02.01.10
The boss mug
12.09.09
The weather outside is frightful but my geek toys are so delightful
There’s no denying it – christmas is approaching. It’s taken over the stores and Wham is on instant repeat on the radio. Soon it’ll take over our workplace and homes (if it hasn’t already). And unless you live in Australia like our very own Kikalo, you’ll be faced with shoddy weather. Time to wear those fuzzy big gloves. Or not? Gloves are great and all but you won’t be able to text your friends while waiting for the bus and you may not be able to skip that awful Wham song on your iPod touch. But the days of fuelfilled stinky hand warmers are just SO passé! So what’s a girl to do? Buy an electric hand warmer of course!
These little rechargeable babies will warm your hands, look extraordinarily pretty and they’re certainly worth the $35-45 you’re spending.
Check out the Sanyo Store for all the warmth. Mmmhhh!
Oh, and Kikalo? There’s christmasy goodies for you as well. 
11.24.09
That’s Magic!
If you’re anything like the Sparkly Geek Girls (well, if you’re anything like Feylamia or I), you’ll have all your Harry Potters lined up in order, you can answer ridiculously vague questions on Hogwarts trivia, and you only didn’t buy little round glasses in the shop because you realised you actually needed some that don’t look stupid.
Facebook can confirm I took the opportunity of graduation to don some robes, and swish around a biro as a wand. Well now you can actually swish around a (sort of) real wand, and perform real magic, save the world from evil, make your telly change channel.
Yes. It’s a magic wand TV remote, available from IWantOneOfThose.com for £49.99. You can swish it in 13 different ways, and programme each one to do something different (eg. volume up, channel down etc.). Never again will you have to suffer using the TV remote like Muggles. *swish* turn the gogglebox on, *swoosh* put Jeremy Kyle on. It even comes in a faux dragon-skin box, lined with Chinese silk.
And it doesn’t stop with the TV. Programme your stereo, DVD player or anything else remote-controllable, and you can Wingardium Leviosa your way into impressing visitors and baffling the neighbours.
For extra effect, wear a floppy hat and grow a long white beard.
11.19.09
don’t you dare to steal my yoghurt
This one’s for all you office geeks and sorority girls out there. Tired of coming back to the fridge to find that Shelly from Marketing ate your yoghurt or Jackie’s boyfriend used your whipped cream for god knows what? So am I!* (Hear that, Jackie’s boyfriend? Better be on your guard!)
Here’s the solution to all your Refrig-A-Raider problems… (Their pun, not mine. Could be mine though. I love puns!)
Yes, exactly. A locker for your fridge. How awesome is that? For just $20 + postage your food is safe. Just make sure you don’t use Jackie’s birthday as your number combination and you can have your whipped cream all to yourself!
Check out FridgeLocker.com for more info.
* Okay, okay. I don’t live with girls and I don’t have an office job. But sometimes my older brother steals my tuna pizza. The fiend!
11.18.09
Nerd? Me? Hell, yeah!
I was just doing my work placement morning routine, going round the competition other great photography websites, when the following discovery on PDNPulse had me squeee-ing and bouncing on my chair.
Flaunt your inner nerd for just £14.50. Check out all the other pretty colours on CafePress.
This is so full of WANT!!! that I’m actually still bouncing on my chair.
11.16.09
Home Improvement
Okay, so I may be less of a girly-girl than most of my fellow geek girls here. In fact (and I really know this for a fact) I rank much higher on the home improvement score than most of the men I know. I’m like Tim Taylor meets Jill meets Xena. Yes, that’s me.
New cupboard? I’ll build it. Broken computer? I’ll fix it.
There’s only one problem: Most tools aren’t made for women which means they’re big and ugly and just no fun to look at. Or are they? There’s hope after all – curiosite offers a pretty pink drill kit that’ll make any fabulous riveter go “We can do it!” (or possibly “Yes, we can!” if she’s an American democrat):
Pink Drill Kit @ curiosite.com
Those 37 pounds are certainly well-spent. And imagine all the possibilities – not only do you get to use a pretty pink power drill but you’ll be looking fabulous sporting your pink safety goggles, too! So… is it christmas yet? Is it?
11.15.09
Alice in Plasticland
So this one’s kind of a universal WANT!!! for an entire online shop. Pretty much every time I’m over at the Cheezburger Universe, I can’t help but click on the pretty, pretty shoes in the Plasticland ads. And pretty much every time this action results in extensive squee-ing, some drooling, and much cursing myself for still not having a paid job.
Well, rather than invest my Sunday afternoon in finding a paid job, I decided to play Fashion Editor for the day and go for a little virtual window shop.
Click the image to view our first fashion spread in its full glory. All the pretty things are available from Plasticland.
Eyeshadow for dummies
So I was in Japan recently (and that saying will only wear off after the new year 
) and if you want girly, sparkly or geeky things – that’s definitely the place to go. I went into one of their mega huge uber massive stores and what I’d chosen was essentially a chemist/drugstore. Although many over-the-counter drugs we take for granted in Australia are illegal in Japan, I was actually there to get shampoo – I’d darn well run out and had a week left in Japan. I thought I was going to get away with not needing a translator but 756 types of shampoo later and I bought one that said “shampoo” in English. SOLD! I’d bought apparently a high end Shiseido shampoo and conditioner (it only set me back a few thousand yen) and I was going to put a link to the product on here, but do you think I could find it on the Japanese site?
So getting to the point of this post, I found that to get your product ahead in Japan you have to have something unique.
I bought one of these little compacts for myself (after looking at literally hundreds of different brands) and somehow managed to leave my compact somewhere in Kyoto. Luckily with the internets I can order more. It’s probably not a new idea, I think I’ve seen something similar with Chi Chi** products before. All the same this eyeshadow – it’s a mid-range product retailing for about USD40 and if you like wearing a tiny bit of makeup and don’t want to look like a prize fighter, then this is what you should use. It’s essentially a paint by numbers or “eyeshadow for dummies”. (Note: the Chi Chi version is more like, eyeshadow for the extemely lazy drag queen)
You can get the Aube Couture product as a pretty little eyeshadow kit or for [quite] a few yen more you can get it with lip glosses and it comes in many colours. I found the texture to be very soft, which is normally the reason I pay more for my makeup – I hate when eyshadows feel rough and sandy. I think this little beauty product’s great because I like makeup, but I don’t wear much and when I do my eye shadow I always look like I’ve been punched in the eyes. :p
It’s a product by Sofina and is branded as “Aube Couture – designing eyes”, I understand there’s some kind of back-story to the “Couture” part – something about re-branding but I mean, it’s just a nice eyeshadow in a very cute sparkly casing with pretty colours for your eyes, so you too can be cute n sparkly
** = Chi Chi cosmetics are .. how can I put this nicely .. a little bit on the inexpensive side and a lot on the bold side The brand was founded by two aussie guys who claim the colours were inspired by the outback, sydney harbour and other colours you can find naturally in Australia. Yeah, you take a look at their colour palette and tell me if you agree with that :p
11.12.09
Get the picture?
The genii over at ThinkGeek have launched what they claim to be the first ever analogue digital photoframe.
Instead of a slideshow of all your digital photos, this photoframe takes the old-fashioned approach with plain old glass (the analogue part), but surrounds your photograph with a Mac software window (the digital part). 
The photoframe, called image.jpg even contains a handy chequered piece of paper to mimic transparency in Photoshop. While it wins no awards for technological breakthroughs, its pros include the fact it might just survive if your house gets flooded, your mum will know how to use it, and you will automatically piss off PC users.
Get it from ThinkGeek for $24.99
If there was ever an argument for Mac vs. PC, here’s one to add to the list.
11.10.09
Quickie Breakfast
What’s with my old news is new news today?
This little device has been around for awhile but I still think it’s tops. This product is focused entirely on Western style breakfasts, but could adapt to any meal, as long as it was tiny… and required the consumption of toast.
This toaster stares me down every time I walk through the electrical department. It wants me, bad!
I’m single (boo! hiss!) and that means I’m a lazy cook. When it comes to a cooked breakfast, I tend to stick to what I can get from a drive-thru. If I were to cook though, this little baby from TEFAL means I can cook eggs, toast AND re-heat last nights soy sausages all at once. It also does it in 4 minutes! (or so it claims)
It would be just that little bit cooler if it were pink, USB powered and played MP3’s. As far as kitchen devices go, it’s a god-send for lazy single people!
I’ve been giving this device the once-over every time I see it in stores and I figured that a fourth toaster in my possession is probably overkill… if only it had a built in chocolate fountain…
