Month: May 2005
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DietBlog: Week six has come and gone, and my official weight loss stands at 7.2 kilograms. That’s nearly sixteen pounds! Of course, if you graphed my actual loss per week you’d notice a severe downward trend thus far in May. I’m only averaging 600g a week now. I know it’s ridiculous to feel bad about…
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George gets political. I knew that the parallels were going to be in the movie, but I didn’t expect him to actually discuss them with the media. I guess I sorta had the feeling that ol’ George had become a bit conservative in his old age, what with the billions of dollars, the racist stereotype…
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Colourways Wrap IIMan, I feel like it’s been ages since I had a Finished Object to report! This is a sample I designed and knit for the shop. We had an original “Colourways Wrap” from a few years ago, but this one uses slightly different yarns (and an extra ball) so the pattern needed to…
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Tetris Shelves. I LOVE THAT. How pathetic is it that upon looking at the unit on the left, I immediately started planning the next moves to fix the “hole”? Very. (Link courtesy of John.)
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Oh Snookums… This is for you.
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US Robot Builds Copies of Itself. Does this completely blow anyone else’s mind?
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Is your monitor a little dusty? Try this. (Cutest link EVER courtesy of John.)
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Huh? Rolf friggin’ Harris is going to be painting Queen Elizabeth’s 80th birthday portrait. That’s right, the guy who invented the wobble board and sang “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport.” (The Snook informs me that he thankfully no longer sings the “Let me Abos go loose, Bruce” stanza.)
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Like Kevin, I’m hopeful that I’ve grown up enough that the forthcoming Dark Crystal sequel wouldn’t scare the bejeezus out of me the way the original did… but who are we kidding, right? The sight of that poor little Podling in the Skeksis torture machine will HAUNT MY NIGHTMARES FOREVER.
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More Sew Fast, Sew Evil bitchery. The pseudo-anonymous Karen, who’s been running around leaving identical nonsense comments in support of SFSE (on blogs like mine, Amy‘s, bitter girl‘s, and girl from auntie‘s, among others), has started her own blog in an attempt to discredit the critics. Whatever. I love that she’s already deleting comments too.