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Month: July 2012

  • Shared today on Twitter

    You can buy the new Subaru BRZ sports car online: http://t.co/e36xyWLR… and I helped build it! Really proud to see this project live.

    @squozen You selecting a pickup location? I know it works; lots of people have actually ordered the car so far.

    @squozen Site still getting hammered. They’re working on it, apparently.

    @cdeagle I got to drive one a couple weeks ago as a pre-launch perk. 🙂

    @chrisgander Seriously? That parallax thing? I thought it was the worst UI EVER. That page is 20+MB! You can’t even load it on a mobile!

    @SMinney I’m the Business Analyst. I wrote the functional spec that the developers and QA worked from to build the site.

    @SMinney While deployment is obviously having some teething problems today, I’m very happy with my role on it and how it’s being received!

    Subaru sells out of new BRZ online in less than 3 hours: http://t.co/YUgQ9zYG. WOOOO! Some issues, yeah, but overall IT WORKED!

    This time next week my Mom will be here! (These visits take on more meaning when you live thousands of miles apart.) #excited

    I finally wrote a big blog post with ALL of the photos from our kitchen renovation. And now I will shut up about it. 🙂 http://t.co/DO3kZJaP

    @knitterjp Geraldine gave me a couple! Said Quiltsmith was a can’t-miss. 🙂

    RT @_trendspotter: It is official: #Yahoo! Appoints Marissa Mayer Chief Executive Officer – http://t.co/MA2KHGQc

    Anybody want to go to Costco on Sunday? Bonus tightarse points if you can drive. (cc @mrs_sockvictim @knitness @toastman)

    @gilmae @randomknits You mock, but having 10kg of laundry powder and 4L of shampoo gives one a great feeling of security. 🙂

    @redambition Cool, let me know. We have carpet cleaners coming Sat. morn but could go any other time.

    @knitness Carpet cleaners are in Saturday morning. Could do the afternoon though once they finish?

    @knitness @grobinson6000 If you guys provide the wheels, we’ll get you in the door! (Can you fit four ppl plus, you know, lots of TP?) 🙂

    @knitness Awesome. Costco is open til 6:30. How about say 1:30? Gives time for lunch first. You wanna check with George first?

    @knitness @grobinson6000 Current specials are here if you want to see: http://t.co/MSGFic5e.

    @knitness Brilliant. Okay, Saturday at 1:30 then! You want to swing by us or shall we walk over to you?

    @merrinmez @witty_knitter I am a trend spotter! I called the bunting trend back in January. 🙂 http://t.co/vmL9cjL6 STYLEMAKER, RIGHT HERE.

  • Shared today on Facebook

    This time next week my Mom will be here! (These visits take on more meaning when you live thousands of miles apart.) #excited

    Kristine Howard shared a link.

  • Cake it to the Limit

    If you are not reading Cake It to the Limit, you should be. I laughed and laughed and laughed. I need to make some crazy cakes.

  • Kitchen Renovation

    If you follow me at all on Facebook, you’re probably sick of hearing about the damn kitchen. I don’t blame you! But not everybody’s on Facebook, so it’s time to do a big photo round-up for everybody else. We kicked off the renovation at the end of January and it’s only just now finished. Big thanks go to both of our employers, who were really accommodating about letting us work from home on days where we had contractors in. While most of the work was done by others, we had to do a lot of packing, cleaning, painting, cleaning, unpacking, and more cleaning ourselves. We were without a kitchen for a total six weeks, and I never want to go through that again in my life. If you want to see all the details, just go here. And now for the glorious Before and After…

    Before and After

  • New Subaru BRZ

    New Subaru BRZ
    The big day has finally arrived, and I can now spill the beans. For the past several months at Sitback I’ve been working on a top secret new project: the launch of the Subaru BRZ sportscar, which is – we think – the first new car the world to be sold exclusively online. It’s been amazing to work on such a high-profile, top-secret project. I am not a Car Person, and I knew very little about the automotive industry when I started. I’ve had the opportunity to learn a LOT about how cars are sold and financed in Australia. I wrote hundreds of pages of documentation and got to attend meetings with high-level stakeholders (including a day trip to Melbourne just for a meeting!). A couple of weeks ago we demoed the site to the Subaru top brass, and as a special treat they brought the car for us to check out. I even got to drive it. It was pretty sweet! And then today was the big launch. These things never go smoothly, and it was tense through the afternoon. I had no idea what kind of reception the site was going to have. I hoped that maybe we’d get a couple people to place orders? Instead we sold out! What a crazy, crazy rush. I got to see this project alive and doing what it’s supposed to. Subaru got heaps of publicity for their new launch. And less than 200 lucky people actually got to order the car. Looks like everybody’s kicked a goal… 🙂

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @milner1982 I’ve been to Paju the restaurant in Sydney, if that’s what you mean!

    @milner1982 Unfortunately I can’t help – I’ve never been there! But the restaurant is excellent if you ever find yourself in Sydney. 🙂

    With the final painting touch-ups done, it’s time for the Veuve Clicquot. Kitchen is finished! http://t.co/JwVNGPqO

    I made a thing. Tomorrow is a very big day at work. http://t.co/ADSkwXAm

    @gusseting No-Bake Chocolate-Coated Peanut Butter Corn Flake Bars. 🙂

    @gusseting Yep!!

    @eileenDCoE We both said: Wooooooow!

    Congrats to Subaru and the @Sitback team on the launch of the New BRZ! http://t.co/fTtkpAZ9

  • Shared today on Facebook

    With the final painting touch-ups done, it’s time for the Veuve Clicquot. Kitchen is finished! http://instagr.am/p/NGK9CIxJHm/

  • Photo post

    I made a thing. Tomorrow is a very big day at work.
    I made a thing. Tomorrow is a very big day at work.

    Edited to add: If anyone wants the recipe, these are No Bake Crispy Corn Flake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars. And it was only the Snook and social decorum that kept me from eating the entire batch myself, they were THAT GOOD.

  • Photo post

    With the final painting touch-ups done, it's time for the Veuve Clicquot. Kitchen is finished!
    With the final painting touch-ups done, it’s time for the Veuve Clicquot. Kitchen is finished!

  • Shared today on Twitter

    The cat is out of the bag! This is the Subaru sportscar I got to drive recently. 🙂 http://t.co/XcQ6uqBx

    First attempt at hanging new screen door was a schmozzle. Now on the phone to father-in-law to see if it can be unbuggered.

    Game of Thrones new cast: http://t.co/B1PuxJMT. DIANA RIGG IS PLAYING THE QUEEN OF THORNS?! *dies of awesomeness* (cc @drkknits @kunaal84)

    @crumpet The queue for the toilets is the worst part of any race. Stay strong and kick some ass!