if you wear these, people conclude baby is a girl:
* flowers
* butterflies
* fairies
* anything pink
* most bows and lace.

if you wear these, people conclude baby is a boy:
* cars
* dinosaurs
* sailboats
* robots
* construction machinery
* airplanes
* monsters

some neutral things
* smiley faces
* bunny rabbits
* giraffes
* anything white, yellow or green

special note for pink: wear pink *anywhere*, it's a girl.. wear no pink at all, it's a boy.

but why? Girls don't drive cars? Girls don't dig up dinosaurs? (dinosaurs are awesome btw). Boys don't catch butterflies? Boys don't like flowers?

Exhibit A:
the girls' sock department:
http://www.jk.co.nz/category/girls1to6.accessories.1

Exhibit B:
the boys' sock department:
http://www.jk.co.nz/category/boys7to12.accessories.1

What have i missed? What else is gendered other than colours?

btw, i won again.. i wouldn't mind being defeated by Jo, but couldn't let myself lose to mauricio.

It was my first evening out on my own since Casey was born - i was mega tired, and i had no time to prepare. basically had to make it up. sadly I missed out a bunch of stuff i wanted to say about OLPC and ACTA.

my summary of the other speakers:

Miraz: apple will take over the world
Mauricio: microsoft will take over the world
Me: robots will take over the world
Jo: non-geeky people will still not take over the world
Phillip: you're all predicting the obvious

this was organised by the ppl at http://up.org.nz, who alas haven't updated their website with anysummary 2 weeks later. there was someone filming the talks, but these never seem to make it to the web either.

so, you'll have to take my word for it

On Tuesday 5th August, 70 geeks gathered in the Emperor Suite at Chow from 6pm till late.

Each guest received a bag of goodies including a bottle of Epic Lager, laser cut decorated USB keys from Shift, Cafenet tokens and discount vouchers from Wanda Harland, amongst other things.
 
Sandy Mamoli spoke about the basics of Ruby on Rails; what to use it for, when to not use it. Jo Hall introduced us to Tech Angels, and described being a female Computer Science Student. Stacey Walker described "impostor syndrome". Sarah Wiig & Band played music, including a song about a Robot.