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Author: Kris

  • Shared today on Twitter

    First long run in ages. Did 4:1 run/walk ratio. Foot felt sore towards the end, but manageable. Just had a well-earned ice bath.

    We sold our heater to Rodd’s Korean co-worker, and his wife brought us a present: homemade kimbap! http://twitpic.com/173b6u VERY good…

    @bellsknits Nice. Three Sheets? That’s my favorite. Snook prefers the Nelson’s Blood.

    @drkknits I love that movie. I own the DVD. My dad instilled a love of disaster movies in me. Plus OJ and Bobby Brady! What’s not to love?

    @redambition I have been on a mission to try poutine for years. Is bocconcini an acceptable curd substitute??

    The sewing-up of St. Brigid has begun. http://twitpic.com/173f1s

    Hey, it’s a shoulder! With a saddle! http://twitpic.com/174c6i

    @venks79 So weird. I haven’t had any bad GPS since I deleted and reinstalled. Is your route, like, in a parking garage? 😛

    Albert the Knitted Magic Pudding is only 1/3 done and it’s already CRACKING ME UP. Funniest thing I’ve knitted, ever.

    @venks79 Weird! Good run tho – but you need to start increasing the distance if you’re gonna do the Half…

    Less than 3 hours to get your picks in for the 8th Annual w-g Oscar Contest: http://bit.ly/dvL5BE. Win sparkly emo vampire sockmonkeys!

    @ebertchicago I think my Oscar contest prize is one of a kind: handmade sparkly vampire sockmonkeys. You should enter! http://bit.ly/dvL5BE

    I have officially signed up for the Sydney Half Marathon: http://bit.ly/cxXfd5. Bring it on!

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Just completed a 10.16 km run with RunKeeper

    Less than 3 hours to get your picks in for the 8th Annual w-g Oscar Contest: http://bit.ly/dvL5BE. Win sparkly emo vampire sockmonkeys!

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Apologies for radio silence re: #kgagm. We were forbidden to tweet. Yes, really. Time for special speaker.

    Everybody welcome @miss_reecie to Twitter and follow her! She’s enjoying her first #kgagm.

    We survived. Many folks now having a well-deserved beer. http://twitpic.com/16v9gv

    Told Snook that Standards convenor accused me of sowing discord. “There goes your ribbon at the Show.” BUGGER! Didn’t think of that. 🙂

    @janiematts MISS JANE! Welcome aboard. 🙂

    @drkknits @randomknits I sent through a report via email. Kylie, are you on it?

    @justjussi Noooooo, not at all. That was just Rodd’s conjecture, and it kinda cracked me up. I doubt she’s even judging.

    Should clarify that the quote was from Snook, speculating. No threats were made. Just random bitching.

    After more than a year, my iMac G5 is back from the dead. Massive huge THANK YOU to @stufromoz for his advice! http://bit.ly/1buB0O

    @stufromoz It’s brilliant. I’ve missed having a desktop! If you want anything knitted this winter, just let me know. I owe you one. 🙂

    @miss_reecie I was planning to donate my Sweater Design in Plain English to IC Group, so you can borrow if you want!

    @bellsknits except they don’t open til 10am on Sunday…

  • More on This Too Shall Pass

    Q&A session with some of the craftsmen involved in that Rube Goldbert video for OK Go. I’m totally in awe.

  • Boudicca: Back from the dead!

    As you may recall – or not – my iMac G5 “Boudicca” died just over a year ago. She was one of the very first unibody iMacs, and she was nothing but trouble from the start. (The one I’m talking about was actually a replacement for the original one that self-destructed within six months of purchase.) When she died the last time, we were given a ridiculous quote from the Apple Store to have her fixed. The logic board was riddled with blown and leaking capacitors. She was out of warranty, out of AppleCare, and out of luck. I found out that there had been a Repair Extension Program for this specific issue – and my serial number was even covered! – but alas, it had expired in December 2008 (about two months before mine died). I bought a new laptop and set her aside, hoping that maybe she’d be worth some money on eBay. One of my resolutions for the New Year was to deal with the issue, so I started calling Apple repair shops to see if they were interested in her for parts. Nobody was interested. In desperation, I tweeted that she was for sale if anybody wanted her. A friend-of-a-friend (who happens to work in Apple tech support) wrote back, suggesting that I call Apple Support again. He said that he still regularly saw machines come in with my issue, and that several of them had been granted “exceptions” to the Repair Program and fixed free-of-charge. It seemed too good to be true. I called up the number and spent half an hour talking to a nice guy, who eventually transferred me up to the manager. They put me on hold for a bit… then the magic words: “You’re approved!” He put it into the system and I took the machine to NextByte the next day. They told me there’d probably be some wait before they could get to it, but I didn’t care. Hey, at this point it’s a free computer, right? Six weeks later, I finally called Nextbyte to see what the heck was happening… and was told that my machine had been fixed for weeks. They just had never called me! (Idiots.) This morning we picked her up. I deliberately didn’t plug her in before heading to the Guild AGM, knowing that if she was still broken I’d just stress about it all day. So when I finally got home tonight, I plugged her in and hit the power button. BONGGGGGG! Success. I was up and running on the network within minutes. It’s so nice to have a desktop machine again! And now DeskCam will actually be from my actual desk again! So huge, huge thank yous to Stu for advising me how to fix it up. I owe him one!

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Brainstorming with @AusVintageGrrl for official Guild hashtag for tomorrow. #guildagm? #kgnswagm? #zomgdrama? #batshitinsane? Undecided.

    More possibilities: #idratherbeazombie #knitvomit #knittingforevil.

    @missamanda I had the same debate six months ago. They are much improved now. Just can’t justify spending 10x the price for salon!

    St. Brigid is blocking… https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/8985

    @SallyPompom Hahaha, no, I mean my office at the house. 🙂

    @Kat13v You think that’s subversive? I think my UOTO laptop wallpaper might be projected during the meeting… accidentally.

    Less than 70 hours til the Oscars start! Don’t forget to make your predictions for the 8th Annual W-G Oscar Contest: http://bit.ly/bWOKgA

    I have become a person who has lots of meetings at work. This is somewhat new.

    @venks79 Yes, but somehow lately I’ve ended up being the one who has to take notes and WORK through the meeting! No fair!

    My Macbook has new wallpaper: http://twitpic.com/16poak. The colour is, of course, Barbie Vag Pink. #spite #kgagm

    @sharre If I actually see you eating popcorn, I am going to LOSE IT! 🙂

    Guild presentations all ready to go. My selfish goal is just to avoid being hassled as much as possible. No drama llamaz for me!

    @pinkarwensocks You can pull things out! Just click and drag the ones you don’t want and they’ll go POOF. (Just icon, not app.)

    @pinkarwensocks You can also add stuff. Just drag icons from Finder onto it. There’s also setting to change how big dock is.

    All set up and ready to go! Bring it on. #kgagm http://twitpic.com/16tqce

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    Less than 70 hours til the Oscars start! Don’t forget to make your predictions for the 8th Annual W-G Oscar Contest: http://bit.ly/bWOKgA

  • RunningBlog: Week 9

    Things are getting better! Each run my foot seems to be improving. This morning I only had a little niggle, with no tenderness under the ball of my foot at all. Unfortunately my speed is still way, way down from being sick. If I keep my heart rate below 145, my time per kilometer is anywhere from 30-60s SLOWER than it was a month ago. It’s frustrating, but it’s oddly gratifying to know that I had that fitness to lose in the first place. I’ll get it back.

    Feb. 26: 5.18km
    Feb. 28: 8.06km
    Mar. 2: 5.14km
    Total this week: 18.38km
    Total in 2010: 170.41km (106.5mi)

    To meet my 1000km goal, I should be 173km. So I’m pretty much right where I need to be!

  • St. Brigid is blocking

    The Show is rapidly approaching! Time to get this sucker finished. I started by dunking the front and the back in cold water and making sure they were totally saturated. Then I gently squeezed out a bit of the water before rolling each piece in a towel. Carefully I stepped all over it til the towel was soaked, removing a lot of the water. The pieces were then pinned out to the pattern’s measurements. I freaked out a little bit at first because the squares look so big! But when I compared them to Na Craga, they’re only slightly bigger. (Which is good, as I have boobs and the Snook doesn’t.) So I think that will be okay. It was hard to get a decent shot with the crapping lighting in my office, but I don’t think I’ve lost any stitch definition. As soon as these are dry, I’ll do the sleeves. (I ran out of pins!) Then it’s time to start sewing up!

    St. Brigid - blocking

    Incidentally, I am LOVING that I had the forethought to use spit-splicing on this thing. I have like five ends to weave in there. That’s brilliant.

  • Procrastinators vs. Incubators

    Procrastinators vs. incubators. Yes! I am an incubator! It describes me perfectly. I’ve never been very good at motivating myself unless I have a concrete deadline staring me in the face. I don’t operate well with open-ended projects that just meander along. And when I pull the inevitable all-nighter to get stuff done, it’s always really good. Phew. I’m not the only one. (Link found via this related and fascinating discussion about I.T. industry productivity.)