Fox Woods Blog 2008-2009

2009-09-09T23:00:00.001+10:00

Trenchant's "your post box is too small" sums up a huge part of why I'm moving to Tumblr.

2009-09-01T20:48:00.003+10:00

hunch suggested i might like this spring palette.

that's right.

2009-08-30T23:47:00.000+10:00

I like the ShakeItPhoto iPhone app. Shake it like a Polaroid picture. (via extraface)

2009-08-26T17:09:00.002+10:00

Switzerland has a brand website. Australia will be working on its brand. This is kinda depressing because everything around promoting Australia seems to be dorky (except for that Shins song) and it'll be such a shame if this branding is too :/ Please, someone, make this good.

2009-08-25T19:54:00.003+10:00

Granted, I haven't used Second Life much, and I don't really get it, but one place I liked visually was the Melbourne Laneways area on ABC Island - an eerily accurate duplication of the laneways I know & love in this city.

After a year of absence, I found out that a friend is now an employee of Second Life, so I returned to visit her. The program opened at Melbourne Laneways, which had been my last-visited place. And I found this.

It turns out that Melbourne Laneways was removed (by the government?) in August 2008. Lameways. In other news, I sat on a kangaroo.

2009-08-23T10:48:00.002+10:00

I nightmared about being taken hostage by someone trying to get away with a ponzi scheme (fairly normal nightmare material) and that at the same time my iPhone cover started splitting apart (nerd nightmare material).

2009-08-15T12:07:00.001+10:00

From across the road, we saw a huge white dog playing in the park. Racing around, having a ball. Great, I thought. Jet can have a play with a new friend. Jet must've been thinking the same thing, he wanted to bolt over. In the park, the white dog's owner grabbed her dog and leashed him. Oh. Maybe she thinks we're intimidated by the size of her dog.

I was about to call out, "Is it OK if our dogs play?" but she was scrambling to get a muzzle on her dog. Oh. Maybe it's a dog that bites other dogs. In the second that I decided to leave the park, her dog busted free of the muzzle, free of the lead, and it was attacking Jet. I thought I saw the white dog's teeth sink into Jet's back. I was saying, "Oh my god oh my god oh my god," and I hauled Jet up onto my shoulder. He wasn't injured. The woman said sorry, leashed her dog, and left.

2009-08-14T22:13:00.003+10:00

I have terrible taste in cars. I like Bond cars, Jaguars, that Porsche of Sarah's in Chuck, nothing I can afford. My first car was second-hand, I had a part-time job, the car broke down. So with my first full-time job, I wanted to buy a new car, one that wouldn't break down. The only kind that I could pay off in four years was the smallest car. I chose a Holden because, compared to other small cars, it could play MP3s. So alas, I don't own a Maserati or a Lotus Esprit. But my Holden has a good sound system. There was no point to this story.

2009-08-14T20:46:00.002+10:00

Rather than say anything, I stood up and put my foot in the water, testing it. Testing the water, that is, not my foot. Though maybe it was my foot I was testing–whether it could tolerate the water's temperature. Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

from Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames

2009-08-13T17:20:00.002+10:00

2009-08-11T16:24:00.001+10:00

SCIENCE: Apparently I'm sexy, I was not aware.

Jet's birthday presents

2009-08-04T18:33:00.001+10:00

2009-08-01T17:27:00.003+10:00

iPhone thinks kottke should be spelt kittle. Mish comments, "If the iPhone should know anything, it oughta know kottke. Heck, it oughta have three language options for English speakers: eng-us, eng-uk and eng-in."

2009-07-22T22:49:00.005+10:00

iMovie doesn't import avi files properly anymore (I've looked up the problem, other people are having the same issue, but there aren't any fixes) so no more videos til whenever. (Dear Apple, pls fix iMovie.)

ion, I love getting my news from Google News in the morning. One article from National Geographic, one from Wired, one from the NY Times, one from the local paper, etc. Now that's news.

2009-07-22T15:26:00.003+10:00

I can't believe I never found/thought to find this gmail bookmarklet before. die, "share on facebook", die.

2009-07-19T12:26:00.001+10:00

voice memo 18/07/2009

2009-07-15T19:30:00.002+10:00

Upcoming events:

Sun 19 Jul - Metafilter's 10th birthday
(see Matt Haughey's blog for more info)
Mon 20 Jul - Mobile Monday
Mon 20 Jul - Web Standards Group
Wed 5 Aug - AIMIA Crowdsourcing event

2009-07-14T15:47:00.003+10:00

me: "Cricket is a good name for a kid."
mish: "There's a character on Days of..."
me: "No."
mish: "on..."
me: "Don't say that."
mish: "on... The Young and the Restless called that."
me: "You just ruined everything."
mish: "Sorry, but it's better you find out now."
me: "True. If I'd known there was a casino called Foxwoods I'd've asked for another name."

2009-07-10T23:16:00.005+10:00

voice memo 10/07/2009

2009-06-28T01:18:00.002+10:00

Yacht rock, from Wikipedia:

"Yacht rock" is a name for the popular soft rock that peaked between the years of 1976 and 1984. Significant "yacht rockers" include Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, and Toto. In the musical sense, yacht rock refers to the highly polished brand of soft rock that emanated from Southern California during the late 1970s and early 1980s. In part, the term relates to the stereotype of the yuppie yacht owner, enjoying champagne and smooth music while out for a sail. Additionally, since sailing was a popular leisure activity in Southern California, many "yacht rockers" made nautical references in their lyrics, videos, and album artwork, particularly the anthemic track "Sailing" by Christopher Cross. Yacht Rock music is commonly described as, "A little bit better than elevator music!"

2009-06-27T12:45:00.004+10:00

moar from miaf! - my favourites from thursday night:

#1 Nice day for a picnic

(so wonderful, hypnotic, reminded me of giantheads (unfortunately only two videos left of theirs))

#3 El Empleo

(bleak picture, great story)

#2 Naturebreak: Roommates

(amusing)

2009-06-25T00:15:00.004+10:00

the melbourne international animation festival (miaf!) is on this week. i think a foreign cat would say, "miaf, miaf." i'm not sure where-from-foreign.

i adore miaf. i go to the 'international programs' of around 12 short movies. it's random, and some are fantastic and some are hum-ho.

my favourites from last night:

#1 Aanatt

(a whoosh of colours and shapes (usually i don't connect to the abstract ones but this had something-something))

#2 I am so proud of you

(i didn't much like the drawing style, but the story vibrantly reminded me of tralfamadorians)

#3 Volgens de Volgels

(beautiful)

2009-06-12T11:35:00.001+10:00

michelle made a website for chaz. it's pretty much one of the best websites on the internet.

2009-06-08T21:58:00.001+10:00

alphabetised storytime.

2009-06-07T13:56:00.002+10:00

why is is that, when you have coffee in the morning on a workday, it stimulates and awakens, but when you have coffee midday on a weekend at home, it has an entirely soporific effect?