Lunchtime today, I found Kinokuniya. The little story goes a little something like this. So it’s 1:05, and I’ve finished the lunch I brought from home. Good food, but eating at the desk is just one of those things that keeps you thinking about work, not relaxing. I ate at the desk because there’s a microwave in the kitchen, but it’s one of those tiny bar-kitchens and you pretty much only have the option of sitting back at your desk. So anyway, I try to think of a way to spend the next 40 minutes without going straight back to work, because that’s what I’d done the last two days and it wasn’t what you’d call fun. I remember that I’d said to myself I’d find Kinokuniya in Sydney, so I idly google and find that it is at 500 George St, “The Galleries Victoria”. That’s right opposite the Queen Victoria Building, a designer-filled “mall”, but to say mall is to insult it. It’s classy. ...

Multi-touch screen demo: This is the next paradigm shift in computing. This is the future. This… is nearly here. Whoa.

9 lasts: last cigarette: never last beverage: fresh squeezed limes from my backyard in water last kiss: much, much too long ago last movie seen: Just Like Heaven last phone call: family friend (y’know, one of them “Aunties”) last cd played: Naughty by Nature - IIcons… like last year some time. last bubble bath: Years and years ago… probably something like 1995 last time you cried: Can’t actually recall this one, so long enough ago ...

I’ve just seen this pile of book-type things dumped on my desk because the intern who had them has finished up, and I’m the next person in line that these things are relevant to. It’s the “training materials” for our course. And I swear to you, it is the size of at least 3 A-K Yellow Pages. And it’s not complete - I can tell there are things that are missing because there’s stuff like “vol 2” and no corresponding volume 1. ...

To Idolspize: to simultaneously idolize or admire someone while hating their guts. I finally have a word for it.