keith fletcher?

The Google “Hot Trends” listing of the 100 fastest rising search terms for January 22 contains 25 relating to Ledger, including seven in the top 10.
Among the searches were many misspellings including Keith Ledger, Keith Fletcher, Heath Leader, Keith Legend and Heath Fletcher.

he won idol, he wrote a novel

i really dont know how i missed it, but damian leith published his first book in october 2007 and is working on his second.
because i think that its important to support australian writers, even if they are bogan irish/australian idol winners, i borrowed it from the library to read.  it’s about a guy who goes trekking in nepal. [...]

just who do you think you are?

the local history librarian is really dark with SBS.  as a result of the documentary series ‘who do you think you are’  [yesterday it featured kate cebrano and it was pretty good] there has been a tenfold increase in requests to go through old local newspapers and council gazettes.  pretty funny.

mains and dessert, at the same time thanks

 Available for a short time only from Kikuya, a ramen shop near Tokyo’s Kitasenjyu Station. Other items on the menu include white ramen (yogurt), red ramen (tomato), natto ramen, milk ramen, hot cocoa ramen, and pork kimchi ramen.
 oishii, ne?

library game - addicted for about 10 minutes

 
i scoffed at this game called “i’ll get it!” when I first saw it. but then, totally against my will, i became engrossed for a short time before i got bored when it started to repeat questions. 
this game,  still in the testing phase, is designed to help university students find research materials. it does take a while to figure [...]

‘obscure’ google search tips

the currency conversion, world time search and flight details are great my life is never going to be the same again.
http://lifehacker.com/339474/top-10-obscure-google-search-tricks
while on the site i also recommend the ‘top 10 food and drinks hacks’, where you can learn how to open a beer bottle with a piece of paper [great party trick though you probably have to be reasonably [...]

superhero week at the library

 
not that i can really judge children’s librarians. i was pissed of cause our own children’s librarian did a superhero cape making activity yesterday and I wasn’t told about it.
however next week it’s superhero origami, and we are all set to make ninja stars, samuari helmets (I mean superhero hats) and paper planes, culminating in a [...]

children’s librarians

at strange hours of the non working day i am hearing “old macdonald had a farm e-i-e-i-o”, and ”heads and shoulders knees and toes”  blaring out of katy’s room.  she swear’s that she’s listening to these cds for study purposes…

i’m no groper [but i feel pretty stupid carrying this plastic ring]

yet another example of japanese genius. ‘chikan’ - groping on crowded subways - is a common thing in japan and the last thing you want to be accused of during the peakhour ride home.
 look carefully to see that the subway handles pictured are not actually joined to anything. they are simply there to hold onto, [...]

chomolungma

edmund hillary died on the weekend. my updated banner image was taken on a flight between tibet and nepal in 06. in my opinion, ALL mountains in the himalayan ranges are impossibly high and impossibly dangerous and impossibly impossible to ever contemplate climbing.
when i walked to everest base camp [tibet side], in the two or so [...]