Crowd Surfing Echidnas

After assembling the laptop it is time to start installing Archlinux.

This year I read a total of 89 books this year!

Here’s my mini-movie reviews that I’ve posted in various places in 2024.

I got put off using CITEXT by the tip at the top of the documentation suggesting to use a non-deterministic collation instead.

So an interesting thing happened with my star ratings this year, but before we go there, lets look at some of the highlights of what I’ve read this past year.

I enjoy reading The Black List which is an annual posting of favoured unproduced screenplays based on a survey of Hollywood film industry executives.

So I’m several years overdue on blog posts of my riveting reading habits, but to make up for it, I have graphs!

Over the years I’ve posted various brief movie reviews on social media.

The annual blog post of my reading stats for the year.

So one year I’ll find something else to blog about, but in the meantime here’s my reading stats for 2016.

So I’ve got a new little guy sitting on top of my monitor.

So nine weeks ago I had a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.

Listening to Kate Taylor tell stories this morning about how she founded The 2H Project reminded me of something George Bernard Shaw wrote: The reasonable person adapts themself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to t…

So 2015 was very similar to 2014 in terms of book reading, which clocked in at 72 books and a total of 20,909 pages for the year.

In 2014 I read 72 books, a total of 20,572 pages for the year.

I’ve been interested in having a sit/stand desk in my home office for quite some time.

So I’ve been tracking the books I’ve been reading (via GoodReads) for the last year (started mid-January).

In the past our cats have had free access to roam the outdoors.

My Aunt and Uncle recently moved from Papua New Guinea to Vanuatu, and are learning Bislama, the local pidgin.

Last month I attended Ignite Melbourne where one of the speakers, Ross Hill talked about The Awesome Foundation.

Via John Myles White.

Yesterday there was a news story about a man who committed a bank robbery for only one dollar.

In honour of today (March 14) being Pi Day, a musical interpretation of Pi to 31 decimal places by Michael John Blake: And if you think you can do better, head over to http://pi.highsign.de/ and make your own composition!

One of our cats has a bib-like cloth attached to his collar these days to stop him catching birds.

I’ll never forget the time my brother-in-law was telling me about the movie, Like Water for Chocolate.

If Pavlov used a Labrador I think his experiments are void.

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend.

“A cat by any other name is still a scheming little fur ball that craps behind the couch.” — Unknown The two new cats we’ve got are incorrigible.

I’m happy to say the number of gadgets I own has been growing a bit unmanageable in the last few years, in particular the number that need USB either for power, communications or both.

A couple of days ago, a couple of friends put the following on their status on Facebook: People need to understand that children with special needs are not sick.

Photo by Milen Dimov, Used with permission ’Twas a year ago today that I started using Twitter and Facebook.

Happy New Year everyone.

I’ve already blogged about a cat named Murray so for today, a simple note to observe that Murray is no longer with us.

I’ve been working on my little wallpaper management bash shell script that handles changing wallpapers on my desktop.

Got roped into playing Santa again this year.

Follow the link below to see my photos from the Aiko Gateway Build Day #1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/44717797@N06/sets/72157622810971412/detail/

Having lived in Papua New Guinea twice while growing up, I have a certain fondness for the language Tok Pisin (to you Inglis speakers, just pronounce it the same as “pidgeon”).

Inspired by projects such as the tweeting cat door and CATaLOG [sic] I’m wanting to add some form of automated access control to our pet door to control who can go in and out, when.

I was having a serious discussion with my son the other day, finding out what had happened in a situation that had been reported to me by his older sister.

Feeding the birds at Grant’s Picnic Ground.

Fetch!

Growing up, I was a fan of the Footrot Flats comic strip written by Murray Ball.

There was a local Computer Swapmeet in my area this week, so I decided to treat myself to an early birthday present and add a second monitor to my desktop.

Ever wanted to do this on a maths test when you were at school?

Originally from http://twitpic.com/ampek this is a very clever little joke for nerds.

Apparently Texas A&M University holds an annual contest for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term (I tried to find a reference to this on their web site but couldn’t, so keep grains of salt handy.

One of our two kittens, Bazyl, has started exploring my desk while I work.

Finally got around to replacing the garage door sensor.

Gotta love Jonathon Coulton.