Month: January 2004

  • Fly, fly, social butterfly!The Snook and I have been uncharacteristically busy this weekend. Friday night we met up with Kristen and Mark on the Australian leg of their round-the-world tour at my favorite restaurant. A good time was had by all. That accounts for the first picture below. (Please disregard my crazy hair though. We…

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  • Mary-Ellis Bunim dies…

    Wow. I literally gasped when I read that Mary-Ellis Bunim had died. She was one of the creators of The Real World and thus could be credited with starting the whole reality tv genre.

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  • Yeah, baby!

    Yeah, baby! I’m #150 on Blogdex with a bullet. I think that’s my highest ever. Come on; throw a little more linky-love my way, folks! 🙂 Later: Bah. I’ve dropped off already.

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  • New Apple Usenet Client

    Note to self: Download this new OSX Usenet client when you get home.

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  • LOTR Photoshop Slash

    You’ve read the slash; now see the pictures! I can’t stop giggling. Somebody has photoshopped pictures of Lord of the Rings characters kissing. Mmm, Aragorn and Legolas. I can’t wait to get home and set that as my desktop. 🙂

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  • Aussie Slang

    The Sydney Morning Herald today provided a small glossary of Aussie slang. Of those, I’ve really only ever heard “like a shag on a rock”, “flat out like a lizard drinking”, and “put the hard word on” before.

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  • The Snook is going to love the Nit-Pickers Guide to The Lord of the Rings. It details every significant change from the books to the movies.

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  • Apple Love

    I’m feeling the Apple love again since they launched their Logic Board Repair Program. Of course, my faulty iBook doesn’t fall within the accepted range (and I don’t think it’s a logic board issue anyway), but it makes me happy to see Steve and Co. doing the Right Thing here. I’m also enjoying watching all…

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  • Which Western feminist icon are you? My result: You are Gloria Steinem. You are the McDonalds(tm) of liberal feminism, though you used to expouse some pretty radical ideas, you ended up working the system. Because it’s easier? Maybe. But thanks for the only mainstream feminist magazine and for heading one of the most significant feminist…

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  • Napkin folding

    My co-worker Martin is getting married tomorrow. As soon as I entered the office this morning, he called me over and asked desperately, “Do you know any websites with instructions for folding napkins into fancy shapes?” Yes, he asked me this twenty-four hours before the ceremony. So I did some quick Googling and turned up…

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