Monthly Archive for July, 2006

Drink Klutz

Apparently in the US I’m a klutz with drinks.

Yesterday at lunch with Nathan and Casey in Olympia, a glass of ice water slipped out of my hand, tipped over, and poured itself across the restaurant table and onto my lap. I had to hang up my jeans in the sun all afternoon to dry the front.

Then, that same night at dinner (again, with Nathan and Casey), I did the exact same thing with a large glass of root beer. Nathan’s stepdaughter Hayden laughed giddily at my sticky predicament. Jess was suitably mortified.

Then today, on my way to the evening sessions at OSCON in Portland, I stepped off a curb and into a sewer grating, and in regaining my balance dumped half of the Dr. Pepper I had just bought from Subway down my arm.

For those keeping score at home, that’s three self-drenchings in 24 hours. Is there a name for this syndrome?

Travel Travails

Melbourne to SydneySpending the night in Olympia at Sausage Software survivor Nathan Allan’s B&B, The Swantown Inn. It’s good to finally decompress after what would probably be my worst trip across the Pacific in terms of things going wrong along the way. Since this was Jess’s first introduction to international air travel (New Zealand doesn’t count), there have been some trying times over the past 48 hours. A play-by-play of the trip follows.

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Idea for an Extreme Sport

Inflight Jenga.

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Hitting the Road

Jess and I are away for four weeks starting today, with stops planned in Portland (Oregon), Ottawa, Montreal and Tahoe. Watch my Flickr stream for snaps from the road, and this blog for updates.

Scale Model of Disputed Border Region Found

This finding in Google Earth is reason enough to download and install the software if you haven’t already. China has built a nearly 1km2 scale model of a 150,000km2 disputed region along its border with India.

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Post Tangential

Though Tangents continues for at least two more weeks, Jess and I are off on a trip overseas in just a few days, which means my final show for the run was last Sunday.

And what a final show it was! It’s not especially useful to dwell on your successes in improvisation, because the very next week could very easily see you crash and burn, but hey—we freakin’ rocked.

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Getting All Barenaked

I’m a big fan of Barenaked Ladies. Not only do they make music I dig, but they’ve got an enlightened approach to user rights, and there is a geeky vein through all of the work they do (I refer you to their blog and podcast).

Barenaked Ladies Are Me cover artBut with the pending release of their new album, Barenaked Ladies Are Me, they have slipped up a little. It seems they have produced so much new music for this album, that they are going to make different subsets available through different methods of distribution.

From the announcement email:

Order before Aug 22nd and receive as a bonus the “BNL: All New Revue (Live from the Glenn Gould Theatre)” disc FREE, which is a live acoustic version of the new album.

[The album's 13 tracks] will also be available digitally with a bonus of two tracks for purchase of the entire album. In addition, a 25 song package called Barenaked Ladies Are Me: Deluxe Edition, will be available digitally (album only). With the purchase of the Deluxe Edition, fans will be have the opportunity to obtain either two bonus tracks OR four bonus tracks for pre-ordering. Details on the digital pre-order to follow.

In addtion, a USB stick featuring 29 songs plus other special content will be released Sept 12.

Confused yet? This is more complicated than picking an edition of Windows Vista!

As a loyal fan, I want to know one thing: how do I get all the Barenaked goodness that I can without paying for most of it twice (or three times!)?

Back To The Future: The Enhantment Under the Sea Dance Revisited

Taken together, the BTTF trilogy is still my very favourite film, which for me makes this split-screen synchronized edit of the coinciding events of BTTF 1 and 2 fifteen minutes of pure bliss.

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Tangents

Tangents Flyer

Although the show started last weekend, the first one I’m in is tonight, so I have selfishly waited until now to announce it.

Tangents is a show I helped develop over the past few months at Impro Melbourne, and it’s very exciting to finally get to show it to the masses.

Two strangers meet at a party and strike up a conversation. The show follows the swirling, weaving, and intersecting paths of that conversation, conjuring scenes out of the subtext to reveal what these strangers might really be thinking.

Come one, come all! I’m playing tonight and next Sunday.

Tangents
Sunday, July 2-30 at 6PM
Don’t Tell Tom bar & café
420 Sydney Rd. Brunswick
$5 at the door