Monthly Archives: May 2009

Yo Gabba Gabba, live!

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Steve

Today was the big day for Will and I. After we dropped off Sallie and Alex at Rosehill for a baby expo thing, we drove in to Homebush. Was relieved when there turned out to be no traffic or parking … Continue reading →

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The Matthew Johns saga…

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Steve

Have resisted writing about this so far, but it’s been a topic hard not to think about in the last week. In some ways, it’s both a difficult and an incredibly easy situation to discuss and think about. Easy in … Continue reading →

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links for 2009-05-15

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Steve

Text To Speech, TTS: English, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, German, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese Wacky new web thing that seems to work well. (tags: tools online) Trade, Exchange, Swap: Books and DVDS Interesting site for book-swapping in the US. Naturally, … Continue reading →

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links for 2009-05-14

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Steve

Silicondust — HD HomeRun The thing I saw at retail … device has two digital tuners and plugs into your network, allows full PVR-style TV recording, you bring HDD and TV-output though. Good, but worth $300? (tags: television technical shopping) … Continue reading →

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Yo Gabba Gabba!

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Steve

Listening to the radio this morning, and DJ Lance Rock and Christian “Plex” Jacobs (also the co-creator of the show) from Yo Gabba Gabba! were on. They’re doing their Sydney shows on the weekend, and I’m very happy to say … Continue reading →

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Song of the moment — “The Bleeding Heart Show”, The New Pornographers

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Steve

Have finally been listening to The New Pornographers Recently. I’ve heard some of their stuff before of course, and got Carl Newman’s new solo album from emusic recently (and have heard some Neko Case works as well), but I finally … Continue reading →

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links for 2009-05-12

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Steve

PeacePaint — Promoting the Worldwide Peace and Green Movements. Interesting campaign for peace and non-violence, using body art pics of hot women. Interesting… (tags: women images news politics war) Mozilla Brings Webapps to the Desktop Challenges AIR Silverlight – Webmonkey … Continue reading →

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Dollhouse season 1 — bring it back!

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Steve

Haven’t written here at all yet about Dollhouse, but I just finished watching the first season over the weekend, just a day after it finished airing. And while there is supposed to be one more episode, that’s it for now … Continue reading →

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links for 2009-05-11

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Steve

Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion Good feature on the science of magic, focusing on Penn and Teller and their use of psychology in their tricks. Interesting stuff, sure to be useful in some story research. … Continue reading →

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Happy Mother’s Day

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Steve

Went a couple of places for Mother’s Day today. Technically our lunch date was for another kid’s birthday… a 1st birthday for Sallie’s Uncle’s young daughter. So of course Sallie was nuts for getting a little girl’s present (still not … Continue reading →

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