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It Knows.


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  • 09:27 Anybody need a Google Wave invite? #
  • 09:44 I'll re-phrase that: Does anyone I *know* need a Google Wave invite? #
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ITEM: The baby remains a baby, albeit a one-month-old baby now. He's growing fast -- it's hard to notice when you see him every day, but every now and then I'll pick him up and realise how much heavier he's become. Still not as heavy as the cat yet, though.

Did I mention the baby name situation here? Maybe not. See, Jack is named after my grandfather (who's name was John Henry, but everyone called him Jack). Now my cousin was pregnant at the same time as Arna, and actually due a week earlier. She wasn't going to find out the sex of the baby in advance, which lead me to worry that her baby would be born first, be a boy, and get named Jack after our grandfather, leaving us in a spot of bother namewise. As it happened, ours was a week early and hers was over a week late, so we got first dibs on the name. And then hers was born, was a boy, and got named Jack anyway. Ah well, I guess our family is big enough for two Jacks -- they'll only likely be together at Christmases anyway.


ITEM: As you might expect, work on the house has taken a back seat to baby-related issues. The only project still on the go is to tidy up the old farm gate we bought and put it up over the steps in our garden. Like everything else we've done, that's proceeding slowly. I've pulled out all the old nails and screws that were in it, but we still need to sand off the remaining old paint, fill in some holes and paint it, at which point we get the fun of digging post holes and mixing cement...


ITEM: Those latest LTSA ads, where the guy gets hauled off to be drug tested for no obvious reason -- are they just trying to put the willies into young drivers, so that they'll be scared straight (as it were)? I can think of no other reason why you'd want to put out the message "the cops will drug test you WHENEVER THE FUCK THEY FEEL LIKE IT -- especially if your mates are scoffing burgers in the back seat." All the other ads of that ilk feature someone obviously doing something bad and suffering the consequences -- in this one, the worst they seem to do is be young and hungry (not incompatible with being stoned, obviously, but hardly proof positive).


ITEM: Expanding on a whinge I had on Twitter the other day: fuck you, Tekken 6. I don't play online games much - I'm just as anti-social online than I am in real life, and usually end up seething with hatred towards the other players*. Tekken 6 online play is not up to much anyway -- without a good connection, it's all but un-playable, and being in NZ with a less than optimal line, I never get a good connection. To help things out, however, Namco release a patch last week to optimize the online code and speed things up a bit -- so far, so good. Unfortunately, they also added a feature that gives players the ability to quite out of a match before it starts if they don't like the look of the other player. While in theory this patch should improve my online experience, in practice what it means is that whenever I try to start an online match, the other guy takes one look at my crappy connection and quits, meaning I've gone from having crappy, laggy matches to no matches at all. Balls.


* When I'm not causing them to seethe with hatred towards me. A couple of weeks ago I was playing a co-operative match of Uncharted 2 online. At one point I found myself out of ammo with only a rocket launcher to play with. One of the other guys was in a doorway holding off the enemies, and I figured I could at least make myself useful by using my single rocket to take out the guy with the riot shield, who normal bullets bounce off. Unfortunately for me and the other guy, I was standing just a little too far inside the door way when I fired, and ended up rocketing the door frame, killing me and my buddy instantly. Over the voice chat came "Damn it -- one of them got us with a grenade!" I don't have voice chat on, so I didn't have the chance to reply "Yeah... a grenade... that's what happened. Um... I have to go now..." but that's what I was thinking.

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  • 13:31 My pants are falling off me today - have I lost weight? If so, how? #
  • 15:43 @thesiren Nice, although he should be sitting - much more scope for "sit on my lap, little girl" innuendos that way... #
  • 20:32 Jack's with his grandparents for the night - Murder Burger for dinner, zombie movie on the sofa, then SLEEP. #
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  • 10:59 Left iPod at home. No music to listen to. You must all sing to me instead. #
  • 11:30 I SAID SING! #
  • 14:31 @jsrnz You have the voice of an angel and the hair of a Japanese forest deity. #
  • 18:00 Given the opportunity, the baby will suckle on my nose. It's cruel to taunt him, I know, but it's the funniest damn thing I've ever seen. #
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  • 13:20 With three kebab places in Ellerslie, I'm not surprised one of them is moving elsewhere. But why did it have to be my favourite one? #

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  • 10:46 tinyurl.com/yb2nwof - Medical experts ... expressed serious doubts about a global market for human fat. #

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  • 16:58 "OK, I'll go home as soon as the next song on my playlist finishes" ... "November Rain. Fuck you, iTunes." #

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  • 17:01 For some reason, in my head the child is German - "Oh! Oh, Mutti! Ich habe hunger! Ich habe Bauchschmerzen und mein Handy ist verloren!" #
  • 17:02 That makes sense if you A) speak schoolboy German and B) watch a LOT of QI. #
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  • 09:43 tinyurl.com/ycwnapd - Transformers attack Brazil?! Oh.. you meant... oh. #
  • 13:26 @HORansome @darmeus Season 1 grew on me. Only watched the start of Season 2, but haven't been impressed so far. #
  • 13:27 @HORansome @darmeus Their take on complex techno-psychological issues always seems to be "[character X] goes keraaazy!" #
  • 16:24 @HORansome @darmeus I was unimpressed by Firefly to begin with, but, like Dollhouse, it grew on me as the first season progressed. #
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  • 14:26 Can someone explain Journey to me, and the power they seem to have over Americans? #
  • 14:27 Hmm... "Don't Stop Believing" is available for Rock Band - perhaps I should do some research. #
  • 14:28 Or rather, "Don't Stop Believin'". I apologise. #
  • 15:18 @thesiren The pilot of Glee was what got me thinking of this - using Journey in a US glee club competition almost seemed like cheating... #
  • 16:58 Jack's Birth Certificate arrived in the post - he is now an Official Human Being. Maybe we should have kept him off the grid, just in case. #
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  • 12:26 @HORansome Words? Never use 'em myself. They give you leprosy, don't you know. #

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  • 17:07 Against my better judgment, I managed to spend most of the day outside Getting Stuff Done. Not sure I approve. #

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  • 12:48 Baby has learned projectile vomiting. We're ever so proud. #

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  • 13:49 Your daily dose of horse sex: tinyurl.com/ya798c5 You're welcome. #
  • 14:12 @NforNihilism @thesiren Or maybe it was TRUE LOVE. #
  • 15:22 Good God - I'm eating a muffin so moist it's basically pornographic. #
  • 16:40 @jsrnz Indeed. I also happened upon it in an implausible social scenario, and made no effort whatsoever to stimulate its erogenous zones. #
  • 16:42 @HORansome And yet it wasn't. Slip, thy name is "Freudian". #
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  • 16:06 My car works again. Of course, after the cost of repairs, I can't afford to put petrol in it... #
  • 17:20 @darmeus Oh? Did Richard get his back or something? #
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  • 18:54 That's OK, car - I didn't need you to start anyway. You just stay in the office carpark while I walk home. #

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  • 13:29 I never gave his details did I? Some of you are interested in that sort of thing. He was 6 lbs 5 (2.857kg) and 49.5cm long. Just a wee guy. #

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  • 15:19 Jack is home and feeding nicely now. We'll probably have Visiting Time for a few hours this weekend - we'll let you all know. #
  • 17:53 Typing one-handed, but this time because there's a baby in the other one. Jack, meet The Internet. #
  • 21:50 @darmeus He's got to learn some time. #
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  • 22:39 Long day. Baby is a bit hesitant to feed, but the midwives have been helping out. #

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