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The Bledisloe Cup Test
Aug. 14th, 2005 12:37 am( Cut for anyone who hasn't seen the game and doesn't want to know what happened yet... )
I watched the first half of the game at a friend's party, where they had it projected up onto the living room wall. It was brilliant - covered the entire wall, which was helpfully painted white. Bit disconcerting when the players ran over the light switch though. Funniest moment of the evening occurred when one of the party guests sneezed while drinking tequila and managed to shoot it out of his nose!
In other news, we went flat-screen pc monitor shopping for hubby today, and came home with a very nice Benq 19" with a glossy finish which makes everything so so so sharp, and a refresh rate of 6ms. Even cooler, I got his old 17" digital flat screen for my PC!
I also picked up my birthday pressie, since Mum doesn't drive and hates taking Dad shopping because he's rude to the staff. It's a Canon 5200 scanner. 2400 x 4800 dpi and 48-bit colour depth. Scans photos, 35mm negatives and slides (which is awesome because we have a bunch Dad took when I was little that we can't view anymore because the projector broke). So I have to hand that over when I go over for Sunday roast tomorrow, and not get it back for a month :o(
While we were shopping I got myself a cool but inexpensive new keyboard, since the one that came with my comp is super-basic. It's an ergonomic multi-media keyboard - great for all the music listening and vid watching I do; tons of hot keys. The split keyboard is taking some getting used to, especially since I touch type with the wrong fingers and now have to relearn to use the right ones. So sorry if there's any typos I haven't corrected. I can tell it'll be great once I get the hang of it, my wrists feel better already. Swapping back and forth between this and my flat one at work is going to be fun...
I watched the first half of the game at a friend's party, where they had it projected up onto the living room wall. It was brilliant - covered the entire wall, which was helpfully painted white. Bit disconcerting when the players ran over the light switch though. Funniest moment of the evening occurred when one of the party guests sneezed while drinking tequila and managed to shoot it out of his nose!
In other news, we went flat-screen pc monitor shopping for hubby today, and came home with a very nice Benq 19" with a glossy finish which makes everything so so so sharp, and a refresh rate of 6ms. Even cooler, I got his old 17" digital flat screen for my PC!
I also picked up my birthday pressie, since Mum doesn't drive and hates taking Dad shopping because he's rude to the staff. It's a Canon 5200 scanner. 2400 x 4800 dpi and 48-bit colour depth. Scans photos, 35mm negatives and slides (which is awesome because we have a bunch Dad took when I was little that we can't view anymore because the projector broke). So I have to hand that over when I go over for Sunday roast tomorrow, and not get it back for a month :o(
While we were shopping I got myself a cool but inexpensive new keyboard, since the one that came with my comp is super-basic. It's an ergonomic multi-media keyboard - great for all the music listening and vid watching I do; tons of hot keys. The split keyboard is taking some getting used to, especially since I touch type with the wrong fingers and now have to relearn to use the right ones. So sorry if there's any typos I haven't corrected. I can tell it'll be great once I get the hang of it, my wrists feel better already. Swapping back and forth between this and my flat one at work is going to be fun...
