is there an official term for my condition?

being a non cook, i sometimes struggle to justify my favourite tv show ever being the iron chef. despite it ending in the early 2000s and having to watch repeat food battles fought out in kitchen stadium, sometimes a decade ago, chairman kaga and his team of cullinary maestros never fail to entertain me.  [our library has a copy of the iron chef 'official book' and this has [...]

the spatula forum

because i really do care about semantics i needed to be certain about what the world calls the kitchen utensil pictured above [thought not heart shaped ones in particular, i just liked the picture].
being the very learned reference librarian that i aspire to be one day, i went onto google images and did a couple of searches [...]

freshly baked usb

this usb fortune cookie also comes in green pink and blue, which I am a bit unsure about. you can also get pizzas and donuts. on my nice to have but not essential gadget list for this week.

dont diss my poncho

The uk daily mail recently published a survey of top ten fashion winners and disasters according to a survey of shoppers.
I own one of the “winners” (stilletos) . However I own four of the “disasters” (poncho – several of these; hooded sweatshirt – several; leggings – several; puffball skirt) and want to own a fifth “disaster” (velour tracksuit).
however [...]

white gadgets

I have a confession to make and it’s that I have a penchant for white gadgets. 
not having the patience to wait for apple to realease the iphone here in australia, I yesterday wandered into a phone store and bought a new phone, for no particular reason my old one still works perfectly, on the superficial criteria being that it was sparkling [...]

november was a good month

most libraries don’t use these check out slips now because we get our borrowing stats from our library management systems.  the melbourne athenaeum library is one of the few libraries that does still use them, and I checked a book out to  a patron a couple of weeks ago with a last use date of 1974.  that was over 30 years [...]

elude your stalker

 Deftly, Ms. Tsukioka, a 29-year-old experimental fashion designer, lifted a flap on her skirt to reveal a large sheet of cloth printed in bright red with a soft drink logo partly visible. By holding the sheet open and stepping to the side of the road, she showed how a woman walking alone could elude pursuers [...]

i heart origami

   
as if its not obvious already, but origami is my current obsession.  yesterday when I was flicking through magazines at the athenaeum library (aka working) I came across the same excellent emerald green Dior dress with origami pleating in both the latest Vogue, and a New Yorker edition from last month.
i checked out the slideshow of the [...]

cocktail builder

this cocktail builder takes what liquids you have around the place and tells you what cocktail you can whip up. i found it on the web 2.0 awards site, where it won first place in the ‘fun’ section. and deservedly so. 
however, one small flaw that i noticed in this 2.0 application  was that it only accepted legitimate beverages into the cocktail equation. [...]

daiquiri anyone?

one day a guy walked into the library and asked to take a photo from the window of a big mother fucker glittering stilleto that was on the roof of the theature across the road.  it turns out that he was the publicist for Priscilla Queen of the Desert the musical which was playing at that theatre.  jill [...]