Ian’s blogomatic

I'm browsing when my son walks in to see what I'm doing. I show him and say "I like lol cat grammar"

He suggested I have a look at this:

I've been playing with the face averaging tool from Face Research. It lets you choose a number of faces and 'average' them. If you go through and choose all the freakiest blokes or girls and average them, they come out looking quite pleasant. Obviously genetics works differently than face averaging :-)

If you are a mad dictator into eugenics, choosing all the blond caucasian women gives you a pretty bland cheerleader. More racially diverse mixes make much more interesting faces.

Turning out of the farm gate onto the road I accelerate away. A small
mud lark hops along the centre of the road so I curve around to avoid
it. At the last moment, the bird hops under the front tyre. There is no
bump, but looking in the mirror, I see a puff of feathers being
swirled up into the car's wake.

I glance at my daughter. "I tried to dodge it, but he hopped the wrong way"

"Well, we can add that to the list of morning deadness"

I've been at my first Country Week, coaching a basketball team
–something I have never done. In fact, I'm not sure I had ever watched
an entire basketball match until this week. My team has been very
understanding about this, even when I had to call a time-out to get my
team in a huddle to explain the cross-court rule. We have won two
games and lost three, but these statistics don't reflect the way we
have changed to work as a team and rely on each other. All of a
sudden, I can see the point in sport for kids. It's not just a waste
of good maths teaching time, its a trick to teach kids something
important about working together and challenging yourself while they
think they are just having fun.

In another first for the week, I just went abseiling with the kids at
the camp-site we are staying at. As well as loving all the macho
ropes, knots and gear, I turned out to not suck at it and had a ball.
I'm all testosterone pumped up for more danger based excitement.

The NRC Lions won the hockey grand final, finishing the season undefeated. Naturally this is such big news I would want to blog it from my phone. This has a couple of problems. The first is I don't know how to insert paragraph ends - presumably this could be fixed by reading the phone manual. The second problem is that my Motorola can't rotate photos. I wanted to include this photo:

Since I was with Flossy, and her LG500 can rotate, I bluetoothed it to her. She rotated it but in the process it lost some quality and got squashed.

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My son has just pointed out a third problem, no spell checker on the phone!

I noticed some sticky tape this morning, and was struck by a memory of my Grandmother’s house. She always used that pearly, soft, opaque sticky tape that only becomes transparent when you press it onto something. At home, we only had the stiffer type of tape with a yellowish cast. Heat and age would make it even stiffer and somewhat brown until the makeshift repairs to the spines of our most well loved picture books fell off.

Grandma and Grandad had other exotic things at their house in Perth. Bought Milk that the milkman delivered seemed so much nicer than the powdered milk that Mum made. She usually mixed up a jug of it in the morning before she called us out of bed. It was frequently still warm and therefore made the cereal (only ever Weeties or Weetbix) soggy. Grandma had Corn Flakes at her house – just like the characters in Archie comics ate.

Weeties were made at the factory in Fremantle and therefore made that part of North Fremantle smell delicious until the sea breeze blew in each day. I remember it closing in the seventies or early eighties. On the news they interviewed some of the employees as they wandered out the gates for the last time. They seemed lost, embarking on a major change to their lives they didn’t ask for, and losing something they now realised was important to them.

(Image credit: charlie_vdb)

According to the tool "What's my blog rated?" (a trick to make you watch an advert from on online dating site) this blog is rated G: it contains no bad words.

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This is how good advertising works on the internet. You give something, it suits our ten second attention span, you get some eyeballs.

I've been organising my photos (curse of the phone camera age) and found this one that I took near the ferry terminal in Cleveland earlier this year.

I also posted it as it gave me an excuse to try out embedding a google street view on posterous. It didn't appear to work, I got this link:

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but that's all.

Jessica Hagy says a lot with very little over at her blog indexed.