Month: September 2005

  • Hamlet text adventure

    Hamlet Text Adventure. See, this is why I hate these games: I get stuck. I’m stuck on the damn balcony talking to the ghost and I can’t get off. I even tried jumping off and eating the bat.

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  • Celebrity Jeopardy

    This is the post wherein I MAKE KELLY MCMAHON’S YEAR: a complete video archive of SNL’s Celebrity Jeopardy. Too bad I can’t get Windows Media Player to work on my computer… (Link courtesy of geek fu.)

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  • Contest victory

    In an incredibly unbelievable (but also strangely fateful, it would seem) twist, I won a skein of sock wool in the Give a Little Katrina Appeal. Should make some nice socks to donate to one of our Guild group’s charities…

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  • Holy crap! Hiroyuki Sakei, the “Delacroix of Japanese cooking,” is coming to SYDNEY?? I’ve already sent in my contest entry. (Link courtesy of Amy, who’d also kill to go…)

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  • We’re home.

    So I ran over a dead wombat…No, really. That was the only traffic-related incident of the weekend, though, so I’m going to chalk this one up in the “Win” column. We got into the Blue Mountains pretty easily Friday and made our way to the Melaleuca Chalets. As soon as we stepped out of the…

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  • White-knuckled terror

    White-knuckled terrorIn over five years, this is the first time I’ve ever been in a car the Snook was driving. Love means trust, folks!

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  • Easy Rider

    Easy RiderDriving on the M4 towards Katoomba. No accidents yet!

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  • Safe and sound

    Well, we got the rental car safely across the city and back to our place in the middle of rush hour traffic, so perhaps my driving skills aren’t as rusty as I thought. The whole “turn signal on the right” thing is my biggest problem at this point. I keep flipping on my windshield wipers…

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  • FINALLY!

    FINALLY! Check out what I finally got today! No thanks to the incompetent jackasses at the Indiana BMV, who officially win the award for most backward-ass government office in the history of the world… But, bygones. More importantly, what’s up with my hair there? In my defense, it was 9:30 in the morning on my…

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  • Jelly Yarn

    Jelly Yarn. The mind boggles. (Link courtesy of not martha.)

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