Archive for March, 2006

twenty-six: a birthday in numbers

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

three days (sunday, birthday, tuesday).
two birthday dinners.
three cakes (friends, work, family).
two sets of cookies (one from my sis, one from luken & may), two blocks of my favourite chocolate (two too much sugar!), four dvds and an assortment of other lovely presents.
one glorious day off on tuesday, spent thus: sleeping in, brunching, mooching around [...]

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on mobile phone technology and turning 26: a very long story. (sorry.)

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

after his no-frills mobile finally carked it, the boy bought a new phone, very similar to mine. ok who am i kidding. we have the exact same phone. even our message alerts and ring tones are the same. as maija said laughingly last night, they’re going to mate and have little mobile phone babies, all [...]

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because we all love a good spoof

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

our latest tourism campaign has raised a few responses since its launch.
here’s another, which i reckon is a more accurate, if less marketable, representation of australia.
with thanks to the lovely deborah kelly for the link.

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i laughed so hard yen thought i was choking on my dinner

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

for my birthday i want a baby hedgehog with a sticky-outy tongue. please.
jasper, i blame you for the stitch in my side.

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hello, panda

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

speaking of panda buffets…

from cute overload. yeah, you know the site. don’t lie to me.

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today has been:

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

a good night’s sleep with no weird dreams, and waking up at noon.
pasta lunch and housemate-catchup with yen.
for dessert: the hello panda buffet, courtesy of yen’s cousin, who is forever plying our household with goodies. my waistline still hasn’t forgiven him for the last giant box of hello panda (strawberry).
finding excuses to go to the [...]

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i am a human snot factory

Friday, March 17th, 2006

how can you catch a cold when it’s a summery 27 degrees outside? well, it takes a special skill, let me tell you that. however, it may be possible to substitute that talent by being really stressed out, crazy busy at work, not getting enough sleep, and having weird arse dreams that leave you more [...]

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wtf?!

Friday, March 17th, 2006

can someone explain to me - by what stretch of the musical imagination does the boards of canada have anything to do with the pina colada song?!
the pandora algorithm’s got some ’splainin’ to do.

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the emotional ups and downs of a hyperlinked world

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

ah links. they lift your spirits and fill you with deep, deep sorrow.
the first instance is via the marvellous ms. elmo: a link to video documentation of an art project called ‘can i get an amen?‘.
it’s about the amen break, what the artist posits as “the most sampled drum beat in the history of [...]

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and it’s only lunchtime

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

nnnyyaaaaarrrgggghhhh!
how’s your day going?

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