Statistical analysis.

11:25 pm, March 4th, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Posted in geekery by Liz

The combined Jarod and Liz RSS feed has 43 subscribers.
The Jarod only RSS feed has 8 subscribers.
The Liz only RSS feed has 9 subscribers.*

This can only mean that the people love cats more than they do bikes. Or they like cats and bikes equally. Either way, I’m a winner. ;)

Also, if you didn’t realise you could separate the bikes from the cats, it’s all in the sidebar. Which is in the middle of the page. So is more of a middlebar.

*All figures according to feedburner. Which if you ask me, can sometimes be dodgy.

Thriller Wedding Dance Video

7:23 am, March 4th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Posted in boythings, comedy, cuteness, geekery, videooooos, wedding stuff by Jarod

A riding buddy of mine Felix recently attended a wedding where the young’ins did some well wicked dancing.

Now, as damn cool as what that dance is, please don’t expect anything of the sort at a Jarod and Liz Wedding Celebratory Type Function™. Tis just not how we roll.

58/365 – Wedding Planning

8:37 pm, February 27th, 2010 | No Comments »
Posted in 365, boythings, geekery, girlthings, photography, wedding stuff by Jarod

We’re not even into the proper part of planning the wedding, but already it’s so very difficult. We’ve got our glass whiteboard with all the relevant info on the case. That’s it there in the background for the astute observer.

Sadly, the to do lists far far far outweigh the done list. In fact, engagement/wedding rings are the only things partially underway.

Ugh!

49/365 – Milk and Honey… My Ass.

10:26 pm, February 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Posted in 365, boythings, geekery, local, mooosic, videooooos, whinging by Jarod

Wow. This takes me back to analysing poems for English in Year 12. Firstly, read through the lyrics of this song by Augie March.

Pity the boy in front of me
He was only 16,
Lifted up my axe then down,
Split his head like a cord of wood.

Not for me the huon pine,
Not for me the ankle iron,
A’resting in the rope’ll do me fine.

So they sent me down to Bellerive,
Strung me up to my relief,
I was just a petty thief
Of no account, no import.

Send my love to my sister
In the Female Factory,
Remind her of the day when we drank wine.

May a slant of winter light
Break upon my stone before the night
Ushers in the chill,
I have no sight, I have no sight.

But did they pave the streets of Hobart town?
Lop the old wood forests down?
For the press of King and Crown,
For honey? Milk and honey?

My arse.

If you were too lazy to read all that, do mash play on this video…

So you’ve watched the video clip and/or read the lyrics. I shall now paraphrase the last verse and summarise it in one concise 365 entry.

Analysis and interpretations are welcome as comments. Embrace the poetry dissecting nerd within!

An engagement.

6:59 pm, January 31st, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Posted in boythings, geekery, girlthings by Liz

So if you’re not following either of us on twitter, facebook or flickr, then you might not have heard. Jarod proposed this morning, and I said yes. So that means we’re all engaged! Hurrah!

So here’s the quick FAQ:

How did he propose?
Well, Jarod the engagement ring sent me an email this morning explaining that Jarod had lost my engagement ring, but luckily there was a series of clues which would help me find it. The first of which was under my keyboard.

There were about 14 clues in total, leading me around the house and out to places like Canada Bay (where we had our first picnic) and the car park at the Friend in Hand hotel (where we met). After about 2 hours and back at home, the final clue said ‘Let’s do this already…’ and he did the whole down-on-one-knee thing.

The funniest part was at Canada Bay – Jarod had buried the clue in the sand, but the tide had come in since he’d buried it that morning. Result? The clue had been washed away. Oops.

What does the ring look like?
Like this!

What does that mean?
It means we’ll pick out a ‘proper’ ring together, eventually.

Did you know he was going to ask?
Kinda. He’s not a very good secret keeper. But he made me work for it.

What does Train think?
She was rather annoyed this morning with all the commotion. She was trying to sleep. This afternoon she was able to catch up on her lost sleep and so is now much happier.

So how did you guys meet anyway?
We met online through flickr. About a month or so later Jarod came to a Mic in Hand (while I was manning the door) and we met in real life. Three months later he moved in with me. Hurrah!

When’s the wedding/engagement party/free booze happening?
Dunno! We only got engaged this morning, you see.

Any questions I didn’t cover? Chuck em in the comments ;)

Three Champagne Glasses

6:02 pm, January 29th, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Posted in Render, boythings, geekery by Jarod

19/365 – Big Foot, Little Foot

7:02 pm, January 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
Posted in 365, cuteness, geekery, local, photography by Jarod

I’ve got big feet. Liz has little feet. This photo illustrates that.

Tell me this isn’t the best thing ever.

7:22 pm, January 11th, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Posted in geekery, girlthings, internets by Liz

And if you do I’ll tell you that you’re lying.

Thanks to Jacinta for saying this on twitter:

Just watched one of David Tennant’s CBeebies bedtime stories. I think I just spontaneously ovulated.

…which sent me searching through youtube to find them. Of course.

Story One
Story Two (and above)
Story Three
Story Four
Story Five

Welcome to Jarod and Liz dot com Version 7

2:17 pm, January 10th, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Posted in boythings, geekery, internets, whinging by Jarod

Wow. Another new version of the blog.

This one has been a few weeks in the making. It was meant to be released on the first of this month as a way to ring in the New Year, but hey, I got slack and lazy.

Still though, it’s all nice and pretty and shiny and such. I like it a lot. Liz is tolerating it. What more could a guy ask for.

Oh, oh, and it’s optimised for you slackers who haven’t upgraded to nice pretty widescreens yet. That’s right, it’ll do 1280×1024 (!). One more caveat is that I literally haven’t tested it with Chrome or IE. Firefox runs it fine so how bout all you guys use Firefox and save me the trouble of making it cross browser compatible? Yep. Sounds great!

Right. I think that’s it. Enjoy**

** and be sure to leave a comment if you find any abnormal looking bugs. It’s most likely user error on my end.

1/365 – How we started 2010…

10:23 pm, January 1st, 2010 | No Comments »
Posted in 365, geekery, girlthings, local, photography by Liz

Jarod went for a bike ride first thing in the morning. (Jarod edit: 40kms on tired legs and little sleep!) (Liz edit: because he is crazy!!)

I woke up feeling pretty lousy because I didn’t sleep well due to a combination of Train wanting to sleep on me, fireworks at midnight (go figure) and noisy people.

We bummed around for most of the day, Jarod had an afternoon nap, and then we spent the afternoon kitty walking, before having dinner at the Golden Barley.

During our kitty walk we met a few ’street’ cats that I would have loved to bundle up, take to the vet to clean up some wounds, and then take home with me. They weren’t about to let anyone pick them up though, so it would have been a difficult task.

On the other hand, this fella was clearly well looked after and totally demanding. He miaowed with every breath, even while getting super head rubs.

Rest assured there are plenty more kitties coming up on friendly miaows in 2010.

Speaking of photos, we’re also attempting a ‘365 (self) portrait’ challenge this year. But with a J&L specific twist. That being, we’re both lazy and can’t guarantee that we’d make 365 individually. So we’re going to team up and do it together. Kinda like this blog – with the hope that one person will pick up the slack when the other can’t be bothered picking up the camera ;)

Here’s the first one, which Jarod took of me while I was typing this. Yay for last minute decisions!

Modo 401’s Volumetric Lighting

4:08 pm, December 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in Render, boythings, geekery by Jarod

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 sooooo much depth to the program.