Month: August 2005
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What’s your Cheese Profile? Okay, that’s officially the stupidest quiz ever. None of the answers for “What do you like best about your job?” remotely applied to me, nor do the types of car I drive. So I just made them up. And guess what? I’m “The Family Wo(Man)”, whatever that means. Shockingly, they do…
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If any of you Southerners are thinking of going to Dragon*Con in Atlanta next month… you totally should, if only because you can then say “hi” to my good friend (and Farscape alum) Raelee Hill, and it would blow my mind that you paid money to go to a sci-fi convention to meet someone I…
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So ND Australia has officially opened its office… about 50m around the corner from my house. Seriously, it’s like the Fates have decreed that I should always live within easy distance of a Notre Dame campus. It still blows my mind that they’re here. The office even has pictures of students frollicking in front of…
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I went running in the park this morning for the first time in two weeks. It was a little later than my last run – more like 8:30 than 6:30 – and consequently it wasn’t so chilly out. I still had some slight sniffliness, but not anything near as bad as I had last time.…
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Extra has a teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Man, I am developing such a crush on Daniel Radcliffe as Harry. (Link courtesy of Kevin.)
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This has been my day for dealing with dipsh*ts. It’s been like an eight-hour version of the “stupid customer” montage from Clerks. People who are pissing me off today: People with no creativity or imagination, like the woman who spent twenty minutes repeatedly asking me about every minute detail of our store sample, because she…
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DietBlog: I know I shouldn’t base my whole emotional state on the outcome of my Weight Watchers meetings, but still whenever I see a “minus” written next to my name, it’s like I’ve just taken a swig of Felix Felicis. The sun is shining on me and I can do no wrong. I’ve bounced back…
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This BBC article on proposed changes to prescription drug advertising in the US amused me, mostly because the situation is so different in Australia. You’re not allowed to mention the name of any prescription drug in commercials here; the ads can only urge you to “ask your doctor.” So in order to differentiate themselves, advertisers…
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Man, I really wish Lefty Tim had taken out Big Brother this year, if only for the chance to see a BB winner strutting around Newtown. And man, he got muscles!
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Looking Glass JumperAt last, the Snook’s new cabled jumper is complete. It’s pattern C from Sirdar’s Denim Book of Aran Knits and it was knitted in the Denim Sport Aran. (The Snook was the third size; I bought the required seven balls but even though I lengthened the body and sleeves, I only used five-and-a-half.)…