Month: June 2005
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Dammit. WHAT is Andrew and Kathleen‘s secret? It’s killing me. I mean, I think I know – you’re all thinking it too – but we could be wrong, right? So come on, guys, tell us before I explode!
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Ebert gives Batman Begins four stars! Now maybe I can convince the Snook to go see it. (I like superhero movies a lot. Him… not so much.)
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Famewhoring burns calories!Yes, it’s true. As Tracey noticed, that was me knitting with the Nuala, the Channel 7 weathergirl, on the evening news tonight. A bunch of us from the shop went down to help promote the Salvation Army’s Knitting for our Homeless event this weekend. Man, my hair looked RED! The Snook’s extracting the…
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I saw it on the news and had to go to the official site to confirm: Tetsuya was awarded the Order of Australia today! We have to go there now.
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What a long and unblogged weekend! Friday I had my first experience with dentistry outside the U.S. I know, I know… I’ve been living overseas for, what, over five years now? But we’ve got private health insurance now and I felt like it was finally time to do something about the way my wisdom teeth…
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Face Analyzer – You upload a picture and this site purports to analyze your race, gender, and aspects of your personality. It’s pretty crap though. The first one I uploaded was my short hair and it came back with “No archetype found.” I’m a mutt! Then I tried this one with long blonde hair and…
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The funniest parts of this Fugging are the references to Dawson’s Creek: Joey Potter would not lie to me like that. She didn’t lie to me when she went off on that boat with Pacey, and she didn’t lie to me when Dawson’s dad died chasing an errant scoop of ice cream, and she wouldn’t…
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Via John: Dating a Developer. You know, I’d have to disagree with several of those “tips.” In fact, most of them actually apply to me way more than the Snook. I’m the one that stays up all night writing code to categorize cross-stitch charts. I’m the one on the street pointing out the frequency of…
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Via the Snook: A scotch egg… made from an ostrich egg. Normally I loves me some scotch egg, but blecch! (I’m still a little queasy from the thought of poor Charla eating an entire scrambled ostrich egg on The Amazing Race.)
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Bookstores: The Natural Laxative? That is the funniest Ask MetaFilter of ALL TIME. “The power of bowels compels me!” Bwa ha ha!