Month: August 2004
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Done any good deeds lately?Remember how my sister ran the Honolulu Marathon last year? It turns out that Katie Krawcyzk, a good friend of my cousin Jenny (who you’ll recognize as a frequent commenter here), is running it this year to raise money for AIDS services. She’s got another reason though: she’s doing it to…
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What it feels like for a girl…I just spent, like, twenty minutes reading this excellent MetaFilter thread about women and their fears (both rational and irrational) about being in the public space. I don’t think a lot of guys understand what it’s like to be objectified to the point where it’s easier to assume every…
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We were watching telly tonight and a preview came on for an upcoming interview with Dawn Fraser. “Why do I know that name?” I asked. “She was a famous Australian Olympic swimmer,” Snookums replied. “She set a bunch of records in the sixties but then got banned for some incident about a flag.” Huh? A…
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Attention, Sydney knitters! Tapestry Craft just got some absolutely luscious 100% Italian cashmere in yesterday. It’s the softest thing I’ve ever felt in my life. I got the fun job of calling all the folks on the waiting list and telling them that it had arrived. Most were like, “Ooh, sweet! That sounds nice!” but…
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And Ralph Fiennes as You-Know-Who… I gotta say, that’s some inspired casting. He’ll be perfect. (Once you give him some slitty red eyes, of course.)
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I’m taking this with a huge grain of salt, but… an eighth Harry Potter novel?? Wow.
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A few moments of lucidity…My computer is dying. I thought she’d slipped off in her sleep last night but here she is this morning, still wheezing away. I want her to go quietly. She’s had a good run and it’s time to visit the big AppleCentre in the sky. Now I just need to figure…
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The end of a long weekend…Ahhhhhh. Now that was a nice break. In gratitude for all the long hours he’s been pulling, the Snook’s boss arranged for us to have a swanky night out (on the company). So we filled the automatic cat feeder and headed off Sunday afternoon for the Observatory Hotel down in…
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Another Ebert fact to add to the shrine/encyclopedia: He’s a Steak & Shake man. Niiiice.
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Wow. Some jerk Freeper actually stole one of my Roald Dahl images. I’ve added the site to my .htaccess file now. Can you tell which one it was? 🙂