after

before

wall-e

the first third of the movie is pure brilliance. the rest is good too. i liked it better than dark night. ♥ pixar.

"Matty earned the Virgin Graticule achievement"

http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/2008-09-20_-19_146

have a look at the sign on the back of the truck... 66 wheeler?

advertising

i've seen most of these before:

i'm a mac ads us version (part 1)
i'm a mac ads us version (part 2)

but for some reason i never knew they made UK versions:

i'm a mac ads uk version with mitchell and webb

these are new:

i'm a pc 1
i'm a pc 2
i'm a pc 3

these are just... weird (gates and seinfeld):

shoe circus
new family

just when you thought i was over it...

~> python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jul 31 2008, 23:17:40) 
[GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a = []
>>> a[0] = 'foo' # FAIL!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IndexError: list assignment index out of range
>>>
~> irb
irb(main):001:0> a = []
=> []
irb(main):002:0> a[0] = 'foo'
=> "foo"
irb(main):003:0> a[5] = 'bar' # for extra credit...
=> "bar"
irb(main):004:0> a
=> ["foo", nil, nil, nil, nil, "bar"]
irb(main):005:0> exit
~>

I think that this speaks for itself, don't you... :)

(It's late on Friday afternoon. I'm procrastinating...)

(Yes I know I can use a.append('foo'). But this did come up in a real world scenario where append wasn't quite what I wanted).

Check the comments for some discussion...

current (musical) obsessions

(YouTube links)

• The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
• Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks
• MGMT - Kids
  

david foster wallace

is dead. i asked trevor about his t-shirt the other day and he said it's about infinite jest. okay, i said. maybe it was this one. then today i read about this guy who hung himself and he was a great writer. so turns out it was that same guy. it's probably a good book since trevor likes joanna newsom too.

clouds

It's just a little camera pointing out the window at work. Yesterday was a good day for clouds. Lots of variety. Notice the layers moving in opposite directions. This happens every day. Who knew? Here's where the camera is: http://tinyurl.com/4xs27o. Music by Nine Inch Nails and YouTube's AudioSwap.

boxhead

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=boxhead&btnG=Search&meta=

this is cool. it's a flash game. kinda like lego zombies.

you probably don't need me to post xkcd comics but...

it's kinda on topic :)

stevesy

http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/live-from-apples-lets-rock-event-in-san-francisco/

(you have to start at the bottom and read upwards)

LHC summed up

The 'standard model' of physics is pretty good. It describes twelve particles that make up everything. These particles have been detected in previous experiments and everyone agrees they are mostly understood. But the standard model it doesn't explain why there is mass. This is a fairly major detail when it comes to explaining the universe. The best theory we have to explain mass is the Higgs field theory. If the Higgs field theory is true then there exists a 13th particle called the Higgs particle. To make the particle appear you need lots of energy. No one has ever detected the Higgs particle but if it exists the LHC should be able to find it, perhaps tomorrow some time. If it does it will cause many physicist to jump around and make wild eyes at each other. If it can't find it then it means our best theories are probably wrong, though there is a good chance it will find something else that no-one expected. In any case.. jumping, wild eyes.

Disclaimer: I'm no physicist. But I watched this on SBS.

Update: Actually the standard model predicts the Higgs particle, so the above isn't exactly right semantically. But you get the idea.

Update 2: There is a live webcast starting at this time (5pm here).

Update 3: It might take a few weeks or months before they get that thing fully cranked. Today I believe they're just taking it for a little spin around the block in first gear.

Vim trick

1. Lets say you want to insert some text at an exact column. Try the following:

Put 100 spaces at the end of the line so that the | command works
100A<Space><Esc>

Move to the column you want
75|

Delete all those extra spaces and insert something
C

Tricky eh?


2. Suppose you wanted to record that as a macro so you could do it many times:

To record a macro in the q register:
qq0100A<Space><Esc>75|C",<Esc>0jq

Run it once
@q

Run it 10 times
10@q

iphone tricks or technology giving superpowers

http://nathanbowers.com/business/shazam/

i've rambled before about technology giving god-like powers. arthur c clarke once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. how far back in time would you have to go before each of these was indistinguishable from magic? discuss in the form of an essay:

• box of matches
• mirror
  
• nikko pen/sharpie
• motorbike
  
• aeroplane
  
• camera
• radio
• telephone
• tv
  
• gps
• youtube
• google maps
  
• streetview
• ipod shuffle
  
• iphone 3G
• teleporter machine
  

london eye > brisbane eye

london eye

brisbane eye

this game looks hot

mirrors edge

some music

Red Book Comics supporting The Panics at River Festival, Townsville: The Panics playing at River Festival, Townsville:

to my up the road neighbours

your unexpected horsey statue made be smile a lot! thank
you! he's from indonesia did you know.

"what a surprise"

it's for mothers, especially new mothers, especially one new mother.

'Milk Eyes' by The Grates from the album 'Teeth Lost, Hearts Won'.

Please support musicians and the music industry by paying for music.

i remember liking this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ4_b8e4XAE
but i never knew it was kim deal. 1991.

experimental 3

I don't think they want me to embed. But with a little "view source" or "inspect element", there you go.

Via soundupload.com/. They want you to go to this link with loads of advertising I think. Still no volume control, but I like the player otherwise. Boomp3 still the winner on ease of use though. Nice work Boomp3. How about putting in a volume control?

tv recommendation: 30 rock

season 2. great tv. getting better with each episode. just watched this one:

experimental 2

Boomp3.com
If it works then that was pretty easy. Using boomp3.com. From Latvia.
Update: crap, no volume control.

experimental

For your enjoyment I'm going to try to post music that you can listen to right here in the blog. Here's an oldy but a goody. Recorded one night in my garage in November last year on a Zoom PS04. It's still one of the best things on my iPod. Featuring John on guitar vocals, Davy on drums and me on bass and Zooey the cat at the end if you listen closely. The bass part is a little flakey in parts but for a one (or maybe two) take job I'm happy with it. There's a nice growly tone as well. John and Davy sound amazing I think. Apologies if you heard this the last time I posted it.


Right click and put it on your iPod.

packing up at martas

ouch

i have somehow agreed to play indoor soccer. a team sport. and my team has no reserves which makes it hard to flake out if i don't feel up to it one night. i'm crap at it. i can control the ball. i can be aware of what's happening around me. but not at the same time. also i need about two minutes rest after each change of possession. but i guess i didn't embarrass myself too much. at least i did slightly better than the guy who had an epileptic seisure and went home in an ambulance. i was goalie for the first quarter. have you ever done a knee slide on astro-turf?

if you were ever in a restaurant and thought...

"this table cloth is just not doing it for me" then this might be the place for you...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/philliecasablanca/2777916722/in/set-72157606827275233/

brilliant.

"baby whale finds new boat to suckle"

http://news.google.com.au/news?hl=en&q=whale%20suckle&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn
he's on the telly now. live helicam. he's going from boat to boat. and his sucking is getting weaker and weaker. :.(

they found bigfoot?

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/08/14/bigfoot.body/
likely to be a hoax i suppose but maybe...

the crown is back...

Oh, I should also mention that we got Orri's crown back at Way Out West, it having been purloined by an over-eager fan-boy collector at Benecassim in Spain.  There had been an amusing thread on the 'board about Morrissey (who also played the same fest) supposedly nicking it, and someone had even gone as far photo-shopping it on the old pantomime dame's coiff.  As someone who used to attend to his lordship's PR needs, it tickled me enormously.  The queen is dead, so he has no need of Orri's beloved crown.

And more from my new favourite tour manager who this week name drops the likes of franz ferdinand and sonic youth.

i know the street view guy

i confirmed this tonight -- every single google street view photo from bundaberg north to cooktown (ie, the top three quarters of coastal queensland) was taken by my friend alex, aka meangreen -- he's the guy on the right here. and i believe he once met russell crowe

"he's on his phone! he's texting!"

http://failblog.org/2008/08/11/safety-fail-3/

sigur ros tour manager on the australian tour

See here:
http://dot.sigurros.com/wp/management-tour-blog/managers-tour-diary-australia/

this is an interesting read. he's quite articulate. some excerpts:

...the reason why Amiina have not been with us in Australia was because – ta-da-da-da! – Maria and Kjartan are having a baby!

well okay then. I guess that's cool. it's also revealed that the band will be performing as a four piece only in the near future.

on batman:

...mildly diverting hoo-ha with a wafer-thin patina of substance

on barry's of melbourne:

... the place is kind of cavernous and heaving but without any obvious identity, just a load of young kids on the piss.

plus:

The whistling at the end of Festival on the album was also recorded on I-phone and features Georg and Jonsi walking home after the recording session revisiting the melody of what they'd just worked on. Amazing thing technology.

Jonsi has an iPhone? Okay. Shit. That's the last straw. Seriously. (Though they say coloured ones are coming soon...).

Also I now know who decided I'd like a spotlight in my face: Freyr Vilhelmsson. Freysi, why?

...and we're back

didn't think i'd last this long but here i am. it's 2am. i've not been glued to the athletes parade however.

i did enjoy the nine year old earthquake hero who got to march.

the flag lap really dragged. now they're doing their torch relay. which sounds dull but i'm digging it. it's the olympic spirit. crap it looks like it's going to go out but it doesn't.

earlier i was making dove hands so, you know...

woah, he just took off. the new, new nikki webster?

oh that is so cool! with the super mario thing again. he's going to do a whole lap!! is that entire thing a video screen? blimey. maybe it's well engineered projectors.

drum roll....

no mistake with that fuse system.

you'd reckon china could put together a pretty decent fireworks show. you'd be right.

oh no. ad break. long one. i guess it was over anyhow. Bendigo Bank. Holden. Telstra. So we have Holden and Ford tonight. The Telstra ad is really grating. To think I was almost going to get my iphone from them..

they're showing a little highlights package. australia not wearing green and gold? eh? well they look pretty good i guess.

grant hackett swimming tonight

nice job china. now when is the ping pong on?

soko

you've probably heard this already especially since it was flogged on triple j so much recently but check out the video, she sings the whole thing "unplugged" in one take.

...where i live blog the opening ceremony of the 2008 olympics

okay i love drums. drums with lights on them are even better.

countdown.. i have chills..

ok, the suits... can i have the drums back please?

okay better. YES!!!

the drums are a thousand years old?

wow

and glow sticks!

AND GLOW STICKS!! okay I am enjoying this way more than I thought I would. the angle shots where they're moving their heads up and down with the yellow and white and the perfect sync are amazing.

are the city flyovers with the fireworks live? if so then impressive!

how did they do that with the rings? it's a curtain? the crowd with the coloured lights looks cool.

aw, the kids are so cute!!

poor thing has the bindi-irwin-don't-forget-to-smile smile :)

it's the national anthem

WHAT! commercial break!! mid fireworks!!! r u kidding me? telstra must die

there's s scroll thing with video. I thought it was another ad. comentator is explaining that's it represents paper. they are dancing with crayons in their hands. it's brilliant. the stringed instrument thing is 1000 years old just like the drums. it's a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guzheng

the way they did the rolling ends of the scroll is clever. the painting is about a guy who chased the sun.

now it's dudes with feather head dresses bringing in bamboo which is what they used before paper was invented.

the floor is opening. i'm missing the drumming dudes from the opener. the music is dreary.

movable type! and it's doing the mexican wave. that can't have been easy with no alphabet. i hope it's computer controlled and there aren't short people under those things.

the letters are growing pink blossoms. oh it was people! cool! how did they do that! I hope they had a little screen showing them what to do. in the style of guitar hero but with up and down instead of coloured buttons. otherwise, omg..

thanks bendigo bank for making me miss the start of the puppet show. look how about next time we do scrolling ads on the bottom of the screen. it's stupid.

the scroll is back. and someone standing on carpet with people under it? it's the something dynasty. they were the only buddhist dynasty and they were very arty.

the oars are cool. some kind of historical story about something or other.

celebrating the invention of the compass. did not know that.

there's some opera singer girls in dresses. nice costumes. i'm a little bored.

pillars are growing up. it represents the royal palaces. people are on them. careful dudes.

telstra. didn't qantas use that song last time? gag. and we've missed most of the piano segment. he's very famous. and young. he's teaching a little girl some licks. she's having fun.

i guess the scroll is sticking around. oh I thought it was done with suspecnded projectors. it's a giant screen then.. cool. the star men are nice. they've made a dove. and they can change colour. peter pan girl provokes a nikki webster mention. no comment. aw they're making the shape of stadium i think.

tai chi chicks are hot. OH HOW CAN THAT BE AN AD BREAK!! Goddammit. Ford Falcon. Harvey Norman. You are ruining my night!! And we missed the start of... mass tai chi demonstration. AHH!!!

what re they going to do with that piece of paper? ebay?

The kids are doing some painting. And talking about climate and protecting the environment.

wow. brilliant. the tai chi guys are awsome.

kids are getting their backpacks. there are virtual birds instead of those poor pidgeons. nice. aw they coloured in the mountains and the sun.

now it's space mountain. can we expect china to lead the human race into space in the next few decades? why not.

OMG it's mario galaxy! they are running around on the globe.

the singer guy chose to wear: black t-shirt, untucked. can we not manage some sequins at the very least... even buttons and collar would have been an improvement.

oh the umbrellas are beautiful! i'm moved by those umbrellas. i'm imagining felix is on one.

the next company to ruin my night is.... red rooster. and commonwealth bank. though robocop money box made me smile. and we've missed the start of... dance spectacular.

the costumes are pretty special. i guess if you now about chinese history and culture you might know the significance of each costume.

why am i looking at fat bored westerners in the crowd? someone asleep at the control desk? WAKE UP.

athletes are marching. greece first of course. i'm getting a beer.

i can hear bagpipes but I can't see them.

battery update. i've got my screen on full dim. 1 hr 39 remaining.

i like the mali flag guy. tae kwon do champion.

"when you think of bhutan you think of archery"

go israel!

go japan!

"winston churchill called this country the pearl of africa" - and various lame anecdotes and sports trivia... is that the best you have?

guess what? NOW WOULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER TIME FOR AD BREAKS. I suppose they get angry letters from people who miss their country coming out.

cool, the foot prints are going on the paper in different colours.

i guess this goes for a good couple of hours now. i'm signing out for the time being. good night and may the olympic spirit touch your heart even if it's just a little bit.

correction: i think it was a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guqin

my birthday present

it's original! made in australia. never been worn. found in an op-shop for $4!!

re sigur ros at hordern

it was amazing. jonsi is a god. but if i was going to dwell on negatives i might have said the following:

• wtf is the deal with people getting up every two minutes to get drinks? and walking back and forth in front of me. go to the pub, you muffintime dildo scholars
• sure jonsi looks good when he's backlit from the side but spare a thought for everyone on the right having a spotlight in their faces for the entire show. luckily someone left a drum stool in front of it for the last few songs and i could actually see something
• the girls weren't there! i missed them :( ... i'm talking about these girls of course. the horn section dudes made up for it somewhat but i'm still grieving a little bit
• the sound quality was so-so. especially compared to the enmore last year where the sound was godly. everything was a little muddy. the piano badly needed some eq-ing. the drums lacked punch. maybe it was better in the middle

highlights:

• pivot were amazing. the second to last song they did blew my mind. i will figure out what it was and get back to you.
• the warm up music, straumnes on repeat
• first note of first song, the submarine ping from svefn-g-englar... ... if you know what i mean you know what i mean...
• jonsi's jacket
• first half of festival was otherworldly
• that bit near the end of inni mer... where you have jump
• se lest. so i kinda spoiled the surprise a little for myself via youtube but still, holy sweet snapping duckfeathers, it's like just ridiculous how brilliant that is (sorry i ran out of adjectives at godly...)
• the horn section really were pretty awesome
• the set list was pretty cool, see here (scroll down) if you're interested
• gobbledigook complete with confetti explosions
• two encores (i was suprised, especially after poplagid, a traditional closer)
• hoppiolla
• vid spilum endalaust
• fljotavik
• bavarian pretzels and beer in the place in the fox studios bit
• the cirque du soleil tent. it's big and blue and yellow
• meeting jared from last.fm and his buddy and selling them my spare ticket
• spending a whole weekend with yoshimi

more from _why

	_why because she steals all the pillows in the whole place, you muffintime dildo scholar. about 3 hours ago from web
	_why now my therapist, "okay, complete this sentence then: when granny steals all the pillows in the place, it infuriates me so deeply because—" ... about 3 hours ago from web

Setting up Zend to autoload eZ Components classes

In this article, Ralf Eggert describes how to make Zend autoload ezComponents classes by defining an __autoload method. I'm doing it another way (see below).  It seems to work just as well and it's shorter and cleaner:

require_once "Zend/Loader.php";
require_once "ezc/Base/src/base.php";

Zend_Loader::registerAutoload('Zend_Loader');
Zend_Loader::registerAutoload('ezcBase');

Disclaimer: I'm a beginner at all this stuff...

Watch Dr Horrible without skipping

http://www.mininova.org/get/1619362

(at least if your bandwidth is anything like mine...)

sigur ros @ hordern

photos (flickr)
videos (youtube)

large hadron collider photos

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

if this thing can't re-create the opening scenes to half life then I just don't know what will

wall-e supposed to be good

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wall_e/

Handy Icelandic Phrases

Ófremdarástand  - What a mess

Já, anskotann - Fuck yeah

Sannur vinur manns - My true friend

Heyvagn á massey ferguson - A wagon of hay on a Massey Ferguson

Hoppípolla - Hopping into puddles

Brosandi - Smiling

Hendumst í hringi - Spinning around

Höldumst í hendur - Holding hands

Og hér ert þú - And here you are

Borðum og drekkum saddir - We eat and drink ourselves full

Þetta er ágætis byrjun - This is an alright start

Glósóli-leg hún - She's the glowing sun

Komdu út - So come out

Starir á mig lítill álfur - A little elf stares at me

Nýr dagur - New day

Held áfram að leita - I continue my search



(http://www.alwaysontherun.net/sigur.htm)

nellie the elephant by toy dolls in 1984

this is awesome. via osmosoftonia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eti21PVHXrg
click through to the top of the pops version if you liked that...

last night it went below 8 degrees

08:30 EST	14.0°C
08:30 EST	14.0°C
08:20 EST	12.7°C
08:10 EST	12.0°C
08:00 EST	11.4°C
08:00 EST	11.4°C
07:50 EST	10.6°C
07:40 EST	10.2°C
07:30 EST	10.0°C
07:30 EST	10.0°C
07:20 EST	9.3°C
07:10 EST	8.7°C
07:00 EST	8.3°C
07:00 EST	8.3°C
06:50 EST	7.9°C
06:40 EST	8.0°C
06:30 EST	8.0°C
06:30 EST	8.0°C
06:20 EST	8.4°C
06:10 EST	8.7°C
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05:50 EST	8.5°C
05:40 EST	8.3°C
05:30 EST	8.2°C
05:30 EST	8.2°C
05:20 EST	8.0°C
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05:00 EST	9.6°C
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04:50 EST	8.1°C
04:40 EST	7.7°C
04:30 EST	7.9°C
04:30 EST	7.9°C
04:20 EST	8.5°C
04:10 EST	8.3°C
04:00 EST	8.2°C
04:00 EST	8.2°C
03:50 EST	8.3°C
03:40 EST	8.9°C
03:30 EST	8.7°C
03:30 EST	8.7°C
03:20 EST	8.1°C
03:10 EST	8.6°C
03:00 EST	8.6°C
03:00 EST	8.6°C
02:50 EST	8.7°C
02:40 EST	8.9°C
02:30 EST	8.7°C
02:30 EST	8.7°C
02:20 EST	9.0°C
02:10 EST	8.6°C
02:00 EST	8.4°C
02:00 EST	8.4°C
01:50 EST	8.6°C
23:40 EST	9.8°C
23:30 EST	9.6°C
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23:20 EST	9.8°C
23:10 EST	9.6°C
23:00 EST	9.5°C
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22:50 EST	9.7°C
22:40 EST	10.4°C
22:30 EST	10.2°C
22:30 EST	10.2°C
22:20 EST	10.5°C
22:10 EST	10.7°C
22:00 EST	11.0°C
22:00 EST	11.0°C

http://www.eldersweather.com.au/obshist.jsp?lt=site&lc=32040

Tenori-On Inspired PacklSound1 iPhone App Coming Soon, But Not Soon Enough [...

try doing that on your blackberry/htc/lg smartphone

via Gizmodo by Jack Loftus on 7/26/08

The Tenori-On is the zany Yamaha touch-based musical sequencer that caught our eye earlier this year, but this cool PacklSound1 iPhone app could very well be the portable version that puts us over the edge. It's a simpler version of the original $1,200 Tenori-On box, but that didn't stop the designer from laying down a quick, catchy beat. Seeing it in action, makes me want it right now:

And here's the original video demonstrating Tenori-On's seemingly infinite capabilities: [Pakl.net]

countdown till staturday night

some sigur ros related silliness:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=I2SymHccZxI (he saw toads)

if you're curious:
http://www.alwaysontherun.net/sigur.htm#t11

ez Components?

I'm looking at using ez Components to build a workflow kind of app. ez Components comes from norway and is a set of php classes for doing pretty much anything. It looks pretty good and seems to be reasonably well documented and under active development. http://ezcomponents.org/ Before I start wading in, does anyone have any experience with this? There doesn't seem to be much buzz about it around the blogosphere.

Update: A blog post on object persistence in Zend and ez Components.

uneducated thoughts on carbon trading

Imagine this better written and with photos in the style of ms fits:

Kevin07: ...world leading carbon emission permit trading scheme....
Industry: ...we'll shut down. move overseas. thousands of jobs will go...
Kevin07: ...oh don't worry. You guys will get free carbon emission credits...
Australia: ... eh?
Australia: and did you realise we share the same atmosphere as China...?

My two point plan to reduce carbon emissions:

• ban incandescent bulbs
• compulsory solar hot water on all new houses

lame. political.

i for one welcome the new soft-drink party to queensland politics.

nice desktop wallpaper

taken out the front of a campervan in new zealand in winter 2007 somewhere between wanaka and lake tekapo. if you actually want to use it then grab the huge version here. designed to be "stretched" on a widescreen monitor.

may the crown thief contract a voracious and incurable skin disease

http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/news/?p=1001

missing crown

last weekend at the benicassim festival appearance in spain, orri's fantastic crown went missing. if you have any information that would lead to the crown being returned to the band then please contact us. a reward is offered to whomever helps get it back.

Ramphotyphlops

i call it the blind worm snake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramphotyphlops
it's got no eyes and a teeny tiny mouth. it moves like a snake. and
has a flicky tongue. it has scales but it looks like a worm. it lives
in my palm tree.

jQuery is a beautiful thing...

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#quiz_submit_button').click(function(){
        // check they answered everything
        if ($('input[@type="radio"]:checked').size() != $('.question').size()) {
            alert('Please answer every question.');
            return false;
        };
        return true;
    });
});

sultans turkish drive-thru

north brisbane somewhere

rather special fruitcake

i bought this in a charity auction at the mt crosby school fete

super monkeyball on ipod touch

slightly weird acrobats

indooroopilly

supermarket drums

aldi, strathpine

phew

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: <sigurrostickets@sandbag.uk.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Subject: Dispatch of SIgur Ros tickets - sorry if this is late and you already have the tickets!
To: simon.baird@gmail.com

Shipping confirmation for order number K_______   Your ticket order is now on its way to you ! Your order has been packed and despatched using a registered mail service, to the address below. A signature will be required. Simon Baird 51 B______ Cres Kirwan QLD 4817 If the delivery is not successful, a calling card will be left, advising you of how to arrange a new delivery date or delivery address. Your reference number is RD 2______ and you can track the delivery by calling Australia post on 131318 or by contacting your local post office. Please get in touch if you haven't received your order one week before the date of the show. We hope you have a great show all @ Sandbag

heima

so i watched the first half an hour of heima (on a 720p screen with an upsampling dvd player btw). it is ridiculously good. it makes you want to live in iceland. or new zealand (the iceland of the southern hemisphere). it makes you want to wear knitted jumpers. it makes you want to hug someone. it makes you wonder where the hell your tickets are. i may be a little strange but i can't watch a live version of se lest without sobbing. actually i'm getting a little choked up right now thinking about... moving on to með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust. i can't pronounce it but i can report that is amazing. as good as takk but with more variety.

cool myspace art

http://deuceofclubs.com/myspacecanvas/

Together Apart

together apart is not the stationwagon

source of flowchart

i should have mentioned... it comes from here i believe:
http://toothpastefordinner.com/

poster

banjo etc

by popular demand here is a banjo status update. i have strings. ebay is good. i strung it up being careful to put the bridge back just where it came from. the little hooks were a little fiddly. i used a pin to help secure them. i was having trouble tuning it until i realised the bridge was about an inch closer to the neck that it should have been. so the poor banjo has been quite tuneless for who knows how long. i nudged the bridge into the right spot and now it sounds lovely. so i am using the G tuning. is that a good one? D/G/B/D (starting at the fat string, since i'm a bass player). the other thing is i'm missing the tuning peg for the fifth string. it's the little runty string at the top. stevie says he might be able to find it in his room. but he can't remember to look for it. so it looks like i'm either going to try to get a new one or go to his house one day with a metal detector. (i've heard he isn't particularly good at housekeeping).

in other news on the weekend i had a monster garage sale and sold loads of junk to strange people who visit garage sales. a guy across the road bought all my old video games and consoles for $80. this includes: sega megadrive (possibly broken) sega saturn, two (mostly) broken dreamcasts, a snes and a ps1 and miscellaneous games. (the gamecube and n64 sold at our last garage sale). also i sold the scooter. farewell you. we had our good and bad times. like when your keys when missing and no-one could figure out how to make new ones and then finally when i had a key they didn't put you back together right and i couldn't open the seat to put fuel in but it didn't matter because you stopped working after that and let me ride a push bike to work for oh about three months until you were back on the road just long enough to wear out your water pump propeller and overheat and wreck the cylinder and piston which i (stupidly) decided to repair only to have you stop working again with problems no mechanic in town could fix until my mate from work's friend sorted you out and you've been going pretty well ever since. like when you taught me how it feels to lean and accelerate though the little s bend on lindeman avenue and the time i made you go on the ring road bridge and i knew you had to be replaced by a proper bike. farewell.

no words

so i ordered my tickets via the uk web site. they're not here yet. they should arrive soon right..? this video on youtube has me in pieces. if they play this song (and they will) and they have those glockenspiels and those amiina girls playing strings (they will) and that brass band enters the stage (it will) i may explode into elemental particles. more here. ps, i didn't know my itunes had many wrong track names on takk. do a select all, advanced, get cd track names if you thought that song was called hufupukar.

To the commenters on Lily Allen's myspace blog

Okay, I get it. You love Lily. She rawks and is teh best. We agree on that, but do you have anything else to say? Well?

oh sweet, sweet joy

iphone. 3g. gps. aus. vodafone. july 11.



engadget 's keynote coverage

thanks gmail (this is how much spam gmail saved me from in the last 24 hours)

A poem by Elora (age 6)

A poem that rhymes
Is an old timed
Is teeth and breeth
With very good treeth

palm creek highlights

• Rosie Burgess
• Ange Takats
  
• Courtney Young from Mackay (can't find link)

Palm Creek Folk Festival was nice. Went there from about 2pm until about 9pm on Saturday. Serious people arrive Friday afternoon and head home Tuesday. I can see why. Bumped into lots of people. Fire dancing was pretty good. Missed the flumes and hannah hartman. :( Saw dave (the hardest working man in show biz) on his way from one gig to another. Hung out with gai and charles. Got an autographed cd from rosie burgess. There's a different vibe with the youth festival component. It's nice. More soccer moms and dads than hippies, but in a good way. Kids having a brilliant time. And some killer high school bands, though they needed a decent bass amp. I will lend them mine next time perhaps.

no panflute

this flow chart can be applied to many things other than the pan flute. for instance:

• shower radios
• "crocs" or croc knock-off sandals
• hacky sacks
• tinted headlight covers
• saxophonists
  

post your list in the comments...

poem

night highway
visor up
no sound but wind roar and engine hum
no scenery
only road and oncoming headlights
senses alert
mind empty
alone

i remember to use high beam and the extra visibility gives me a little burst of exhilaration
my lips are sensitive to air turbulence variations
my cheeks are sensitive to fluctuations in air temperature
my left thumb is learning new controls

trusting the machine
trusting the road
not completely

Fwd: Audiosurf scoreboard alert - Dethroned: bye bye bad man

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From: Audiosurf Scorekeeper
Date: Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 5:52 AM
Subject: Audiosurf scoreboard alert - Dethroned: bye bye bad man
To: simon.baird@gmail.com

Audiosurf scoreboard alert - Dethroned!

You used to have the worldwide best score for: bye bye bad man by the stone roses

Now the Audiosurf player '-=[SSB]=- KirbyMan' has beaten you. Get back in the game and reclaim the top spot!

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pics

the mayor made a speech

there were some cute choi kwang do kids

there was some maori poi dancing

and a band played