Month: April 2004

  • KnitWits!

    Today our office kitchen was the location for the inaugural KnitWits meeting. From the left that’s me, Molly, and Mardi. I taught them to knit a couple weeks ago during our lunch breaks and we decided to make our sessions a regular occurence. I dragged in my sweater (and proceeded to muck it up), while…

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  • Backstreet’s back!

    Backstreet’s back! All right! (It’s sad that I’m excited about this.)

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  • Shock! Horror! The hosts of SBS’s Movie Show, David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz, have defected to the ABC! To an Aussie, this is pretty much as big a deal as when Letterman jumped to CBS.

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  • Warts

    Have any of you ever had a wart? I never have but I noticed this morning I’ve got a very small, shiny little bump on the side of my thumb. It’s tiny, like the size of a pencil point. It doesn’t hurt or anything but now that I’ve found it I just can’t leave it…

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  • What?! Apparently the founder of IKEA has overtaken Bill Gates as the world’s richest man. Sorry Bill, that’s what happens when an administration voluntarily runs the dollar into the ground.

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  • Petalia.com.au

    A co-worker pointed me towards Petalia today. It’s an Australian pet site with loads of information on cats, dogs, fish, and everything else.

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  • Hmm, it looks like we’ve got two new competing Australian reality shows in the works! We saw a commercial on the ABC last night asking for contestants for “Outback House”, which will be similar to previous PBS and BBC shows. They’re going to take a group of “modern Australians” and see if they can live…

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  • The spring issue of Knitty is here! I was amused to see that someone has repurposed the old Geek Code into a Knitter’s Geek Code. It’s a little messy and complicated but still kinda fun. Here’s mine: —–BEGIN KNITTER’S GEEK CODE BLOCK—–Version: 1.1KER++$ Exp+ SPM++ Steel+ Wood Pl– Den++ Nov- Cot+ Wool+++ Stash Scale++ Fin–…

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  • Good ol’ Merle

    Even Merle Haggard admits he’s “not all that happy” with Bush.

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  • I’m better.

    I’m better. The wedding was beautiful. Snookums emceed the reception and did a wonderful job. Congratulations to Major and Steph! I’m goin’ to bed.

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