Kickstarter, Anniversary, and Perth

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What an extraordinary past few days. The first big surprise was the pleasant discover that Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing had given our Kickstarter a plug. The next couple of days our pledges tripled, leading to Kickstarter to reach its target with five days to spare. I was getting worried that nobody among the bigger geekdom media was going to pick up on our little joke, but Cory came to the party. A wonderful result, and now we have the problem of deciding how big our print run really should be - I am probably going to recommend to the committee that we go for caution.

The second event was the sixth wedding anniversary for caseopaya. As this is traditionally an "iron" gifting anniversary. You can guess what I bought her; the imagur photo story reveals all. Afterwards we went to visit our friend Lyle, who is recovering (very well) from having a stroke. On our return we watched A Very Long Engagement, which is very much in the French realist tradition - sensual, sad, violent, dramatic, amusing - all mixed together. Quite a brilliant film.

Today was my last day of work for the year, and what a great year its been. It was wrapped up with a ResPlat function at the Princess Park Bowls club. Tomorrow morning we head to Perth for familial duties - for friends we've organised a lunch and dinner both on the 23rd of December (solstice feast!) Ruoccos in Fremantle and Amore Mio in Maylands; looks like it will quite an Italian food day.

Comments

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Congratulations on your kickstarter! That is amazing for you!

Happy anniversary :) That is a very lovely and funny gift!

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Thank you and thank you!

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I love Cory Doctorow #hearteyes I finally picked up his YA book Little Brother at the dollar store recently.

good luck! boingboing is the best <3

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He really is quite great, a finger on the pulse of geekdom and digital rights at the same time and the ability to express himself in an accessible manner.

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Firstly, congrats on the anniversary. I really hope you didn't present your fair bride with a steam delivery unit. That could have gone badly.

I'm a massive fan of that particular cartoon, and couldn't be happier that it's finally being forged into reality. Can't wait for my copy.

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Hey one_bat, good to see you here. No fear with the iron, if anyone does ironing in the house it will be me, and that's once every couple of years.

Like yourself, I love the cartoon. Love it so much I've made it into a game.