life
Not quiet on the !schooling front
Saturday, 9 July 2011 @ 11:30pm
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I just haven’t been writing about it.
Last week, 6yo drew a picture of Venom from Spiderman with black whiteboard marker on paper, including sounding out the name and checking with JJ after writing it out.
This week just gone has been crazy.
Is [this] a [that] killer?
Tuesday, 5 July 2011 @ 6:30pm
I hang around on LinkedIN. With Google+ in its invite-only “field trial” stage and people writing blog posts raving about it, LI’s Questions have been inundated (or maybe people just aren’t reading before posting, how unusual) with “Is Google+ a Facebook killer?” style questions.
Same question all over teh interwebz by anyone who cares to write a blog post about it.
Other similar ones that pop up are “Is [this shiny new Blackberry|Android thing] an iPhone killer”?
Back to the house on the cliff
Sunday, 3 July 2011 @ 11:34am
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The vege garden was a freaking mess. I noticed it when we arrived at the house. We hadn’t needed the excessive driveway down the side so had converted it into a slightly wider than driveway half acre long vege strip. And there were weeds and elephant ear ferns growing all through it.
I informed JJ that I was going to get rid of the weeds. I intended my gloves into existance (I didn’t go get them, they just appeared in my hands and I put them on) and got to work. A few weeds later the patch was not only clear, it was also thriving with many veges not far off harvest.
World has problems. Quit the rhetoric and fix it.
Monday, 20 June 2011 @ 4:09pm
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[I was leeching a bunch of images which have since vanished]
What I love best about my current job is the inclination of the supervisor to tend towards wanting to “get shit done”. As with all large projects (and it is a decent sized Drupal project we’re working on), you want to plan it as best you can to try to minimise stuff-ups and associated explosions down the track.
Wacky wednesday
Thursday, 16 June 2011 @ 9:50pm
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Yesterday, it seemed like it was going to rain just enough to be annoying for walking to the shops down the road (but not for the dams, more rain is good for dams), so I decided to drive to Carousel and let the kids have a play at the playground before grabbing snacks and doing the top up shopping.
Review: Wacom Cintiq 12WX
Monday, 2 May 2011 @ 8:58pm
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I’ve been lusting after one of these since shortly after they first came out. This year, I finally had to retire my beloved Intuos3, partly because it was getting laggy and jittery in its old age after much use (it was a wedding present, wedding was 6 years ago), and partly because my toddler walked off with the pen and I haven’t seen it since. Following was angst over whether I should take the cheap simple upgrade to the Intuos4 or splash out and be broke for a while getting a Cintiq.
Itsa meeee, ryivhnn!
Monday, 2 May 2011 @ 12:22am
Self portrait. Don’t be fooled by my expression, I have none (literally, haven’t done face morphs yet, I am just in t-pose and the mouth is slightly open because it’s easier to model and pick points when they’re not just about overlapping as happens with closed mouths). I also have no hair to speak of, need a bump map on my lips, my earrings, tattoos and minute freckle splash are missing, and I’m not convinced my eyes are that accurate (I was however too lazy to go look in the mirror for that long). I am wearing my favourite shirt (which has an odd red border around the top which I need to figure out how to get rid of) and my pants of power (which look dodgy, but I kind of figured out how to do camo :).
Review: The Naked Butcher
Saturday, 30 April 2011 @ 11:36pm
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Earlier today, we went on a mini road trip to Mundaring to visit The Naked Butcher , on the offchance that they had meat I could eat. As it is round the back of the small shopping complex it’s in, we managed to completely miss it and ended up in Sawyer’s Valley before we realised we’d gone too far and doubled back.
Marriage equality
Wednesday, 27 April 2011 @ 4:56pm
I got Yet Another Email urging people “fighting” for marriage equality to inundate politicians with messages of support for same sex marriage.
I fail at comprehending why this is an issue.
We are in a country that supposedly has a secular government, supposedly is big on giving a “fair go”, supposedly tolerant of all “race, colour and creed”. It’s also supposedly progressive thinking.
What we appear to have is a government that rolls over when religious groups and big businesses cry, throws money at people who want it and ignore the ones that need it, is cited globally as being racist, and cannot accept the fact that sometimes boys fall in love with boys and girls fall in love with girls.
24 Months of Cub (warning: nudity or partial thereof in first two pics)
Tuesday, 5 April 2011 @ 10:33pm
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I am a terrible mother.
For my big two, I did a “12 months of…” for their first birthdays. My poor, neglected third child missed out. So I decided to make up with a 24 Months of Cub for his second birthday. Didn’t even do a write up like I did with 6yo and 4yo (hers got lost when the last reseller host ate technonaturalist and set my other sites back to June 2010).