Dude, is that Molly Walker from Heroes in the new Miley Cyrus video*? She’s the first girl they cut to after Miley starts the song (with that weird “Shah!” noise). I can’t find any confirmation on the Internets, but that’s totally her, right?
* So I watched a Miley Cyrus video. DON’T JUDGE ME.
The Nerd Olympics
Last night we had a special event after work: The Propeller-Head Games! We got divided into six teams and we competed in three rounds of events. In the first, we had like five minutes to fashion an outfit for someone out of two rolls of toilet paper and ten paper clips. My team (mostly Asian engineering guys) and myself quickly set to work festooning Cheney with TP. I contributed two long braided TP pigtails, which he put to good use during the fashion show. In the second round, we had fifteen minutes to build a structure out of popsicle sticks, straws, and sticky tape. Points were awarded based on design and weight-bearing ability. They’d actually sent out the details of this one ten minutes before the games, so I had time to do some quick Googling. (And email the Snook, who responded: “TRUSS! Triangles, in general, equals good.”) My team immediately created a blueprint and set to building triangles and joining them together into side truss panels. Our resulting structure actually looked a fair bit like the Iron Cove Bridge. (Two of the other designs were decorative rather than structural, and the others were simply giant wads of tape and sticks.) Our bridge held up 4.5 reams of paper, which was more than anyone else’s. The third round involved writing and performing a song about the country. We went patriotic by changing the words to “Waltzing Matilda” and our performance featured the amazing Cheney as the text-messaging Swagman. The results were tallied… and we came in second! The funny thing is, that’s actually what we were aiming for! First prize was iTunes gift cards, but second prize was on-site massages next week. That’s gonna rock. I also won a $10 iTunes card courtesy of my team, who voted me “Most Enthusiastic.” (I think that means: “Biggest Nerd.”) A bunch of people took pictures, so I’m really hoping on Monday I can get a good one of our amazing bridge…
Swedish Furniture Name Generator. Fun! I am KRISTINÃ…N, and I am a sensible double bed. (Link courtesy of RODDD, who is a chair.)
Hey! Peaches Geldof just got married at the same place we did!
Official City2Surf Results and Photos
The official race results and pictures are now up, though the site’s been getting hammered all day: me, Rodd. If you watch the videos, we come running up pretty much in the middle. (I’m wearing a navy blue baseball cap, if that helps.) Our time was 105:46, which meant we placed 27,294th out of more than 50,000 finishers. They got LOADS of photos of us this year, and thankfully I don’t look too stupid in any of them. I’ve archived them here if you want to have a look.
Sustainable Chippendale
Chippo was in the news again today, so I posted the story to the Life in Chippendale blog. It’s about gardening for food, and how people in the inner city are finding ways to be more self-sufficient. The Snook and I really need to start planning our garden for this year, and you know I’m still all about the chooks. I’m also really interested in this “Food for the Future” thing mentioned in the article. I can see there’s going to be a Fair in October, but does anybody know anything about these truck deliveries?
It was a week of ups and downs. I had a couple horrible runs on the treadmill in LA, but the City2Surf turned out way better than I expected.
Week 5 distance: 16.45mi (26.3km)
Week 6 distance: 11.5mi (18.43km)
Week 7 distance: 17mi (27.2km)
It was only a tiny increase from Week 5 (less than 5%), but least I’m going in the right direction again. I had a GREAT four-miler this morning so I have a feeling I’m going to get back on track quickly. The Snook and I are officially signed up for the 9K Bridge Run next month, which will be our third consecutive year running it. I’m also making my diet and nutrition a focus right now. I’d like to drop some weight before the half-marathon in October, so I’m using Calorie King to keep a food/exercise diary. I’ll let you know how I go!
Oh-So-Literal Cakes. Those are just shocking. It reminds me of the time we playing trivia at Kelly’s Pub in Newtown, and the Snook won a minor prize of a polo shirt. He unfolded it to see “Kelly’s on King Crest” meticulously machine-embroidered on the breast. As in, the actual words, not a logo or crest. No wonder they were giving them away. (Link courtesy of John.)
Uncle Orson SUCKS
“I know it’s pointless to ask you to change your mind; bigots armed with the intransigence of religion are rarely swayed. But hopefully some of those reading this post will be forewarned that Orson Scott Card has become a poison-spouting lunatic…”
I completely and totally agree. I loved Ender’s Game as much as the next person, but I’m finding it really hard to reconcile that with the fact that its author is a bigoted homophobe who thinks I, as a straight married person, should violently overthrow the government to keep consenting adults from setting up house together. What a jerk.
