Month: February 2003
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I suspect none of you Yanks are aware, but the Cricket World Cup has just started in South Africa and we’re all eagerly following it. Tonight before Australia’s first game we had the shock announcement that Shane Warne, probably the world’s premiere spin bowler, will not be playing due to a positive drug test result.…
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I’ve always been a fan of political cartoons, and I found these ones commemorating the Columbia disaster very moving and powerful. It’s interesting to see how so many different artists around the world still centered on the same themes: parents and children, the shuttle as a constellation, the flag on the moon at half-mast, and…
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Somebody recently e-mailed me to say that the pattern I linked for the Funky Chicken Pincushions has disappeared. In lieu I’ve written down the instructions as I remember them, along with a few crude drawings. You need: Two squares of different colored fabric, any size will do (though less than 4-inches becomes a bit fiddly)…
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I’ve come down with some sort of flu bug. I felt like such crap that I stayed home today. The upside is that the Snook is cooking my favorite pasta dish, Penne Amatriciana, to cheer me up… Atkins be damned!
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If you’re anything like me, you often visit Scrubbles and get depressed by all the cool things Matt seems to acquire. Not that they aren’t great… just that seeing someone with taste makes me feel guilty that practically our whole house is furnished by IKEA. Anyhoo, on Sunday the Snook and I were heading out…
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Things I Would Happily Pay Top-Dollar For This Very Instant But For Some Insane Reason Am Unable to Purchase in This Country: TiVo Diet Vanilla Coke Golden Grahams Dinty Moore Beef Stew Yeah, it’s a short list, but I’m sure I’ll be adding to it. Those are ranked roughly in diminishing order of how frequently…
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Happy birthday to my Dad!
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Diet Update: I’ve now lost just over 40 pounds. More remarkably, I can finally fit into everything in my wardrobe. That doesn’t sound like much, but when you’ve been lugging some of your favorite pieces of clothing around from continent to continent for three years in what you gloomily suspect is the impossible hope of…
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This just in… Channel 9 News just reported that vandals have knocked down the sacred Virgin Mary fence post at Coogee. The deluded – I mean, faithful – are very upset about it. Footage showed crowds of people staring sadly at a broken stump. Several flowers wrapped in plastic had been stuck to it. (It…
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Friday Five: 1. What did you have for breakfast this morning? If you didn’t have breakfast, why not?Nothing. I was hungover like a dog. Why do ‘morning afters’ get worse as you get older? I don’t remember feeling this crappy ever in college. 2. What’s your favorite cereal?Golden Grahams. I’d kill for a bowl right…