Month: April 2008
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How to Make an Anatomically-Correct Brain Cake. Very nice, but I think I’ll be sticking with my brain panna cotta this year.
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Ooooh, this UrbanMAX scavenger hunt thing sounds awesome! I’m going to try to talk the Snook into doing it. It’s probably as close to being on The Amazing Race as we’re ever going to get… (Thanks to Emily for the tip.)
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Yowch. My partner Karen and I just played our first game of the foosball competition here at work… and we got SPANKED 10-0. Of course, we were playing against the top seeds. We’ll get better.
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I had a great long run today. I set the iPod workout to 100 minutes and headed off towards Centennial Park. I was doing 4 minutes running / 1 minute walking, and that seemed to work pretty well. I managed two full laps around the park before heading home, which ended up being nearly 14km…
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Wow, we’re getting a female governor-general! Pretty sweet. That Kevin is on a tear these days, I tell you.
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I spent a couple hours back at the shop today putting some new yarns up on the website. We finally got the long-awaited Noro Kureyon Sock yarn! And according to the discussion on Ravelry, the price is pretty competitive…
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Oh man. When did Television Without Pity change layouts again? It’s AWFUL. There are crazy huge images in your face everywhere, and you can’t see what reviews are new without scrolling down. They seem to have done away with the drop-down nav menus too, which means you can’t go straight to a show or forum…
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Oh! I forgot to tell you about my other new podcast obsession: Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me (the NPR news quiz). At first I was a little annoyed by the smug liberal intellectualness of it (I’m a self-loathing smug liberal intellectual), but I was won over by the fact that it’s the FUNNIEST THING EVER.…
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Taking a shower at night instead of in the morning: what do I do about my crazy morning hair? That’s another one of those AskMeFi questions that I could have written.
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As she did with Penn, my sister has put her Photoshop skills to work creating a suitable birth announcement for my new niece. Presenting… Indie Marie Carbo!