more specifically the differing impetus behind fashion in western cultures and fashion as I experienced it in Japan, and through talking to various Japanese people about clothing styles and whatnot. It seems to be that in western cultures,