Looks like things are happening over at the brewery site again..
Category: Random Links
Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about
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Vote for Matt
My old college roommie Liz (aka Pants) has asked me to help out her friend’s husband. He’s in some online golf contest thingy, and if he gets the most votes, he gets to play golf with Justin Timberlake. (Sweet, I know.) I’ve voted for him a couple times now, but he’s way behind at this point. So if you’d like to help out, just click here and register. (I can report that they haven’t spammed me beyond the original sign-up message.) Then click through the video thumbnails and vote for Matt Rice. You can vote once per day, so give it a go if you’ve got a few minutes. Thanks!
Edited 07/04/2025: Removed the link since it’s long dead.
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My AskMe Suggested Tags
They’ve just rolled out an awesome new change over at Ask MetaFilter: a page where you can specify categories and tags so you can see just the questions you’re interested in. To help you get started, they provide a list of tags from the questions that you’ve answered the most in the past. Here’s mine:
travel cooking Sydney food music cats diet marriage women work beer film movies period vacation eviction health legality mac money nsw rental resolved tenancy wedding
Yep, pretty much my whole personality is in there. How depressing.
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Hothousing
Snookums and I were discussing this article about a girl who was pushed by her father into going to university at 13 and is now, ten years later, working as a prostitute. The article is filled with quotes from various experts about how going to uni early should be discouraged. Of course, the Snook also went to uni a few years early, and (as far as I know) he’s not turning tricks on Oxford Street. So what’s the difference? He says that in her case, it was that her father was a nutter. His parents never pushed him into anything, and when he went to university, they were willing to let him go entirely. Those who remain too sheltered, he says, don’t stand a chance.
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Self-making bed
“Lazy man creates bed that makes itself.” Neat. I want that. Of course, I feel compelled to point out that he didn’t invent the concept. The Moroccan house of marvels from The Twenty-One Balloons had self-making beds too (although those were steam-powered).
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Carbo on IMDB
Hey! I didn’t realize my brother-in-law Dan Carbo has an IMDb page!
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3G iPhone release imminent!
According to the SMH: 3G iPhone release ‘imminent.’ SWEET.
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Super Pii Pii Brothers
Hmm, should I call up EB Games and see if they’ll let me put down a deposit on Super Pii Pii Brothers? (Link courtesy of new co-worker – and blog reader! – Tim.)
I forget that it’s still April 1 in America. Eileen totally got me this morning with her Ryan Seacrest story.
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gDay MATE
Sweet. Google Australia have released a new application that allows you to search one day into the future. What will they think of next?
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Vintage Pillowcase Lunchbox
Vintage Pillowcase Lunchbox Tutorial. Oh, those are so sweeeet! I’m now consumed by the impulse to throw a Pillowcase Lunchbox Construction Party and have everybody over to my house so Bex can talk us through the sewing… (Link courtesy of Danielle.)