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August 31, 2006
before Kris blogs this one....
three words:
no, really.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:14 PM
August 30, 2006
huh
Whoda thunk he would be in the final 12? (if you haven't seen tonight's idol don't click!) Maybe there is hope....
-gg
(and don't bag me out for watching Idol, mk?)
Posted by gadgetgirl at 07:41 PM
cool gal
The 50's fair at the Rose Seidler house was a blast. There were so many cool cats and groovin' gals. There were so much amazing stuff to photograph and the weather was just perfect.
The we spent a wonderful afternoon with good friends at Kate's place (and Rob got some chiropractic work done...)
Food, sunlight, photos, drinkies, good friends.
What more can a girl ask for?
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 06:52 PM
August 26, 2006
movin' on up
So first is was his turn, now it's mine.
As of next week I am moving from the children's department to taking care of the teen area (plus about 100+ other new responsibilities). I must admit I'm pretty damn nervous. Teens are notoriously, well, uninterested in libraries (to put it lightly). And yeah, I'll miss some of the little kiddies, but it's a pretty huge promotion so I'm stoked. I'm going to get lots of training and will be doing some things that have been previously reserved for more senior library staff.
Oh, and maybe not dealing with so many snot-nosed kiddies will help me with #6 on my birthday list.
Please keep your fingers crossed for me......
-gg
ec, I'll try to do you proud :)
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:21 PM
August 25, 2006
So, what now?
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles? Nuts?
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:08 AM
aaaaannd we're back. server problems, working too much, blah blah blah....but we are back, up an running. at least for the moment.
I thought I might share a few thinigs my Mom has recently sent to me:
Hooks for Talk like A Pirate Day, a story about how The magic world of 'OZ' was named after the alphabetical letters O - Z on the bottom drawer of L. Frank Baum's file cabinet, oh, and you know about the cats that look like Hitler page....
See where I get it?
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 06:50 AM
August 23, 2006
This post should bump up my stats
But really, it's bunch of shots of amazing European libraries or 'full-frontal objectification of the library itself'. All from a beautiful photography book titled Libraries by Candida Höfer
I love the shot of the shot of the library in Amsterdam. And I seem to remember hearing on the net that the library at Trintiy College Dublin inspired the Jedi Archives in Attack of the Clones. But I'm sure that's just rumour.
Man, Aussie libraries are boring....
-gg
(ok, I'm not sure if this site is breaking copyright by posting all of these photos, but it sure makes me want to run out and buy the book!)
Posted by gadgetgirl at 07:44 AM
August 22, 2006
-your wife
Posted by gadgetgirl at 06:45 PM
August 20, 2006
PSA
Meerkat Manor is coming
Meerkat Manor is coming
set your VCRs and DVRs to record, it is truly worth the time and effort. Sunday nights on Ten, time yet to be announced.
you can thank me later.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:19 PM
A funny thing happened....
Yesterday afternoon we were enjoying unseasonably warm weather, so Rob and I grabbed our cameras and went for a walk around the neighbourhood.
When we were coming up on the local library I noticed that there was some strange stuff going on with the fencing.
I stepped back a little and saw birds.
Someone has taken long strips of fabric and woven it through the fencing to create outlines of indigenous birds. Some of the birds include a king parrot, what I think is an egret and fairy wren. The fairy wren is my favourite I think. And I must admit I had to come home and look up the birds in a bird book....
It was really amazing and kinda strange. But I can't help thinking who made them? Why did they do it? And why put them near the train station at Artarmon? They have obviously been there for a while because the fabric is looking quite faded.
If you live on the North Shore it's worth checking out.
Has anyone else seen these in Sydney?
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:36 AM
August 19, 2006
lists, photos and glitter
I'm well on my way to getting through my birthday list. (with a little help from my friends...)
I went with Kris, Rodd, Andrew and Morgan to Hedwig and the Angry Inch last night. Top night, top show. Lots of rock and roll, wigs and glitter. What more could a girl ask for?
Oh, and I broke into the top 10 in flickr explore with the previously blogged Kira photo, I was only there for a little while, but that's one I can tick off my list, all Earl-like.
ya gotta love a good flickr toy:
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:14 PM
August 16, 2006
home james
From my very first roll of black and white film. Taken with my cute but heavy trip 35.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:18 PM
BRAINS!!!!
Zombie Letters from e-zombie.com
thanks Kris, you know how much I like zombies.
You can get your your very own zombies here.
I wonder if there is a pirate version......
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 07:16 PM
August 15, 2006
toot toot
My copy of JPG came today. It came up pretty good if I say so myself....
But on a completely different note, now you too can stink like a mediocre pop sensation!
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 07:01 PM
August 14, 2006
pimpin' my photo
thanks to the photo in the previous post I'm SOOOO close to achieving #7 on my list....
anyone want to help a sista out and add it as a favourite???
thanks guys!
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 10:03 PM
August 13, 2006
kira hu-la-la
feathers, hula hoops and beers. what more can you ask for on a friday night? oh, not to have to work the next day....yeah, we had to leave early. but that's cool, we had a good night
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:20 PM
August 12, 2006
three things
2. Finally, useful origami (but why is the Bounce in the kitchen?)
3. Now don't get me wrong, I love my cat. A lot! And the Kattbank is probably the most brilliant kitty litter box I have ever seen. But for Pete's sake, I think it costs more than my first car!
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:29 PM
August 09, 2006
how lame am I?
I only just figured out tonight what the song 'Turning Japanese' was about.
Really.
On a completely unrelated note, when I was driving home tonight I saw someone with a bumper sticker that read, 'I drink rum because I can't spell bourben'.
But then again they had another sticker that read 'I love my bull bar and I vote'.
hmm.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 09:09 PM
So last night was Census night.
Once every 5 years Australia comes together to sit around answering questions about how much they make and how they pray.
But they didn't ask anything about pets (we really considered answering for him...) and they didn't allow 'motorcycles' as an answer for how you travel to work. WTF? Doesn't the government consider a motorcycles an acceptable way to travel? Please.
We should have put down Jedi as out religion. Bugger.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:39 PM
August 08, 2006
The World's Craziest Statues.
The first one is pretty stupid, but some of the other ones are kinda freaky. The face coming out of the water is interesting but the upside down La Trobe one is friggin' awesome.
I really hope there isn't any photoshop going on here.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:39 PM
confession time
So I was shelving at work the other day and I overheard this little boy singing to himself. He would have been maybe 4 or 5 and he was playing with our toy train just having a good time.
As I continued shelving I realized I knew the song he was singing. It took me a couple of minutes but it came to me. It was a song by the Veronicas, a pretty trashy prepubescent Aussie pop duo.
Then I had a thought, what the hell is a 4 or 5 year old boy doing singing 'tell me what do you do when it all falls apart'?!?!?
but then....
Another horble thought. What's worse? The fact that this kid was singing this cheezy pop song or the fact that I KNEW the song.
sad, I know.
-gg
...oh...and I'm sucked into Idol, again...
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:01 PM
August 05, 2006
About a Boy
Just an article of note for Kris.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 09:15 PM
The ever fashionable Tracey has started a very cool site about shopping in Sydney.
It has all the ins and outs and places you never knew existed. (and I thought all the good shopping was in Melbourne...)
Well done Trace!
Oh yes, the girl does love to shop.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:34 PM
August 04, 2006
fashion PSA
I just want to warn the women of Australia.
Stretch gauchos are coming this summer.
ug.
I'm not sure if this is a step up or step down from the current legging trend
double ug.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 10:18 PM
sexbomb?
oh
my
gawd
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 09:52 PM
August 02, 2006
ok, ok, ok, get this.
You get a photo of yourself, upload it on My Heritage and they tell you what glam celeb you look like. It's kinda like egosurfing, but with famous people.
Apparently I'm the love child of Meg Ryan, some chick from Lost and Sylvester Stallone.
go fig.
But I must admit I'm finding it a little addicting....and I've started uploading photos of other people....eek!
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 09:43 PM
The gift of wallpaper.
You know you want Billy on your desktop.
Go on, all the cool kids are doin' it.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at 09:31 PM