Month: August 2002

  • Me: Wow, the National Library of Australia is going to start archiving porn websites to add to its “extensive collection of erotica”.Snookums: (in Eric Cartman voice) Kewl.

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  • The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to Australia. Brilliant and hilarious and true. Australian beaches are simply the nicest and best in the entire world. Although anyone actually venturing into the sea will have to contend with sharks, stinging jellyfish, stonefish (a fish which sits on the bottom of the sea, pretends to be a rock, and has…

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  • Max pointed me to an article in The New York Times that describes the frustration of the Atkins dieter having to give up his/her favorite foods. At the same time, though, this guy motivates me to continue. Yeah, it’s hard turning down homemade blueberry pie, but the results are well worth it. If you’re lucky,…

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  • Congratulations to Michele of a small victory, who just got married! Only the coolest people blog on their wedding day. 🙂

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  • Have you got Monica Syndrome? Are you a control freak? According to this quiz, I’m “normally in control”, but when I lose it, I “lose it big-time”. Yeah, I’d probably agree with that.

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  • Tonight’s gym torture session was Body Combat, an “empowering” workout that “combines powerhouse moves and stances developed from a range of self-defence disciplines including Karate, kickboxing, Tai Chi and Tae Kwondo, into a ‘take no prisoners’, adrenaline-pumping routine.” Sounds exciting, right? I was pumped. I thought I was gonna be Jean-Claude Van Damme. Instead, as…

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  • New Poll: One thing we’ve been really missing on this Atkins diet is crunchiness. It’s just hard to get a satisfying crunch that doesn’t involved flour or potatoes or carbs at some point. The Snook has been researching though and has come up with a solution: pork rinds. Not only can we eat them as…

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  • Ugh. Today was the day of annoyance. I was all excited to get my copy of Mac OSX 10.2 but when I got to the store, they’d sold out. The Snook called all over Sydney and nobody has it. It’ll be days before they get more in. Bugger. There’s nothing worse than being all prepared…

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  • Friday Five:Random answers today. These are deep questions and I haven’t had any coffee. 1. What is your current occupation? Is this what you chose to be doing at this point in your life? Why or why not?I’m doing web development contracting from home right now. I just sort of fell into this work during…

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  • Wow. Who would’ve predicted that Indiana of all places would be at the forefront of the gay marriage debate?

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