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When I get home....
Nov. 1st, 2010 01:56 pmI'm buying a ute.
I'm buying a ute.
Signal boost.
Oct. 30th, 2010 02:05 amIf you're a dreamwidth user with an Android phone, willing to test a new DW client, get in touch with exor674 over there - http://exor674.dreamwidth.org/22342.html
Many eyes, etc.
Many eyes, etc.
Russian of the Day redux
Oct. 30th, 2010 01:59 amOr perhaps ROTD опять.
To reward you for suffering through Russian grammar, I give you Dogs In Space!
http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi3850307353/
Some background: http://tyggerjai.dreamwidth.org/232252.html
(bonus points for spotting a use of the verb "слышать"...)
To reward you for suffering through Russian grammar, I give you Dogs In Space!
http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi3850307353/
Some background: http://tyggerjai.dreamwidth.org/232252.html
(bonus points for spotting a use of the verb "слышать"...)
Dear melbournians
Oct. 30th, 2010 12:52 amWho do we know with a stone pizza oven? Lorenzo? Did one of your mates have one in their backyard? I need a stone oven that can do 800 Fahr....
Also, I need a food icon.
Also, I need a food icon.
Russian of the Day.
Oct. 29th, 2010 08:38 pmAnd now, the tricky bit....
( сложно! )
(A sidenote on google translate, because I notice it would give "difficult" for "сложно". "Сложно" certainly has implications of difficulty, but it's more like "complicated". Not inherently difficult, just complicated. I mention this mostly in the spirit of "Mistakes I have made so you don't have to". If a Russian woman describes herself as "сложная", you can probably safely agree so long as you make the right "but I like that! It gives you a mysterious allure!" noises. If she describes herself as "трудна", you should probably immediately dissent. Just, y'know, so you know.)
( сложно! )
(A sidenote on google translate, because I notice it would give "difficult" for "сложно". "Сложно" certainly has implications of difficulty, but it's more like "complicated". Not inherently difficult, just complicated. I mention this mostly in the spirit of "Mistakes I have made so you don't have to". If a Russian woman describes herself as "сложная", you can probably safely agree so long as you make the right "but I like that! It gives you a mysterious allure!" noises. If she describes herself as "трудна", you should probably immediately dissent. Just, y'know, so you know.)
On the day I went away ....
Oct. 28th, 2010 04:32 pmReturning to Melbourne bearing Duty Free alcohol just in time for sharkey's birthday and Midsummer is becoming something of a tradition. We will be returning, on Dec 14th, and we will be staying. That feels, to me, a bit like "giving up", as one of our friends so charmingly put it, but mostly it's because Berlin is so damn cold. It's currently a lot like Melbourne in midwinter, and this is a light taste of Autumn. Snow? No thanks.
So we're coming home, to our stuff, and our home, and our friends. And one day we'll go away again, but we're going to settle for a couple of years, maybe out west near Jess, maybe north near kitling. Who knows. And we'll get our stuff out of storage and have a *home* again. If we can afford to rent anywhere :)
So. Hot Poppy, Night Markets, Midsummer. You guys know the drill by now.
So we're coming home, to our stuff, and our home, and our friends. And one day we'll go away again, but we're going to settle for a couple of years, maybe out west near Jess, maybe north near kitling. Who knows. And we'll get our stuff out of storage and have a *home* again. If we can afford to rent anywhere :)
So. Hot Poppy, Night Markets, Midsummer. You guys know the drill by now.
Call me, call me now!
Oct. 26th, 2010 10:55 pmMy very old Nokia, of which I am so fond, of which Nastyushka was so disparaging, is probably dying, after nearly 6 years. I ... do not think I want an iPhone. Heresy, I know!
What is the worst you can tell me about the Nokia n900?
Also: twitter. Convince me.
What is the worst you can tell me about the Nokia n900?
Also: twitter. Convince me.
Dear Melbournians.
Oct. 24th, 2010 05:47 pmFilou's Patisserie. I think when we were there it still hadn't reopened. Any news on that?
That bit about "european winter"....
Oct. 24th, 2010 02:37 pmWhy I am not necessarily inclined to go to a lot of effort to find work and get visas:
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/10384.html
That's equivalent to the heart of winter in Melbourne. Here, it's a nice easy introduction to the idea of the *really* cold months.
Because I'm really looking forward to putting up ground support truss in the *snow*.
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/10384.html
That's equivalent to the heart of winter in Melbourne. Here, it's a nice easy introduction to the idea of the *really* cold months.
Because I'm really looking forward to putting up ground support truss in the *snow*.
Speaking of music...
Oct. 14th, 2010 01:14 amI seem not to have brought any of my Laurie Anderson. Can anyone help me get my hands on Baby Doll? I think that'll do for the moment.
Please explain....
Oct. 13th, 2010 11:00 amI've been signing up for a couple of accounts for things online recently, and I'm puzzled by something.
Traditionally, online forms for creating username/password combos have a "Confirm password" field. I always assumed that's because you can't actually see the password (it's starred out), so if you make a typo the first time, the confirmation will not match. Or if you make the same typo twice, you'll probably keep making it :)
These days, I also see a lot of "Email address:" and then "Confirm email address". I get that it's important for the email address to be correct, but ... you can read it. You can see if it's correct or not. So, what the hell?
Traditionally, online forms for creating username/password combos have a "Confirm password" field. I always assumed that's because you can't actually see the password (it's starred out), so if you make a typo the first time, the confirmation will not match. Or if you make the same typo twice, you'll probably keep making it :)
These days, I also see a lot of "Email address:" and then "Confirm email address". I get that it's important for the email address to be correct, but ... you can read it. You can see if it's correct or not. So, what the hell?
Berlin, of course.
Oct. 11th, 2010 01:24 amToday was the perfect Berlin day. Even though it's chilly, it was clear, and our apartment is drenched in morning winter sun. Then off to the Boxhagener platz market in the East . Flea markets, brunch, Berlin, as you do.
Not a bad life, all up.
Not a bad life, all up.
Upcoming gigs ... IN BERLIN!
Oct. 8th, 2010 07:54 pmEinsturzende Neubaten (I really should learn to type in German) - Oct 23
Motorhead (again with the umlauts) - Dec 7
Gogol Bordello - Dec 9
Oh right, that's why we moved.
Motorhead (again with the umlauts) - Dec 7
Gogol Bordello - Dec 9
Oh right, that's why we moved.
I *will* learn German, I swear....
Sep. 30th, 2010 08:31 pmSo tonight we went out for dinner. The cheap pizza place over the road was, apparently, not doing pizza. Because they're closing in a couple of weeks. ... Go figure. Maybe they're closing because they are a pizza place who don't do pizza. Who knows. Anyway, we wandered around the corner to the Italian restaurant, which was only slightly more expensive, but warm and inviting. We stumbled through "Table for 2" "Sure, wherever you like" in my Bad German[0] and their Bad English, and made it through ordering ("Spaghetti Carbonara" is the same everywhere, I think), and then I heard the waitress shouting at someone in Russian out the back. Things got a lot easier from there.
This sort of thing *must* happen to other people, right?
[0] Oh, there are many things to giggle about in German ("Einfahrt!"), and this is one. There are neighbourhoods all over called "Bad" whatever. Apparently it means "Bath", so I guess it's for natural springs, or whatever. But in Frankfurt, "Bad Homburg" caused us great amusement.
This sort of thing *must* happen to other people, right?
[0] Oh, there are many things to giggle about in German ("Einfahrt!"), and this is one. There are neighbourhoods all over called "Bad" whatever. Apparently it means "Bath", so I guess it's for natural springs, or whatever. But in Frankfurt, "Bad Homburg" caused us great amusement.
Then we take Berlin....
Sep. 28th, 2010 11:33 pmToday, we found the local Asian Supermarket, the local English bookshop, and the local opshop. Last night and tonight I cooked! I haven't cooked for nearly 4 months, and it is good. Comfort food, at the moment, it's cold and we're in a new place. Ebay.de tells me I can get a usable computer and 17" LCD monitor for 2 Euro. Plus 18 Euro postage. Perhaps this week I will go to C-base and meet the hackers. Oh! Ari! Did you say you knew people in that scene in Berlin?
Berlin. And everyone says the visa thing is no problem and I have a place to try for English Langauge call-centre work for Megan, and I should buy a cheap bike, and oh, the possibilities. It's odd. It's a lot like moving to Melbourne was, and nothing like moving to Macau was. We're here, finally, and it feels like coming home....
[ETA: Posted this in LJ but not here a couple of days ago:
This, of course, is the kind of thing that happens to me. We're staying in a hotel in Berlin for tonight, and moving into our new apartment tomorrow. So we got off the train at Charlottenburg (not quite where the new apartment is, but closeish), and went to look for the U-bahn station. And as we walked out of the U-bahn station, I saw a Russian deli. Wait, a 24-hour Russian Deli. Wait, a 24-hour Russian supermarket with cafe and posters in Russian and staff with Russian nametags!
Also, Nastya says hi.
]
Berlin. And everyone says the visa thing is no problem and I have a place to try for English Langauge call-centre work for Megan, and I should buy a cheap bike, and oh, the possibilities. It's odd. It's a lot like moving to Melbourne was, and nothing like moving to Macau was. We're here, finally, and it feels like coming home....
[ETA: Posted this in LJ but not here a couple of days ago:
This, of course, is the kind of thing that happens to me. We're staying in a hotel in Berlin for tonight, and moving into our new apartment tomorrow. So we got off the train at Charlottenburg (not quite where the new apartment is, but closeish), and went to look for the U-bahn station. And as we walked out of the U-bahn station, I saw a Russian deli. Wait, a 24-hour Russian Deli. Wait, a 24-hour Russian supermarket with cafe and posters in Russian and staff with Russian nametags!
Also, Nastya says hi.
]
Dear Geeks redux
Sep. 8th, 2010 01:36 pmThis is a question that's plagued me for ten years. I don't there's "an" answer, but I'm sure there are interesting opinions, and perhaps a canonical "best practice".
Code I'm working on is, of course, split into libraries and scripts. Let us, for argument's sake, say I have ~/code/perl/MyProject/. Traditionally, I have had ~/code/perl/MyProject/bin and ~/code/perl/MyProject/libs , and maybe also docs, config, etc. This means one of two things. Either I add 'use lib ...' to everything in that project, and perhaps a 'use lib' for utils libs I've done in the past, and maybe to a custom termcontroller to abstract curses ... etc. Or, I have PERL5LIB = ~/code/perl/libs, and add a symlink under libs for each new project. Both have their ups and downs (and of course, Python has the same issue).
Which do you do? Or do you have some other way of dealing with it?
Code I'm working on is, of course, split into libraries and scripts. Let us, for argument's sake, say I have ~/code/perl/MyProject/. Traditionally, I have had ~/code/perl/MyProject/bin and ~/code/perl/MyProject/libs , and maybe also docs, config, etc. This means one of two things. Either I add 'use lib ...' to everything in that project, and perhaps a 'use lib' for utils libs I've done in the past, and maybe to a custom termcontroller to abstract curses ... etc. Or, I have PERL5LIB = ~/code/perl/libs, and add a symlink under libs for each new project. Both have their ups and downs (and of course, Python has the same issue).
Which do you do? Or do you have some other way of dealing with it?
Dear geeks.
Aug. 28th, 2010 02:31 pmFirst, for the Melbourne geeks. Are there any serious hackerspaces or maker spaces in Melbourne these days? Actual places with tools and resources and communities? CERES?
Second, bugzilla. Decent? Overkill for anything smaller than Mozilla? Leaner options?
Third, how do I make vi and emacs cooperate when editing python?
[ETA fourth, yes, I'm a geek]
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Second, bugzilla. Decent? Overkill for anything smaller than Mozilla? Leaner options?
Third, how do I make vi and emacs cooperate when editing python?
[ETA fourth, yes, I'm a geek]
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