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chinese new year part 6: and everything

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lenka @ wdlabs commented:
I really like the
image of the purple
things a lot. The
cop with the camera
(first thought was:
wait she should have
at least one hand on
wheel...but nm
that). And I also
like photos of J and
D. You captured
their character
really well in their
portraits I think.
J's in the one where
it's just her. and D
where it's both of
them.
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chinese new year part 5: wave as you pass by

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trash day

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maine

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moods or people

Wednesday I decided to come down to Canberra. I went to Dick Smith’s to get iPods for Tristan and Lara. I pointed at the merchandise and said “I will have a blue one and a green one” and the salesman responded “is that for different moods or different people?”

Thursday I did the rest of my Christmas shopping, including getting a gift for Secret Santa ritual at work. Usually stuff in Australia closes at 5 or 5:30pm, but Thursday before Christmas everything is open till midnight practically, if not in actuality. It was a mad rush! Friday we had Christmas lunch at work. The food was really nice and we had Christmas crackers and everything. Then everyone drew numbers and picked gifts and/or stole gifts from others. I never want to steal other people’s gifts because it seems rude somehow (I realize it is just a game meant for fun of course), but it is always entertaining to watch other people steal gifts. My gift was the last one to get unwrapped. Can I just mention here how awesome my new coworkers are and my new work environment is?

Friday I flew down to Canberra. The airport was surprisingly uncrowded for this time of year. The aeroplane was mostly empty. When I got to Canberra, Tristan had his earphones on listening to music, and I thoughts to myself, I definitely got him the right gift. Lara was excited about her iPod too, although I think she was more excited about the games and the possibility of putting music on it. Dad already has the DVD I got him, which was unfortunate.

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stop & walk

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Sydney
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over.growth

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Hudson Valley, New York


P.S. Happy fright night!

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Flower

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Nothing to see here, move along.
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Flower

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FAZE

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Rusty boats and docks 6/7

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New Jersey 6/6

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New Jersey isn't so bad after all
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New Jersey 4/6

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New Jersey 3/6

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I’d rather vote for a gangster than a Republican

—one New Jersey voter, according to the Economist.
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Train

I'm sitting in the train at Horsby station waiting for it to take me back to Artartmon as I type this, and this awesome green steam train just rushed by. Yey for cool old things!

I know, I know, I'm a dork.

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ruinous texture 5/6

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From the “Evergreen Hudson Valley” series
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ruinous texture 1/6

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from the “Memories of the Hudson Valley” series
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QVB detail
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Lesser Monsters

I have a recording of an old radio show wherein they referred to the Prime Minister as the Prime Monster. Would that make a regular minister a Monster of Lesser Degree?

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(people are dumb)

The education minister was on TV last night ranting that (some) students were being taught to analyse Big Brother rather than the “classics” like Shakespeare and shit. Now, I don’t watch “reality” television because I think it’s trashy, and I’ve never seen Big Brother, but based on my analysis of other “reality” television it must be trashy, and I actually like Shakespeare. However, I have to say that I disagree with the esteemed Lesser Monster of Education. I think it is probably more important for our next generation to be able to dissect modern culture and hopefully help them see through the marketing and the hype.

Advertising is lame.

Two lame things about LiveJournal that vaguely annoy me, but not enough to make me stop using the service:

  1. When I click onto a bookmark to a friend group filter when I’m not logged in, I get this annoying VERBOTEN! kind of message and then a link to where I can log in. First of all this is poor design, the message should just ask for my username and password, second the text for the link is simply “here”. It’s really bad form to tell your users to click “here” as apposed to saying “visit my photography website” or what have you. Also, once I have actually logged on it doesn’t automatically take me to where I wanted to be in the first place! I have to click on my bookmark again!
  2. Before selling out to SixApart, “Brad” and the LJ team “promised” never to have advertising. Since the sale, they have added free accounts with extra features that include advertising. Not surprisingly, the web page that proves them to be liars has been removed from the LJ website. I don’t think it’s lame that they did this[1], I think it is lame that they quietly removed the statement that they would never do this without any explanation. Maybe they are worried about a lawsuit.

  1. you can still sign up for a no advertising free account, although I think this is no longer the default
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