Month: May 2008

  • Detention

    Man. Stuff like this is why I get anxious every time we visit the States. The Snook already suffers the indignity of frequent “random” bag searches and being fingerprinted upon arrival (as all Australians do). I can just see some jerkass immigration official deciding he visits too often and throwing him in jail.

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  • RENT 10th Anniversary performance of “La Vie Boheme” by the original Broadway cast. Awesome. (Link courtesy of Kel.)

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  • Mario is a menace.

    Mario is a menace. (Link courtesy of Tim.)

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  • Exercise

    Exercise. We’re less than 72 hours from the half-marathon, and my lungs still aren’t up to 100%. Thanks to Dr. Emily, I’m trying out a ventilator that seems to be helping though. I’m certainly coughing a bit less. I went out for a short (4.5km) run Tuesday morning, and I’ve done a couple of Wii…

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  • Cat Butt

    Cat Butt. Hahahaha… That’s just wrong. (Link courtesy of Gadgetgirl, who’s still far, far away.)

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  • Joomla 1.5 Title TagsSince it took me the better part of an afternoon to figure this out, I’m going to immortalize it here for future Googlers. You see, there’s no nice way in Joomla 1.5 to customize the head title tags of each page. (According to this site it was meant to be included –…

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  • Younger than McCain

    Things Younger Than John McCain. My favorites are Alaska and the polio vaccine. (Link courtesy of PCJM.)

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  • Flight of the Conchords finally premiered in Australia, and we very much enjoyed it. Snookums made me pause it at one point just so he could verify that, yes, the New Zealand consulate is located in the same building as “All Asian Massage.”

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  • Queen of Fashion

    Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the RevolutionI just finished this fascinating book last night. It makes for an interesting companion-piece to the Antonia Fraser biography I read a few years ago (and that the recent movie was based on). The central thesis is pretty much that Marie Antoinette’s obsession with fashion was…

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  • Optus has the iPhone too. Multiple carriers in Australia!

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