Month: June 2003
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Storm at Sea QuiltIt’s done! Today is the wedding of my friends Kenya and Sal, and this is the quilt I made for them. It’s a traditional American pattern called “Storm at Sea”. I started it just over a year ago (but I took a bit of break in the middle of the summer). The…
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At last, at last! Vanilla Diet Coke is launching in Australia. I can’t believe it. Now all I need is TiVo and the iTunes Music Store and my consumer dream trifecta is complete.
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Defective Yeti said to drop what I was doing and go watch this movie. I did not regret it.
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Three-Legged Dog SweaterJust kidding. It’s actually a Sweater Sampler from Jacqueline Fee’s book The Sweater Workshop. She recommends you knit this thing so you can practice all the different techniques you need to knit a seamless one-piece sweater (the Holy Grail of knitting, as far as I’m concerned). It has different widths of ribbing, increases,…
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Roger Ebert has such a great sense of humor. A couple weeks ago he reviewed Vincent Gallo’s film The Brown Bunny and pronounced it “the worst movie in the history of the Cannes Film Festival” (a view that was shared by many others). Gallo is pissed and has been badmouthing Ebert in all the papers,…
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From today’s Column 8: [T]hree hours into a Virgin flight from Perth to Sydney on Sunday, horrified cabin crew spotted a security lapse. A passenger armed with two long plastic needles was busily knitting away, reports a Willoughby reader. He says the potential weapons were seized and handed to the purser, who carried them discreetly…
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Max has a great discussion going on about terrible reading experiences. What book was so bad that you’d give anything to have those precious reading hours back? For me it’s Gibson’s Neuromancer. *shudder* I hate that damn book.
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Hate seeing commercials at the movies? A Chicago attorney has filed a class-action lawsuit against the theater chains for breach of contract (i.e. not starting the movie at the advertised time). While I totally agree with this action, I think the example mentioned in the court documents is ridiculous. The movie started four minutes late.…
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First Alexander Graham Bell… and now Benjamin Franklin. Next you’ll be telling me Al Gore didn’t really invent the Internet!
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Singapore is now offically SARS-free, which means my family should be slightly less anxious about us flying through there. On the news tonight they showed footage of the celebrations going on. It reminded me of the end of Return of the Jedi, where everybody’s celebrating the fall of the Empire. (In my geeky defense, it…