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Author: Kris

  • Bicycle Repair: Keep it Quiet

    Bicycle Repair: Keep it Quiet. A guide to tracking down mysterious noises from your bicycle. Very useful! (Thanks Snook.)

  • Shared today on Twitter

    FINALLY A KITCHEN UPDATE: Benchtop is due to be installed on Monday. Final fix for plumbing electrical on Tuesday. Less than a week left!!

    @drkknits @witty_knitter Yes. Very, very tired of having a beautiful new red kitchen and not being able to actually use the thing.

    For god’s sake. Precision Sourcing keep spamming me with PHP developer roles despite me telling them repeatedly I DON’T DO THAT ANYMORE.

    HealthWatch: Going ‘Paleo’ Means Cutting Out Common Items From Diet « CBS San Francisco http://t.co/wKxcJKHA via @CBSSF (cc @drkknits)

    @aimee_maree I am actually currently sewing together a bunch of old t-shirts into a quilt. Didn’t think of trying a skirt instead!

    @msgusset Sorry, was training out in the sunshine! 🙂

    First personal training session in many months. I’m gonna be sore tomorrow…

    @AusVintageGrrl Lovely! Looks very vintage cool with your specs. 🙂

    @Alegrya A lot of cyclists are cocks for a lot of reasons. My peeves are riding on the footpath and running red lights. Makes us look bad!

    @VenessaHunt Not that you or I would know anything about such things…!

    It’s impossible to enjoy a quieter week at work when I know weeks of intense busy-ness are right around the corner.

    @drkknits Was tempted to make a PC joke, but I can’t complete the analogy. man a stall:person a stall::research fellow:research …?

    RT @neilhimself: Here @scalzi explains why in the US being a Straight White Male is the lowest difficulty setting in the game of life: h …

    @shanea Same here! But Ygritte still gets her catchphase, for which I cheered. 🙂

    Note to self: Just because SOME PEOPLE are still awake raiding on Azeroth, you don’t have to stay up too. GO TO BED ALREADY.

  • Shared today on Facebook

    FINALLY A KITCHEN UPDATE: Benchtop is due to be installed on Monday. Final fix for plumbing electrical on Tuesday. Less than a week left!!

  • Shared today on Twitter

    The other lesson from today’s Twitter hackery: don’t use the same password for Twitter that you use for other things – especially email!

    @drkknits !! That sucks. Hang in there. Lots of good stuff on the horizon, right?

    @randomknits @twelveeyes KICKSTARTER! 😛

    Waving hello at @aimee_maree, who I have evidently been following on Twitter for some time, but only just realised is sitting 20 feet away!

    Come on board! You’d get to work with me! 🙂 http://t.co/kpGy58qJ

    Awww, Blizzard is giving free Diablo to Aussies who got burned by GAME! http://t.co/SBTBQIBK Less bitter about Snook’s WoW addiction now. 🙂

    @lemon_lime Aw, should’ve told me you were going there! Just down the hill from our office. 🙂

    @redambition On iPhone it saves a copy to the Photos app.

    RT @RealTonyStark: If you’re dating a nerd you’re about to start competing for their love with Diablo 3.

    Good luck.

    #Diablo3

    @redambition Ah, not sure then. It used to save regardless of whether you shared, but now I think it only does when you share. Bummer.

    @aimee_maree Bah. I already go to bed alone twice a week on WoW raid nights. Really hoping he doesn’t get hooked on this one…

    @aimee_maree I read ’em all last year. It was like a death march. But I got through. You want me to bring the first one to work?

    Game of Thrones and the last of the goon bag. Good night. (I totes cheered when Ygritte finally said her catchphrase.)

    @aimee_maree Which is interesting, because I found it the most boring book. They have made some really good plot changes.

    @aimee_maree Yep. Major changes in just about all storylines. Nothing that will alter canon, I think, but enough to keep me guessing.

    @redambition Aww, but now we can’t follow you! ARE YOU TAKING NEKKID PHOTOS?

    @aimee_maree I’m sure it’ll still hit major plot points. But they’re eliding lotsa plot, combining characters, making motivations explicit.

    @redambition Bleurgh. I don’t regularly check either of those places. 🙁

    @monnsqueak @Steph_Philbrick Hence the #colouredtightsprotest yesterday. Maybe it needs to be a recurring thing!

    Wow. Give @aimee_maree overview of disorganised project; get lovely French sweet in return. I could get used to this! http://t.co/UPONOhaY

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Any project managers looking for work? Sitback Solutions is hiring! “Exciting opportunity for experienced digital Snr Project Manager to join our team in a leading Sydney agency. Cool projects, great clients…” And you’d get to work with ME! 😛

  • Reading Speed Test

    Reading Speed Test. Oh, interesting! Have a go; it only takes a minute.As soon as I saw the questions, I cursed. I read very fast, but I suck at retaining the little details. (The Internet has turned me into a skimmer.) I scored 612 wpm, which is 145% faster than the national average. However, I only got 2/3 of the questions right. As I expected, the Snook scored slower than me but he got them all correct.

  • Amish kids = less allergies

    Amish farm kids remarkably immune to allergies: study. Ooh, neat! They even specify that the study was done in northern Indiana. I never had allergies growing up there as a kid. Granted, I didn’t hang out in barns or drink raw cow’s milk, but I was still in the same general environment. It was only when I moved to Sydney that I developed a wicked bad dust allergy…

  • Hello Kitty Liberty of London Tana Lawn

    Hello Kitty Liberty of London Tana Lawn. SQUEE! But my sources tell me nobody in Australia is going to be carrying it. I wish I could get my hands on some…!

  • Photo post

    Blue tights, motorcycle boots, and homemade shirt. Hells yeah. #colouredtightsprotest
    Blue tights, motorcycle boots, and homemade shirt. Hells yeah. #colouredtightsprotest

    Edited to add: The tights “protest” was a reaction to some of my friends on Twitter to this article about sexist corporate fashion prescriptivists. We’re all wearing coloured tights today in response. 🙂

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Looking forward to this event on Thursday and learning more about the capabilities of Drupal! http://t.co/MR8uaR9y

    They can pry my red tights off my cold, dead legs! Right, ladies? http://t.co/1bCTmRG1

    HOLY CRAP. Hello Kitty Liberty Tana Lawn. http://t.co/5PSYGoww @randomknits – are you guys getting this? WANT.

    @twelveeyes Beyond covet? So far I made a top out of it. @randomknits has made a whole dress, I believe…

    @randomknits @twelveeyes Bloody hell. $33/yd in the US. Hm. I wonder if Mom can get her hands on some before she comes to visit…

    @miss_reecie It’s okay! I fell for it too. Did they get your password, or was it an app that did it?

    Haha – just got an offer to buy the damn IKEA chair… from someone in Texas. “Where’s Sydney?” she asks. “Can you ship?” Whoops.

    @GeorgieKnits Woohoo! This movement is gonna take off, I can feel it.

    Oh dear. I think @SandraHW is hacked too!

    @drkknits @mrs_sockvictim @witty_knitter @SandraHW I clicked the link from Reecie and signed in, but changed my pass almost immediately.

    @redambition @miss_reecie @SandraHW @witty_knitter Yep. Don’t click the link, or if you do (and log in), change your password.

    Blue tights, motorcycle boots, and homemade shirt. Hells yeah. #colouredtightsprotest http://t.co/zvm7XuGt