Spam-flavoured macadamias
My kids were in Hawaii over Christmas with their mum for a family get together.
They looked for something uniquely Hawaiian to bring me back, and settled on this.
I love getting a souvenir that is truly unique to a place.
It’s just as is labelled on the can. They’re macadamias, but they’re spam-flavoured.
Who knew?
Tags: food, nuts, spam
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Getting rid of old TVs
Seems like half of Melbourne has got a new flat screen TV or computer monitor, judging from the number of CRTs left around the streets.
In my view, you shouldn’t just dump them on the nature strip.
Assuming it’s working, ask around to see if a charity somewhere wants it. Or list it on Freecycle so someone who wants one can come and get it.
If as a last resort it goes onto the nature strip (and of course you should attach the remote and any other accessories to it in a bag), and nobody’s taken it within a few days, don’t just leave it to get rain-damaged and litter up the street. Get it taken away — in a lot of council areas (including here in Glen Eira), you can request hard rubbish collection on-demand, for free.
Butterfly ball (Love is all)
My recollection is this clip used to pop up on the ABC when they had five minutes to fill.
Nowadays they’d probably just run a bunch of promos and adverts for the ABC Shop.
The song is actually called “Love Is All”, from The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast.
I can’t make it along, but I believe Clare and Fahad’s wedding this weekend will use the music during the service — they were looking for some cheery music for the recessional. Very catchy. Almost appallingly catchy. Hope the wedding goes well guys, congratulations!
Tags: Butterfly Ball, friends, weddings
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The last Metcard
I was an early adopter of Myki, if only to see the problems it’s had first hand.
But since I started using it, I’ve still carried a Metcard in my wallet. The last Metcard. A 10×2 hour zone 2, for my occasional forays into zone 2 — used on days I was only going into zone 2, and only for weekdays (since on weekends there are other, cheaper fares). And with a Barbie design on it.
Edit: Inspection of the card shows it was bought and first used in July 2009.
A few weeks ago I had got down to the last of the ten fares on the card. On Monday I used the last — ironically to go to Vicroads to get my new driver’s licence.
And that, assuming that Myki doesn’t get scrapped and the Metcard system is pulled back from the brink of oblivion, was my last Metcard.
I had intended to film the validation on the trip back, made with the same ticket, but was chatting to an Irish bloke who was trying to get from Vicroads in South Oakleigh to Murrumbeena Station. Poor bloke… a two-bus trip with a terrible connection (which he just missed), and costing him two zones.
And alas the video above doesn’t quite show the full validation process clearly. But it is evident that it takes about two seconds (and regulars will know it sometimes takes a bit more while the machine thinks about it before spitting the card out). Contrast this to (typically, when it’s running well nowadays) about a second for a Myki touch.
(Thanks to a poster on Whirlpool for the idea of marking this occasion.)
Tags: Metcard, Myki, public transport
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Aussie Aussie Aussie
Go on then, name me something more Aussie than kangaroo sausages on the barbecue?
To be honest I haven’t previously been that keen on the kanga bangers when grilled or fried. But BBQ makes everything taste better… right?
Update 4pm. Amusingly given Tony’s comment, I flipped on the TV while I was eating and found Skippy on Gem. The snags were more enjoyable barbecued, though still not my favourite. A shame, since they’re so much healthier (eg virtually zero fat, compared to beef which are 20%+ fat).
Mind you, Macro Meats could do with someone to do a little checking of their packaging. Rogue apostrophes in this day and age.
Tags: Aussie, barbecue, kangaroo
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Double awesome!
Damn! Double the awesomeness, and I missed it.
Seems like specifying the suburb name was an afterthought… and I wonder if there was a re-scheduling.
Tags: garage sales
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First!
It appears I was the first person to successfully use the Myki vending machine at Bentleigh station, back on the first of last year. Hardly surprising as few people in Melbourne had a card at that point.
And this afternoon I got Sales Transaction ID number 3370, when I dumped a bunch of change onto my card.
Note the chopped-off Myki logo on today’s receipt — it’s not an error scanning it, but some kind of printing/alignment error. Incidentally today’s receipt is on a thicker form of thermal paper than that used originally. Fascinating, I’m sure you’ll agree.
Back then, as now, if you perform an EFTPOS/credit card transaction, if you say you don’t want a receipt, it’ll issue one. If you say you do want a receipt, it’ll issue two. Masterful.
Tags: Myki, public transport
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Cheese slices
Kath Lockett found some old adverts, including this one:
We sometimes had these cheese slices when I was a kid.
It must have been my early computer-geek (binary) mind at work, but I would eat them by folding them in half, so one half broke off, eating that, then repeating with the half that was left… until the bit left in my hand was so microscopic it couldn’t be folded in half any more.
Was that just me?
I think eventually everybody figured out that the processed cheese was really not that healthy compared to other snacks.
Tags: cheese, food, Kraft
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