12.30.06
Posted in funb at 11:32 pm by stickupkid
In the time-poor spirit of the holiday season, I figured I’d get all up to date at once in a mega-post rather than more smaller ones. So here goes, all the stuff that’s pushing my buttons in the last week of 2006:
The Onion A.V. Club’s Best Albums of 2006 - With the limited time I get to hunt down new music these days, it’s nice to get the summary of what was actually good out there in the last year. Some real crackers on here - particularly impressed by the Decemberists so far, and special mention has to go to Scott Walker’s new album “The Drift” - genuinely the most disturbing music I’ve heard in a very long time.
The French Laundry Cookbook - a x-mas present in this case, with some really amazing stuff. Thomas Keller is an incredibly meticulous chef, and it’s interesting to pick up on some of the small touches he adds that can make a huge difference to a finished product - excessive straining is a recurring theme, but something like seasoning mozzarella cheese before using it as a topping seems almost obvious in hindsight yet is totally worth it.
Adidas Limited edition San Fran Sneakers: Different woodcut design on each shoe for mismatched awesomeness! Very comfortable too 
Hamaggedon: The true meaning of x-mas is ham, as Cartman wisely points out. That’s why I whipped out an awesome 10KG Kurobuta ham which was very good - and continues to be, since even with 6 of us we barely made a dent on its porky goodness. Next step, figure out how to make a hamwich.
(stick a fork in it, it’s done)
The return of the Blackbook: after almost 6 months in the shop, it’s back, and reminding me what a good machine it is. Almost makes me forgive Apple, but not quite.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on Wii: Just beat it tonight, and it was thoroughly satisfying from about the second hour on. The first is a bit slow, and the first fishing section is incredibly bad, but it quickly recovers from the first stumble to finish better than Okami - which impressively is almost as good as Zelda (time to start wishing for a wii-mote controlled Okami in the future). Clover Studio, you were too beautiful for this world…
Bose QC-3 Quietcomfort headphones: Makes music sound new again. Expensive, but the quality of the audio has to be experienced to be believed.
Parallels latest beta with Coherence: Very slick - you can essentially have Windows apps running within windows in OS X. Still has the downside of running Windows apps, of course, but I can overlook that for work purposes.
Jamon Iberico: Sure, it’s $20 for about 5 thin slices, but boy is that some tasty ham
New Year’s Eve mixcast - just in time to party the year away.
Being in Sydney for the Holidays: It’s been a while since I had a solid couple weeks at home, and it’s a good feeling. Going by too fast already, though…
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12.04.06
Posted in tech, funb at 7:41 pm by stickupkid
Cel shading may have officially jumped the shark by venturing into reality, but that doesn’t make it any less cool. Can’t help but think it would really hurt to bang your shins on something, though…
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11.30.06
Posted in funb at 7:35 pm by stickupkid
In case you’re wondering about the lack of updates, it’s been a tricky month or so. The macbook decided that a defective case and motherboard wasn’t enough, so it was nigh time for the HDD to die a painful death. Murphy’s law in full force, since I had intended to set up raid mirroring the day before but postponed. On the upside, after having the use of the macbook for approximately 20% of the total time I’ve owned it, I finally had a victory - since Apple was out of stock on the 80GB HDDs, they conceded to give me a 100GB as a replacement. Boy, I sure showed them!
Add to this some pretty craptacular internet access at the hotels I’ve been staying in and it all adds up to a ghost town around here. Time to get back in the swing of things blog-wise and get into some regular updates over the weekend, so look forward to that.
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09.24.06
Posted in funb at 9:43 am by stickupkid
“This guy has put some amazing effort into perfecting NY-style wood-fired pizza”:http://www.sliceny.com/jvpizza.php - having had something similar from “Mario Republic”:http://www.eatability.com.au/au/sydney/pizza_mario_republic.htm in Sydney, I suspect his technique would be worth it. All in the dough, my friends…
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09.19.06
Posted in reviews, funb at 9:28 am by stickupkid
In case anyone doesn’t know (and since the ticket’s aren’t sold out, _someone_ must not know), Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society are playing in a week.
I’ll be in fair New Zealand for this one, but I encourage you all to remember how much fun it is to play Fire It Up in Guitar Hero and head along.
Also, In This River is pretty deep (spot the pun, kids).
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Posted in reviews, funb at 8:09 am by stickupkid
Wierd Al does it again, but the standout awesomeness on his new video for White and Nerdy has to be Donny Osmond in the background as his hype man. Now _thats_ dancing.
… although top credit to the Segway moves around the middle - that man can handle a gyroscope!
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08.27.06
Posted in tech, funb at 8:26 am by stickupkid
chumby is a “snuggly” bedside computer - now you can sleep with your cosy computer! The mind boggles with possibilities. I can immediately think of many possibilities for this one
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08.26.06
Posted in tech, funb at 3:07 am by stickupkid
the future of wallets!
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08.25.06
Posted in funb at 9:28 am by stickupkid
… next time your invoice gets questioned:
from an anecdote about pablo picasso:
“It’s perfect!” she gushed. “You managed to capture my essence with one stroke, in one moment. Thank you! How much do I owe you?”
“Five thousand dollars,” the artist replied.
“B-b-but, what?” the woman sputtered. “How could you want so much money for this picture? It only took you a second to draw it!”
To which Picasso responded, “Madame, it took me my entire life.”
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Posted in funb at 8:07 am by stickupkid
This ought to be fun for the low-fat crowd out there: pringles grease your ass
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(stick a fork in it, it’s done)