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G's birthday!

Thursday, 17 September 2009

In honour of G's birthday I have mashed up all his favourite ads and clips from tv shows that he repeats non stop... Quite a random mix, but meaningful to him I'm hoping :-) Click to play.

Happy Birthday Ganesh! (And I won't mention the major milestone you've just achieved even though it's extremely exciting...)

As for the mashup well it's an absolute beginners first attempt... so I didn't get to the stage where I could string the clips together such that they made a funny sentence... or even that the transitions were smooth... but a work in progress I suppose! We'll wait for next year...

Here's the audio only if the shaky video is making you ill: G's birthday mp3.

Produced with thanks to the following clips:

Cadbury (kids eyebrows)
Homer Simpson's "y'ello"
Pauly from Autobarn
Telstra, I've been everywhere man
Victoria Bitter
Homer Simpson's "mmm... beer... drool"
Coke zero
Kevin Rudd's funny laugh
Budget car insurance
Telstra, Emperor Nasi Goreng
Frank Walker, National Tiles
Schmackos
Red meat (meat council)
Homer Simpson's "d'oh"
Kevin Rudd's "Fair shake of the sauce bottle mate"
Tivo, tv your way

Hope you like your presents! :-)

Labels: birthday, mashup

To market to market...

Sunday, 13 September 2009

It was with immense excitement that we headed out to the Thomastown market today... I had it on good authority from the car pool that fruit trees were available for a mere $10. After my previous excitement at finding $20 large mature fruit trees at the Pipeworks market I was all set to spend up big... Unfortunately it didn't work out as planned. While the chooks and ducks were very cheap, the trees seemed to be almost retail prices.

To console ourselves we headed off to Sustainable House Day to check out the green initiatives of the people of Melbourne. I was extremely impressed by the family in Montmorency who had created an impressive and cooling system with 40 000l of under house water bladders.. And the veggie garden in heidelberg was second to none!

Aside from that a very happy birthday to Lach... because it was your birthday I won't even rub in my massive bowling victory (5 strikes and a spare!)... Hope you enjoyed the pizza cakes (pizza boxes kindly donated by pizza hut)...

Labels: birthday, bowling, market, pizza cake, sustainable house day

A great day...

Friday, 12 December 2008

I love my job... I know sometimes I have bad days... sometimes there are bad projects... and very often I'm super stressed and never get to do anything else... but on the whole it's a great job... There's lots of variety... I have a fantastic opportunity to do good... To learn how to do new things... And to change the world! Today I even got to write articles about greening business for the Australian Business Solutions Magazine... Okay, so they aren't great quality because it was such short notice but if it does turn into a regular feature (which they're hinting about) that's a lot of influence I'll have over sustainability in businesses Australia wide... On Monday I'm off to do a green building assessment in Tongala (and maybe will stop over in Echuca while I'm travelling - Mum and Ganesh seem pretty keen too!) and the Green Card is really making a move... Businesses are getting very excited about it... I have the full support of the business for Creative Recycling (if I want it) - I guess I really am very very lucky. Oh.. and I was offered a raise today as well! My second big one this year... I haven't accepted it yet because I really can't work any harder... but it was flattering to be offered :-)

In other very exciting news Ganesh told me about my birthday present today - A night in the museum! We're going to spend New Year in Sovereign Hill living an 1850s lifestyle in full period costume and everything! I have been wanting to do that since grade 5 when I got the chickenpox on the first day of camp and missed out on all the fun of attending an old mining town school and learning my 17 times table (ok, I was pretty geeky back then too - I doubt the prospect of the 17 times table excites many 10 year olds)...

Anyway, there's lots to do and learn about green buildings and all these lux, temperature and power meters... and I have a new Mac Book Pro to set up and play with for someone at work! (Not that they really need setting up but who could resist?)...

Btw - does anyone want a copy of the Shield season 5? Andrew asked me to get it for him for Christmas... but then bought it for himself anyway! I'm not sure what it's about but knowing Andrew it involves law enforcement, the army, guns or Danny Crane...

Oh and Lachie's year 12 results are out at 7am on Monday!!! We're about to find out whether we have another engineer, scientist or lawyer in the family!

Labels: birthday, creative recycling, job, results, sovereign hill, the shield