Month: February 2008
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lowercase L. It’s a blog that collects photos of people’s hand-written signs where they’ve capitalized all the letters except for “L”. It doesn’t sound like much of a phenomenon to me, but I’m sure I’ll start seeing them everywhere now… (Link courtesy of Daring Fireball.)
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The Ladies of Grace AdieuI just finished reading this collection of short stories from the author of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. It’s lovely. Susanna Clarke created such a large and unique universe in that novel that I was happy just to be able to see more of it. The stories all feature interactions between…
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Glib SocksThese are my fifth completed pair for the Southern Summer of Socks, and I think they were the fastest to knit. Less than two weeks from start to finish! I’m still well on track to meet my goal of one pair per month. This was my first time using the Cascade Fixation. It’s a…
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I was having a good chuckle over these bad science fair experiments – some of those HAVE to be Photoshopped, right? – when I stopped short at the last one, “Plants and Pop.” Ohhh, man. My best friend Annie Fleck and I did a joint science fair experiment together in, like, fifth grade that was…
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Obama Wins!It turns out that Obama won the Democrats Abroad primary that I voted in ten days ago. He kicked Clinton’s butt by about a 2-1 margin. (Link courtesy of Kevin, where I confess I get nearly all my US election news these days.)
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Huh. Every now and then somebody will ask a question on AskMeFi about some regional linguistic quirk, and I realise that I have it. This person is confused and annoyed by Midwesterners who say things like, “This needs fixed” or “Those need washed.” (As opposed to “This needs to be fixed” or “Those need to…
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Me: Ever seen this? Snook: I bet there’s a lot of pee in that pool!
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There is no day so bad that beers and knitting with your mates can’t fix it. Thanks to Emily, Bex, Miss Fee, Rose Red, quaffy, JP, Sally, ramblybear, Devvy, Tia, and Damo for cheering me up immensely. You guys are THE BEST.
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A Public ApologyI’ve taken down the Sorry Day post. Things have gotten out of hand. One of the people who was harrassing me the other day sent the link to the woman mentioned in the post, and she’s been very hurt by it. That was never my intention at all. I deliberately left out all…
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F*** CancerHooray! Brigita got her care package from me. It takes a lot to get me to cross stitch, you know. (I’ve posted some more pictures after the jump.) The design comes from Subversive Cross Stitch. And how adorable does Miss Violet look? What a cutie!