Month: January 2006
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DietBlog: I’m happy to say that the “85-kilo monkey” is off my back at last; and in fact, I think the little bastard might be dead. Official weight tonight: 84.1 kg. That’s a drop of 1.5 kg from last week, and it brings my total loss to 16 even. I’m ecstatic. Here’s the thing though:…
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Quiddity pointed me to a fascinating little eassy on sex and comics. I’ve sorta been thinking about these issues myself as I’ve started exploring the world of comics. Fortunately none of the books I’ve been reading – Astonishing X-Men, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and The Sandman – fall into the heavy T&A category. (Although I…
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Check it out: Big Things! I was going to send it to Amy and Rob but it turns out they’re already posters. Figures. Maybe I should finally sign up for a Flickr account… I could post the picture of us at the Big Banana!
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Kenya has just discovered his grandfather’s cricket player stats. How cool is that? I like the bit about how, in his one first-class match, he opened the batting for Dublin University with the playwright Samuel Beckett. He was out there batting with the guy who’d go on to write Waiting for Godot. That blows my…
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Turns out there have been some fresh sightings of the murderer around Dubbo lately… (I’ve come to think of him as “our” murderer.) In case I forgot to mention, the Zoofari people have been wonderful in dealing with the whole debacle. Our money got refunded right away and they’ve even offered us a complimentary visit…
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My good mate Nick (aka “Kenya”) has officially launched his Kenya Cricket weblog. An admittedly narrow subject area, to be sure, but please consider giving him a link so he can build up some Google goodwill…
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In a rather last-minute display of civic involvement and an earnest desire to get some “cultcha” for once on a Saturday night, Amy, Snookums, and I headed into the city for tonight’s big free Sydney Festival event: Symphony in the Domain. Unfortunately 20,000 other people had gotten there before us, so we were sitting way,…
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Steve has posted the Martini Club‘s first review from our night at Kuleto’s in Newtown a few weeks ago. My comments regarding the non-gin-based cocktails are in the comments.
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Friday Accomplishments I resisted the urge to sleep in and instead met Albie at the university squash courts for an hour-long workout. Good way to start the day. The Snook and I signed paperwork at the bank to create our first official joint bank account together, which we got so that we can open a…
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I’m being all schmoopy over at Tara D’s site.