Fashion! Turn to the left!
Thanks to the Snook, we recently came into the possession of a 40% off Jeanswest corporate discount coupon. Sweeet. The deadline to use it was last night, so we zipped over to the Broadway for some much needed new clothes. (The man has literally not purchased a stitch of clothing in over a year.) We got two pairs of jeans each, and I also got a denim skirt, a T-shirt, and some awesome thick tights. Snookums got a T-shirt, three dress-shirts, and a pullover. So if you see us anytime soon and we look uncharacteristically not like ragamuffins, that’s why.
Month: May 2008 (page 3 of 9)
Oh, nice! Jeff and Allan over at the Running with the Pack podcast congratulated me on my half-marathon finish in their most recent episode. Thanks, guys!
“My Lady Parts Do Not Ache for Hillary Clinton.” Damn right! (Link courtesy of Kevin.)
iPhone 2.0 to launch on June 9th. Yeah, it’s just a rumour at this point, but like everybody is reporting it. I’m so excited! I haven’t had a new phone in four years, and mine was pretty crappy even by 2004 standards.
The Moment I Knew I Had a “Coffee Problem”: I was standing in the queue at Three Beans this morning, patiently waiting for my large takeaway skim latte, when ALL THE LIGHTS WENT OUT. And all I could think about was whether he’d managed to make MY coffee before the blackout, because if he didn’t, I was going to have to steal somebody else’s.
Ebert has a new blog post about how much he loved the new Indy and how much AICN sucked for running a negative review before the official premiere.
Tintin Jumper
This was a special surprise birthday gift for my nephew Kurt, who is a big fan of Tintin. I used the pattern for “Jumper with Raglan Sleeves” from Panda Handknits #204 (“11 Handknits for Kids”). I noticed that in many of the illustrations of Tintin he’s wearing a sky blue jumper, so that decided me on the colour. Ma Snook provided me with a picture of Tintin and Snowy, which I transferred to knitter’s graph paper in Photoshop. The main areas of colour were knit in intarsia, but the smaller details (Snowy’s tongue and nose, and the black outlines on their faces) were embroidered on after the fact. I also decided to put “TINTIN” in block letters down one of the sleeves, just to keep it interesting. It was a fairly quick knit, and the only annoyance was weaving in all the ends and sewing it together. (I normally like to knit in the round, but the intarsia in this case prevented that.) I knitted it out of Filatura di Crosa Zara, and I probably used 9 balls of the blue and 1 of the white. (I used scraps of random 8ply for the other colours.) I used 4mm needles and finished it in just over a month. He and his parents are coming over Friday for dinner… I hope he likes it! (Ravelry details.)
Hey Mom, you should do this Korean-American survey. You could win a trip to Seoul! (Link courtesy of Ask a Korean.)
The official race photos are up, and there are FOURTEEN of me. My personal favorites are this one and this awesome one with the Harbour Bridge in the background. And I have a happy smile in this one. Some of the others look… not so good. Also, I think these photos conclusively prove that I do NOT give the thumbs-up whenever my photo is taken; instead, I actually run with them sticking out at all times. I did not know that.
“I guards u frm teh dingoz.” Bwahahaha!