I won a major award! Well okay, it’s not a leg lamp, but it is an awesome cookbook! Not Quite Nigella announced a contest last month to give away four copies of the new Buon Ricordo cookbook. The Snook and I both love Armando Percuoco’s food (based on this and this) so I decided to give it a shot. I left the 9th comment out of 176… and I just found out tonight that mine was one of the four chosen! YAY! (She mentions that there’s a recipe for Timballo in there. The Snook and I may be in for a Big Christmas…)

Things I learned from iPhone & Droid ads. Ha! Although the idea of a “robot phone” is pretty cool.

St. Brigid
The honeymoon period with St. Brigid is officially over. Last night I suddenly became aware of how painfully slow it is. Those cable sections? They’re 24-row repeats and EVERY ROW IS DIFFERENT. No memorisation allowed. I’m 50 rows in, but the back is meant to be 178 rows long. Given how tight my row gauge is, I’m probably going to have to lengthen it too. So conservatively I’m about one-fifth of the way through the back, which means I’m one-tenth of the way through the whole body… and given how ginormous the sleeves are, that’ll add a fair bit… so… KILL ME NOW.

Evolution of the Hipster. The Snook sent me that link while actually wearing his Three Keyboard Cat Moon shirt, thus proving that he is actually a Meta-Nerd².

From MetaFilter: Great places to lunch in Sydney’s CBD for under $15?

“Christ Turns Down 3-Year, Multimillion Dollar Deal To Coach Notre Dame.” HA!

St. Brigid
I’ve started my project for the 2010 Sydney Royal Easter Show: “St. Brigid” by Alice Starmore. Yes, I’m still stuck on Starmore arans. And I’m NOT doing this in cream; I’m going to keep knitting things I want to wear and the judging committee can suck it. This is Jo Sharp Silkroad Aran Tweed in “Posie,” which I’ve always wanted to knit with. So far so good!