People often get quite astonished when they see me knitting two socks at once. I wonder what they’d make of this lady?

I’ve been reading Todd Klein‘s blog for a while now. He’s been a letterer in the comics industry for thirty years, and his site is really entertaining for anybody who likes design and text. He’s just announced that he and Alan Moore have collaborated on a special one-off print: Alphabets of Desire. I enjoyed the story of how it came about, but I’m thinking, “Greeeeat. How many hundreds of dollars is this gonna cost?” So I clicked over to his shop page. $16. And postage is another $4. I placed my order immediately. Hooray! I bought some art for the house!

Graphical interpretations of rap lyrics. Some of these are really funny, and some are just mystifying because me? Not a huge rap connoisseur. This one is totally my favorite though. (Link courtesy of Eileen.)

Isn’t it always the way? You sit down to dinner, and somebody turns up with a piano.

Later: Did you know that it’s physically possible for two guys to physically carry a piano? I didn’t. I honestly thought that a piano – even an upright – weighed like a thousand pounds. So it was with great excitement and glee that I watched as two of the most Ocker guys I’ve ever seen maneuvered a piano up our front steps and into the dining room. (You’ll probably be able to see it in the distance on CouchCam in the morning.) Now all we have to do is get it tuned and the Snook will be able to give Darren a run for his money. (Thanks to Ma and Pa Snook for arranging for it to be sent down!)

For Sale: One Useless Cat. When I saw that link title, I totally expected it to be the Snook trying to sell Dr. Amy Jones on eBay. Instead it’s TOTAL CUTENESS OVERLOAD!

A-ha! I wondered why the hell we were getting the ABC News Victoria feed tonight. I figured it was because the Sydney staff were all getting pissed at their Christmas party.

I’ve just contributed my first post to Life in Chippendale.

Hooray! Little Inigo Nettle has finally been born. Congratulations to Lara and Mark. (Man, waiting for blog friends to have babies is quite stressful. I must’ve hit Lara and Tracey‘s sites about 100 times each in their last months…)

How many HTML elements can you name in five minutes? There are 91 in total, and I managed to get 42. Of course, I totally cheated at the end. I probably only got 35 on my own.

We have Internet! And it’s all down to the Snook. When several ISPs all claimed that we weren’t able to get ADSL at the new house, he refused to believe them. He spent a week posting on forums and emailing technicians until he finally got someone to look into it. Lo and behold, that “no” turned into a “yes”! Now he’s busy fixing up our wireless network and bringing CouchCam back online. (Ooh, your first glimpse inside the house!) And lest I give you the idea that his handiness is all cerebral, he also broke out the powertools this week to mount my new IKEA mirror in the wardrobe. *sigh* I always did have a thing for Handy Smurf…