Month: March 2008

  • Turtles != Dinosaurs

    I was completely fascinated this morning by this AskMeFi question: “Why aren’t turtles considered dinosaurs?” There’s some fascinating stuff about evolution and biology in there.

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  • Wii Fit

    Oh, sweet. The Wii Fit has an official Australian launch date: May 8. (That’s a week and a half before the US!) I wonder if any of the games places are taking pre-orders for it yet…

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  • Job Interview

    Crossing fingers.I’ve had four job interviews in the past week… and the last one I had today was THE BEST. It’s such a perfect, perfect fit for me, I don’t even want to talk about it for fear I’ll jinx it. But if you believe in prayer or The Secret, or the Blue Dot or,…

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  • YOBOSAYO!

    Sweet! Remember the South Korean astronaut with the special kimchi? Well, he got in trouble and they’ve replaced him with a woman! Go Yi So-yeon!

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  • Berowra Waters

    Berowra WatersMy vacation week got off to a great start yesterday. Bex had invited the Snook and me to help celebrate Fin’s birthday. Eleven of us headed up to Berowra Waters (about 50km north of us) for a picnic on the BBQ Boat! This was basically a pontoon with a built-in gas grill. We puttered…

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  • VIP Fibers

    VIP Fibers: “the first & original company to specialize in hand spinning YOUR pet’s fur into Fur-Everâ„¢ Yarn.” Oh. My. God. (Link found in a hilariously titled Ravelry post: “Pet Yarn, creepy or not?” I’m going to have to vote CREEPY there.)

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  • Mmm. Grease.

    Note to self: Buy or borrow a deep fryer in October. There are so many great food ideas for Halloween in here it isn’t even funny.

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  • Crocodiles.

    Don’t. Tease. Crocodiles.

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  • Fast Typing.

    Speed machine.103 wordsThis is why people don’t like to share offices with me. My typing speed is apparently quite distracting. (I took “keyboarding” – as it was called then – in the 9th grade. We learned touch typing on actual typewriters. I was pretty fast, but nothing special. Then in 10th grade, I discovered the…

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  • Swimming

    Swimming!I had my first class tonight over at the Thorpe-quarium, and it was great. There were four of us in the class (all girls), and our teacher was a young woman from Brazil. Two of the students were very new to swimming, while the Irish chick and myself were further along. We started with the…

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