Month: October 2006

  • Shocking Idol!

    Idol was shocking – SHOCKING! – this week. No, really. I’m reeling. Sunday’s performances were so good across the board (except for Ricky), that I had a really hard time trying to guess who was going to be in the bottom three (except for Ricky). I decided that I was going to be sad no…

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  • His Dark Materials

    Ooh, check out these photos from the set of the upcoming His Dark Materials movies. The gyptian barge looks good! I like the atmosphere they’ve got going too.

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  • Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Baby Surprise JacketAt last, a finished object to report! I’d seen this famous jacket before but this is the first one I’d ever knit. It was for Tia and her newborn little son, Rohan. I took it over to them at the RPA Hospital tonight, and wonder of wonders, it actually fit! I’m…

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  • RunningBlog

    Well, today was the day of the Ryde Aquatic Festival and the 10K Fun Run event in Gladesville. (We’d actually mistakenly thought the run was Saturday morning, so Friday night we’d carb-loaded and everything before we thought to check the entry form. Oops. Oh well; it was too hot to run Saturday anyway.) I’d like…

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  • Maritime Museum

    While everybody else was bitchin’ and moanin’ about the heat yesterday, the Snook and I decided to get out of the house and enjoy it. We headed down to Darling Harbour to visit the Maritime Museum, which we chose on the basis of two criteria: 1) we’d never been there, and 2) it’s currently free.…

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  • GASP!

    Apple made me gasp twice this morning. First when I saw Steve Jobs’s ‘tache, and second when I saw the new iPod nano RED. (They don’t list the red nano on Australia’s site though. DAMN YOU, APPLE AUSTRALIA! I hope I can get one.)

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  • Splayed Out

    Do cats expose their stomachs to cool off from the heat? Because it’s 90 friggin’ degrees out and Dr. Amy Jones has been lying like this for twenty minutes. In fact, she’s actually gone to sleep like that. It’d be really cute, except for me worrying that she’s really hot and uncomfortable. PS – Nice…

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  • Ebert’s Back!

    Ebert writes from rehab. What a touching little essay. I had no idea that his condition had been so bad! Sounds like he was basically in a coma for two months. I’m looking forward to his first review (due tomorrow).

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  • Deep Fried Coke

    In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s now getting on Autumn. And Autumn in the Midwestern US means the county fair. And the county fair means a bewildering array of deep-fried foods, many of them on sticks. This one isn’t on a stick, but man, I’d give it a try: Deep Fried Coca-Cola. Only in America…

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  • Soctober

    How’s your Soctober going? Check out this short-row heel tutorial. Very useful! I’ve done short-row heels before but I didn’t do her trick of double-wrapping as you go back and forth picking up the wraps. I also especially like the tip of wrapping the first non-heel stitch to keep a hole from forming. (I always…

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