Month: August 2007
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Looks like free wi-fi is being rolled out in various spots around the CBD… Sweet. Now all I need is my friggin’ iPhone.
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Remember how I was looking for GAP Favorite Chinos? An awesome MeFite by the name of “orangemiles” came through for me! I just opened a big box with three pairs of pants, two boxes of Nutty Bars, and assorted other junk food. Hooray for the Internet!
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It looks like my brother Ant and his wife Kara will be bringing another BOY into the family! And while I’m thrilled because I’ve got lots of leftover ideas from Penn, I’m a little sad that I won’t get to knit frilly girl things yet. (JENNY – GET ON THIS.)Ha! Okay, yeah, I’m asking for…
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Cincinnati ChiliO what to make for dinner on a cold and rainy night? I had a flash of inspiration: Cincinnati Chili. (Or as I knew it from college: “the chili they have at Steak N Shake.”) According to various web histories, this dish was created and popularized by Greek immigrants in Ohio in the first…
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Of dream jobs and dream apartments…Remember the amazing apartment I found online last week? The Snook and I went to check it out on Saturday (along with three other places in the neighborhood). To make a long story short: It wasn’t my dream apartment after all. The first thing we noticed when we arrived was…
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This is so surreal. I was just checking my referrers and apparently I’ve been linked on the Wikipedia entry for “Happy’s Place”. I also noticed that a commenter here pointed me to this Google video of an entire episode. Man, suddenly it’s like I’m 9-years-old, watching Happy at the babysitter’s after school…
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A cautionary tale: Do NOT drink seven double espressos in one sitting! You will overdose!
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American PsychoSince I had the day off (and I could barely walk on account of the soreness) I spent several hours finishing off Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho. I found it… disturbing, to say the least. At one point today, I actually said aloud to the cat: “But I thought porn was banned in Australia?”…
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Irish Tea CosyI’ve just finished my second tea cosy for the aforementioned Great Tea Cosy Challenge. I also found this one on Ravelry, and the pattern is available online. (There are two mistakes though; I’ll list them after the jump.) It was kinda fun knitting something without a picture to refer to. I wasn’t quite…
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Here’s another story on the City 2 Surf, which includes the great detail that Australian defense personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq participated in their own version, the Desert 2 Desert. Fairfax is hoping to have their results included with everybody else. That’s neat!