This Week

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LIFE

Progress on my apartment has stalled, although I do finally have internet again, which is nice. I made it to the gym 4x during the week, and then took off for a weekend at the spa with my mom! No weights or yoga this week, due to class times and the less than stellar class options at the spa.

Caught up with a friend, and went on what turned out to be my last date with that particular bloke. His behaviour made me feel a bit crap, but whatever – delete his number, block him, move on. Dating feels like such a waste of time though, I could better spend that time… in the gym? Working? Writing? I think I need to take more of this approach.

Meanwhile my writing is going well, I made a start on Intimidating Project and it looks like some pieces of my writing will be elsewhere on the internet soon.

Finally walked to work – the tube is surprisingly painless and given the weather I haven’t been walking as much as I thought I would. It’s not the warmest here so I teamed thermals with sweatpants (disguised!) and… ended up having to cover an interview. Oops.

WORK

Writing lots of code this week, although things didn’t go to plan (do they ever?) and my “simple” refactoring is exponentially more work than we thought it would be. But hey, I’m learning a lot and the end of this overall task is in sight, and we’re starting to talk about what’s next. Which includes this design exercise I’ve organised in NYC, which I’m excited about.

PLACES

Got dinner at Bill’s (OK, Bill’s in Sydney is so much better) and Shoryu Ramen which was great, and inexpensive – raspberry chocolate mochi. Lovely! Weekend at Champney’s spa, but that is a separate story.

MEDIA

Still working on The Charisma Myth, but I did finish Bond Girl, and read Chocolate Cake For Breakfast (set in NZ, quite light but I enjoyed it). Still watching Brothers and Sisters season 4. Still rocking out to Lady Gaga’s new album (ARTPOP) on Grooveshark, but also found the new Katy Perry album (PRISM), I adore Roar – great video!

Links Amazon.

PUBLISHED

ON THE INTERNET

Interesting from @Caterina – “Parenting, Communities and Crime” – http://buff.ly/1cTZgiC
I can’t subscribe to @shanley‘s Model View Culture because I’m not in the US, but if you are, you should – amazing – http://modelviewculture.com/
I like this on “what about the dudes” – Men – if you’re not a feminist, it’s fine, just move on – http://buff.ly/1fkkk9I
Like this on recognition ” like healthy food and exercise, life is a whole lot better with it” – http://buff.ly/1aWIEXI /via @dontgetcaught
When Chinese – English translation goes adorably wrong… pic.twitter.com/MT2tfaDGxH /via @sarahknapton
This is fascinating, long but worth a read – Surviving Anxiety – http://buff.ly/1fjde5f /via @jenny_blake
I like this on being single – The Hard-Won Lessons of the Solitary Years – http://buff.ly/19kU4JI /via @jenny_blake
Yes, yes, yes – empathy is a core engineering value – http://buff.ly/1dCAwMI /via @petewarden
Great talk, glad it made famous speech Friday! “We should all be feminists” @ChimamandaSays http://buff.ly/KSeDCI /by @dontgetcaught
This is good – On Tone Policing: Why It’s Bullshit And Why You Need To Stop – http://buff.ly/1iZTEeX /via @adriarichards
Weather dashboard – beautiful mobile design – http://buff.ly/19hHB9z
Me: “Oh look it’s a koala in a swimming pool!” K “is that a bunny? …oh koala” pic – pic.twitter.com/0Pwf2mmhGw /via @abcnews
Fascinating insights in Fords trend reports on mobile use (click through for whole report, too) – http://buff.ly/1hDF38N /via @jenny_blake
Interesting on engineer to engineer recruiting – http://blog.sourcing.io/engineer-to-engineer-recruiting … /via @rands
I really liked this, on the tradeoffs you might make to sell a company – http://buff.ly/1cZVYhf /via @sachac
52 travel destinations – cave in Vietnam, anyone? Also keen on Taiwan. Gorgeous pictures – http://buff.ly/KZvR0p /via @aryareaisparsi
when my needs come into conflict with what is actually happening I will teach myself not to need those things anymore http://buff.ly/1m03qOi
I like this on interfaces of the future, I would buy that toothbrush – http://buff.ly/1m4V4Vs
I have so many of these – 16 Signs You’re A Little (Or A Lot) Type A http://buff.ly/1mkr8VC /via @felsull
This is hilarious on Graham Norton – Flirty text messages – http://buff.ly/1cEXK44 /via @lccarson
IRL photoshopping-out pollution for Hong Kong tourists: http://kpcb.cc/1dE75gi via @tfadell pic.twitter.com/jUGXWf92tl /via @johnmaeda
Googled ‘best gaming mouse’ was not disappointed pic.twitter.com/hpKf7oy5Ex /via @GiveMeInternet
Wow- this this this on dating – Fuck Yes or No http://buff.ly/19ErX8D /via @triketora