Mobilefrass

Mobilefrass is no more

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:50:00 +0000

You may have already guessed that.

I am now posting scrapbookish daily images, text, sound etc to http://daily.fishoutoforder.net (powered by Posterous). I have also merged all the old posts from this blog into Fish out of Order Daily. I won't actually delete this blog, however.

I find Tumblr/Posterous more effective for this kind of blog - snippets of information and impressions. Blogger (and similar sites, like Wordpress) offer a different kind of blogging experience that lends itself to lengthier opinion/news pieces. Possibly all that is locked up in my head, and the appearance of new hosting systems allows me to rethink how I use them.

Blogger is still the cheapest way to have your own domain, Google Apps, and basic maintenance-free CMS. So it's what I use for my professional blog. Although I'm tempted to drop it now and rely on the wonderful flavors.me I'm just not confident Flavors will be around for my entire lifetime, awesome though it is.

I enjoy using Tumblr for small art projects - while some of the UXD leaves a little to be desired, it is certainly fast and slick. Posterous I use for hobby-blogging and scrapbooking on a larger scale - my only real complaint with Posterous is that it runs a little slowly - don't know if that's a bandwidth issue or a code optimisation issue.

The idea of having a shared mobile blog with my partner was a lot of fun, but he kinda stopped posting after he became a full-time student with a part-time job, funnily enough.

Anyway, thanks to all who subscribed, and I hope to see you at Fish out of Order Daily :-)

Blood candy

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:03:00 +0000

As a thank you for attending the Blood Donor Award Ceremony for the Red Cross this morning, we were given giant lollypops the colour of blood. I got type O!

How does it taste? Sugar-flavoured! Well, raspberry-ish. Vampires must have quite the sweet tooth.

e monkey pour coffee on mah boots

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:28:00 +0000

So, uh, I got a lift on someone's motorcycle today, but the right passenger footrest popped away and I ended up resting my foot on the exhaust pipe without realising it. So my boot melted! (I thought I was just getting a foot cramp until I tried lifting my foot to find it stuck. Good thing I had really thick soles - it melted through about an inch and a half of plastic!

Here is the melted boot and my un-melted boot for comparison. I'm disappointed because I only got them in May this year for my trip to Sydney for the FullCodePress competition, and it's really hard to find well-fitting knee-high boots. On the other hand, I think it's hillarious. In the end, it's just a material possession :P

Hexabot at Scitech

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:40:00 +0000

It's my new best work friend!

I also put a video up of the little guy walking around here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNRNAXNCBIc

Levelling up in the kitchen

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:21:00 +0000

I was bemoaning the fact that it is impossible to level up properly in real life, and that gaining new Perks in Fallout 3 sounded much more worthwhile than doing my chores to Karl... so he made me an exp bar on the refrigerator :D Karl wins at cheering me up!

Awesome portrait

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:58:00 +0000

One of our designers at work (Miles Noel) painted a commissioned portrait of our department's Director, who has been working at Scitech since it opened 21 years ago. Really impressive stuff, such a warm image. I'd love to see a series of these decorating the office walls!

Scitech's 21st invitations

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:23:00 +0000

We've been invited to the official Scitech 21st birthday launch!

Forget tea leaves

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:36:00 +0000

I have coffee trees!

Laptop decal

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:47:00 +0000

Here is the new laptop decal I just purchased for my 13.3" laptop, MostlyHarmless. I love this skin because of all the references to Super Mario Bros 2 :-)

The decal is from Gela Skins and cost as much as a portrait from R. Stevens of Diesel Sweeties fame... still regretting not buying the portrait when I had the chance (I was broke!)

My 17" laptop, TheBook, has the words "Don't Panic" embalzoned on it in large, friendly letters, and my desktop, Bistromath, has a warning about restaurant mathematics on it.

I purchased the custom text stickers for those two from a fishing company, bizarrely enough, as they specialised in printing waterpoof linoleum name stickers for boats.

So there you go.

How to use this book

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:40:00 +0000

This is a diagram on how to navigate between a textbook's chapters. Simple, huh? It's for a networking/mathematics book, funnily enough.

MDF dust makes the ground very slippery!

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:36:00 +0000

Some of the workshop crew and I inspect the work in progress for one of the exhibits being built for our latest exhibition. Plus one of the graphic designers gave me a more "realistic" background :D

Cupcakes with teeth!

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:05:00 +0000

Rawr!

cakes and cats

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:41:00 +0000

Just a quick catch up post. Here are two of the three birthday cakes I baked to share for my birthday last week (all wheat free recipes). The most delicious one in my opinion was the lemon-polenta-ricotta-berry cake, although the carrot cake was unbelievably good also. The carrot cake icing had a spicy dash of alcoholic zazz that really made a difference, along with a few other tricks to make it thick and fluffy and delicious!

I also made lemon-lavender cookies, and peanut butter cookies, which were ridiculously popular (they tasted like peanut flavoured shortbread, really).

Lucius was so cute snuggling up to Butters that I had to capture it on my mobile. I should put more Kyoko pics up here, it's just whenever she's cute I am mobile-less or she is already on my lap! Must get a recent pic Scott took of her and put it up here, it is brilliant.

End ramble.

Sketchtastic

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:51:00 +0000

These are a bit blurry (I really need to buy a camera to replace the one that got stolen in 2006...)

Wuffie is working on a nifty present for my 25th birthday (this Sunday), and these are some sketches she did of me while drafting the final thing. I adore them!

There can be only one

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:34:00 +0000

Looks like Lucius wins.

This is what happens when I make the bed

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:31:00 +0000

I dust it, I beat it, I air the mattress and change the sheets, and out of nowhere, cats spawn.

Best promotional pen ever

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:48:00 +0000

IT GLOWS PRETTY LIKE. For ScienceNetwork WA.

Placenta!

noreply@blogger.com (Karlski) — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:52:00 +0000

Placenta creme, apparently.

TOO MANY PANDAS

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:58:00 +0000

Jared made this image in response to me having my browser killed by a website called "Pandafix".

Special delivery

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:48:00 +0000

One of the guys in the workshop was away for a fortnight, and was expecting exhibit-related deliveries, so everyone filled his desk with fake packages!

Suspicious!

noreply@blogger.com (Karlski) — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:03:00 +0000

Something in this RIM is breaking the power distribution cards. This is the third replacement in as many months.

Clone troopers protecting my fish tank at work

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:33:00 +0000

Clone troopers are totally metal. Technically the standing one is a Storm Trooper, but FORCE CHOKE! So there!

These are not the cheap figurines you are looking for

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:30:00 +0000

My sunscreen protects rebels.

Aeroplane spinner

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy) — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:11:00 +0000

This is one of a pair of aeroplanes attached to a rotating device with a diameter of about 15 feet. It's huge and awesome and sounds like a depressed mosquito. It looks like a trap in an Indiana Jones flick. In development for the upcoming exhibition.

Tripmeter of the beast

noreply@blogger.com (Karlski) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:48:00 +0000

Nooooooooooo