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Month: March 2006

  • Oscar Contest 2006

    That’s it folks; entries have officially closed! We ended up with 597 entries in total! Good luck…

    Can those of you with TiVo leave a comment with the number of dead people? Thanks.

    Later: Clooney? Well, that was a little unexpected.

    Later still: Dude! “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp”?! Now that broke the deadlock.

    Much later: It looks like we have a winner! In sole first place with ALL TWELVE CORRECT is Craig, who put his entry in a mere ten minutes before the show started. (Which sounds dodgy, I know, but as far as I can tell he’s legit.) So congratulations, Craig! You’ll be getting an e-mail from me shortly. Thanks to everyone who played along this year. You may now commence grumbling about Crash winning Best Picture…

  • Poached egg!

    I poached an egg for my breakfast this morning… in the microwave! I’ve never done that before. A bit of quick Googling was all it took. I put a bit of water in a cappucino mug (something smaller would’ve been better), then gently cracked my egg into it. I used a skewer to poke the yolk a few times so it wouldn’t explode. (It doesn’t leak out though, and the resulting yolk was still nicely runny). Then I covered it with cling film and nuked it at 60% power for forty-five seconds, and then continued checking it in fifteen second intervals. Ninety seconds seemed to be about perfect. Yum!

  • How to cheat

    How do ingenious – or not-so-ingenious – students cheat? AskMetaFilter tackles the problem. My own contribution is courtesy of someone who actually comments here occasionally! 🙂

  • Trail Note – 7.4km

    As today is one of my “hard” days – the Dove has me cycling my workouts between easy, medium, and hard – I told the Snook to put on his walkin’ shoes. We headed out towards Centennial Park. The sun was coming out and people were already turning up for the Mardi Gras after-party at Fox Studios. We made it to the Park in 45 minutes flat. Then I planted him on a bench with a Baker’s Delight Cheesymite Scroll and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen while I hit the jogging track. I noticed that I was definitely fresher and faster today, and I finished the 3.7km loop in just over 24 minutes (cutting two minutes off my usual time). After a quick stop for a sip of water, I started slogging my way through a second lap. I was definitely slower here, but I wasn’t hurting and I actually felt like I could run a fair way. I jogged about half of it and then decided I might as well do some Fartlek. Repeatedly I picked out a spot way ahead of me and then sprinted as fast as I could til I reached it. Then I’d walk and wheeze and puff like a freight train, scaring all the adorable children out on their training wheel bikes. It felt really good though. I finished the second lap in 26 minutes, which put me on pace for finishing the 10K in 67 minutes. Not bad! Ideally I’d like to do it in sixty minutes when I run it in a few months. Do you guys think that’s doable? I feel like it’s totally reachable. I am encouraged. Afterwards we walked home again, which means that I earned – no joke – like 11 extra Bonus Points today. (I really, really want to get down to 80kg this week!)

  • The Rags

    The Rags: Paraphernalia of Menstruation. I was just idly reading through this very interesting online exhibit (courtesy of the Powerhouse Museum) when I was amused by the sight of Newtown graffiti on one page.

  • Sharks.

    Whoa. But will they have frickin’ laser beams on their frickin’ heads?

  • Timeline of a Very Bad Day

    8:15 – Woke up an hour late because someone forgot to set the alarm.

    10:00 – Accidentally deleted a significant chunk of the products on the shop website.

    10:05 – Discovered that Danny’s backup system was more, um, “hypothetical” than, say, “existing.”

    10:10 – Sent e-mail to website host praying they have a recent backup.

    10:30 – And this is the WORST. My knitting nemesis stopped me on her way downstairs. “I really like your hair,” she said. “Oh, thanks!” I said. “It looks much nicer,” she added over her shoulder. UM, EXCUSE ME? That is the most backhanded “compliment” I’ve ever gotten in my life.

    Next I fully expect to get hit by a bus.

  • Caddyshack

    I, too, always wondered about the ending of Caddyshack…

  • Little Johnny

    MetaFilter has a post about John Howard’s anniversary of 10 years in power today. It’s pretty depressing, except for the hilarious insults people keep leveling at him.

  • Welcome Nurgul!

    If you saw a strange person on CouchCam this morning, that was our new cleaner Nurgul! She’s Mongolian. (Why does “Nurgul” remind me of Garfield? Wasn’t the cute kitten named that?) I’m excited to see what she did. I was there for the first bit, showing her around and doing last minute tidying. (Yeah, we cleaned for the cleaner. But mostly it was just piling up the important stuff so she knew what she could safely chuck.) It’s really weird leaving a stranger in your house. I was also having middle class guilt over paying an immigrant to clean my house, til I remembered that she’s getting the same per hour rate I am. *sigh* I’m in the wrong business.