Month: December 2003
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‘Tis the season…I just got into a huge fight with, like, half my office. It all started when a co-worker mentioned that she’d heard something on the radio this morning about Lucy Turnbull, the mayor of Sydney, outlawing Christian Christmas carols in the city. There was a predictably huffy response from a couple other people,…
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How to eat a pomegranate. It might be “no-mess”, but it still sounds like too much bloody work for some fruit. (Link courtesy of Brigita.)
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Sometimes the weirdest things make you homesick… like this Metafilter discussion about hitting deer and moose with your car. I’ve never hit one but I’ve come close, and I think half the members of my family have smooshed one at some point. Ahh, good times in Indiana.
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Yesterday I held a check for $1.2 million. In my hands. A real check. Wasn’t made out to me, of course…
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I was going to post something snarky about the “iPod’s dirty little secret” guys and warn y’all not to give any credit to their assertions, when Daring Fireball beat me to it. Ha!
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Where is Bill Watterson? Great article about the famous cartoonist behind Calvin & Hobbes who abrupty retired in 1995. Rodd and I have a few of the books and quote them fairly regularly. I always identified with that Susie Derkins…
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Knitted fractals and mathematical formulae. Those are so cool. I feel a major nerd sweater coming on… (Link courtesy of Kirsty.)
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I know she hasn’t updated her training page in a while, but my sister is less than two weeks away from her marathon and I think she’s just about ready. She’s run two half-marathons already in preparation. Recently she organized a phenomenally successful “bachelor auction” that put her within $1500 of her fundraising goal. If…
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The Australian Labor Party (which is pretty much equivalent to the Democratic Party in the US) have finally chosen a new leader: Mark Latham. This is the guy who called John Howard an “arse-licker”. Awesome. Now I only wish I could vote in the next general election.
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Survivor was awesome last night. Right now I’m hoping for Burton to win, simply because I believe he’s playing the game the best. (It doesn’t hurt that he’s cute either.) Thoughts on the episode: Sandra has plummeted on my list of favorites. Her little maneuver with the fish was really pretty low. (Not the low…