Month: February 2008
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Wow. My mom was reminiscing to me a few weeks ago about the Blizzard of ’78, and how we’d gotten snowed in and the Fire Department had rescued her and me (as a baby) on the back of a snowmobile. Turns out that other people were being more productive with the enforced down-time. Two guys…
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Ha. Roger Clemens has an entry in the Dickipedia. I especially like that it mentions the particular game that made me hate him, the one where he threw a chunk of shattered bat at Mike Piazza.
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Valentine’sHere’s a belated “Happy Valentine’s Day!” to my Snookums. We kept it pretty low-key, meeting Miss Fee (and Matt) and Bex (and Fin) for dinner at Una’s. After some lovely food, we retired back to our place to introduce Fin to WarioWare. Too funny. I think it’s a lot more fun to celebrate the day…
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The Name of the RoseThis book nearly killed me. And not in a good way. I bought it a few months ago on the basis of this AskMeFi thread, which compared it to Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I thought, hey, I liked that book! And people gave this one some rave reviews. So I…
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Sorry DayThis morning Prime Minister Rudd made history by apologising to the Aborigines for their mistreatment at the hands of the government. It’s been a long, long time coming, and for the past few weeks (once it was confirmed he was actually going to do it) there’s been a sense of excitement and happiness at…
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I put RSS feeds on the Tapestry Craft website today, so now you can see whenever I upload new products. There are even category-specific feeds, so you can subscribe to just knitting yarns or cross stitch kits or whatever. Huge thanks go out to the Snook, who helped me with some decidedly non-trivial coding issues.…
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Rent RatsMy awesome college friend Nora posted this gem to Facebook earlier this week, and she kindly gave me permission to reproduce it here. Wow, that brings back memories. This was Spring of 1998 when we were both studying in London. I remember learning that RENT was going to be opening at the Shaftesbury Theater…
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Oh, right. So the Broadway Shopping Center went BOOM today. I had, like, three people email me the news, one of whom was in the US! I have no idea what’s going on. But hey, as long as the curse remains on that side of the road, we’re okay. If anything blows up over here,…
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Democracy and BeerThanks to the reminder from Meg, the Snook and I headed off to the Agincourt Hotel tonight to vote in the Democrats Abroad primary. (Well, I was voting. He was just there for the beer.) Clutching my US passport, I was directed up two flights of stairs to a tiny, dark back room.…
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CHITTER-CHATTERFor the past hour or two we’ve been hearing a strange chattering out in the garden. “What the hell’s that?” I wondered. “Some kind of crazy bird?” “Fruit bats!” said the Snook. Instantly we both realized that our beautiful papaya tree in the backyard, the one with the lovely big fruit on it… is being…