Month: January 2002
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The new iMacs made the cover of Time Magazine? Wow. I’m not sure what I think of them though. They look like they’re from the future. But did you check out the specs on ’em? Pretty sweet! I also like the new 14-inch iBooks. (I knew I shoulda waited before buying mine!) The Snook is…
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New Poll: Hey, you, gimme a thumbs up or thumbs down on the new design so I know whether or not to change it. Thanks.
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Interesting discovery: After midnight in Australia, they show the American NBC Today Show live on telly. Neat. Happy birthday, Katie Couric! (Why am I up so late? Because of my new hobby: counted cross stitch! Seriously. I needed something to occupy me – since I can’t get a job yet – and I used to…
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Andrew O’Hehir provided me with my favorite top ten movies of 2001 list. The funniest part: 3. “Mulholland Drive” Yeah, I mean, I guess so. This one I definitely need to see again. Part of me suspects it’s just lesbian porn plus pretentious pseudo-symbolist claptrap (not that there’s anything wrong with that, exactly). His comments…
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A few of us are having a nice discussion on film over at Michele’s site.
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Hallelujah! It’s raining in Sydney. It’s been over two weeks without rain. Hopefully this will help with the bush fires.
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Oh please. A suicidal fifteen-year-old had “sympathy” for Bin Laden? First off, who cares? It’s not like he was working for him, so why report it? All you’re going to do is increase the pressure already on loner high school kids. And since when did sympathy become a bad thing? I can have sympathy for…
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Some people really loved Castaway. Other people really, really hated it. I still haven’t seen it.
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I just noticed the other day that all the cool kids have been changing their site designs. And since mine’s been the same, you know, forever, I decided I’d jump on the bandwagon. Here’s what I came up with. Whaddaya think? Yeah, those are all me up at the top. It’s a bit big, but…
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*sob* Australia just won the cricket, as expected, and Steve Waugh, the captain, got to make a speech afterwards. He said that they’d had a good couple of weeks, but the real heroes were all the firemen up in the bush saving lives and homes. Then he announced that the team was donating their entire…