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At some stage the question got abbreviated even further to “how’s boys?” for Alyssa, who now seems to have a consistent answer to my question.

d3vo has taken to publishing his personal shortlist online which I find highly entertaining- well actually I find my imaginings of the reactions of the real people on the shortlist to be entertaining, not the list itself. See where not to meet single women, date planning, bed trays and date planning updated.

I guess you (who are about to apply for inclusion onto the shortlist) would take great solace in knowing that a full documented history is available and if you’re in trouble at all you can jump online to possibly find out why and maybe get some hints on what to do about it.

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I’ve used Textmate to make two files, synergys.sh and synergyc.sh.

To start the server on the imac:
#!/bin/bash

echo "Starting synergy server"
/Applications/synergy-1.3.1/synergys -f --config /Applications/synergy-1.3.1/synergy.conf

To start the client on the macbook:
#!/bin/bash

echo "Starting synergy client"
/Applications/synergy-1.3.1/synergyc -f computername

and don’t forget to make it executable:
chmod +x filename.sh

and/or if you want it to be double clickable just rename the script to filename.command

Thanks d3vo for the pointers!

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This new so called Monster Bullet from Micro is so much fun to ride- very different from ordinary scooters with this cool new “carving” mechanism. It corners like a snowboard; you can push it around and fish tail it with your hind leg.

So d3vo and I just spent the evening looking into hotting up his scooter. He has quite different preferences to me. In general I like my scooter to be as small as possible, as light as possible, with very stable smooth wheels that have great stamina, no movement in any other part except brakes and steering, silent braking. d3vo likes a long, wide deck and the biggest (we presume fastest) wheels he can fit on it.

BTW if you’re coming to Wellington from London and would like to bring my A-bike over with you in exchange for a beer and/or a hug, you’re on.

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Today I planted a small herb garden, went for a bike ride, tried unsuccessfully to make an Automator shell script, got Synergy going with my macs (easy!), figured out why MarkSpace wasn’t synching with my phone (leopard), listened to some podcasts, bounced on the trampoline, read a bunch of blogs, played my ukulele, designed something and ordered it from ponoko, tidied my room, put some mung beans in the sprouter, got a yogurt maker and put some yogurt on for tomorrow, picked up a couple of minor gifts from New World, got mildly tanned in the sun, played with the friendly sheep in the field and the mad ducks under the sprinkler, pulled some weeds, picked some apricots, watered the orchard, and watched An Inconvenient Truth (very compelling).

So anyways, I’m planning to post almost every day over the next week or two, so even though I didn’t have anything to say I thought I’d better kick start the habit.

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Yeah, I know smart execs have delegated for centuries. But I can envision a world where sweating over your beepy electronic device starts looking about as “executive” and “pro-active” as sucking on a crack pipe in the break room.

Lately I’ve taken to treating the phone like any other information source, it can wait its turn. There’s a stack of magazines sitting under my desk that have been waiting longer for attention than some of my text messages. That hardly seems fair now, does it?

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Every day next week St Johns loyalty members will get a free beer from a different part of the world between 5pm & 6.30pm. If you complete the passport of all five beers you win a $50 bar-tab. Easy as that!

Mon 17th - Monteiths NZ
Tues 18th - Tiger Singapore
Wed 19th - Erdinger Germany
Thurs 20th - Budvar Czech Rep.
Frid 21st - Heineken Holland

So now you know where I’ll be after work next week. You just need to sign up to their loyalty scheme.

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While having a conversation with an Australian about New Zealand’s complete lack of native animals (you may not have noticed that NZ has some native birds, but no animals) when the conversation naturally turned to the similar lack of dangerous creatures. No sharks, no crocodiles, no snakes, less spiders, no scary ants… much safer. A nearby rubbernecking kiwi (who shall remain nameless and, for the record, is not blonde does not have blonde hair) piped up saying “we have pigeons!”, which are neither native nor particularly dangerous. Good one Jaz.

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My feeling on this is that as you’re standing there naked and wet you can’t race off and action the first thought you have (no doubt getting distracted by another anyway). Taking a shower also presumably consumes very little brain power; there’s usually no-one else around, no email, no mess, so you are free to think without boundaries.

I actually have a magna doodle on the wall in my shower so that I can draw pictures or write down my ideas as I have them. Inevitably it gets used for entertaining diagrammatical conversation with other shower users, but from time to time it has saved me from forgetfulness.

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