Listening to: So Alive - Ryan Adams

I can now say ‘i haz kitteh’. Pip and Pi are now home. Pip took a little while to settle down, but Pi pretty much ruled the roost from the word go. Thank you to MandaBurms for a lovely pair of cats.

Pi

Pip

Listening to: Round Here - Counting Crows

Dear John… yes, you’re a lot like Obama. If ‘awe-inspiring’ was a park bench - you’d be sitting there with Barack (’specially after today’s headline) just for very opposite reasons.

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Originally uploaded by flash5.

Dude - I was willing to pay attention to you until I read that story. You being “not institutionalised” and being like Obama is me being like Lewis Hamilton because sometimes I drive in a car by myself.

Listening to: Transcendental Object At The End Of Time - Epsilon Blue

I have often spent time wondering about the weird disconnected feeling I have now that I have passed the year 2000… and how that imaginary barrier hasn’t been pushed out to another date. Danny Hillis sums it up well:

It was very surprising to me, getting to the future, that nobody was all that interested. Things just started to happen so fast, we were overwhelmed. With the microchip, we stopped being able to imagine the future — we had so much trouble handling what was being brought out in the present.

Listening to: North And South Of The River - U2

Hey hey! It arrived. Lots of photos on flickr:

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Originally uploaded by flash5.

Listening to: Wind And Sail - Icehouse

I had an afternoon to kill yesterday so I checked out ‘Iron Man’. Robert Downey Jr was a genius pick for the role of Tony Stark. The movie is great fun and I figure that as geek (anti-)heros go Tony Stark is pretty good. I left with a silly grin on my face.

I then killed the rest of the afternoon by looping around the Bay using nothing but public transport (I needed to use 3 networks… but it’s doable).

Listening to: Running Up That Hill [12″ Mix] - Kate Bush

Every 12 months or so I find a game that is so compelling I just NEED to play it… I have found just such a game. Chronotron. Simply awesome! Robots, time-travel, non-linear, brain exploding goodness.

Listening to: Dizzy - Jimmy Eat World

Listening to: Here Is No Why - Smashing Pumpkins

… unless cheese comes with EVERYTHING! Less than 24 hours into my 3rd US trip and I am cheesed out. I need to be a bit more selective about my dining choices I think.

On a technical note… YAY! for easy VPNs in Mac OSX - no more futzing about to get email working.

Listening to: Street Cafe - Icehouse

Wow! That’s quite a manifesto.

Listening to: Broken Radio - Jesse Malin

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Originally uploaded by jdlewis.

John has posted an awesome set of shots of his latest Ponoko creation.