The Twilight Report

2008-11-25T13:38:00

16 November 2008 04:05pm: Interesting. With the exchange rate such as it is the D700 is actually cheaper here (without researching or shopping around) than B&H.
16 November 2008 08:56pm: Fixed a number of bugs this weekend. It's been a while since I felt this productive, and I've not even been working that hard.
18 November 2008 08:27pm: The only way to make my new computer run slow is to encode two movies at a time into a format that iPod can grok. Why is Apple so fussy?
Yesterday at 08:22pm: Nice cool evening at The Point. Pick Lena up from the airport tomorrow.

2008-10-23T18:28:00

14 October 2008 11:13am: Briefly returned to New Haven. The Dinosaur bones are still there. Trying to teach L dinosaur names as she teaches me Russian.
16 October 2008 10:33pm: Has anyone noticed that with the economy in the toilet the SPAM has changed from "get V1AgRa" to "Job Offer!"?
18 October 2008 01:35pm: Din dins with tehresa and lenviol was delicious.
20 October 2008 08:31am: Back in Australia with Rusian goodies. Flight was uneventfull but woke up for sunrise over the Pacific. Pretty moments.

jerk

2008-10-23T14:02:00

Just spent two weeks with my girlfriend лена in New Jersey and New York. It was wonderful. I met her family and friends, and she met my friends, most of whom still live in New York state. We are still trying to workout the whole future thing, although I'm confident that we can work things out. The shitty economy stateside is decidedly not helpful.

This is what a jerk I am. When I was in the Hudson Valley we went on a hike where the fall colour was in full force and my friend Brad said something like “This beautiful colour is our reward for having to live through the cold hard winter”, to which I responded reflexively “Speak for yourself, I'm going to the beach!”. Yay for Australia being awesome. Only, wait for it, then I started repeating this story over and over for people who were actually going to have to live through the winter in New York this year (which in my defense I had to do six times). The awesome thing about my friends is they still like me anyway.

It's weird now though because just a week ago the trees were all red and yellow and some of them were on the ground and walking to work today they were green again and fastened tightly to the trees. And to be honest, it isn't warm enough yet to go to the beach (karma). How can two places so far apart seem like home.

breakneck ridge

2008-10-15T10:24:00

Climbed Breakneck Ridge with Lena this morning. It was really wonderful.

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More photos on the Facebook.

it's a nemo

2008-06-28T01:30:00

When Л and I went to the Sydney Aquarium, we kept hearing some of the younger visitors chant “Dory!” while others were calling out “Nemo!” in honour of the Pixar film Finding Nemo. One particularly cleaver youngster declared “It's a Nemo” when he found a solitary clownfish in a tank. All pretty harmless fun; I enjoyed Nemo because, among other reasons, it was partly set in my favourite harbour city. Today I was skimming the Internets and ran into this article

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4220496.ece

which says that clownfish populations are shrinking thanks to their demand as pets due to the popularity of the film. Who knows if it is true or not, but after seeing all that, shall we say, enthusiasm at the Aquarium, it certainly seems plausible. Apparently they are difficult to breed in captivity.

Я говорю по-русски

2008-04-04T01:56:00

Привет! Меня зовут Грэм Давидович. Мне три-дцать один. Я австралиец и американец. Я работаю и живу в сиднее. Я програмист. Я говорю C++ и Perl свободно. Тоже я говорю по-английски свободно. Я говорю по-немецки неплохо, и по-русски очень медленно. Вы понимаете по-русски :P Моя мама учёная. Она работает в универсиитете в Сиднее. Мой папа учёный тоже а он работает и живёт в Канберре. моя сестра и мой брат студерты. Они живут в Канберре тоже. Мой брат жонглёр. Мои друзья э и д. У них есть собака. Его зовут джек. Моя девушка Лена. Сегодня вечером я дома. Как я? Хорошо, спасибо! До свидания.

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