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Oh, I see -- LoudTwitter is dead, which would explain the lack of auto-generated, Twitter-based posting here. Guess that means I'll have to go back to actually writing stuff. Orrrrrr you could all just be on Twitter. As the option that involves me doing nothing, I feel this is much more sensible.

And now we enter the phase of pregnancy charcterised by buying all sorts of expensive shit that you need when you have a baby. Trademe makes this less draining on the coffers than it might otherwise be, but babies still need a lot of stuff. Here's our newly purchased second hand baby buggy:



In this scene, our infant child is played by ALF.

"OK, put your hand here."

"I'm telling you, he's still too small -- I'm not going to be able to feel him move."

"OK, but do you feel that lump? That's him."

"Yeah, I see what you're -- hey!"

Felt the baby move. For the first time. Awesome.

So the cat's antibiotics are little pills that must be crushed between two teaspoons and sprinkled on his food. Since the smell of catfood currently makes Arna nauseous, this is solely my job at the moment.

I feel strangely seedy saying "time for the cat's Medicine -- I'll get me spoons..."

• 23:44 Finshed scraping. Take that, Bastard Walapaper! #
• 14:37 begthequestion.info/cards/ - for the practising Philosophy pedant. #

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• 10:12 Seems like all the cool kids are Twittering that Michael Jackson is dead. Is he? #
• 13:30 Fact: MJ's death is objectively no different, nor more tragic than Farrah Fawcett's, or the thousands of other deaths that occurred today. #
• 13:31 Fact: MJ's death is bigger news than Farrah Fawcett's and the thousands of other deaths that occurred today. #
• 13:39 @KaiLoi My point exactly - that's why their deaths aren't big news. Some people have seemed surprised at that lately. #
• 13:41 Also: tinyurl.com/5nqdow - James Brown, MIchael Jackson and Prince share a stage. Sounds like the setup for a joke. #
• 23:01 @Olthwaite They really are, aren't they? Th -- what was that? I swear I just heard a noise! THAT THING CONVENIENTLY OFF-CAMERA JUST MOVED!! #

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• 13:18 @vcy I suppose a cock block could be a necessary technique if you were ever attacked by a rooster. #

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• 14:10 I had a dream the other night where I couldn't remember the word "erudite". Pissed me off no end. #
• 14:11 @vcy Are we talking about a kitchen fitting or a martial arts technique? #

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While listening to Snoop Doggy Dogg's "What Am I (What's My Name?)" in the car the other day:

Snoop Dogg: "Mr 1-8-7 on a undercover cop..."

Arna: "What's 187?"

Josh: "What's 187? MurderDeathKill! You've seen Demolition Man, haven't you?"

Of course she had, but that was all the motivation we needed to go out and rent it a couple of days later. (I'd own it if there had ever been a decent DVD release with any amount of special features.) As I Twitterized at the time, if, some time after Josh Junior is born, I should find myself in possession of a daughter, Lenina Huxley will be high on the list of possible names. I must also make more of an effort to tell people that they are an incredibly sensitive man who inspires joy-joy feelings in all around them.


Took the cat to the vet yesterday -- he's been coughing, and not from hairballs. In the past we've borrowed a friend's cat cage to take him to the vet, but we figured we should probably get one of our own. After looking around half of Auckland (but not, notably, the pet shop in Onehunga, which I forgot was there) I settled on the only model I could find: one of those plastic ones with a door in the front, where the top clips onto the bottom and can be removed. It's big enough for the cat to sit comfortably in, but expecting him to sit still on the base while we clip the top on isn't that realistic, and the door in the front isn't very large. We ended up having to hold the cage on it's end and dangle him into it back legs first. Some sort of cat funnel would have been useful*. As it turns out, he's got some sort of cat asthma, probably caused by an infection - antibiotics for the next three weeks for you, young feline.


Bedroom renovations proceed apace. A slow pace, but a pace nonetheless. We've finally found a way of scraping off the final wafer thin layer of wallpaper that needs to go before we can get a plasterer in, so we're getting somewhere. For those who haven't seen it in its semi-renovated state, our bedroom had been re-painted some time in the recent past, but they only pulled down the existing wallpaper in some places and not others. This means that there are bits where we could just pull off the painted-over regular wallpaper and had only the thin layer of Bastard Wallpaper to contend with, and bits where all there is is Bastard Wallpaper with a layer of paint on top of it, which stubbornly resists any attempt to remove it. We may end up attacking the latter with the sander, to relieve stress if nothing else.


What else? I see that British teachers are being told not to teach children the "I before E, except after C" rule, on account of all the exceptions that make it bollocks (heir, weigh, neighbour, veil, caffeine, sufficient, science etc.) The pragmatist in me says fair enough - grammar is a bunch of crap a lot of the time. On the other hand, if they aren't familiar with all the rules, how can they be pedantic and condescending on Internet forums once they get older?


* Note to self: Invent cat funnel; make millions.

• 21:38 Watching Demolition Man. If I ever have a daughter, she will be named Lenina Huxley. #

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• 09:47 Cocaine-filled sharks - what could possibly go wrong? tinyurl.com/m8uxxe #
• 09:49 Yes, fine the sharks were already dead and frozen. That just adds the risk of coked-up ZOMBIE sharks - I don't call that an improvement. #
• 15:30 Went out for my afternoon wander - nary a cloud in the sky. Tonight is going to be fucking freezing. #
• 17:33 Metrowater says we may have a leak, and we should check our meter. Where the hell is our meter? #

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• 10:10 @vcy Just one of the simple compact ones - an IXUS 80IS. It seems to be mostly for point and shoot, but has options to do things manually. #
• 16:01 Getting high off the alcohol-based hand sanitisers installed by the company to combat the Flupocalypse. #
• 16:37 "Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers." - Stephen Fry #

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• 09:37 My Twitter Outlook app doesn't seem to be working. Can I at least post stuff from it? #
• 09:39 Yes, but I can't receive. Balls. #
• 09:43 There we go - installed the latest version and I'm away. Look at me, acting like any of you give a shit. How adorable. #
• 13:04 @vcy Point and shoot is all I can do - I have a new Canon that lets me set ISO, white balance, etc but I don't know what to use when... #
• 19:42 It's a boy! #

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Had the 20 week scan today -- my unborn child is now my unborn son. I won't subject you to photographic evidence of his developing foetal junk, but rest assured that it exists.

• 21:18 Terminator: Salvation brings the explodo. #
• 21:19 Sure, the plot is ropey, and the machines are, as ever, a bit shit, but hey - CG Arnie. #

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• 23:45 @HORansome Just removing the voiceover from the start would improve the film greatly. Movie studios think we're morons. #
• 14:14 I'm a dolphin who's never tasted melted snow. What does the color blue taste like? Bobo knows. I must speak with the dolphins now. Ee-ee-ee! #

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Going to see Terminator: Salvation tomorrow at 6:20 in Newmarket, if anyone's interested.

• 15:21 @thesiren Because you're a bad person, essentially. You punishment for not listening to Garbage is not getting to listen to Garbage. #
• 16:18 @thesiren I'm with you - 2.0, while awesome, doesn't stack up to Garbage. #

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• 19:57 Holy shit - Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Wrestling is the best show ever made! Frank Stallone? Dustin Diamond?! Willis from Diff'rent Strokes?!! #
• 19:57 MOTHER FUCKING TIFFANY??!!! #
• 20:28 Aww, Tiffany's out. #

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• 20:02 Why hello, headache - where did you come from? #

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