Holy crap. The rumors were true! Apple is switching to Intel chips. Even the best Mac pundits got that one wrong. Man, I haven’t even gotten my new replacement G5 yet, and it’s already obselete! Friggin’ great.
Month: June 2005 (page 5 of 6)
I just found a great new Sydney food blog: Grab Your Fork. And check it out, they review Tetsuya’s… with pictures! The Snook and I have plans to finally pay a visit to Tetsuya-san this year with Amy and Rob. I didn’t know the degustation included FOUR dessert courses. Sign me up!
DietBlog: As the time for the meeting drew closer tonight, I started mentally preparing myself for my first week of weight gain. I mean, it was a given. I haven’t been exercising; I haven’t been tracking my Points; and I’ve been eating my face off. (For the record, the deep-fried camembert at Una’s is the BOMB.) So anyway, there I was groaning: “You guys, seriously. I’ve gained, like, two kilos this week.” “What?” my boss Albert said. “No you haven’t. You’ve lost half a kilo.” You wanna bet? So we wagered twenty bucks on it. I headed off to the meeting feeling like it was a win-win situation.
Well, guess what? The bastard won! I lost another half kilo exactly! I was in total shock. This goes down in the books as officially the Best Sickness Ever. That brought my total loss to date up to 8.2 kilograms. That’s just over eighteen pounds in two months! How insane is that? I don’t feel that different. I mean, my pants are looser and my new pink jacket buttons nicely in the front, but I feel like eighteen pounds should be more obvious, you know?
At any rate, I’m back on track with the program now. I managed to talk the Snook into doing the City to Surf with me this year, and it’s only ten weeks away. Hopefully I’ll be closing in on my goal around then!
Finished Baby Objects!
Nat’s baby package is nearly ready to go out. On the left is the completed Baby Norgi sweater, which I finished up today. I pretty much followed the pattern exactly for once. The wool is Bambi by Grignasco, which is an extrafine 4-ply 100% Italian merino. (And it’s nicer than anything I’ve ever knit for myself!) My only reservation with this project is the fear that the baby’s head won’t fit through. Babies have big heads. I tried to make the neckline as loose as possible, but who knows. Nat and Staci might have to save this one for their next kid and hope for a smaller noggin. 🙂
The second item is a secret one that I finished a couple of weeks ago: the Sirdar Sleeping Bag. Isn’t it the cutest thing ever? It even has little teddy bear ears! The cuteness of it almost makes up for the fact that Snowflake Chunky is the worst, most godawful thing in the world to knit. It’s as if someone took a nice terrycloth towel and cut it into a long, very fine strip. You can’t see any of your stitches amidst all that fleeciness, which kinda defeats the purpose of hand-knitting something in the first place. I mean, if you saw that in a shop, would you think it was hand-knitted? (Slight wonkiness aside?) Nope. So while it’s definitely a cute project, I don’t think it’s quite heirloom quality. At least I know that one will fit though.
Now all I’ve got to do is give them a final wash to get all the cat hair off…
“Orson Scott Card Has Always Been an Asshat.” Great title, crappy article. I do think he’s an asshat, but I don’t need to question his authorship of the books or equate Ender Wiggins with Hitler to do that. (Link courtesy of the Snook.)
Oh my God. Miftik found a pattern for a knitted cat sweater… with STEEKS! Insanity.
Who are the world’s sexiest vegetarians? I voted for Christian Bale and Natalie Portman. Man, there are a lot of weird names on there though. Come on, who’s gonna vote for Casey Kasem or Ed Begley, Jr? (Link courtesy of Brigita, who questions Bale’s vegetarian credentials but I don’t care, because he’s smokin’ hot and he has been ever since Little Women.)
I haven’t been following the Michael Jackson trial that closely, but how can the defense team make the argument that the boy’s family are out for money when this went to a criminal trial? If they wanted to cash out, wouldn’t they have just threatened him and taken the multi-million dollar payout like the last couple of kids?
What I wouldn’t give to see Obi-Wan singing “Luck Be a Lady”… *sigh*
I could not agree more with Graham about the stupidity of the “Corby Martyrs’ Bridgade” (TM Graham), and I take back some of the good things I said about Australians’ attitudes towards Indonesians last January. One drug-smuggling conviction and the yobbos are back to hating them again. We didn’t even get anyone from the Red Shield Appeal at our door this year, but I’ve half a mind to call up the Red Cross and donate $100 with the express wish that it go directly to Indonesian causes. Harrumph.