Month: January 2005
-
Dear Internets: Please note that the missing tsunami boy has been reunited with his family, so please quit forwarding me his picture! Thanks. Love, Kris
-
Australia Day BarbieMajor and Deb at Steve’s Australia Day barbecue… We’ve imbibed much wine and eaten slabs of meat. Perfect arvo.
-
Mmm, giant lamington. How awesome would that be? Unfortunately when I read the headline I immediately imagined a lamington the size of a house. The reality – “half the size of a family car” – is a lot less impressive.
-
Soctopus Attacks Oscar, Film at 11As you probably read elsewhere, the 2005 Oscar nominations were announced this morning and you all know what that means… The Third Annual web-goddess Oscar Contest has offically launched! This year the first prize is a one-of-a-kind, never-before-seen sock creation: the Soctopus! (Thanks to Christopher for suggesting the concept.) Second…
-
The brains at Google have had a brilliant idea: identify user-submitted links on a blog via a special tag and then don’t follow them. This means that the assholes who make comment spam posts will have less incentive, since Google won’t index the links and thus increase the PageRank of their crappy phentermine scam pages.…
-
It’s stuntcasting to the extreme, but I am still so excited to see Rob and Ambah compete in the next Amazing Race. I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict that they end up way more on the Freddy-Kendra side of the niceness spectrum. (The spectrum, of course, that has Kris and Jon on…
-
Curse of the Korean Pot Belly Me: *yawn*Crochet Lady: Tired?Me: Yeah, exhausted. I went to bed at 9:30 last night and I still feel like I could fall back asleep! Probably just my allergies, combined with this depressing rainy weather…Crochet Lady: And the bub. *smile*Me: Wha–? Bub?Crochet Lady: You know… *gestures towards my stomach*Me: BUB!?…
-
Only about seventy-two hours to go… until the 2005 Oscar nominations are announced and thus the Third Annual Web-Goddess Oscar Contest launches. Can you feel the excitement? Just wait til you see what the prize is…
-
Snookums helped me write a little script today that automatically uploads information from our TiFaux* to my website. It’s down there in the right column under “recording.” Currently it’s set to list the shows that we recorded on the previous day. I just thought it was sort of neat. * TiVo isn’t available in Australia,…
-
Guest-starring on next week’s episode of The O.C.: giant extra-terrestrial squid! *shudder*