My morning fix

I'm at the computer with my morning cup of coffee catching up on my blog reading (also know as avoiding the housework) so I thought I'd share a few of this morning's favourite links:

From Shoewawa, boot wearing season is over here in NZ with summer on its way, and I couldn't afford these in a month of Sundays, but I love love love these Thomas Wylde boots.



The heel, the multiple skull buckles, even the slouchiness (which wouldn't normally win me over) - available here.

From Fashionably Geek, no I haven't reversed the picture, this watch actually runs backwards. Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed (like me) and the theory is that his backwards writing was not an attempt to write in code, but rather to avoid smudging the ink as he wrote.



And it's beautiful to look at. Available at The Unemployed Philosophers Guild, the same site that carries the Dali watch I love so much.

The Boston Globe's Big Picture blog is a favourite of mine - the photo collections are always stunning, and today's Antarctica pics almost have me thinking it would be worth braving the cold to go there (I said almost, I seriously hate the cold).

(Image: Zee Evans/National Science Foundation)

And to end, something a little ghoulish. Ugly Overload has some mosquito photos that will have you reaching for the insect repellant.



And now I should start my day, but tearing myself away from the window may be a little difficult. The lady across the road has had a gardener in the last few days, and today he's out there shovelling topsoil. Young? Check. Tanned? Check. Topless? Check. Toned physique? Check. EEB looked somewhat suspicious when I tried to convince him that maybe he should go in to the office today rather than working from home. I wonder why...

Pointless but cool

Via Ooh Shiny, this cute wee dude plugs into your USB. The faster you type the faster he pedals, and the LCD display shows your typing speed. I particularly love his manic little face!

I wonder if I could convince my boss that having this would boost my productivity?

All yours for 19.99 pounds (why does the standard New Zealand keyboard not have the pound symbol?), from here.

More Dali

Found on Fashionably Geek, this watch is definitely more within my price range than the clock I love. This is one of those statement items that has you engineering situations where people will ask you the time just so you can show it off! The ant, by the way, counts out the seconds, and his moustache halves are the hands of the watch. Brilliance!

And in case you're wondering, US$34.95, and available here.

Surrealist Time

I am a long-time lover of the surrealist works of Salvador Dali - two posters of his works hung in our hallway when I was a child and I would stare at them for hours with a mixture of fascination and horror. In my early twenties I went through a wonderful phase where all my dreams contained the most stunning Dali-esque architecture. Imagine my delight then when I found this clock - now I just have to sell a kidney in order to be able to afford it!

For those with a spare USD$365, it can be found here.

So much pink, so little money...

Pink is not a colour I wear a lot, the odd item here and there perhaps but mostly it's a clothing colour best left to my 12 year old daughter. It is however a colour I like elsewhere, much to The English Boyfriend's dismay, and when I found this site the horror on his face was a joy to behold! I tell you a girl can never have too many pink kitchen implements! My soon-to-be-married best friend has already put in a request for a pink toaster as an engagement present!