October 2009

The PayPal Song (Where Nessie Is Real)

by Stu Andrews on October 25, 2009

in Blog

Ahhh, it might not be manly, but this song makes me giggle. You’ll know which parts.

It’s less than a week until I’m off to San Francisco to Innovate09 (the PayPal devcon), and this song appeared in my brain yesterday and finished up tonight.

 

I had a completely different song to begin with. But this just flowed. And was funny. Heh heh. Wiping the Matrix 2 and 3 from history. Gold.

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A Man Who Walked The Mountains

October 25, 2009

Of mortal folk, only my Dad influenced me more as a young man than my Grandpa. Grandpa was a big man. In stature, but also in presence. He was commanding, even as he grew older. The only time I remember him different was at his deathbed. Grandpa was a soldier. He fought as a Captain [...]

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Super-Powered Geek

October 21, 2009

In preparation for recording the PayPal Song I’m writing :), I decided to record Super-Powered Geek. This was a song I wrote for Barcamp Sydney 2009. It’s on YouTube already, but this is my “home” edition.

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Small Disciplines Of A Tubby Man

October 19, 2009

Yesterday I girded my loins and decided to walk a bit of the way home. I surprised myself by walking over halfway (Don’t forget I had a knee ligament thingy reconstruction a few weeks back). I didn’t push it, cause I’ve been informed by the excellent folk who hook me up to ancient and mad-scientist-looking [...]

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And For My Next Trick, San Francisco!

October 18, 2009

Phew. We (the Beautiful One, Barbarian Kid Hordes, and me) returned last night from four days in the beautiful town of Eden. Apart from going on an amazing Whale-Watching ocean tour thingy, the main event was the Clarion Aussie Devcon 2009. I’ll be putting up my thoughts on Clarion Folk (along with some mini interviews [...]

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Not One But Two Schnitzels!

October 15, 2009

We arrived in Eden around 6.30pm last night, and after unpacking went up to the restaurant which is in the same building as the conference room. Yup, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted here. The Clarion Aussie Devcon 2009 is currently underway. The Training days finished up yesterday (Thursday), and this morning a [...]

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PayPal Continues To Make The Right Moves

October 8, 2009

Not long back a decent-sized envelope arrived in the mail. Contained within were lots of paper, including a Certificate to signify I was now a certified PayPal developer. Sure, I look very handsome next to the Certificate. And sure, I do google myself regularly. And alternatively “sure”, any company can send out pieces of paper. [...]

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