Wait, what? I got Notre Dame around the corner, and Boston University a few blocks away? I had no idea.
Woot, my knee-jerk don’t-overthink-it pub-quiz answer was Iran which seems to be [✓]. I ‘knew’ it was more populous than…
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Falafel Land
Last week there was a bit of a brouhaha when Eddie McGuire referred to western Sydney as “the land of the felafel” on his radio show. (My personal feeling is that it was probably only 25% racism and 75% Eddie-being-a-dickhead, but whatev.) Anyway, the Snook is going to the apps4nsw “Hack Day” event tomorrow, where developers from around Sydney will spent 10 hours mashing up government data in new and interesting ways. As practice, he decided yesterday to test Eddie’s hypothesis. He pulled restaurant data from TrueLocal to create a heat map of the kebab shops in Sydney.
Some interesting results there. Plenty of felafel available in the CBD, but once you go over the Harbour Bridge, you’re in a veritable felafel desert.
Incidentally, if you have any inspiration for an app idea for the Snook, leave a comment or drop me an email. He’s even dabbling in iPhone development too…
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Trying to achieve a balance between brevity and over-specifying. And obviously losing.
@codepo8 Nah, not today. Kicking ass requires jeans. 🙂
Meeting @Opheli8 to deliver her dresses! (@ Marlborough Hotel) http://4sq.com/gU5hXb
@chrisgander A friend is a U.S. lawyer mainly helping poor people. She said that game is very true to life for a lot of her clients. 🙁
The Snook decided to test Eddie McGuire’s “Land of the Felafel” hypothesis: https://web-goddess.org/archive/9646.
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Just signed up for this…
Terrible walk home w/ massive backpack. ARGGGH SO ANNOYING.
Slow run. Legs/feet have no bounce! Podiatrist again today.
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My constant badgering of the vending machine man has finally paid off. HEAPS OF PRETZELS. HEAPS!
@witty_knitter Dissertation Haiku: http://bit.ly/4xg0Uu. Thought of you. 🙂
@redambition Do you like the show? It’s like that. Not really traditional recipe format; more like order of operations for a full meal.
@redambition Hmmm… And actually, probably only 10 vegetarian meals in it, to be honest.
@redambition Come over some night. You can have a flip through and watch an ep (we have them on the DVR).
@redambition Check your gmail. Sent you a scan I had so you can see the non-traditional format. Lifting out single dishes isn’t easy…
@gilmae @redambition It’s hard because he doesn’t always give timings. Some things you cook for duration of doing other things.
@gilmae Having two people cooking also messes things up, because one of us is always jumping head to a different task.
@chrisgander The hammer and the shield ARE pretty cool…
RT @PhoenixCub: Lady Gaga shows up at the VMA’s in meat & arrives at the Grammy’s in an egg. She’s only 2 red carpets away from being a …
@redambition Ooh, don’t know it. Do a blog review! I’m going to write one on Health Month, which I think you’d LOVE.
New veggie in the box tonight: amaranth. http://twitpic.com/40d26u Treated it like spinach in scrambled eggs. Tasty and healthy!
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New veggie in the box tonight: amaranth. Treated it like spinach in scrambled eggs. Tasty and healthy!
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Ashamed.
Indiana lawmakers: I’m ashamed of you. And Ralph Foley of Martinsville is being deliberately obtuse. This Amendment means that people with skills and talents to offer Indiana will leave to live elsewhere where bigotry isn’t enshrined in the State Constitution. OH, LIKE ME.
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Chocolate, 2010
Chocolate, 2010 by Martynka Wawrzyniak. That may well be one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen on the Internet. Ten minutes of a woman getting chocolate poured on her face. Yes, seriously. At one point she has to blow chocolate out her nose to breathe.
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