A fork appears in the road...

This blog is closing down.

[Pause for gasps and murmurs].

Dry your eyes internet. I would not leave you out in the cold like that!

I am splitting this blog into two blogs. Like a primordial amoeba. What was one is now two.

Blog #1:

http://randomibis.blogspot.com/

Bookmark or subscribe to this for my pointless photos, sporadic musings and occasional half-hearted music review.

Blog #2:

http://simonbaird.blogspot.com/

Bookmark or subscribe to this for posts about programming, code snippets and other geek stuff.
(Ps, sorry about the recycled content. Just needed something to kick start things over there).

Now you must choose. The left path or the right. Or you could follow both, like some kind of bad Harry Potter plot device. (Or you could find a bus and get the hell out of here).

Now, if you please, I would like to take a moment to fondly remember...

"it's my blog"

http://glosoli.blogspot.com/

13 Sep, 2005 - 22 Nov, 2010

And don't forget, you can come back any time to browse the archives and relive some of those sweet memories. (I know that's what I will be doing).

andy samberg is good

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/snl-digital-short-what-was-that/1259995/

this is especially worth a look if you like arcade fire

(sorry if the link doesn't work...)

garden upgrade

my saturday night

(i have this on repeat) http://stereogum.com/583011/sufjan-plays-fallon/video/

cut the rope, 300 stars

4/24 is REALLY HARD
super cool game btw

do you guys know about die antwoord?

kind of like a next level south african ali-g

perhaps boing boing get credit for introducing them to the world. at that point no-one really knew they were "fake"

http://boingboing.net/2010/02/01/afrikaans-rap-rave-d.html

here is an awesome yolandi halloween costume...

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/halloween/2010/yo-landi-vier.html

hamrbl - a cute haml hack to let you write ruby with python-esque whitespace

Did you ever wish your code looked more like your haml?

Did you ever wonder what ruby would be like with python style significant whitespace?

Without further ado, I present hamrbl.rb

Surprisingly the syntax highlighting works fine in vim and github. :)

Disclaimer: just for fun... this is (almost certainly) a gross misuse of the wonderful haml

include_and_extend method for ruby, experiments with modules

As a followup to this post and inspired again by this wycats post, here is some more experimentation with extend and include in ruby, culminating in an include_and_extend method, (which I'm not suggesting is a particularly good idea), but it does work...

video test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sPJvyQWSIc&t=2m15s

(it's kyu. i skipped you ahead to the part where they start rocking out on the floor tom)

dawn

bridge

hdr test

hdr test

...in which i live blog the joanna newsom tour date announcement on triple j

• 4th march tivoli, brisbane
• 9th march, sydney
• 15th march, melbourne

(on sale friday morning)

Update:
More details here.

likin new grill'd

(ramen closed sundays)

Kyü update

Well after listening to the album and seeing them live at the Old Museum, here is my update. Moments of genius. Not quite as good overall as I might have imagined after hearing Pixiphony for the first time. Live, there was some magic. The girls have some undeniable talent and a unique sound. It will be great to see what they are doing in five years as their songwriting matures.

Some links:

http://www.thevine.com.au/music/live-reviews/live-review-_-kyu,-brisbane-201020101104.aspx

http://passengerside.net/2010/11/02/kyu-album-launch-at-old-museum/
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/gallery/19605/1/Kyu

my new world is breathtaking

the first two locations are quite close to home. in the third shot i was completely lost, nearly dead, trudging through snow, miles from home. i survived one night on the ice. i did not survive a second...

the texture pack is brown and bloom.

some minecraft links:
Conways' Game of Life in Minecraft (video)
Towards Dawn - A Minecraft Travel Blog

Little script to delete a git branch on local and remote

Put this in your .bashrc (or .bash_aliases):

joanna newsom announced for 'golden plains' in march in victoria

http://www.thevine.com.au/music/festivals/golden-plains-2011-line_up-announced20101104.aspx

perhaps she will tour while she is here...

save 3. kind of ruined...

went exploring and found this. the pre-biome and post-biome generated terrain doesn't fit together as you can see. i'm probably going to delete it and start a fresh world. :( also i concur the mob spawn rates are way too high now. (i think notch agrees with this and an update will be forthcoming).

cave where i died and lost stuff

save 3 (pre-biome)

mad scheme

currently i pay 6.64% interest on my mortgage. it's going up 25 points any second now, so let's say it's 6.9%. suncorp are currently offering 1.9% on balance transfers for 15 months (when you sign up for a new credit card). suppose i "balance transfer" $10,000 from my two current cards and put the proceeds on my mortgage. i'd pay 5% less interest on $10,000 for 15 months, which is a saving of $625 or $42 a month. but, the annual card fee is $120 which brings it down to $500 or $33 a month. of course, after 15 months i'd pay off the new card and cut it up. worth it? this is tax free btw. what if i repeat this scheme with a few other low introductory rate cards?