SF Day 2 - By the Numbers

23.5 - Kilometres walked 1 - Hawaiian pizzas eaten 1 - Cups of coffee drunk 216 - Photos shot 136 - Photos inexplicably unrecoverable 4 - Letters in the word I used Update: Got ‘em! The camera and card reader don’t cope well when a single photo is corrupted… deleted it and the problem went away. 216 - Photos shot 128 - Photos deleted straight away 88 - Photos remaining, of which… 45 - Photos marked for upload I love shooting digital.

Overheard in New York

And submitted to Overheard In New York: “See, the rule is that a guy can’t have both hands full. A guy’s gotta have one hand free so he can punch people.”

From SFO

I’m in San Francisco! I think I’ll start a Web 2.0 flipmeat company and make ten million dollars before they call my flight. Wish me luck. Update: If this page is to be believed, Telstra postpaid customers get unlimited global roaming access to T-Mobile’s hotspots… and all it costs is a dollar or so per session for an international SMS. Bargain of the century! (Especially when you consider that T-Mobile’s rates are nearly as usurious as Telstra’s.

Josh Cooks Everything: Swedish Lemon Angels

Found this one in Penn and Teller’s How To Play With Your Food. Ingredients 1 egg 1⁄2 cup buttermilk (apparently 1⁄4 cup milk and 1⁄4 cup vinegar also works. Don’t ask me how…) 5 tsp baking soda 1 tsp vanilla essence 1 cup lemon juice (fresh is best) 1 1⁄4 cups white sugar 1 cup flour 8 tbsp melted butter Method Preheat oven to 190 degrees Celsius (or 375 Fahrenheit)

JRE is led unto Temptation

I auditioned for Temptation this evening. Read on to find out how I went. And if you want to audition as well, lob an email to temptationcontestant at nine dot com dot au. The audition isn’t as intimidating as you might think. It starts with a 50-question general knowledge quiz - and when I say “general”, I mean “general”. Geography, history, sport, and pop culture were all fair game. My sports and pop culture knowledge is pretty dismal - and it showed.