Also, who wants to go to WOTW?  You should tell me now.  I can book in a big chunk.  I'd be going for A reserve; I'm not convinced the "Platinum" seats are worth it.  Although they are only $15 more...  If you want B reserve tickets say that also and we can see if you'd have company.

http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=WAROFTHE07

Comment if you'd like to come to any of these.  I've chosen Friday nights fairly arbitrarily.  If there's one you want to see but you can't do the Friday I'm open to alternative suggestions.  Some of them close on a Saturday so I would consider that too if anyone wants.

The Glass Menagerie - Friday 3 or 10 August (the 3rd is starting to sell out)
( Read more... )

Is there anyone in eljay land who would be willing to lend me a sewing machine? I'm doing a course which the trusty 1970s Husqvarna decided was a bit too much -- the upper thread tension went way off, my fabric was getting pulled down through the needle plate, and my attempts to fix it led to a squeaking noise when stitching at full speed. ( Read more... )

I've been looking at Wikipedia's List of cognitive biases. Sometimes cognitive bias will lead to error and other times to success.

What does it mean if I could accuse myself of believing both in an illusion of asymmetric insight and an illusion of transparency - maybe this list of cognitive biases is merely the result of a clustering illusion?

No mouse clicks works, until you want to get out of the self-contained no-clicking universe and look at another window. Surely I'm not the only one making liberal use of tabbed browsing and the capacity of MS Windows to have open multiple windows.

What will happen when I'm playing tennis on my brand new Wii and I get an itchy nose?

I've always known that Lulu sings "I'm a tiger", but I've always heard it as "I'm a tiny girl". I don't know, there's just something untigerish about her singing. The video clip however has completely changed my view. One word: WHOA.

Hey everybody. Greg's left me alone in the house and I've just either discovered or installed a virus on his computer.

It ran from a text file no less!

I'm a person who thinks about the future a lot, and usually in an excited kind of way. Maybe I live a little to much in the future and neglect the present, and the connections I have to make between the present and my imagined future. WHATEVER ( Read more... )

The Palace isn't showing Eurovision this year...

Greg has most of his Eurovision outfit. Because he is a style genius, he can make pvc and velour look good ( Read more... )