TECHNOLOGY
[08:49] Bunyip: blararg
[08:49] Bunyip: the internet stopped updating
[08:49] Spork: waaaagh
[08:49] Bunyip: all of it
[08:49] Spork: time stood still in a moment
[08:50] Bunyip: so it's time for more classic times with sporky
[08:50] Bunyip: tymes, even
[08:50] Bunyip: classick tymes
[08:50] Spork: do.. do you want me to get out my dried herbs?
[08:50] Spork: i have some oregano..
[08:51] Bunyip: :(

LINGUISTICS
[08:51] Bunyip: "please enter your access code"
[08:51] Bunyip: "invalid access code"
[08:51] Bunyip: i have forgotten my code
[08:52] Spork: is it 0000
[08:52] Bunyip: worth a shot
[08:52] Bunyip: no :(
[08:52] Bunyip: that's two frownies already and it's not even 9 o'clock yet
[08:53] Spork: i fear for your sanity if you have to use three
[08:53] Bunyip: o'clock is such a deliciously archaic word
[08:53] Bunyip: i love the thought that americans are using o'clock without even thinking about it
[08:53] Spork: if they had any idea, they'd try and put a z in it
[08:54] Bunyip: yes :(
[08:54] Bunyip: crap 3
[08:54] Spork: nooo

LOGISTICS
[08:54] Bunyip: i should try to find out who my manager is today
[08:55] Bunyip: as penance
[08:56] Bunyip: ok manager candidate no 1 is not at work yet
[08:57] Spork: why do you get there so early
[08:57] Bunyip: because public transport is more bearable if i go early
[08:57] Bunyip: also i hate leaving late
[08:58] Bunyip: if i leave 5 minutes later in the morning, i get to work like half an hour later
[08:58] Spork: do you get paid more to be there early?
[08:58] Bunyip: no
[08:58] Bunyip: but i get to leave at 5
[08:58] Bunyip: also the later i leave the more disgusting schoolkids are on the bus
[08:59] Spork: that is a critical conclusion there

BIOLOGY
[08:59] Bunyip: DISGUSTING WORMY TEENAGERS
[08:59] Spork: full of..
[08:59] Spork: worms
[08:59] Bunyip: so many worms
[08:59] Spork: i know i was dripping with them
[08:59] Spork: then on my 20th they just seemed to drop out
[09:00] Bunyip: it is advisable to hold 20th birthday parties on plastic
[09:00] Spork: yeah the cleanup would've been easier
[09:00] Bunyip: because blort
[09:00] Spork: luckily, i was on the toilet at the exact time of my birth
[09:00] Spork: because i like to time these things
[09:00] Spork: keep up "heavy expellations" on time
[09:00] Spork: as an anniversary
[09:01] Bunyip: it's worth celebrating these occasions
[09:01] Spork: heck if i don't, no-one will
[09:02] Bunyip: more fool them

CURRENT EVENTS
[09:03] Bunyip: ok, today's news!
[09:03] Bunyip: Tens of thousands of protesters in Bangkok, Thailand demand the resignation of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
[09:03] Bunyip: i was just looking in our address book and noticing how cool all the thai names are
[09:03] Bunyip: (we have a thailand branch)
[09:04] Bunyip: i wonder if Narin Limsamphanchareon and Narumon Amatasawatdee are at the protests
[09:07] Spork: maybe they are being protested for having too long names
[09:07] Spork: did you think of that
[09:07] Bunyip: i did not!
[09:08] Bunyip: the PM is Thaksin Shinawatra, perhaps he is being protested for having a name too short
[09:09] Spork: aaah
[09:09] Spork: maybe if he added a few extra letters then all of this could be solved
[09:09] Spork: shinawatrahanceon
[09:09] Spork: shinawatruncheon
[09:10] Bunyip: woah, check out the king's name
[09:10] Bunyip: Bhumibol Adulyadej
[09:10] Bunyip: no wonder he is king
[09:10] Bunyip: i am awed
[09:12] Bunyip: i should update wikipedia
[09:12] Bunyip: Critics have accused him of insider trading and structuring the deal to avoid paying hefty taxes, among other irregularities.
[09:12] Bunyip: ...including his relatively uninteresting name
[09:12] Spork: his name starts "bum"
[09:13] Spork: that will never be uninteresting
[09:13] Bunyip: no, i meant the pm
[09:13] Bunyip: the king's not getting protested
[09:13] Bunyip: how could you protest a bhumibol
[09:13] Spork: oooh
[09:14] Spork: i know i couldn't
[09:14] Spork: it'd go against my every essence
[09:14] Bunyip: you'd be all "JUSTICE FOR THE POOR" and they'd be "here is king bhumibol" and i'd be "oh shit your highness i am ever so sorry"
[09:15] Bunyip: i swapped you for i there
[09:15] Bunyip: it got personal
[09:15] Bunyip: i couldn't distance myself from the story
[09:15] Bunyip: my rivals at the paper were correct
[09:15] Spork: you are too much of a renegade i fear
[09:15] Bunyip: I am guilty .. OF CARING TOO MUCH
[09:17] Spork: you will be a great mother one day
[09:17] Bunyip: if only!

NOMENCLATURE
[09:17] Bunyip: i never thought i'd get addicted to wikipedia
[09:18] Spork: i guess it's better to be addicted to wikipedia than porno
[09:18] Bunyip: you can look at wikipeida at work
[09:18] Bunyip: wikipedophile
[09:18] Bunyip: :(
[09:18] Bunyip: i should stop making up names for things
[09:19] Spork: that makes you sound like a bad, bad person
[09:19] Bunyip: how about ... wikiawesomeguy
[09:19] Bunyip: oh wait there's already a name for it
[09:20] Bunyip: "wikilectual" :(
[09:20] Bunyip: though that might just be if you quote facts at people just to feel superior
[09:20] Bunyip: i quote facts at people because they're so gosh-darned interesting
[09:21] Bunyip: i talk to gobo about football and soccer and cricket all the time
[09:21] Bunyip: he hates me so much :(

ART
[09:21] Spork: so you've moved on from thorn then
[09:22] Bunyip: yes, thorn conversations are just weird now
[09:22] Bunyip: it is like performance art with no one else watching
[09:23] Spork: all covering yourselves in poop and screaming gutterally?
[09:24] Bunyip: well apparently that is what performance art is these days
[09:24] Bunyip: so i guess it's good we just have chat
[09:25] Bunyip: i have read one or two places where people who are performance artists say "yes we throw up and then we eat the vomit, and then we cut each other and fuck the holes yes hm"
[09:25] Bunyip: but no if i talk to thorn generally it just becomes pun competitions
[09:26] Bunyip: which may be worse
[09:26] Spork: i think they may be more dangerous

LITERATURE
[09:28] Bunyip: well, heck, i guess my project is "on hold"
[09:28] Bunyip: what the shit
[09:28] Spork: does that mean you have nothing to do?
[09:28] Bunyip: looks that way!
[09:28] Bunyip: i should have brought some financial paperwork from home
[09:29] Bunyip: i could a) research the technology i will be using (PSH)
[09:29] Bunyip: b) work on my great adventure game!
[09:29] Bunyip: c) work on my great novel!
[09:29] Spork: c!
[09:29] Bunyip: d) write a bunch of canned reviews for my music recommendattions thread
[09:29] Bunyip: which no-one will read or care about
[09:29] Spork: and then mail me and i will have something to read that is not a paper about open source or automatically guided vehicles!
[09:29] Bunyip: i'm leaning towards d
[09:30] Bunyip: my great novel consists of one(1) gimmick so far
[09:31] Bunyip: i dunno if i need more or what
[09:31] Bunyip: anyway there are 7 dudes who all have destinies!
[09:31] Bunyip: they are all white dudes because i'm scared of women and black people.
[09:32] Bunyip: anyway maybe the 7 dudes come from earth
[09:32] Spork: earth
[09:32] Spork: IN THE FUTURE
[09:32] Spork: but they are in the past
[09:32] Spork: which is now
[09:32] Bunyip: except different!
[09:32] Bunyip: woah
[09:33] Bunyip: yeah so i guess the next step is to come up with AWESOME NAMES
[09:33] Bunyip: and draw a map
[09:33] Bunyip: i don't suppose i could call the most awesome dude bhumibol
[09:34] Bunyip: maybe i will call him jack
[09:34] Bunyip: jack bauermibol

OK enough of that.


I stopped working offsite and got back to our main office to find out 6 or 7 people left. Hmm. The main reason is we've merged with another company with a substantially different approach to things and we're moving out to their premises, further away from the city. None of it is particularly drastic as far as I'm concerned. We had a meeting today so our new managers could explain that they're not so bad really, but it came a bit late. Oh well.

I've got a high-school reunion coming up in April. I guess I'll blog about it afterwards! Look out for that one, oh boy.

I jogged for two weeks and put on two kilos. I'll stop for a week and see what happens.

Toby keeps growing. He gets pretty heavy to carry around. He's also getting too clever by half. He woke up twice last night, but noticing how he kind of giggled when I went to get him the first time, we let him scream for a bit the second time, and he gave up and went back to sleep! Anyway, he's ridiculously appealing and is sure to take advantage of the fact as he gets older.