I’m making good progress on the alpaca beanie I’m knitting for Rodd to match his scarf. No pattern; I’m just making it up as I go.
Author: Kris
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Wrapstodon
My Mastodon instance (aus.social) is participating in “Wrapstodon,” where the server generates some fun end-year-stats for you. My most popular post was this one featuring my niece Indie’s embroidered sneakers!
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Timpano
Trying to convince the Snook that he should make us a timpano for Christmas dinner, using Stanley Tucci’s recipe from his book Taste.
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Shared today on Facebook
My friend Kristin Apolony mentioned on Facebook yesterday that she would have a stall at the Moore Park Christmas Markets, and she asked if anyone could come cover her for a bit at lunchtime. I volunteered! So I’m helping to sell her very clever 3D-printed puzzle gift boxes. And I made a sale!!
After more than 20 years of having the same timber dining room set, today we sold it and set up the new one. SCHMICK!! 😍
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New dining room set!
After more than 20 years of having the same timber dining room set, today we sold it and set up the new one. SCHMICK!! 😍
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Riddle Me Gifts at Moore Park Christmas Markets
My friend Kristin mentioned on Facebook yesterday that she would have a stall at the Moore Park Christmas Markets, and she asked if anyone could come cover her for a bit at lunchtime. I volunteered! So I’m helping to sell her very clever 3D-printed puzzle gift boxes.
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Don’t be a creep, Mr. Feynman.
After 10 days of tech conference, *of course* I was going to come home on Friday night and watch a 3hr documentary on why Richard Feynman’s legacy is mostly BS. Who wouldn’t?
(via Metafilter)
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YOW Sydney 2024
In the end, I managed to see almost every talk at YOW 2024. Here are the final four talks I saw today…
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Shared today on Facebook
People on social media (not just here; Bluesky and Mastodon too) keep implying that I’m doing retirement incorrectly. I suspect they expected me to become a complete homebody and retire from public life? 🤷♀️ But really, it means I don’t have a full-time job and I spend my time how I like. Some days I’m helping out at a tech conference; other days I’m in my PJs playing videogames or in my craft room making something. After six years of doing pretty much nothing but AWS, it’s nice to pick and choose. I contain multitudes, people. 😂
Edited to add: Rodd thinks the solution is simple. I just need to start calling myself “unemployed” rather than “retired.” 😜
Much like Pokemon, I’m trying to catch all the YOW speakers! Today I added 4 more to my collection in Sydney…
Renovation update: Dirt!! This is only like 10% of the total area, but it’s a good reminder of the fact that plants will eventually be growing here.
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Renovation update
Dirt!! This is only like 10% of the total area, but it’s a good reminder of the fact that plants will eventually be growing here.