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As of this evening, I’ve made it to the first page of users on StackOverflow (sorted by reputation scores). I’m fairly please with myself, considering I’ve been staying out of all the meta discussions and don’t really know much about C#/.Net (the most popular topics by far).

I suspect my moment of glory will be brief with StackOverflow opening to the whole wide world shortly, but I figured it was worth commemorating here (since there’s no badge for it).

I’ve been considering whether there’s some way I can easily cross post questions and answers I post to this blog, but haven’t come up with a good way to do it so far.

I bought a very nice Levenger Bomber Jacket International Pocket Briefcase a little while back on the strength of its DIY planner review. Though I’ve not used it much yet, it seems to be working quite well with my new Lamy Agenda pen.

Anyway, I might write more on that later, but for now I have a coupon I won’t be using, so anyone else who’d like it is welcome to it (assuming it’s not tied to my email address of something)…

Thank you for shopping at Levenger.com this past week. As our way of saying thank you for your business, we’re delighted to offer you $15 off your next merchandise purchase of $75 or more, now through Monday, January 22, 2007.* Just enter code THANKS45 at checkout.

I missed out on lots of good video games being a Mac/Sega guy, but I really should have played ‘The Secret of Monkey Island‘ long before now. Comedy really doesn’t seem to be done in new games too much now days, which is a pity (though understandable given that it’s pretty difficult to pull off without making a game seem too linear).

Anyway, some friends are having a pirate theme party tomorrow in honour of International Talk Like a Pirate Day (later in the week - September 19th). As part of my costume, I made up a “I found the treasure of Mêlée Island™ and all I got was this stupid T-Shirt” T-Shirt, which I thought I’d mention here, since I doubt anyone at the part will actually remember/get it.

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After a good year or so of talking about it, we finally got around to knocking up a website for Impro Theatre ACT. To be honest, I’m a little surprised we got the impro.com.au domain name.

There’s certainly some work to do on it content wise, and hopefully a bit more polishing of the colours and the html code itself, but all in all I rather like the design (not too much of a shock, since I did most of the underlying html work).

Sometime soon there should be a way to sign up to the mailing list to hear about upcoming shows etc. In the short term, I’m sure everyone’s looking forward to Impro Retro, on the 24th of September - 7:30 pm at the Street Theatre.

With a title that long, you know it’s got to be good.

7:30pm, Sunday the 30th of July at The Street Theatre.

There are some really great players in the teams coming from Sydney and Melbourne as well teams from the south and central coast, so it will certainly be worth the $20 ($15 concession).

Old news I’m sure, but something I old saw today (and in the spirit of actually paying attention to this blog again)…

“Tenth is 10 spots too low,” President Bush declared in 2004, referring to the share of Americans with high-speed Internet connections compared with citizens of other countries. From CNet’s news.com.com

Now stop me if I’m wrong, but if they were tenth, and moved up ten spots, would that not make them zeroth (as opposed to the presumably intended first)? Of course, I suppose if he’d said it correctly everyone else would have had to stop and think about it.

That said, I don’t suppose I’d want him bringing up a Fencepost error I’d made two years ago…

Having never (at least that I remember) never tried pumpkin pie before I guess I can’t really judge too much, but the version of it I made today was very nice (though had a little too much cinnamon). The whole idea still seems a little strange to me (and I think most Australians), much as if someone has said they were going to make a sweet brussel sprout pie. I guess on reflection, pumpkins don’t really have a very strong taste, and so don’t seem too out of place in a sweet pie (maybe because of all the cinnamon).

Though their little recipe summary thing has always seemed cool, I don’t think I’d ever followed on of the ‘Cooking For Engineers‘ recipes until today. The summary table certainly proved useful in terms of not having to search up and down through the recipe and illustrating which parts of the whole process could be parallelised, but I suspect it would not cope too well with recipes requiring more strict timing (and perhaps I wouldn’t either).

I guess the first weekend of winter must have put a few people down here in a comfort food mood.

Impro time again!

This next show, A Midautumn Nights Improv, is to be based around the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which should prove interesting, given that I’ve not seen the original in many years. Luckily, most of the work of keeping track of the story will be down to our host (who some may remember from the last show as ‘the biggest man in the world’).

As I understand it, the show won’t be too Shakespearian. It’s more a story of games being based on events from the play, and players being given characterisations based on the actual characters, which should be a bit of a change from the usual.

Anyway, Sunday the 28th of May, 7:30 at The Street Theatre. $15 or $12 concession, bookings on 6247 1223. We’ll actually get ourselves together and put up a website sometime, but for now it looks like future shows and classes will be announced over at communities online.

(although I did accidentally skip the 24th and had to make up for it on the 25th)

So, yes, the one or two people who actually read this regularly probably noticed the unexplained posting frequency change, which basically resulted from me happening to post entries for the first few days of April and wondering if I could keep it up. It seems to have resulted in a significant jump in site visitors (about 30%) though that’s probably mostly bots and a result of someone updating a rather popular link to the IB Notes site hosted below here.

I doubt I’ll be keeping up anywhere near the same schedule, since I found myself scraping the bottom of the barrel on a number of occasions (which anyone who was reading no doubt noticed). It is interesting what you come up with when forced to write something - Like some sort of blog automatic writing game.

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I was throwing a frisbee around for a while on Friday with a few guys, one of whom plays ultimate quite regularly. I always through I was at least vaguely competent with a frisbee, but apparently there’s a lot more to it than I’d ever realised.

Wikipedia describes eight different frisbee throws, plus variations, and the only one I can actually make work most of the time is the backhand. Anyway, it looks like the forehand is the one I’m going to have to spend some time practising if I’m going to throw one anywhere near these guys again in future.

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