Month: February 2005
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Happy birthday to my Dad! Hope it’s a good one, Pops.
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Me: Snookums? You’re allowed to buy yourself a Valentine’s Day present, okay?Him: What’d you get?Me: A handbag.Him: A handbag?!Me: Wellll, Brigita got one! And they’re on sale! And they’re rilly, rilly kewl. And see? It has a little record! I’ll be, like, the only person in Sydney with this bag.Him: Whatever. (to the cat) Hey,…
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Note to self: Implement some of these referrer spam blocking techniques tonight. Update: Okay, I set up .htaccess to block anybody with a referrer matching the usual spam keywords. Let me know if it gives you any problems reaching the site. (Although that’s actually impossible, because if you can’t reach the site then you can’t…
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Kooky Customer of the DayI spent half an hour this morning helping some lady pick out wools to make a tapestry cushion. She’d already bought a kit that included the yarns, but they were acrylic and she apparently had a mandate to make this puppy all natural. We couldn’t find all the colors, of course,…
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So it was the big TV Premiere Week… last week. But given that we’re nerdy TiFaux types, we only got around to watching stuff on the weekend. We’re time-shifting hipsters, I tell ya. Channel Seven – who I don’t think I’ve consciously watched in the past year – reeled me back in with their excessive…
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Somehow, what with all the backing up of my computers I’ve been doing over the past few weeks, my Mail.app Inbox now contains two copies of every message I’ve ever received. I thought I was going to have to have the Snook do some Unix jiggery-pokery to eliminate the duplicates, but then a quick Google…
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Check out this article about knitting as political protest. Pretty interesting, but you know what’s even better? It includes a pattern for a knitted grenade! I’ll have to whip that one out at the next Stitch and Bitch… (Link courtesy of miftik.)
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The Real Angora ManSometimes my job is a Seinfeld episode. You remember the story of Angora Man, the little old guy with the fluffy white angora sweater fetish? I didn’t think anybody would ever top him. I was so wrong. On Thursday I met the real Angora Man. He was a big guy, maybe in…
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Huh. I just discovered that there’s a town in Australia called Kentucky. I looked it up because some woman gave it as her address on our visitor’s book at work, and I thought maybe she was just a confused American. But nope, there is a Kentucky Down Under!
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Million Dollar SpoilerNo, I’m not talking about the Amazing Race. Apparently some conservative fatheads – including El Supremo Fathead, Rush Limbaugh – have purposefully revealed the “surprise” of Million Dollar Baby because they don’t agree with the film’s politics. Roger Ebert is pretty damn mad. (Note: Don’t go there if you have any plans to…