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September 28, 2005
eBay goodness.
Why didn't I think of this? LastMinute Auctions shows eBay auctions that are ending in one hour or less. Oh, and everything is under a dollar! How cool is that?
(and a good Flickr source for me)
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 10:25 PM
September 25, 2005
here ya go
Go and have your very own Ana Ang moment! (Link from Strategiczero)
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 07:11 PM
September 23, 2005
o.mi.gawd.
I thought I was serious about Halloween costumes until I saw this guy's web site.
Wow.
Check out the Jenga costume. Just genius.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 07:48 PM
Exhibit 1
Spring is in the air and a girl's mind turns to ruby red toenails. Bring on sandal season!
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 06:24 PM
September 22, 2005
Desk
Where all the magic happens! (click on the pic if you want to know what all that stuff is)
Hopefully tomorrow I'll have my 'Day In The Life' photo thingo up.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:52 PM
September 18, 2005
this explains a lot about me...
So, as you may know Mr GG and I recently celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary. And as I'm sure you also remember, the traditional gift for a 5 year anniversary is wood.
Well my Mom sent us a S'more Maker as a present. (get it? it looks like a wood fire!) It is the funniest thing ever! It is kinda like an Easy Bake Oven but for marshmallows. My favourite parts are the 'sticks' that you put the marshmallows on. Of couse they are plastic, we couldn't have kids eating off of *gasp* actual sticks. bwaa-ha-ha-ha.
But when we opened it up we realised that we would need to change out all of the electrical bits because of the difference in the volts (or something lame like that). So after one trip to IKEA for a $7 lamp and some clever wiring on my part stacks of Smore making goodness:
Sparky looks like he wants one too!
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 03:05 PM
September 17, 2005
'If memory serves'
I just finished watching Iron Chef (one of my many current vices, including Gorillaz Mahjong, with much thanks to Fluff as a Cat!)
And as it turns out Hiroyuki Sakai is coming to Sydney!!! AHHHH!!!!
Now, one of the SBS shows is giving one lucky viewer a chance to go along to The Observatory Hotel to see Sakai take on Galileo Restaurant chef Harunobu Inukai, so, yeah, I'll be entering, duh.
But as I am not, shall we say, a 'lucky' person I thought I'd see if Joe-general-public could come along to this culinary battle. Yeah, I could go. For $450 a head! Jeebuz on a pogostick, that is just insane! $900 for one dinner for two people? No, that's Ok, I'll just be content with dinner at Tetsuya's next month thank you very much.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 10:02 PM
colour me surprised
So we got this notice from AmEx that we would be receiving a free subscription to 'Travel and Leisure' magazine, a brand new mag in Oz. Yeah, I thought, a crap-ass publication that is just one big ad. Well I couldn't be more wrong. I finally opened it up today and found these two little nuggets:
-Swiss Army Knife USB (red, please)
-Secret Wall Tattoos (could Josh Homme be any cooler? /Chandler Bing impersonation)
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 06:54 PM
September 16, 2005
A good thing.
I really really hope this airs in Sydney! I wanna see some cat fights.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 06:35 PM
September 15, 2005
Things I've Googled tonight:
Used Vespa
Costume Ideas
Low GI foods
yeah, I'm a little scattered at the moment.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:57 PM
September 14, 2005
FYI
So, recently Australia lost The Ashes. 'The Ashes', for those not living in Australia or England, is a cricket contect between Australia and England and the Aussies that happens every 18 months.
But it has been in the news constantly for the last few days and it has prompeted me to ask, well, what the heck are 'The Ashes'? Wikipedia to the rescue:
The series is named after a satirical obituary published in The Sporting Times in 1882 following the match at The Oval in which Australia beat England in England for the first time. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The English media dubbed the next English tour to Australia as the quest to regain The Ashes. A small terracotta urn was presented to the England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women after England's victory in the Test series. The urn is reputed to contain a set of burnt bails symbolising "the ashes of English cricket". While the urn has come to symbolise the Ashes series, the name The Ashes predates the existence of the urn. The urn is not used as the trophy for the Ashes series, and whichever side "holds" the Ashes, the urn remains in the MCC Museum at Lord's. Since the 1998/99 Ashes series, a Waterford crystal trophy has been presented to the winners.(Just in case you don't know what 'bails' are)
There you have it, I hope you feel better.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 07:10 AM
September 13, 2005
good one.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 09:25 PM
September 11, 2005
California and Louisiana
Latey I've been listening to a lot of Dead Kennedys (maybe its the new iPod cozy...) Anyway, I got to thinkin' about the song 'California Uber Alles' (originally released in 1979, in case you are keeping score). It is such a great tune, very in your face, clever, biting, you know what I mean. But I'm just a sucker for Jello's voice.
Fast forward to the mid 90's and you might remember that the Disposables Heros of the Hypocrisy did an awesome hip hop cover of it. (But yet again, maybe I just love Michael Franti's voice..hmm...)
I think it has been long enough that it could be time for another cover. I'd love to see what System of a Down would do with it. With the current California administration I'm sure they could have some fun with it.
But what rhymes with Schwarzenegger?
Oh, and I've added a link to Snopes over there on the right. There has been a lot of rumours going around the 'net about what has and hasn't happened since Katrina and Snopes has done a pretty good job sorting the crap from the tuna fish. It's sad that this story is true. But kinda funny that this one is true. And just in case anyone though Kanye West was full of it, this article confirms the press confirms the AP has been a wee bit biased. (as if that is news)
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 07:44 AM
September 08, 2005
Knittin' stuff.
YARN magazine is up. They are putting the first issue out there for everyone to download (nice of them really). The full newsstand version will be out in December. I've only had a little look, but I like the layout and the photos are great (better than some knitting magazines, *cough*). And we still haven't heard anything from Knitty about the calendar contest, I'll be keeping all of my fingers crossed....
And I'm working on a few mods to the iPod cozy that knitted before, I think I need somewhere to store the headphones....but more on that later, I'm off for pub dinner with my hubby.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 06:18 PM
September 04, 2005
aaand, were back
Five years ago this weekend, Rob and I dragged our families to Vegas to be a part of our 'big day'. One cat, two countries and three Star Wars prequels later we are still goin' strong. 
This year we decided we should do something fun so we went away for the weekend. On Friday we drove out to the Blue Mountians and stayed at an 'eco lodge' called Jemby Rinjah. It was actually pretty cool, not too hippyish. We had our very own wood cabin (5 year anniversary is the 'wood' anniversary after all) It was also heated by a wood burning stove that came in handy because it was friggin' cold this weekend.
On Saturday morning we got up early and the place where we were staying did a bird feeding thing. We got to see Rosellas and King Parrots close up. Then we headed out for a bit of bushwalking. It was a bit overcast, but the hike was good. At one part the trail headed up to one outlook, and when I say up, I mean up, it was over 450 stairs, yikes (the 'Japanese style' spa was very nice after the hike). I took a few nice photos. Some flowers, trees, and at least one bee.
On the way back we were driving through a small town and there were a bunch of people hanging out near a train station, when we stopped and asked what was going on, it turned out that the 3801 was coming by in a few minutes. That was all Rob needed to hear, we were parked and cameras were out in about 2 seconds. The 3801 is the train that we were took for the Harry Potter book launch thing. This is my only good photo of the train.
But we are back home. The cat is purring in Rob's lap, and it is back to work tomorrow.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:46 PM