Cat Bum Pencil Sharpener

My cousin Jenny got me what is arguably the best Christmas present I received this year. Behold. A pencil sharpener that functions through the cat’s bum (ass, arse, backside… whatever you want to call it). And if that’s not troubling enough, as rotational pressure is applied… kitty begins to meow. It’s not a nice meow(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | no comments | December 31, 2009 at 1:22 pm

2009 in bikes.

Seeing as Liz has gone and gotten all statistical on the year’s ass, I figured I’d do some number crunching of my own… For the last year and a bit I’ve been keeping a diary of where/when/how long I’ve been riding places… and it turns out I’ve ridden for 145(ish) hours. In that time I(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | 6 comments | December 28, 2009 at 6:15 pm

Modo 401′s Volumetric Lighting

The learning curve is steep, but proving to be oh so worth it. Today I unlocked Modo 401‘s Volumetric Lighting. (And ‘unlocked‘, I mean ‘I learnt how to do it‘) I’m currently only using a 30 day trial, but it’s looking more and more likely that I’ll be buying Modo when it’s over. There’s just(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | no comments | December 23, 2009 at 4:08 pm

Movie Review: Cloudy with a Chance of Meat Balls

A few weeks ago Liz and I watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meat Balls. We like the occasional kids movie, having also watched (and liked) Up and a few others (which I can’t remember just now). I can safely say that Sony’s attempt at a Pixar’ish feature film was up there with the best.(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | 4 comments | December 22, 2009 at 11:24 am

The Race to Two Hundred.

It’s not been official until now, but Liz and I are racing to 200 posts on this, our humble blog. As it stands I’m at 188 (189 with this post) and Liz is at 186. That puts me three ahead with eleven to go, but I’m still behind the eight ball cause Liz has stacks(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | no comments | December 20, 2009 at 8:41 pm

Flowers and travelators.

Yesterday I went and did the grocery shopping all on my own while Jarod was napping. I haven’t done a big shop like that (on my own) in over a year. Well at least not since the time I got caught on a Marrickville Metro travelator with a trolley full of groceries that didn’t want(click to read the full post)

by Liz | 2 comments | December 29, 2009 at 10:12 pm

2009 in pie.

Getting in early in the ‘so, this was my 2009′ thing, here is my 2009 in pie form: I tried to put the legend in, but it all got too messy. So here’s the summary. (All figures are approximate…) Sleeping – 2548 hours – 29.09% Interneting – 1456 hours – 16.62% Working at Allianz –(click to read the full post)

by Liz | one comment | December 27, 2009 at 9:43 pm

Merry Christmas and stuff.

So apparently today is Christmas Eve. And this means that today was my last day of work for a whole 10 days! This is the first time I’ve had holidays over Christmas since I started working. All of the industries I’ve worked in have not closed down over Christmas, and I’ve never seen the need(click to read the full post)

by Liz | no comments | December 24, 2009 at 10:08 pm

Live in Wellington?

Like kittens? Like them enough to foster some? Call the SPCA. Kitten-sitters are needed to look after litters during the holidays. The Wellington SPCA has more than 320 animals in foster care – mostly kittens. But foster homes are almost full. “The more foster carers we have the more kittens we can save,” said SPCA(click to read the full post)